Fan Zhongyan said in the "Record of Yueyang Lou" that "if you live in the height of the temple, you are worried about the people, and if you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you are worried about the king", which clearly distinguishes the temple from the rivers and lakes. In ancient times, the imperial court was the only official organization, and the various gangs on the rivers and lakes were non-governmental organizations, and some of the power of non-governmental organizations made the imperial court dare not underestimate it.
From ancient times to the present, there are 3 most mysterious non-governmental organizations that have great influence and often appear in TV dramas, one of which has even been circulated for more than two thousand years, even the emperor, can not completely cancel such organizations.
The first is the Mo family, the founder of the Mo family is Mozi, Mozi is a person with strict formal logic, comparable to Aristotle. Thanks to Mozi's efforts, the first relatively complete logical system in ancient China was established, and the two schools of Moxue, Confucianism and Taoism synthesized the three major philosophical systems of ancient times.
The Mo family is often compared with Confucianism, although after the Qin and Han Dynasties Confucianism prevailed and became the official eminence of the emperor in the feudal era, in fact, during the Warring States period, the Mo family was once brilliant, and even the representative figure of Confucianism, Mencius, said that "if the words of the world do not return to Yang, they will return to Mo", which shows the influence of the Mo family.
Confucianism follows the rules, Taoism is romantic and transcendent, but the Mo family's organizational form is different. The founder of Confucianism, Confucius, spent his life only to maintain the rule of the nobility, Confucianism lived high in the temple, and the Mo family group was "peasant and worker people", and the Mo family disciples were not ashamed of labor like confucian disciples, believing that without labor, social production could not be maintained;
Most of the Mo family's views conflict with Confucianism, the Mo family has the ideas of "simultaneous love", "non-attack", "Ming ghost", "Tianzhi", "non-life", "festival burial", "thrifty use", etc., the Mo family is well organized and disciplined, and the relatives of the mo family leader Juzi violate the law and must be executed according to the laws of the Mo family.
Most of the inkers are people from the lower classes of society, they are engaged in industry and agriculture, they have their own set of rules for handling things, "can make the fire and knife die without returning", unfortunately, this organization has been devastated after the rise of Confucianism, even if the inker's thought is still passed down to this day, its influence can not be compared with Confucianism. But no matter what, the vitality of the Mo family is still very strong, and the blows of the emperor for thousands of years cannot completely annihilate it, and there are still new inkers in modern society.
The second is the Ming Sect, people who have seen the "Book of the Dragon Slayer" know that the Ming Religion exists, in fact, the official name of the Ming Religion should be called Manichaeism, the founder Mani was born in 216 AD, the Persian Empire Sabbath Dynasty, he claimed to be the successor of Zoroastrianism, Jesus, Buddha, dedicated to the establishment of a world religion, but in the end was crucified.
In the Ming conception, light will eventually triumph over darkness. During the Tang Dynasty, Manichaeism was introduced to China from the northwest region, and the local name was Mingjiao. The Ming Sect continued to grow and develop, but due to the blows of the emperor, the development of the Ming Sect went underground. Nevertheless, the idea of yearning for the light was used by the rebel army for propaganda, so the Ming Sect showed signs of activity during the Five Dynasties of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, and it is said that Zhu Yuanzhang's naming of the country as "Ming" was also related to this non-governmental organization.
The third is the Hongmen, or the Hong Gang, the Heaven and Earth Society. The ancestor of Hongmen was Yin Hongsheng, who was a jinshi in the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631), who once advocated resisting the Qing Dynasty and consulted with some people who resolutely defended the Ming Dynasty to establish the "Hanliu" organization to fight against the Qing Dynasty for a long time, and his idea later spread to Zheng Chenggong's army.
Therefore, the rise of Hongmen was originally to "oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty", such ideas were not broken until the late Qing Dynasty, and were still respected by democrats, and the people in Hongmen emphasized patriotic ideas, did not always exist in the form of "gangsters", and during the War of Resistance, they mobilized overseas Chinese to donate money and materials, constantly pursued progress, and later developed into official organizations, which was the most successful transformation of these three organizations.