I have always seen light shine through the window into the darkness, but I have never seen the darkness break into the light through the window.
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At this moment, the light shone through the window, and the whole room lit up. After all, darkness can't hide the light, and even in the darkest darkness, a little bit of light will be particularly dazzling.
In the walls of feudal royalty, outside the door of the aristocratic family, in the dark space separated by the two, what is there that can exist for a long time and convey some light and warmth to those who are trapped in darkness?
I think it's civilization.
"Heaven does not give birth to Jonny, and eternity is like a long night." Confucius was like a light of enlightenment, shining for the first time on this chaotic and obscure land, dispelling the night and opening a window of civilization.
Since Confucius proposed that there is no class in teaching, he has recruited three thousand disciples under his disciples, and personally cultivated seventy-two sage disciples to set an example for the world. Education should be oriented to the masses, everyone should be educated, inspire the wisdom of the people, it is from here that mankind finally lit the fire of education, realized the first step toward civilization, the light of civilization shines into the desolation and darkness, illuminates ignorance.
However, what people did not expect was that this kind of thinking, which from the beginning of Confucius had oriented education to the masses and should not have become the exclusive nature of a certain class, had been conquered by the barbaric feudal monarchy and had become the exclusive property of the royal family and the nobility, and the flame of civilization was savagely possessed, imprisoned in the deep palace walls, and the light could not shine on the commoners, just like a window was just opened, it was pasted with a layer of paper, and the light was annihilated in an instant, and darkness came.
Fortunately, paper cannot withstand the wind and rain, and darkness will not become eternal.
The first stage of civilization is education, not education monopolized by the nobility, but education that benefits the common people.
Because education is to enlighten people's civilization, all ideas are analyzed as teaching materials, and what is learned from these teaching materials depends on the students themselves to understand, rather than being indoctrinated with feudal superstitions and solidified things. Education should be based on aptitude, cultivating multi-faceted talents, diversified talents, rather than cultivating everyone into a look, because such "education" is called brainwashing, or called: pyramid schemes.
Education, first of all, requires a learned person, and has a rich, full, and three-dimensional personality. Therefore, I do not think that some serious and rigid masters, some noble and arrogant masters, can carry the banner of education, can open the window of civilization, so that for a long time there are very few people who can enlighten the masses, and there is no broad way to spread the ideas of enlightenment. So, the window opens in another way.
The second stage of civilization is the city.
In the present view, in fact, the city is a slap in the face of the feudal forces, the kind with red handprints, the force is extremely great, in the Song Dynasty, almost half of the face of the feudal forces was destroyed. This description may have a bit of a ridiculous taste, but the truth is this, while encouraging people to engage in farming with extremely low production efficiency, while suppressing merchants, and even listing merchants as the last people, they cannot prevent the merchants from gathering to form cities, earning a lot of silver money as the last people, and living a luxurious life that the nobility cannot match.
It's like a loud slap, you say that people should honestly engage in farming, and to engage in business is not to do the right thing. But honest peasants starved to death, exhausted and exhausted, but the merchants were full of food and extravagant pleasures. Why are their lives inferior to those of farmers?
You say that merchants are inferior, but they can buy and sell peasants as servants at will, but they can spend money at will to buy an official and a half-job, but they can use their wealth to rival the country and hire a group of guests who are more loyal than those ministers and can fight more than those generals. How could their status be inferior to that of the emperors and generals?
But the city, but the merchants, really gave the kind of princes and ministers convenience, let them experience the happiness and convenience that the city brought to their lives, and made them reluctantly but willingly accept the existence of the city and these merchants.
First, in their view, the existence of the city would create loopholes in feudal thought, and make the peasants realize that they should not be bound by feudal thought. It's like saying, you see, those who don't listen to the emperor are much better off than those of us who honestly cultivate the fields, aren't they?
However, because the first stage of civilization was not fully opened, the peasants fell into too deep ignorance, and no one realized that the road to the city was a loophole in feudal thought, and no one took advantage of the successful example of the city to criticize and shake the foundation of feudal thought. So the feudal forces were also at ease, and they could enjoy the convenience brought by the city, but they did not cause the dissatisfaction and resistance of those peasants.
After all, the feudal forces could not find a reason to boycott the city, so they had to rub the red marks on their faces and endure this breath. But what the feudal forces did not expect was that instead of standing with the city to resist the oppression of the feudal forces, the peasants jumped out at this time and launched an attack on the city with pedantry and ignorance.
Take a poem "Silkworm Woman" as an example:
"Yesterday I went into the city and came back in tears.
He who is full of silkworms is not a silkworm keeper. ”
This poem is from the perspective of a silkworm farmer to tell the injustice of the world, to attack the rich people who are all over the world but have never done anything about Nongsang. At first glance, it seems that it is nothing, but it exposes the oppression and exploitation of the peasants in feudal society, but it reveals a hint of disgust for the city, a satire on the rich who are "not silkworm farmers". It's like saying, you see those of us who raise silkworms are not clothed, you rich people who do not have their hands stained with yang and spring water, but they are all over the place, we are all ordinary people, no officials and no power, and we are not an aristocratic family, why is the gap so big? This world is really unfair!
It's like saying, if you don't honestly farm silkworms at home, run to do business, suck the blood of farmers, and earn our hard-earned money, how can there be such a bad person?
There seems to be some truth to this accusation, but they turn a blind eye to the oppression of the emperor, and these ways of raising their incomes provided to them by the merchants are attacked by them in this way. Isn't that an indistinguishable? In short, the development of commerce brought some additional income to the peasants, and it was the feudal forces that really oppressed and exploited the peasants to the point that they could not survive.
However, the peasants, with unimaginable ignorance, attacked the ordinary people who obtained a better quality of life by their own mental labor, and instead regarded the nobles in the high walls of the deep palace who were dressed in fine clothes and did not pay any labor as nothing, and regarded them as a matter of course.
This kind of ignorant idea is that the status of the city as the second stage of civilization cannot be enlightened and changed. The so-called "morning fungus does not know obscurity, cockroaches do not know spring and autumn", you tell the summer insects about winter snow, most of them can not tell a reason. On the contrary, it will cause more summer worms to join forces to resist you, and tens of thousands of summer worms insist on their own opinions, thinking that there is no winter snow in the world, that is, there is no! The reason always has to be told to the reasonable people, playing the piano to the cow, most of them are not interesting. Perhaps this attack on the city still hides the "truth" of scolding kunpeng, "I jump up, but a few bucks down, soaring between the basil, this also flies to also, and the other xi is also suitable?" And busy Kunpeng soared up to ninety thousand miles, Suitable for the South Meditation, perhaps there was no time to talk to the repulsion about what "small and big arguments" were.
This is because the first stage of education was not popularized, resulting in the peasants being indoctrinated with too many backward and ignorant feudal ideas, and they could not see the truth behind the emergence of the city, let alone the true face of the feudal forces "eating people". So they wantonly launched attacks on the cities, and the cities could only withstand this criticism, ostracized by the feudal class, attacked by the peasant class, and survived in the cracks.
It seems that the high-class, civilized things are inherently restrained by the ignorant, barbaric things.
Fortunately, this barbarism is not very destructive, and the occasional knocking and knocking makes the window brighter, and the city has finally become a window, in stark contrast to the closed walls and doors, and a few people have begun to observe the world through the window, and have also glimpsed a trace of the truth.