Chapter 477: Sincerity and Righteousness
After reciting this, Zhou Zhi suddenly remembered a popular science post on the Later Internet, or a joke.
The word "sitting like a corpse" here does not mean a corpse, but a "corpse".
Zhizi is a high-ranking priest who wears ancestors' clothes during the ceremony and accepts sacrifices from descendants on behalf of the ancestors.
As the saying goes, "ancient sacrifices must also include corpses."
The so-called "popular science post" in later generations didn't even understand what the corpse meant, but said that Zhou people used corpses to sacrifice in rituals. This is the best proof of human sacrifice in the Zhou Dynasty.
Then there is a wave of readers who don’t know the truth and reply to the post below shouting that the teacher is awesome.
The truth of the matter is that the "Rites of Zhou" canceled human sacrifices. In the system of "Three Rites", all animals used in sacrifices were livestock, poultry, game, and grains, and no humans.
Although the bad custom of human sacrifice was not eradicated later, the Zhou people had used clear palace regulations to indicate that it was "incompatible with etiquette" and should be criticized.
This is the epoch-making significance of "Three Rites". There is no doubt that compared with the Shang Dynasty, which often sacrificed thousands of people for divination, civilization has made great progress.
What Zhou Zhi had just recited was the "Book of Rites", the most important of the "Three Rites".
The "Three Rites" is attributed to the Duke of Zhou. The book records and preserves many etiquettes of the Zhou Dynasty. Among them, "The Rites of Zhou" focuses on the political system; "The Rites" focuses on behavioral norms; and the "Book of Rites" Emphasis is placed on explanations and discussions of specific etiquette.
The sum of the various etiquette systems involved in these "three etiquettes" is the entire content of "rituals".
It seems like this, but in fact, this book of about 90,000 words has a wide range of content and covers many categories, including politics, law, morality, philosophy, history, sacrifice, literature and art, daily life, and calendar , geography and many other aspects, it is almost all-encompassing and embodies the political, philosophical and ethical thoughts of Pre-Qin Confucianism. It is an important material for the study of Pre-Qin society. It is the three Confucian classics of ancient my country's political system and the blueprint and encyclopedia of ancient China's etiquette system. The whole book.
In fact, if you jump out and look at it, whether this work is written by Zhou Gong or not, it is at least the system and ideological theory of the Zhou Dynasty collected and compiled by later generations.
Therefore, the "Three Rites" can actually be understood as the ideological weapon used by the Zhou people to fight against the Shang Dynasty. Zhou Zhi believed that this was also the fundamental reason why the Zhou people were finally able to overthrow the Shang Dynasty.
The Shang Dynasty valued witchcraft and divination, while the ritual system of the Zhou people was undoubtedly the best weapon to use human rule to fight against God's will, and use humanistic ethics to fight against religious and divine rule.
This also directly laid the original gene for the Chinese nation to respect heaven and earth, and be cautious about pursuing the future. However, it always makes divinity secular instead of religious.
This gene has also affected all aspects of Chinese people's etiquette, systems, lifestyles and behaviors. It embodies the values and worldview of the Chinese people. It is also an important norm and guarantee for the operation of Chinese society and the development of the country.
Among them, such as "The Great Learning", "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "Liyun", have far-reaching influence on later generations.
As the ultimate weapon to defeat "Shinto" with "humanity", once the "Three Rites" came out, the gods and ghosts of nature had to make changes.
In Zhou Zhi's understanding, the so-called "gods and ghosts" are actually temporary confusions and weaknesses in the mind, those accidental moments and accidental factors that induce people's hearts to go against their own sense of right and wrong, and to overcome them The best way is to be "sincere".
This idiom also comes from "Book of Rites·University": "If you want to cultivate your body, you must first rectify your heart; if you want to rectify your heart, you must first be sincere in your intentions."
The concubine is impeccable.
This is also the best therapy that Zhou Zhi has explored over the years to strengthen his soul, at least for himself, it is the most effective method.
Sure enough, with the work in his hands and the words in his mouth, the inexplicable emotions he just felt disappeared without a trace.
Jiaobanyao is wild yam. Scrape it clean and add two handfuls of broken rice to make porridge. Monks abstain from eating meat and fish. Out of consideration, Zhou Zhi tries not to eat meat these days and accompanies the master to "clean his stomach".
However, the bamboo root water in the mountains is very popular, it will increase people’s desire for fat, and yesterday it was really unbearable.
Once he starts quitting, he will be unable to resist the fierce beasts. Zhou Zhi took out another can of anchovies as a meat dish for him and Mr. Qiao today.
The campground has its own rain protection function, so there is no need to pull up a tent. It actually doesn’t take long to take care of these things.
So Zhou Zhi simply scraped off the soot from the pot and placed it on a piece of bamboo. He mixed a little vegetable oil to make ink, cut a bamboo branch into a pen tip, dipped the ink in it and wrote on the red stone wall.
“The way of a university is to be clear and virtuous, to be close to the people, and to strive for perfection...”
There is a saying that “those who are good at writing do not choose pens.” This cannot be said in full. Yes, at least it makes sense.
Even with a simple bamboo branch, after trying a few words, Zhou Zhi found a way to hide the front and take the lead.
The writing got better and better, but the speed was much slower than reciting. It was only in one article in "The Great Learning" that "what is thick is thin, and what is thin is thick." The cave beside him began to leak out random sounds. bright light.
After a while, Mr. Qiao's figure was revealed: "Elbow, it's your turn! It's actually fun and very cool!"
Zhou Zhi took the headlamp and put it on his head Top: "Where's the master?"
"Master is waiting for you at the fork in front. Just follow the rope and go in."
Walking into the cave, the passage narrowed rapidly, and the temperature dropped sharply, which suddenly made people feel uncomfortable. I got goosebumps.
The light scattered by the headlights was constrained by the channel into a spot of light. The red rocks on both sides turned into a strange yellow-white color under the sunlight.
Extreme darkness and partial brightness affect human vision and make people lose their judgment on colors.
There are some obvious dividing lines on the stone wall. Zhou Zhi doesn’t know whether this is a sedimentary texture produced during the formation of the rock, or a weathered texture produced by subsequent weathering. However, such changes are quite beautiful and make the monotony more interesting. The cave walls have some changes.
The cave is not big. There is space on the left and right sides for people to open their hands. The height is very high, allowing people to stand up on their own and straighten their arms.
However, there is a narrow gap further up, so the overall space for people to move is not large.
Traveling hundreds of meters in such a space will generally cause some psychological pressure for people who have never experienced it.
However, Zhou Zhi often conducts field surveys, and has drilled many tombs of the Han Dynasty and the Song Dynasty. There are also air-raid shelters left in Jiachuan in preparation for war and famine, as well as the useless tower base and bottom floor of Baimi Township. In fact, The environment is almost the same as here. For someone like Zhou Zhi, it can only be said that he is used to it.
Although the air in the cave is cold, it is not stuffy, and the cave walls are also very dry. This is basically a constant temperature and humidity environment. If Monk Yuanxiu really hid the "Longzang Sutra" here, besides Apart from the lack of space, it's a really nice place.
Of course, that is if he has really done it.
(End of this chapter)