Throughout history, since Confucius founded the Confucian school, Confucian representatives have all actively campaigned and exhorted the emperor to govern the country with etiquette and music.
On the other hand, Taoism seems to have started a life of shadow escape since Lao Tzu opened the sect, and the subsequent Zhuangzi, Liezi and others also developed in the direction of a metaphysical thinker and a retreat.
But is it really what people think it is?
First of all, the author would like to give you a very clear answer, the statement that "Confucianism entered the WTO, and Taoism escaped from the world" is indeed a stereotype. A true Taoist will stand up and actively join the WTO when the country and the people are in trouble. The wise men of Confucianism, in an environment where they are born in troubled times and everyone is unable to protect themselves, will also advocate escaping from the world.
Taoism also entered the WTO
If you go deep into history, you will find that since the Han Dynasty, the emperors of all dynasties have governed the country in the form of Confucianism and internal Taoism. And whenever the country is in danger, the first to stand up and help the emperor must be the group of Taoist figures who are hidden in the mountains and forests.
If you can't clearly understand the situation, then observe the founding emperors of each dynasty, and the top talents around them who gave advice: Fan Li, who helped King Goujian of Yue to restore the country, Zhang Liang next to Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng next to Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty, Qiu Chuji around Genghis Khan in the Yuan Dynasty, and Liu Bowen around Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty, all of them are Taoist figures.
Isn't their appearance and assistance to the king exactly an act of joining the WTO in order to save the people and the country, and actively running in the midst of the disasters of fire, water, and military disasters?
Confucianism also disappeared
What about Confucianism?
The images of Confucianism that we often see are all full of ambition to serve the country, so does it mean that Confucianism is against the idea of being born and refusing?
Not really. Even Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, even had the idea of escaping from the world.
In the Analects. In the Constitutional Question, Confucius said:"The sage dispels the world, followed by the land, then the color, and then the words. ”These words are Confucius's wisdom method of reminding ** and future generations to avoid the world reasonably and avoid unjustified disasters.
Gentlemen avoid it
Confucius also told people how to deal with their relationship with the world. Confucius believed that when the sage escaped from the world, in the chaotic moment of the great era, he should be like the "hidden dragon do not use" in the Qiangua, temporarily hide his figure, avoid having a relationship with the current environment, but know how to protect himself and cultivate like a hermit.
If you can't achieve the "escaping" life of seclusion and monasticism, waiting for the opportunity, then you should retreat to the next best thing and go to "avoid the land". If a place is too muddy, we will be polluted by the environment. When we disagree with the ecology of this environment, we must know how to leave this place. If you can't "avoid the ground", you must know how to "avoid color". In order to protect ourselves in a terrible, embattled environment, we must pay attention to our attitude towards the world.
In the turbulent and turbulent environment, we must be upright and rigorous in our speech and thoughts, be kind to anyone, be tolerant of others, and not have an arrogant and contemptuous attitude. In this way, we can protect ourselves at the moment when we cannot escape from the world and avoid the place.
If you have achieved correct and rigorous thinking and speech, a kind attitude, and tolerance of others, and there is something wrong in the limelight when getting along with others, then you must know in time: he probably can't get along with me, so you should leave early!
In a chaotic environment, if you can't avoid the ground, then you must know how to "avoid words" while "avoiding color". To understand the truth that "illness comes from the mouth, and disaster comes from the mouth", we must keep our mouths shut and not complain.
This is the "four points" that Confucius told many **, from this point of view, Confucius to the hermit thought, why not agree with the attitude?
Article summary.
When we go deep into history and the remarks of wise men, we find that many objective facts have been obscured by people's subjective thoughts.
We are now learning traditional culture and learning the wisdom of Chinese culture, in order to make ourselves have a more intuitive and profound understanding of the original culture. It enables us to throw away the old wrong and stereotyped ideas and learn the true essence of life wisdom.