Master Archaeologist

Chapter 307 Academic Feast
With the numerous restoration achievements in the archaeological base, they appeared one by one.

Relatively speaking, the tomb of Marquis Haihun in Nanchang, which has been relatively silent for more than a year, has once again become more famous in the industry.

In particular, after more than 5200 bamboo slips have been sorted out one after another, it has attracted many scholars from various domestic universities to apply through various relationships and rush to the archaeological base of Haihunhou Tomb, wanting to see these 2000 bamboo slips. Works from years ago!

Scholars, no matter ancient or modern, yearn for knowledge and the works of sages.

In particular, although modern culture is developed, the works before the Western Han Dynasty have all been lost, and none of them survive.

Not only because of Qin Shihuang's burning of books and burying Confucianism, many works of the Hundred Schools were searched out and burned, but also because under the influence of Confucianism in the Western Han Dynasty, many theories of the Warring States Hundred Schools finally revived and were completely suppressed. .

By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, basically except for Confucianism, all other schools of thought had died out.

The more famous ones, such as the writings of Nongjia, Yang Zi, and Mohists, basically have no writings handed down.

Especially Yang Zi.

During the Warring States Period, Yang Zi was also regarded as a famous scholar.

The most famous surviving content of Yang Zi’s theory is Mencius’s sentence: “Yang Zi takes it for me, plucks out a hair and benefits the world, and does not do it.”

The core of Yangzi's theory is "for oneself", and the classic interpretation is "If people do not do it for themselves, heaven and earth will destroy it".

Preserving nature and authenticity, not accumulating form with things, is the core of Yangzi's theory.

However, any works of Yang Zi's theory can no longer be found in modern times.

If you want to understand Yangzi's theory, you can only get a glimpse of the philosophy of this theory from "Zhuangzi", "Mencius" and other works that mention Yangzi's theory.

Of course, because of camp issues, both Zhuangzi and Mencius criticized Yangzi's theory in various ways.

After all, what Yang Zi advocates is selfishness, not to be burdened with things, and nothing in the world can become a burden for me.

This kind of theory, in the era of the patriarchal clan in BC, was simply a freak theory and could not be accepted by the world at all.

but!

In modern times, no one knows the specific content of the works of Yang Zi's theory.

But modern people who uphold the spirit of Yang Zi can catch a lot of them.

Selfishness, all self-centered thoughts, not only did not die, but prevailed!
Selfishness has become the norm for individuals in modern society.

On the contrary, people who are selfless will be ridiculed by everyone, thinking that people who give selflessly are too stupid and naive.

If Yang Zi lived in modern times, I don’t know if he would be very gratified. Although his theory died out in the Western Han Dynasty, there are countless successors after 2000, and it even has a great meaning of learning.
Of course, this is just a joke.

In the end, whether Yang Zi's theory only emphasizes that people should be selfish and self-centered, people nowadays can't be sure.

The reason is that there are no works on Yang Zi's theory in the world, and the current views on Yang Zi's theory are all based on what Mencius and Zhuangzi said.

As for "political enemies", Mencius and Zhuangzi obviously would not say anything good to Yang Zi.

This is like Confucianism in the mouth of Mohism, which is also a school that does all harm but does not benefit at all.

In the mouth of Confucianism, Mohism is also a strange skill, useless to the country, but a factor of social instability, which must be eradicated!
What is right and what is wrong, if modern people want to distinguish, unless they can find a few bamboo slips of "Mozi" and "Yangzi" from the old paper piles underground, they may be able to really understand.

It is a pity that the works of "Mozi" and "Yangzi" were not found in Haihunhou's tomb.

After all, these two theories were basically passed down during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. By the time of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, Confucianism had completely controlled politics.

but!

In Haihunhou's tomb, there are still many confirmed, lost or incomplete classics!

For example: there are more than 1000 bamboo slips of "Liu Bo" chess records, more than 10 bamboo slips of "Zixu Fu", and more than 20 bamboo slips of "Burn Fu"!

More than 60 bamboo slips about yin and yang, five elements, five directions and five emperors, clearly mentioning "five elements, gold, wood, water, fire, earth", "east green dragon, west white tiger, southern vermilion bird, northern basalt" and other yin and yang works!
"Room", "Health" and "Medical Prescription" and other simple 200 pieces of bamboo!
There are more than 600 bamboo slips in the "Book of Filial Piety"!

More than 200 bamboo slips from "Spring and Autumn"!

Among them, the bamboo slips of "Spring and Autumn" are very different from the current "Spring and Autumn"!
Part of the content of the Jianwen can be found in the third biography of "Spring and Autumn", but some content can only be found in "Gongyang Zhuan", which shows that the Jianwen should come from "Gongyang Zhuan".

That is "Ram Chunqiu"!
However, the "Gongyang Chunqiu" in Haihunhou's hands is different from the current "Gongyang Biography", and there are even big differences.

For example, Jianwen: "Xia, the son is like a begging teacher in Chu. Begging is a humble resignation. He is the same as the outside and the inside? He also pays attention to the teacher."

The current version of "Gongyang Zhuan" was written in the 26th year of Duke Xi: "Xia, the people of Qi attacked me and the north. Resignation? Emphasis on the teacher also ".

Obviously, the current version of "Gongyang Zhuan" is much more complete than the Haihunhou version.

Another example is the Jianwen "to make Zai Zhou Gong come to hire. What is the Zai Zhou Gong? The Son of Heaven".

The current version of "Gongyang Zhuan" in the 30th year of Xi Gong said: "In winter, the king of heaven envoy Zhou Gong to hire."

In the ninth year of Duke Xi: "In summer, the guild slaughtered Zhou Gong, Qihou, Song Zi, Weihou, Zheng Bo, Xu Nan, and Cao Bo in Kuiqiu. Who is the ruler of Zhou Gong? The emperor is also a politician."

The first and last two sentences of this brief text are found in two places in the current "Gongyang Biography", and the time is different. The first half sentence is about the 30th year of Xi Gong, and the second half is about the ninth year of Xi Gong.

Then the problem is coming.

Why is the content of "Gongyang Zhuan" in the period of Emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty relatively concise, but the content of this "Gongyang Zhuan" has been expanded in detail?

Why is one thing recorded in the ancient book turned into two things in this book, and the specific characters are also expanded?
The ancient book only said that the emperor sent Zai Zhougong to hire him.

The present version automatically fills in the specific Duke of Zhou, Marquis of Qi, Son of Song, Marquis of Wei, Zheng Bo, Xu Nan, and Cao Bo who met in Kuiqiu?

At first glance, the current version is much more detailed than the ancient version. It not only completes the characters, but also fills in specific stories, which is more educational.

However, if this is reversed, the ancient version is more complete than the current version, which is quite normal.

But the records in this book are more complete than those in the ancient book, which is a bit outrageous.

How can there be things that the ancients did not record clearly, but later generations can add specific people and events to it?
These ancient works unearthed from the tomb of Haihunhou, which are obviously very different from the works handed down today, have aroused the curiosity and research desire of countless domestic scholars!
For them, studying the ancient works of the sages, comparing them with the current ones, and exploring the reasons for the revision of the contents is simply a feast for the academic world!
How can this be missed!
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