China is a country without religion, and the Chinese are a nation that does not believe in religion. ——This is the conclusion of several scholars in recent years.Some people are very proud of hearing this, because they think it is an honor to not be superstitious about religion. Some people will make sad faces when they hear this, because they feel that a nation without religion will degenerate. It's all right now, those who are proud should not be too proud, and those who are annoyed don't need to be annoyed.Because we have newly discovered that China is not without religion: we have a great religion in China.

Confucianism has long since been unlucky, Buddhism has long since declined, and Taoism has long been neglected.Yet we still have our religion.What does this religion teach?Speaking of this teaching, it is very famous, and he is called "Famous Teaching". What do famous religions believe in?Believe in "name". What do famous religions worship?Worship "name". There is only one creed of Mingjiao: "Believe in the omnipotence of name." What is "name"?This question seems to require some research.Confucius said, "The name must also be corrected." Zheng Xuan's note: "Rectifying the name means correcting the characters of the script."The ancients were called names, and the present is called characters.

"Rituals" "betrothal gift" note: name, book text also.This is called the word. "Zhou Li" "Da Xingren" put a note: the title of the book, and the text of the book.The ancient name. Annotation of "Outside History" in "Zhou Li": In ancient times, it was called name, but today it is called character. The interpretation of "betrothal gift" in "Rituals" says: "Name is also called text." To sum up, "name" is the character, that is, the written word. "Mingjiao" is a religion that worships written words; it is a religion that believes that written words have divine power and magical power.

We have believed in this religion for thousands of years, but we do not realize that we have such a great religion.The reason why we don’t realize it is precisely because this religion is so great, omnipresent and all-encompassing, just like air, we live in the air day and night, and we don’t even feel the existence of air. Now that science has advanced, there are good scientists to analyze what the air is, and there are also good scholars to analyze this great famous teacher. In the 15th year of the Republic of China, Mr. Feng Youlan published a very incisive "Analysis of Famous Education".Mr. Feng pointed out that "Mingjiao" is a religion that worships nouns, and it is a religion that worships the concepts represented by nouns.

What Mr. Feng analyzed was only the "famous religion" enshrined by the upper class and the intellectual class. Although its influence is great, it is not the most important part of the "famous religion". In the past two years, Mr. Jiang Shaoyuan has discovered a lot of interesting materials within the scope of his "Ministry of Rites", which have been published in several magazines such as "Yusi" and "Contribution".The materials he and his friends collected were not small or large, but elegant and vulgar; so their materials made us gradually understand what the "famous religion" that our Chinese nation believes in is like.

What exactly does our noble religion look like?And listen to me slowly. Let's start with the birth of a child.In ancient times, after a child was born, a specialist was invited to listen to the cry of the child, to find a certain rhythm in the sound, and then to name it.Now the folks have become simpler, just invite a fortune teller to line up the horoscope to see if he is missing one of the five elements.If there is a shortage of water, take a name next to water; if there is a shortage of gold, take a name next to gold.If there is a lack of fire and soil, we Huizhou people will use the word "stove".The name can make up for the defects of Qi.

If the child's life is not good, you can "send his name" in front of the seat of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and take a monk-like "dharma name", and there will be no disasters or difficulties. If a child loves to cry and cry, and cannot sleep peacefully, write a copybook and stick it where passers-by urinate, with the words: Emperor of Heaven, Emperor of Earth, my family has a crying man at night. The passing gentleman read it once, and slept until the bright light of the night. Words are so powerful. When a child falls down and is frightened, he has lost his "soul" and needs to be "souled".What is the name of the soul?Go to the place where you stumble, throw rice, and call the child's name, all the way home, calling the name is calling the soul.

The child gradually grew up and fought with others in the village school. When he lost the fight, he hated it, so he took a piece of charcoal and wrote on the wall a slogan cursing his enemy: "Wang Ah San was killed by fever." He wrote After several times, the anger in my heart calmed down. So did his mother.She got angry with Mrs. Wang Qi next door, so she took a kitchen knife and chopped it on the knife board. While chopping, she called "Wang Qi's wife" by name, which was tantamount to chopping Mrs. Wang Qi. His father was also a believer in "Mingjiao".He was angry with Wang Qige, and couldn't beat him again and again, so he had no choice but to curse him, his parents, his sister, and his eighteen generations of ancestors.If you scold, you will be angry.

According to Mr. Jiang Shaoyuan's investigation, the family has made great progress now.Children will write "Down with Mao" on the wall up. His mother will also shout "Down with Zhou Xiaomei". His father will also post "Down with Wang Qinglai". The population in his family is not safe, some are sick and some are dead.There is also a good way to do this.Invite a Taoist priest, draw a few talismans, stick one on the gate, one on the door of the room, and one on the toilet, and the sick ghosts will run away and dare not enter the door again. Drawing symbols is naturally an important method of "famous education".

What about the dead?Invite a group of monks to come and recite a few volumes of scriptures, and then you can save the dead.Chanting scriptures is naturally also an important method of "famous teaching".Talismans are characters, scriptures are characters, and both have incredible powers. When a person dies, he must "point the master".Write down the god's master card, leave the dot on the top of the "lord" blank, and ask a squire to point the master.After cutting the comb on a rooster's head, the squire Zhao dipped the ink pen in the blood of the comb and wrote the word "lord".From then on, the soul of the deceased is dependent on the God's main card.

Elegy couplets should be used for funerals, and congratulatory couplets should be used for wedding and birthday celebrations; pay attention to sending scrolls, and pay more attention to the order of offering sacrifices and longevity.They are all words, and they are all part of "Famous Teaching". The owner of the tofu shop dreams of making a fortune, and he has a way.Ask Mr. Wang at the entrance of the village to write the couplet: "Business is booming all over the world, and wealth is flourishing in Sanjiang." This can also satisfy the addiction of getting rich. Zhao Xiangshen also has his dream, so he also wrote the vice-door couplet: "Total collection of blessings, preparations to Jiaxiang." Although Mr. Wang is unreasonable and obscene, he still has to write a pair of door couplets: "Article Huaguo, loyalty and filial piety to the family." The owner of the tofu shop was still not satisfied, so he asked Mr. Wang to write a big red spring post for him: "Make money for me", and put it on the opposite wall, so his treasure account looked like a fortune. Mr. Wang’s family luck was not very good last year, so he got up on New Year’s Day this year, prayed to the heaven and earth, washed his hands, picked up a pen, and wrote a red post, “Wu Chen sends a pen, adding a child to make money.” He must have good luck this year . The names of parents and ancestors are taboo.In ancient times, the father's name was Jin, and the son was not allowed to take the Jinshi examination.Now it is much more lenient, but the custom of avoiding taboos still exists in the general society.The name of the emperor is not taboo now.But after Sun Yat-sen's death, although "Zhongshan" can be used as the name of school places or goods, "Sun Wen" is rarely used; loyal comrades should call him "the first prime minister". There is a university in Nanjing. In order to change the name of the school, there have been several big disturbances. On one occasion, the name plate of the school was carried to the graduate school. After Beijing came down, believers of Mingjiao were busy again.Beijing has been changed to "Peking"; today someone proposed to change Nanjing to "Zhongjing".Some people also solemnly suggested that the "Palace Museum" should be changed to "Abandoned Palace Museum". In the future, there will be many projects for such a big reform. Not long ago, there was a photo in the pictorial of Nanjing's "Beijing News Supplement" with the title "Busy writing slogans in the propaganda department of the Political Training Department of the Military Commission". In the picture, five or six young people in Chinese tunic suits are busy writing slogans; on the table, on the back of the chair, on the floor, there are written slogans all over the place, with large characters, small characters, long sentences and short sentences. This is just part of the work of "writing"; there are also those who draw up slogans, those who discuss and approve slogans, and those who put up slogans. After the incident in Jinan in early May, I traveled frequently on the Songhu Railway, and every 40-minute trip I saw more than a thousand slogans; there were always at least seventy or eighty agencies that issued the slogans.Some wrote "Shoot Tanaka Yoshiichi", some wrote "Buried Tanaka Yoshiichi alive", some wrote "Kill all the short thieves" and wrote the word "short thief" upside down, just like a missing person advertisement in a newspaper. The word "person" written is the same. If you write the word "person" upside down, the person will come back; if you write "short thief" upside down, the short thief will be defeated. Now our China has become a world of slogans.Some people say that this is a method learned from Soviet Russia.This is very unjust.I lived in Moscow for three days the year before last, and I didn't see a single slogan on the wall.The slogan is an authentic domestic product and a magic weapon handed down from the "Mingjiao" country. May I ask what is the difference between posting "Down with imperialism" on the wall and "Make money for me" or "Look up and see joy" on the wall?Is it a mantle handed down by a master?May I ask what is the difference between a "Buried Tanaka Yoshiichi" on the wall and a child's "Thunder King Amao"?Is it a magic weapon taught by a master?May I ask what is the difference between "Down with Tang Shengzhi" and "Down with Wang Jingwei" and "Down with Ah Fa Huang's disease" posted by Wang Amao?Wang Amao is enough to be a teacher, so why study far away from Moscow?Naturally, in the minds of party and state leaders, slogans are a method of propaganda and a political weapon.But in the hearts of elementary and middle school students, and in the hearts of the members of the political department in the third row of the 15th Company of the 99th Division, slogans and slogans are just a way to vent their anger.If "Down with Imperialism" is a slogan, then why can't the Seventh Elementary School in District 10 not have a slogan "Kill all the short thieves"?If "Down with Wang Jingwei" is a legitimate slogan, why isn't "Bury Tanaka Yoshiichi alive" a legitimate slogan?If posting a few more "Down with Wang Jingwei" can have an effect, then why do you see that posting more "Bury Tanaka Yoshiichi alive" won't make Tanaka Yoshiichi shudder?Therefore, from the perspective of historical textual research, the slogan is the true lineage of "Mingjiao".Because in the minds of most people, a post on the wall that reads "The National Government is a government that seeks happiness for the whole people" is equivalent to writing a post on the door saying "Taigong Jiang is here". Both are just trash. Let us ask, why does the owner of the tofu shop, Mr. Zhang, put a sign saying "Make money for me" on the wall opposite the door?Isn't it because he can get rich by looking at that piece of paper every day?Why did he say "Yuanbao roll in" when he opened the door on New Year's Day?Is it not because he feels comfortable when he reads this sentence?Otherwise, there is only another way to say it, which can only be said to be blindly following customs, which is meaningless.Boss Zhang’s ancestors passed down a sticker saying “make money for me” every year, and there was also a sticker on the door of the barber shop next door, so he had to follow suit. Nowadays, most of those who shout and put up slogans have these two reasons: one is psychological enjoyment, and the other is meaningless blind obedience. The young man was full of blood and had nowhere to vent, so he had to write "Down with traitors" or "Down with Japanese imperialism" on the wall.After finishing writing, the big two-foot-square characters and Yan Lugong's calligraphy stood out, so mighty. When he looked at it himself, his blood stopped boiling and his breath calmed down a little. He felt much more comfortable in his heart and could Frankly went back to rest.So his righteous indignation did not subside, and had a beneficial impact on his behavior and personality, but it was gently vented on the slogan on the wall. This kind of venting of feelings is easier than anything else. It's both fun and face-saving. Who doesn't like to do it?It has become a practice to be born once and cooked twice, so "May 1st", "May 3rd", "54th", "57th", "59th", "63rd" ... Do the same: take a day off, hold a commemorative meeting, put up countless slogans, shout a few slogans, and it will be considered as a commemoration!So there are commemorations every month, every week is a commemoration week, slogans are everywhere on the wall, and everyone has slogans on their mouths.As a result, the "Famous Religion" passed down by the ancestors for thousands of years has become popular today, and China has become a "Famous Religion" country. Let's go a step further and ask, why can we vent our feelings and vent our anger by posting a piece of "Thunder King Amao" or "Shoot Tanaka Yoshiichi"?This question leads to the philosophy of "Mingjiao".There are so many mysteries here that we can now only point out a few interesting points. First, our ancient ancestors firmly believed that "name" is the soul, and we still cannot escape the influence of this ancient superstition without knowing it. The superstition that "name is the soul" is shared by all human beings in their infancy.The eighth soul of the Egyptians is the "name soul".We in China have this superstition in ancient and modern times.There is a Zhang Guifang who can "call his name to fall from the horse"; he just shouted "Huang Feihu is not getting off the horse, when will it be!" Huang Feihu rolled off the five-color bull.Unfortunately, Zhang Guifang met Nezha, shouting and yelling, but Nezha stood on the hot wheel and did not roll off, because Nezha is the incarnation of lotus and has no soul.There was a silver-horned king, who used a red gourd and called "Sun Xingzhe", and Sun Xingzhe agreed, and he was put into it.Later, Sun Xingzhe escaped and came to challenge again. He changed his name to "Xingzhe Sun", agreed, and was admitted!Because if you are famous, you have a soul.The folk "calling the soul" is just calling the name, because calling the name is calling the soul.Because of this, the child wrote "Ghost Catch King Amao" on the wall, believing that ghosts can really capture Amao's soul.People in the party department formulated the slogan "Down with Wang Jingwei", although they may not believe that "Thousands of people accuse, die without illness"; but the elementary school student who posted "Shoot Tanaka" could not help but unconsciously believe that he has the function of cursing Tanaka to death . Second, our ancient ancestors deeply believed that "names" (characters) had inconceivable supernatural powers, and we cannot escape the influence of this superstition.This, too, is a common superstition of naive nations, and is often not exempt from higher nations.The Tathagata Buddha wrote the six characters "Om Mani Pad Mi Hum", and then suppressed Sun Monkey for a thousand years. Guanyin Bodhisattva recites a mantra with the word "Om", and the gods will come to see him.He wrote a "fan" in the palm of Sun Xingzhe Words, you can lead the red boy to be captured.The gods and demons in novels always have to "recite words in their mouths".All spells are words with divine power.Now many people truly believe that Zhang Zuolin can be brought down by putting up a few more slogans saying "Down with the Warlords".If they didn't believe in this kind of supernatural power, why didn't they go to the front line to fight, but put up the slogan "Down with Zhang Zuolin" on the wall of the public toilet in Wusong Town?Thirdly, our ancient sages also advocated a kind of "intellectualized" superstition of "name", which has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people for thousands of years, and it is also a great force that creates "name teaching".Wei Jun wants to invite Confucius to govern the country, but Mr. Kong wants to "rectify his name" first. He hated the rebellious officials and thieves at that time very much, but "without an axe, what can you do with Guishan!" So he had to write a "Spring and Autumn" to praise them: "A word of derogation is stricter than an axe; a word of praise , be honored by Hua Dagon." This kind of thought is the so-called "name and title" concept in ancient times.Yin Wenzi said: A good name leads to goodness, and a bad name leads to kindness.Therefore good has a good name, and evil has a bad name. ... Today, one is close to the virtuous and neglects the unworthy, rewards the good and punishes the evil.The virtuous and the unworthy, the name of good and evil should belong to him; the name of reward and punishment should belong to me. ... "name" should belong to that, and "fen" should belong to me.I love white and hate black, rhyme quotient and give up Zheng, like mutton but loathe scorched, addicted to sweet but rebel against bitter.White and black commercial signs, mutton, sweetness and bitterness, are his "name";If you set this name, everything will not be chaotic. "Name" expresses physicality, and "fen" expresses my attitude.A good name will arouse my attitude of love and respect, and a bad name will arouse my attitude of loathing.This is called the philosophy of "name". "Famous religion" and "ethics" are built on the basis of this philosophy.A single stone, turned into a chastity archway, can attract countless young women to sacrifice their youth and life to gain a praise from Mr. Lijiao, or a name in the "Lie Nu" gate of the annals. "Chastity" It is "name", and being envious and willing to sacrifice is "fen".Women's feet are bound small, men praise it as "beautiful", poets say it is "three-inch golden lotus", so tens of millions of women desperately bind their feet. "Beauty" and "Golden Lotus" are "names", and envy and willingness to endure hardships and sacrifices are "points". Now people say that small feet are "unbeautiful" and "inhumane". The name has changed, and the classification has also changed, so women with small feet have to stuff cotton to fill their feet. ——Many slogans nowadays have a derogatory purpose: Propaganda is to publicize the derogatory purpose.To say that someone is a "faithful comrade" is to teach people to "support" him.To say someone is a "warlord", "local tyrant and evil gentry", "reactionary", "counter-revolutionary", or "cowardly and fatuous" is to teach people to "defeat" him.Therefore, the names of "faithful comrades" and "prime minister followers" must arouse "support". The name of "reactionary element" will cause the point of "down".Therefore, the countless "down" and "support" on the wall today are actually intended to express praise and blame, and to assign names.Unfortunately, slogans are used too much. Those who are to be defeated today will be supported tomorrow; today's loyal comrades will become counter-revolutionaries tomorrow.Therefore, it is not a disgrace to overthrow it, but some counter-revolutionaries are actually proud of it.As a result, "Famous Teaching" lost its function and became only a talisman on the wall. Two thousand years ago, a 90-year-old old man said to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty: "Government is not about talking too much, but how about doing it well." Two thousand years later, I also want to say to the rulers of the country today: Governing the country is not about slogans and slogans, but how hard it is.More than a thousand years ago, there was a Layman Pang who left two famous words when he was dying: I hope that everything will be empty. Be careful not to have nothing. "There is nothing in reality", such as "ghosts", there is no such thing as "ghosts". Unfortunately, the ancient Qing people created the names of "ghosts", and even created names such as "impermanent ghost", "big head ghost", "hanging ghost" and so on. There is a ghost in my heart.We also want to say to the current rulers: I hope everything will come true. Be careful not to have nothing. In the end, we also learned fashion and made up two slogans: Down with famous teachers!Famous teachers are discredited, and China has hope! Seventeen, seven, two.