Chapter 37 In time, we are all insignificant

——Killing the sandalwood, setting the river dry The sandalwood is cut down, and the river is dried up.The river is clear and rippling.No crops, no crops, three hundred grains of rice?If you don't hunt, don't hunt, Hu Zhanerting has a scorpion?He gentleman, don't eat vegetarian food! Roughly chopping and radiating, put it on the side of the river.The river is clear and straight.If there is no crops, no crops, 30 billion yuan will be taken?If you don't hunt or hunt, Hu Zhanerting has county characteristics?He is a gentleman, not a vegetarian! The hurdles are cutting the wheel, and the river is so thick that the river is clear and rotten.If there is no crops, no crops, how about three hundred yuan for nothing?If you don't hunt or hunt, Hu Zhanerting has a county quail?He is a gentleman, he is not a vegetarian!

—— "Wei Feng · Cutting Sandalwood" "Wei Feng" is probably the first chapter I came into contact with. If I remember correctly, I learned "Shuoshu" in junior high school, and "Wei Feng·Fatan" in high school.It seems that chapters that do not reflect the profound historical value of class exploitation cannot be included in teaching textbooks.Coupled with the teacher's peeling and cramp-like interpretation, although I remember it firmly, it also loses all the beauty.Therefore, he is not as close to "Wei Feng" as "Wei Feng". The scene depicted in "Fatan" in memory is like this——

A group of farmers felled logs by the big river and put the felled logs into the flowing water.Downstream, someone will catch these woods and build palaces and mansions for the noble kings and ministers. Even the ships and vehicles they travel need to be made of these woods.The lumberjack was bare-chested, revealing his shiny black muscles.The hard work made them have to shout chants to cheer them up. Shouting and shouting hard overflowed from their throats, and more and more people responded, like a stream of water getting thicker and thicker, and finally the suppressed emotions gushed out .

They questioned - no crops, no crops, three hundred grains of rice?If you don't hunt, don't hunt, Hu Zhanerting has a scorpion? (If you don't sow and don't reap, why do you move three hundred bundles of grain home? If you don't hunt in winter and don't hunt at night, why do you see your yard full of pigs and badgers? Rather than saying anger, it is better to say helpless.Those are powerful people after all, maybe their lords, people who are in charge of their life and death, and they don't even need to feel guilty about their exploitation.Therefore, the lumberjacks did not dare to criticize them explicitly, and could only use irony to sarcastically: "He is a gentleman, he is not a vegetarian!"

These words are often heard by the poetry collectors wandering in the mountains to collect folk songs, and reported to the monarch. If the monarch is in a bad mood, the life of the woodcutter will be in jeopardy.Although this State of Wei was not the State of Wei among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, it was just a small country living in the northeast of today's Ruicheng County in Shanxi during the Spring and Autumn Period, but there were also many poetry collectors.Because at that time, the poetry collectors collected folk songs among the people not only for the entertainment of the monarch, but also more or less played the role of plainclothes policemen.Because, often only folk songs can truly reflect the aspirations of the people, reflect the actual situation of the place, and even whether there are any changes such as rebellion that endanger the kingdom of the country.Poetry collectors report the collected folk songs and ballads to the monarch, and the monarch can respond accordingly.Adjusting the national policy in accordance with public opinion is mostly just a high-sounding beautiful talk, and taking precautions to eradicate all dissatisfied people is probably the real purpose of the monarch's "gathering style".

The poetry picker of the Wei State was driving a carriage in the mountains and fields, and when he heard the singing of the lumberjacks, he wrote down the folk songs and sang them to the king when he went back.Later, this song was recorded on the bamboo slips by the official historian, and later compiled into the "Book of Songs·Wei Feng" by Confucius, later known as "Fatan". I have forgotten how the teacher expounded the central idea of ​​this poem, and I don’t even feel how hard and exploited these lumberjacks are. I just seem to be able to imagine the vigorous and rough singing echoing in the valley and water, and their last Criticism - "Hey gentleman, don't eat vegetarian food!"

Now, there is no need to have any scruples.We can frankly despise those who get something for nothing: why should I work so hard to feed you!Even if I serve you, you should give me my due reward and respect!This is human rights.Just like the white bones in today's workplace, once there is better development, a resignation letter is handed over to the boss. It is not you who fire me, but I who fire you on my own initiative. But no matter how perfect the human rights legal system is, there will always be people who get something for nothing.For example, the second-generation ancestors with good backgrounds, and spoiled children who cannot grow up, they are like bacteria that cannot be eliminated.No matter what stage of social civilization they have entered, they can still enjoy the preferential treatment of slave owners in a small world, while the people around them are willing to be slaves all their lives, isolated from the world.Such selfish indulgence, how can you complain, how can you hate?This obstinate pampering may have baffled even the greatest revolutionaries.

We have seen that a person who can change history often cannot change his relatives.Unworthy children and grandchildren can cause ancestors to die underground in sorrow. "Hey gentleman, don't eat vegetarian food!" It reminds people of the phrase "vegetarian meal in the corpse".A corpse is a person in ancient rituals who represents a sitting statue of a god without any action. There is a phrase "Taikang corpse position" in "Book of Books", which is derived from this, and it is used to describe a person who has a position but no work to do, just like the corpse in the sacrifice, who only sits on the seat and does not have to do anything. same action. "Vegetarian meal" is from this article.

These two words have existed since ancient times, but they were used together in "Han Shu·Zhu Yun Biography", and the "inventor" was Huaili Ling Zhu Yun during the Han Dynasty.According to "Hanshu Geographical Records" and other records, "Huaili" is a county under the jurisdiction of Youfufeng, Gyeonggi. ".Because it is a county, Huaili set up "orders" for governance.To put it simply, Zhu Yun is a county magistrate.Because he was dissatisfied with the emperor's appointment of his teacher Zhang Yu as his chancellor, he wrote a letter with great emotion: "The ministers of the court today can't change the lord, and the lower ones die to benefit the people. They are all dead and vegetarian." .The scolding was so blatant that Emperor Cheng became furious and said: "The little minister who insults the master, the court insults the master, is an unforgivable crime." Later, thanks to the minister Xin Qingji's efforts to protect Zhu Yun, Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty pardoned his death crime.Later generations used "vegetarian meals" to describe people who eat money without merit.

Zhu Yun's struggle didn't have much effect, just like the singing of slaves can only be reminiscent most of the time, and the Book of Songs has been sung one after another.Just for the record, nothing can be changed then and now. The sound of logging fell silent, and those who reaped nothing for nothing have died... There are many things on the bank, but the river still flows eastward.