Chapter 18: The Philosophy of Benevolence, Wisdom, Ritual and Righteousness (Part 1)
In September, I built a garden and harvested crops in October. The millet and sorghum are heavy, the grains, hemp, beans and wheat are all the same. I am a farmer, and I have the same crops, and I have entered the palace to work hard. I have been in the fortress during the day, and I have been sipping the treasures at night. I am eager to ride on the house, and it will start to sow hundreds of grains.
In a blink of an eye, it was the August month of the Yin calendar and the September month of the Zhou calendar.
People in the village have begun to prepare for the reorganization of the yard and preparation for the harvest that has been busy for a year.
After the business is done, they dare to deal with private affairs. They need to harvest the food in the public fields before they can be busy with their own family affairs, otherwise they will be punished.
After the fish soup that night, the people in the village drank the fish soup several times, and were instilled with more sayings such as Tianzhi and Tiangui.
As it is said, the circulation of everything in the world remains unchanged, so people have to poop when they eat grain, but the food cannot grow well without shit. This is like digging a well. Digging a well is to take out the water, but a few feet without water cannot be missing; people grow grain for corn, but without leaves, there is no corn; so composting increases yield is in line with the will of heaven.
People in the village took advantage of the slack season before August to dig a public cessation pit and dumped all the ash from each family on it.
More than twenty families gathered together and bought eight piglets. The children who followed the butt all day long had to cut pig grass every evening, and then cooked it in a large pottery jar for sacrificial rituals to feed the pigs.
These pigs are raised on top of the cesspool, and pig manure and other pig manure will be discharged into the pit. There are common hemp ropes in front of the pit as toilet paper for cleaning.
In mid-July, Shi returned to Shangqiu with a few fish, and two hares were carrying firewood for several days.
My sister-in-law scolded him for not going home, but when she saw him being tanned and worn, she still made a delicious meal with heartache. My brother didn't say anything. Before leaving, she secretly gave him more than a dozen copper coins, but she didn't expect that two more pieces of corn rice balls that my sister-in-law gave him before leaving.
Mozi has not returned from Qi yet, and he doesn't know what's going on.
However, internal strife has begun in the Song Dynasty. Duke Song used the power of the Chu people to suppress the powerful vassals in the country. Now that the Three Jins are strong, the powerful vassals in the country will definitely take the opportunity to put pressure on them, forcing Duke Song to participate in the activities of the emperor led by the Three Jins.
The fact that Song State was besieged by Chu was inevitable. Song Duke was forced to desperately betray the civil strife. If it weren't for the help of Chu, this man would have been usurped, but now he would be willing to betray Chu and Jin. It would be impossible for Chu State to be angry.
Moreover, the Chu State is now aggressive and penetrates deep into the Central Plains. The right wing has a great advantage. The Qin State on the left is still a friendly country for the time being, and the Great Wall and Xionger Mountain in Pingdingshan, Zhumadian and other places are based on it. Strategically, it is to defend the left and attack the right.
The State of Song is an important support point for the Chu State's Central Plains battle for hegemony. Abandoning the State of Song means that the right wing side is exposed.
Unless the Chu State completely abandons Yuguan and Daliang and other Central Plains lands will be comprehensively strategically contracted, the Song State must be close to Chu, and if it doesn't, it will be a close conscience.
But Shangqiu is still happy now, and no one makes any preparations for it.
During the time he returned to Shangqiu, small-scale malaria occurred outside the village community. The reed flowers he taught learned to use cold water to rinse Artemisia juice and spread those things while practicing medicine.
At this time, there is no alcohol or ether, so it cannot be extracted at low temperature, but the juice squeezing method is still useful.
The main body is to treat diseases and save people; rely on fish baskets, compost and other techniques as auxiliary; use "Binfeng July", which is suitable for rewriting for a better life in the future, as a prophecy, and with villages as the center, more and more people come to listen to stories.
More and more people are participating in the rituals of fish soup sacrifice and post-sacrificial food sharing held every month. This sense of ritual that can be created is developed very quickly with the temptation of food.
The initial sense of ritual is very important. The things I talk about are all words that already exist, but they have tampered with the meaning.
It is one of Mozi's means to communicate feelings and spread thoughts through ceremonies such as dinner parties.
"Ming Gui" once said: Now I am a sacrifice, not a direct dirt and abandon it. The superiors use the blessing of making ghosts, and the subordinates use the joy of gathering people to gain relatives from the countryside. If there are ghosts and gods, it will be a way to get my parents and brothers to eat them. Then isn't this a good thing in the world?
Mozi means that whether there are ghosts or no ghosts, we do sacrifices, and we don’t waste everything and throw them away. Instead, after the sacrifice is completed, everyone will share the food together. When the food is eaten, the Mo people can promote the Mo family’s philosophy.
If there are ghosts, even if you worship your ancestors; if there are no ghosts, everyone will not waste it after eating them. They can gather together and increase the organization of the village community. This is better than burial. If you bury all the good things, it is better to take them out for the living to eat them.
Coupled with the system in "Defending the City", Mozi's purpose of sacrificial sacrifices is obvious.
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After following your own changes, it becomes inappropriate. The worship before the meal begins is nothing more than three things.
Although the world is ruthless, it gives warm sun, thirst-quenching water, tilled soil, and moistening rain.
Although the Heavenly Ghost is dead, he devotes everything to the world. Together with the Heavenly Ghost, there are also people who uphold the Heavenly Ghosts who are familiar with the Heavenly Ghosts. The Suiren family who makes fire, Fuxi and Nuwa, who make people who multiply and defeat wild beasts, Shennong, who tastes grass, and a nest that builds houses...
Although the ancestors were dead, if they had not eaten raw meat and blood, and slashed and fire, they would not have had the opportunity to strive for the fifth paradise. They were the foundation for building houses, the well walls of digging wells, and the first three bowls of rice to fill their stomachs.
In a countryside where ghosts and gods are important and ignorant, a simple sense of ritual can allow more people to participate. At the beginning, some people may be attracted by such things as party fish soup, but gradually the ideas contained in this ritual will be more important than the ritual itself.
It is said that it is a sacrifice to ghosts, but it is actually just a sacrifice to the ancestors who are arduous and open up the mountains and forests.
People who participate in this ceremony are increasingly accompanied by Artemisia annua treating malaria, which is similar to "exercising water".
That's it, some small conflicts arise with people like Luhua and Liuzhi who really believe in doing great things and promoting profits and eliminating disadvantages.
Shi doesn't want to provoke those little nobles for the time being, and doesn't want to lead the conflict out now. Mo Zi didn't come back and he had no backing. If he did something like Zhu Shao Zhengmao, he would have no place to cry.
So try to spread it in the autonomous villages and communities as much as possible, and do not enter the fiefs of the nobles to contact those people.
But Luhua asked back, aren’t people in those places? Isn’t Mozhe going to give up on those people? If that is the case, how can it be called the world’s righteousness? If someone gets sick in that place, you can obviously go to cure it, but you don’t allow me to go. What is this?
Luhua, who had always trusted Shi, had a quarrel with Shi for the first time. The children who were educated by him all day were also a little puzzled.
During dinner, Luhua took a few bites with a cold face and was about to leave.
Wei advised: "He has his own plans for doing things. How can he be wrong? Just listen."
Luhua put the spoon heavily and said with a smile: "It was him who said all day long that everything has reason, and the Mo should practice faith and righteousness. It was him who said all day long that he would choose saints in the future, gather the will of all, and have an understanding of the laws and regulations, and have a basis for actions. It was him who said that he was the Mo who took action as a treasure, and he said this to me and the children of Liuzhi, and he said this to you. What am I wrong? It is also his fault if he is wrong!"
Shi lowered his head and didn't say anything. Luhua seemed to be leaving, but she was still standing there, deliberately using words to poke Shi's heart.
It is not easy to get into the Mohist school and become an ambitious family. It is really not easy. The most difficult part is that if you determine that there is something that promotes profit and eliminates disadvantages and acts with great righteousness, you have to go even if there is a sea of swords and fire in front of you. If you don’t go, you will be unable to get the Mohist.
If you mix in any other company, there will be room for turning things around, but the Mohist school has no room for turning things around.
This matter cannot explain the truth that can convince these people. The few close people who have been cultivated will definitely have unsolvable knots in their hearts.
Shi said helplessly: "You have never heard what I told you about Shao Zhengmao."
Luhua sneered, "You have told me about the unity of knowledge and action! If you are Shao Zhengmao, if you are talking about the means of action, if you know that you will be dismembered and exposed to the sun, will you not talk about it? One day you know what is right to do, but if you do this, you will be beheaded, will you not do it?"
"If there is a day when you die with you! You talk about Miss Qianjin, Seven Stars Dragon Abyss all day long, and you make us think it is right and good to be such a person. If you don't want us to do this, why should you tell us what is good and what is bad?"
"If you don't want us to know what is good and what is bad, why should we make any rules and regulations in the future? At that time, the emperor said it is good, and what is bad is bad. We don't need to know, just do as long as we do it. But if you let us know, that will not reach the paradise!"
With the simple view of right and wrong and courage from the early years of the Warring States Period, and the righteousness and injustice that had been talked about for half a year, Luhua spoke with anger and Shi for the first time.
Everyone has their own love and hate.
The previous love was novelty, followed by novelty, and after worship, there was the pleasure of unity. After novelty and worship receded, they were not satisfied with their hearts. This unknown fire finally vented.
Although I am not hated, I am already a little angry.
Shi is not the leader, but just a guide, so you can make mistakes, so you can be scolded, so you can be evaluated by fellow passers-by as whether he did the right thing or wrong.
Shi never thought that Luhua had such a temper. After thinking about it, she realized that what she had done before was right, and of course everything was fine. It was like a volcano. Before it erupted, no one knew that there was magma underneath.
The setting sun outside the door made the reeds cover his shadow over his head, making him look even more small.
He had long said that he was Ye Gong Haolong, and now it seems the same.
He thought he liked the ostentation of the Warring States Period, unyielding, devoting life and death, and valued faith and righteousness.
In fact, he realized that he just liked that there were such people in the world, so he didn't need this.
Under the shadows, Shi held the spoon tightly, looked at Luhua, who seemed a little disappointed, and thought about the children who were eager to be a righteous person like him, Shi smiled bitterly.
He thought he had influenced others, but he forgot that Baisha was in the nirvana and was also influenced by these people?
I am white and I have to pretend that I am a man. After the people around me turn black, will I be unaffected?
Besides, if Mo Zi comes here in the future and asks someone who is greedy for life and fears death, it will be useless to make so much trouble.
Since you want to bet, you have to dare to use your life to gain something. Just be careful.
He laughed wildly and thought to himself, let's go and take a look. Since he was going to get into the Mo family, would he be afraid that death would be taken by Mo Zi?
This is a bit crazy. In order to prove that he is brave enough to cut his legs with a knife and eat meat, I think Meng Sheng from the Mo family must have such personal charm, otherwise he will not be able to gather so many people.
I am too far from being in this regard. I can't pretend to be on the inside and out and just do the surface, I'm afraid it won't work.
Thinking of this, he stood up leisurely, raised his hands to Luhua, who was angry, or a little sad, looked down on him or even looked down on him because of his anger, or a little sadness, raised his hands and gave a big gift, bowing his head and saying, "I was wrong."
However, he didn't understand one thing.
Chapter completed!