Recently, Zhang Xuefeng from the mainland said:
"All liberal arts majors are service industries, do you know what service industry is?Summed up in one word, it is licking, Party A is right, I will give you a smile, this is called the service industry. ”
On the Taiwan side, because the high school textbook deleted the new syllabus of Gu Yanwu's "Honest Shame", teacher Ou Guizhi said:
"Students no longer have the opportunity to think, 'The shamelessness of scholars is a national shame,' so this is a 'shameless' syllabus!”。
Licking", or "kneeling and licking", does it have anything to do with "honesty"?
I think it's because many people don't have the right outlook, don't know "honesty", and get lost in money, so they don't consciously "lick" power and money. On the contrary, people who know "shame" will naturally not "lick".
First, define what "licking" is and what is "shamelessness".
Look up the word "licking".Licking, tongue feeding also.
Check the word "cheap".Cheap, collectible, self-inspection also. Meaning, self-examination is a little more self-examination and a little more restraint. Mencius said: You can take it, you can take it, you can take it, and you can take it cheaply.
Check the word "shame".Shame, humiliation, and shame.
Secondly, discuss Zhang Xuefeng's "licking": why do people "lick"?
Are people bound to kneel and lick undisciplined for five buckets of rice?Maybe most people are like this, but there are definitely still people who can not bend their waists for five buckets of rice, for example, Tao Yuanming.
There is a question of degree here: under what circumstances is "licking"?Under what circumstances does it count as "no licking"?I thought that not having dignity for the sake of money was "licking";Getting paid for providing the best possible service to Party A is not "licking" normally.
Liberal arts provide services that, as long as they are difficult to replace, will not slip into undisciplined "licking";Science provides technology, and as long as it is easy to replace, it is inevitable to slip into the undisciplined "licking".
Therefore, whether people will slip into "licking" depends entirely on whether you are easily replaced, regardless of literature and science.
It's just that, relatively speaking, most of the liberal arts are easy to be replaced, and most of the sciences are not so easy to be replaced.
But whether it is easy to be replaced, or not easy to be replaced, it is not a reason to "lick". Those who know "shame" will not "lick" no matter what.
Finally, discuss Gu Yanwu's "incorruptible shame": why can people not "lick"?
Those who are not easy to be replaced generally do not "lick" easily, because it is not necessary, but it is also possible to "lick" if you want to get more;Those who are easily substituted are likely to slip into "licking", because if you don't "lick", you will lose a lot of material things.
Therefore, whether you are easily replaced, or you are not easily replaced, under what circumstances would you not "lick"?
People who know "shame" will not "lick" in most cases;People who don't know "shame" will "lick" in most cases.
Because, even if you are easy to be replaced, as long as you know "cheap", know convergence, and know inspection, you will not pursue money excessively. You only buy what you can afford, you know what you can take and what you can't, so why do you have to kneel and lick anyone?
Because, even if you are easily replaced, even if you are poor, as long as you know "shame", know what you can do and what you can't do, and have a sense of shame when you do something wrong, you will not kneel and lick anyone.
Consciousness directs action. You must first know what "shame" is, and then you know that "kneeling and licking" belongs to the ranks of "shameless", and you will consciously not "lick".
If you don't know "shame", you don't think that "licking" is a shameful act, and you will "lick" without any restraint.
Gu Yanwu wrote this in the article "Honest Shame" in "Daily Zhilu" p696 (the first two paragraphs of the excerpt):
"The History of the Five Dynasties: The Biography of Feng Dao" says: Etiquette, righteousness and shame, the four dimensions of the country, the four dimensions are not open, and the country is destroyed. Good, the ability to manage life!Etiquette and righteousness, the ** of governing people;Shame, the great festival of establishing people;If you are not honest, you will take everything, and if you are not ashamed, you will do everything. If people are like this, they will be ruined and perished, and they will come in all directionsIn addition, if you are a minister and do everything, then there will be no chaos in the world, and there will be no immortal in the countryHowever, among the four, shame is particularly important. Therefore, the Master's commentator said, "It is shameful to do what you do." Mencius said, "One cannot be shameless. Shameless, shameless. He also said: "Shame is on people, and it is shameful for those who are clever in their ways." Therefore, people are not honest, and as for disobedience and righteousness, they are all born from shamelessness. The shamelessness of the scholar is a national shame.The "Qi Dynasty Shifu" mentioned in the text,Not ashamed of "Fu Shi Gong", but proud of "all love", this is said to be shameless and licked!Although "fushi" is "serving", it also refers to "bending the knee to do things".I look at the three generations below, the world is declining, abandoning etiquette and righteousness, and donating incorruptibility is not overnight. However, the pine and cypress withered in the cold, the rooster crowed in the wind and rain, and on the day of the dusk, there was no one who woke up alone. Reading "Yan's Family Motto", there is a cloud: "A scholar in the Qi Dynasty, I said: 'I have a son, who is seventeen years old, knows a lot of books, teaches him Xianbei language, and plays the pipa, and wants to understand it a little, so as to ambush the minister, all of whom are favored. I bowed down and did not answer. It's amazing that this person's godson is also!If you do this, you will be the prime minister, and you don't want you to do it!"Whew!The push has to be in troubled times, as if for this reason, there is still the meaning of the poet of "Xiaowan", who is eunuch and flattering in the world, can be worthy of it!
The reason why Taiwanese teacher Ou Guizhi strongly opposes the deletion of the text "Honesty and Shame" is because every student should know what honesty and shame is from the time they are young, and he hopes that those "scholars" who will take up the post of state administrators in the future will know what "national shame" is. Otherwise, if you don't even know what shame is, how can you restrain yourself with the word "shame" all the time?
If a person does not restrain himself with shame, then he dares to accept any money and do anything, so why not "kneel"?What's the point of "licking"?
It's a pity that the article "Honest Shame" is not included in the textbooks of mainland high schools!
It is said that Taiwanese high school students have to learn 60 classical Chinese, I don't know if it's all prose, or prose plus poetry?In the three years of high school in our mainland, we have to take two and two volumes, plus three optional compulsory books, with a total of 32 essays and 36 poems.
One day, perhaps the children on both sides of the strait can read Gu Yanwu's "Honest Shame" together and cultivate themselves with honesty and shame together, which will be fortunate.
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