After reciting this, Zhou Zhi suddenly remembered a popular science post on the Internet, or a joke.

The word "sitting like a corpse" here does not mean corpse, but "corpse".

Zhizi is a high-ranking priest who wears the clothes of his ancestors during the ceremony and accepts sacrifices from descendants on behalf of his ancestors.

As the saying goes, "ancient sacrifices must also include corpses."

The so-called "popular science post" in later generations didn't even understand what the corpse meant, but said that Zhou people used corpses to sacrifice in rituals. This is the best proof of human sacrifice in the Zhou Dynasty.

Then there was a wave of readers who didn’t know the truth and responded to the post below shouting that the teacher was “Niu Niu Niu”.

The truth of the matter is that the "Zhou Rites" canceled human sacrifices. In the system of the "Three Rites", all animals used in sacrifices were livestock, poultry, game, and grains, and no humans.

Although the bad custom of human sacrifice was not eradicated later, the Zhou people had used clear palace regulations to indicate that it was "incompatible with etiquette" and should be criticized.

This is the epoch-making significance of the "Three Rites". There is no doubt that compared with the Shang Dynasty, which often sacrificed thousands of people for divination, civilization has made great progress.

What Zhou Zhi just recited was the "Book of Rites", the most important of the "Three Rites".

"Three Rites" is written by the Duke of Zhou. The book records and preserves many etiquettes of the Zhou Dynasty. Among them, "Zhou Rites" focuses on political systems; "Rites" focuses on behavioral norms; and "Book of Rites" focuses on explanations of specific etiquette.

, discussion.

The sum of the various etiquette systems involved in these "three etiquettes" is the entire content of "rituals".

It seems like this, but in fact, this book of about 90,000 words is extensive in content and covers many categories, including politics, law, morality, philosophy, history, sacrifice, literature and art, daily life, calendar, geography and many other aspects. It is almost all-encompassing and embodies the political, philosophical and ethical thoughts of Pre-Qin Confucianism. It is an important material for the study of Pre-Qin society. It is the three Confucian classics of ancient my country's political system and the blueprint and encyclopedia of ancient China's etiquette system.

In fact, if you look at it from afar, no matter whether this work was written by Zhou Gong or not, it is at least the system and ideological theory of the Zhou Dynasty collected and compiled by later generations.

Therefore, the "Three Rites" can actually be understood as the ideological weapon used by the Zhou people to fight against the Shang Dynasty. Zhou Zhi believed that this was also the fundamental reason why the Zhou people were able to overthrow the Shang Dynasty in the end.

The Shang Dynasty valued witchcraft and divination, and the ritual system of the Zhou people was undoubtedly the best weapon to use human rule to fight against God's will, and humanistic ethics to fight against religious and divine rule.

This also directly gave the Chinese nation the original gene of respecting heaven and earth, and being prudent in pursuing the future. However, it always made divinity secular rather than religious.

This gene has also affected all aspects of Chinese people's etiquette, systems, lifestyles and behaviors, embodying Chinese people's values ​​​​and worldview. It is also an important norm and guarantee for the operation of Chinese society and the development of the country.

Among them, such as "The Great Learning", "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "Liyun", have far-reaching influence on later generations.

As the ultimate weapon to defeat "Shinto" with "humanity", as soon as "Three Rites" came out, the gods and ghosts of nature had to make changes.

In Zhou Zhi's understanding, the so-called "gods and ghosts" are actually temporary confusions and weaknesses in the mind, those accidental moments and factors that induce people's hearts to go against their own sense of right and wrong, and the best way to overcome them is to "

Honest and sincere.”

This idiom also comes from the "Book of Rites·University": "If you want to cultivate your body, you must first rectify your mind; if you want to rectify your mind, you must first be sincere in your intentions."

The common people are impeccable.

This is also the best therapy that Zhou Zhi has explored over the years to strengthen his soul. At least for him, it is the most effective method.

Sure enough, with the work in his hands and the words in his mouth, the inexplicable emotions he just felt disappeared without a trace.

Jiaobanyao is a wild yam. Scrape it clean and add two handfuls of broken rice to make porridge.

Monks abstain from eating meat and fish. Out of consideration, Zhou Zhi tries not to eat meat these days and accompanies the master to "clean his stomach".

However, the bamboo root water in the mountains is very "trendy", it just increases people's desire for fat, and yesterday it was really unbearable.

Once he starts quitting, he will be unable to resist the fierce beasts. Zhou Zhi took out another can of anchovies as a meat dish for him and Mr. Qiao today.

The campground has its own rain protection function, so there is no need to pull up a tent. It doesn’t take long to take care of these things.

So Zhou Zhi simply scraped off the soot from the pot and put it on a piece of bamboo. He mixed a little vegetable oil to make ink, cut a bamboo branch into a pen tip, dipped the ink in it and started writing on the red stone wall.

"The way of a university lies in being virtuous, being close to the people, and striving for perfection..."

There is a saying that "those who are good at writing do not choose pens". This is not entirely true, but at least it has some truth.

Even using simple bamboo branches, after trying a few words, Zhou Zhi found some ways to hide the front and come out with the front.

The writing got better and better, but the speed was much slower than reciting. It was only in one article of "The Great Learning" that "what is thick is thin, and what is thin is thick", and the cave beside me began to leak out random sounds.

bright light.

After a while, Mr. Qiao's figure was revealed: "Elbow, it's your turn! It's actually fun and very cool!"

Zhou Zhi took the headlamp and put it on his head: "Where is the master?"

"Master is waiting for you at the fork in front. Just follow the rope and enter."

Walking into the cave, the passage narrows rapidly, and the temperature drops sharply, which makes people's skin crawl.

The light scattered by the headlights was constrained by the channel into a spot of light. The red rocks on both sides turned into a strange yellow-white color under the sunlight.

Extreme darkness and partial brightness affect human vision and make people lose their judgment on colors.

There are also some obvious dividing lines on the stone wall. Zhou Zhi doesn't know whether this is a sedimentary texture produced during the formation of the rock, or a weathered texture produced by subsequent weathering. However, such changes are quite beautiful and make the monotonous cave wall look a little more

change.

The cave is not big, and there is enough space for people to open their hands. It is very high, allowing people to stand up on their own and straighten their arms.

However, there is a narrow gap further up, so the overall space for people to move around is not large.

Traveling hundreds of meters in such a space will generally cause some psychological pressure for people who have never experienced it.

However, Zhou Zhi often conducts field surveys, and has drilled through many tombs of the Han Dynasty and Shengji of the Song Dynasty. There are also air-raid shelters left in Jiachuan in preparation for war and famine, as well as the useless tower base and bottom floor of Baimi Township. In fact, the environment is similar to here.

For someone like Zhou Zhi, it can only be said that he is used to it.

Although the air in the cave is cold, it is not stuffy, and the cave walls are also very dry. It is basically an environment with constant temperature and humidity. If Monk Yuanxiu really hid the "Dragon Hidden Sutra" here, besides the space not being spacious enough, it would also

What a nice place.

Of course, that's assuming he actually did it.

(End of chapter)


Chapter completed!