Chapter 24 close call

Han Yu, courtesy name Tuizhi, was born in Nanyang, Dengzhou in the Tang Dynasty. He was a great writer at that time. He advocated the theory that writing should be used to convey the truth, using retro as a revolution, and replacing parallel prose with prose, which had a great influence on the time and future generations. Due to his decline, he was very opposed to Buddhism. Tang Xianzong sent envoys to welcome the Buddha bone into the court. He expressed his dissuasion, offended the emperor, and was relegated to Chaozhou to be an governor. This monk was smart and reasonable, and he got along very well with Han Yu, and Han Yu had few friends in Chaozhou, so he had a close relationship with this monk, so people outside said that Han Yu also believed in Buddhism.

His friend Meng Jiao (Ji Dao), who was a minister at the time, believed in Buddhism the most.In order to offend Emperor Xianzong, he was relegated to Jizhou.After arriving in Jizhou, he also heard people's rumors that Han Yu had believed in Buddhism. He was a little puzzled, because he knew that Han Yu was the most powerful person against faith, so he wrote a letter to ask Han Yu. After Han Yu received Meng Jidao's letter, he knew that he was in contact with the monk, which caused others to misunderstand, so he wrote back immediately to explain to Meng Jidao.Moreover, Han Yu greatly criticized a group of ministers in the court at that time who believed in Buddhism, did not abide by Confucianism and Taoism, and blindly used superstition to confuse the emperor.He was quite indignant at the emperor's alienation of sages and the downfall of Confucianism and Taoism.There are such words in the letter: "There are thousands of holes and wounds, and you will lose as you go, and the danger is like a crisis..."

This is a metaphor for a thing that is extremely dangerous, like a hair tied with something weighing a thousand catties.Nowadays, when ordinary people encounter the most dangerous things, they often use this sentence to describe them. This idiom can be seen in Han Yu's book to Meng Shangshu, which reads: "A common danger is like a trigger that draws a thousand junctures. It stretches on and on, and the depression is subdued."