Why should ancient and modern sages warn the world and cherish words and paper?
The sage lineage has been passed down through the ages! Net worth business, left to children and grandchildren! The history of the country and the civilization of the nation are constantly inherited! Such merits are majestic, and they all rely on the power of words and paper.
With this story shared today, you will understand. Before sharing this story, we have to share another good book, "The Book of Exhortations", and this story comes from this good book.
In 1843, the Qing Dynasty's good book of cause and effect "Exhortations" was engraved and circulated for the first time. This book contains more than 1,400 cause and effect cases, almost all of which are real-life historical figures, which is a sensation. But no one thought that today, 180 years later, modern people are very laborious to read ancient texts, and this book has never been corrected and translated into the vernacular, gradually disappearing into the dust of history.
However, it seems that every book on cause and effect, persuasion, and moral education has its own fate. When karma is ripe, it educates the world in different times. "The Book of Exhortations" was first engraved in 1843 in the year of Daoguang Guimao, and this year, 2023, is the year of Guimao, and after a full three Jiazi, this book has finally seen the light of day. Yu Qiu's bachelor was disrespectful because of his disrespectful reading, and he reduced his position as the champion!
Mr. Yu Qiumur, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, (Yu Ji, the word Rongshang, the number Qiu Room, Zhejiang Renhe, Qing Dynasty painter, book collection; In the 38th year of Qianlong, he and Shao Jinhan, Zhou Yongnian, Dai Zhen, and Yang Changlin recommended the revision of the "Four Libraries Quanshu", and awarded the Hanlin Academy to edit it, known as the "Five Expedition Officials", and its literary style (brilliant talent and chic demeanor) can be described as second to none in the two Zhejiang regions.
At the beginning, he was not elected to the position of the Hanlin Academy after the release of the list, because he participated in the compilation and revision of the Siku Quanshu and accumulated some merits, so he was promoted to a bachelor. When I was young, I had heard his name, and at first I thought he was an ancient, but later I learned that my father had met Master Yu when he was in Beijing to take the entrance examination, and he had taken the opportunity to privately ask the priest to say, "Mr. is so exquisite, why didn't he win the first prize?" ”
Master Yu smiled and said, "This is an old incident in my life, even if Mr. doesn't ask, I'm about to tell you." I remember that in the 31st year of Qianlong (1766), when I returned to class after the release of the Bingxu Branch List (Qing system, all Jinshi were not awarded other official positions, but were selected by Zhixian Quan), a person surnamed Wu from Guangdong came to visit me, so I invited him in, and Wu said: 'Is Mr. also reading a book when he goes to the toilet?' I wondered why he asked, and Wu said, "I have also committed such a sin." Last year, I was seriously ill and dreamed that I had entered the underworld. But I thought to myself that my mother was widowed in her early years, and that I had been raised by my mother as a widow, and now if I died before my mother, my mother would be helpless, so I wept bitterly and begged Hades to let me go back so that my mother could live in her old age.
After hearing this, the king of Hades took out the book of life and death to check it, turned to the judge and said, "His yang life is not over, why did he hook his soul to the underworld?" The judge said, "This man has been robbed of his life because he was reading a book while going to the toilet." The king of Hades ordered someone to take the record book, which was a booklet more than an inch thick, and the cover was signed with the four big characters "Izuku read the book". The king of Hades opened the booklet and found my name, and I knelt down and wept and pleaded in front of several cases, so I was able to secretly see the booklet with my spare light, and sure enough, it was cut to the second age of Yangshou (twenty-four years). The name above me is Mr. You, under your name is marked with the words "Zhejiang Qiantang people, Renwu Juren, Bingxu champion", and the record of Lu position is still very long, but the word "champion" was ticked off with a pen and changed to the word "Jinshi".
Hades said to the judge, "This man is the only one who can't rest assured of his mother after his death, and he can be described as a dutiful son." Moreover, the people of the world do not know that this kind of sin is extremely serious, and there are many people who violate it, and there is no way to widely persuade and remind him, so it is better to let him go back first, let him publicize this matter in the world, and if there is one, he will change it, and at the same time, it can also make people change their own redemption. I hope that the number of people in the book of sin will not be too large, and that he will be given another century of life. However, in these twelve years, it is also necessary to show a little punishment, so as not to let him be too comfortable. So the judge took a pen and nodded my head, and in great pain, cried out that I had been dead for a day and a night.
Now I still have a sore on the top of my head, and it doesn't work to seek medical advice, probably where the judge pointed it with a pen. ’At that time, after listening to Wu's words, I was shocked, repented, and vowed to change my previous mistakes. Just when I made my vow, it happened to be the day when the imperial court issued an edict to recruit me into the Siku Pavilion because of the revision of the Siku Quanshu. ”
The above story and article are recorded: Unity Publishing House's "Complete Collection of Exhortations", here is only for sharing and reading!