Before the collapse of the Zhou feudal order, China was a society of small communities based on patriarchal kinship, although it was literally called"Under the whole world, it is not the king's land"., but in essence, it is not a family society, and the set of feudal rituals that it maintains is not just for the king's personal selfish desires, but precisely wants to restore the past Yao Shunyu in this way."The rule of three generations".Ideal utopia.
The "rule of three generations" is a society that follows the "royal way". Legend has it that the society of the ancient Yao Shunyu era was a society with simple democratic ideas, the same tribe elected virtuous people to be their "king", the king is the king of the public, the king's position is passed on to the virtuous but not to the son, the king elected by the people should govern the society with benevolence rather than violence, and oppose the barbaric acts of bullying the weak"The world is for the public".The principles of justice
The road is also a trip to the world, the world is for the public, the selection of talents and abilities, and the belief and harmony.This is the so-called "royal road".
Although it is impossible to confirm whether the scene of "rule of three generations" described by Confucianism really exists, the early Zhou Dynasty did regard "rule of three generations" as the highest political value orientation, and the "benevolent government" and "royal road" advocated by Confucianism in the pre-Qin period were also based on the blueprint of "rule of three generations".
After the Zhou and Qin Revolutions, Qin used absolute violence to unify China, and the concept of "royal road" gradually declined, and was replaced by "hegemony".
Matched with the gradual solidification of hegemony is the prevalence of Legalist totalitarian ideology, represented by Shang Ying, Han Fei, and Li Si, who vigorously preach the absolute power of the state apparatus to draw on the people to an unlimited extent, and use the "six techniques of controlling the people" of the weak, foolish, tired, humiliating, poor, and abusing the people to strengthen the supremacy of the monarch, so as to achieve great unification.
In this case, the monarch of the great unified dynasty regarded the world as his private property, all the people under heaven were his slaves, there was no justice, and the will of the monarch was the supreme law, thus gradually forming a kind of Hegel's saying"Universal slavery".
''Traditional China was a system of universal slavery, where only the emperor was free, and everyone else, including the prime minister, was his slave. “Under Qin's ** logic, it is inevitable to burn books and pit Confucianism, if you don't "abolish the way of the ancestors and burn the words of a hundred schools", how can you "revitalize the long-term strategy and in the universe, and insist on knocking and whipping the world"?
After the establishment of the Qin system, although there was also the politics of the great clans from the Wei and Jin dynasties to the early Tang Dynasty, and the scene of enlightened monarchs in the Song Dynasty, these situations may have affected the process of monarchical centralization, but they failed to change the overall trend of the weakening of the royal road and the prevalence of hegemony.
What's even more terrifying,In traditional China, where hegemony prevailed after the decline of the royal road, the connection between the monarch and justice was severed, and after that, there was no longer a strict legal barrier between Tian Shelang and the crown of the Son of Heaven, and as long as sufficient power could be mobilized, there was no such thing as "transgression".
The political logic of two thousand years of continuous degrading, hooliganization, ****ization, and thick blackening has planted a seed in the hearts of traditional Chinese that "princes and generals would rather have seeds", sweep away the Liuhe, sum up the eight desolations, change the Yuan and open the country, and become a great treasure"Emperor Taizu WuWhat a heroic pleasure!
On the other hand, ".The seeds of danger planted by "hegemony" have also caused a pathological split in the hearts of traditional ChineseThat is, on the surface, the most important value orientation is to abide by the gentleness, courtesy, frugality, cultivation and reading heirlooms, learn literature and martial arts, goods and the emperor's family, loyalty to the monarch to serve the country, and repair Qi Zhiping is the broad road that every traditional Chinese yearns for.
But in the depths of the soul of the traditional personality, those gentle and cowardly eyes often hide the blazing imperial dream, and the "yellow robe plus body" is far more powerful than looking for "Yan Ruyu and ** house" in the book.