Don’t eat the food that comes at you
After taking a break for a while, Happy New Year everyone.
Last time, my own chapter was harmonized.
Forget it, I don’t bother to ask why, it’s meaningless anyway, so let’s block it.
After reading the comments, I found that many people asked when the new book will be released. Alas, it is included in the testimonials at the end of this book. A new book will be released in March, so I plan to take more rest.
Secondly, I found out that some people still haven’t seen the side stories that I wrote before. Shan Hai Jing 1 to 4 are all in the first volume of the genuine edition, after the seventy-six chapters.
Zhuanxu's short story is located behind the nine hundred and seventieth chapter of the VIP volume of the main text, and it is called Jedi Tiantong Science Fiction Edition.
Daofo talked about some new book ideas, so let’s have a taste of it.
The next book will answer all the unsolved mysteries of the earth because the protagonist Goldfinger is information-aware, and from the perspective of science fiction, religion and mythology will be explained as much as possible...
Because I don’t write about the contents, I guess I will hit the street, and if the next book hits the street, I will finish it.
Someone asked me to talk about eating, my old swan, where do I start.
I can only say that eating is eating, and food is food.
If you don’t talk about food, you can still talk about it.
In terms of pictographic meaning, grasping rough food with hands is called "rice", bowing the head and using a vessel for a meal is "food", high-end enjoyment of delicacies from mountains and seas is "meal", and offering sacrifices to gods is "enjoy".
Some people say that the ancients had two meals a day, and that only three meals a day when they were wealthy.
This is right and wrong.
In fact, China has a three-meal system for a long time, but it is indeed linked to productivity. For a long time, ordinary people have not eaten two meals, or even just one meal.
Emperors and princes not only have three meals, but even four meals.
At least in the Shang Dynasty, there was a tradition of eating regularly. The oracle bone inscriptions called the main meal "big food". Then call another meal a 'snack' and just eat it casually in the afternoon.
"The Analects of Confucius" also said 'not eating from time to time. '
The three-meal system, judging from the literature, existed at the latest in the Warring States Period.
"Zhuangzi" has a saying: Those who are suitable for the wild, will return after three meals, and their stomachs will still be full.
It means to go out to play in the countryside, bring three meals, and go home after a day of playing with a full stomach.
This is not an isolated case. "Warring States Policy · Qi Policy Four" also said: "A scholar can't eat three meals, but a king's goose duck has more food."
It means that scholars can’t eat enough for three meals, but you, the king, have enough food for chickens, ducks and geese. The extension means that there are frozen bones on the road of rich wine and meat.
At that time, scholars had a system of three meals a day. Scholars were not a rich class, from kings to princes to officials, and finally scholars.
The first three levels all have real estate, which belongs to the lord, while the scholars have no real estate, only a noble status.
Three meals a day can be popularized to scholars, which shows that during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period, people with this condition have already widely popularized the three meals.
In the Han Dynasty, there was even a four-meal system, which of course was exclusive to the emperor.
Ban Gu’s "Bai Hu Tong" wrote: "Why does the king eat four times a day? It is clear that there are things in the four directions, and the merits of eating in the four seasons are also."
Four o'clock is the time when the sky just dawns, which is called Danshi. Eating a meal at noon is called a daytime meal. Eat another meal in the afternoon, called evening food. Come for supper at night, which is called "twilight food".
It is worth mentioning that in the Qing Dynasty, the royal family had two main meals a day.
is called breakfast and dinner. One meal at seven o'clock and one meal at thirteen o'clock.
Then you have to wait until the next day. You may be thinking, aren’t you hungry at night?
Even if you are hungry, you have to be like this. This is the rule set by the ancestors in the Qing court and cannot be violated. There are detailed rules on what to eat and how to do it.
Eating is the same every day, and the weight of ingredients is strictly allocated. According to status, different people have different proportions.
And the method, how much salt to add, how many spoons of sugar to put, must be strictly in accordance with the recipe.
You travel to the Qing Palace, you say you have a heavy mouth, and you want to eat something spicy or salty? No, no one in the Imperial Dining Room will give two courses of dinner.
In fact, they are very unpalatable, and they are eaten every day and year after year. Many concubines set up a small stove by themselves, set up a small kitchen in the ear room, and cook by themselves.
However, under such an impersonal system, most people will not go hungry.
Because in addition to the two-course meal, there are also early and evening light meals.
Breakfast is a variety of pastries and snacks, and light meals in the evening are soup and porridge.
If all these are counted, it is actually four meals.
Not to mention, many concubines in the harem have small cooking stoves, and if they are rich, they can eat whatever they want, and let people buy ingredients, which are cooked by the close-knit maids.
If someone is really hungry, they must be of low status.
The Empress Dowager will never be hungry. Every day, there will be a pig and sheep, a chicken and a duck, plus various spices, new rice, flour, honey, and vegetables to make dozens of meals.
The queen also has sixteen catties of pork, sixteen catties of mutton, one chicken and one duck every day, plus various new rice and white noodles, forming dozens of meals.
And so on, and gradually reduce the food standard.
When the concubine agreed with the lowest level, the food was much poorer. Every day, there was a catty of pork for cooking, and every month, note that every month, there were fifteen plates of mutton, each plate was about one catty, and then every month There are five chickens and ducks.
How low? If it's lower, it's a palace lady, a catty of pork a day, twelve taels of fresh vegetables, and five spoons of old rice. Gone.
One heal is 180 grams, and one scoop is 30 grams. A total of 1410 grams of rice.
Two meals a day are counted separately, that is, one meal has 705 grams of rice.
It’s not bad, a meal of half a catty of pork, more than half a catty of vegetables, and nearly three catties of rice can fill you up. This is the treatment of a court lady.
If you want to talk about food, there are too many food in our country, and you can't finish it.
If it’s just to introduce dishes, then I can write millions of words…
So let’s talk about some history related to eating with you.
After all, the question is about 'food', not 'food'.
First of all, I would like to ask a question, which historical period do you like most in the past dynasties of China, before the present?
I think everyone has a preference in mind.
Some people may want to travel through the Tang Dynasty, some people may want to travel through the Three Kingdoms, and some people may want to go to the Ming Dynasty.
And my favorite is the so-called period of "ritual collapse and music decay", the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
That is, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
More than 50% of the idioms in our history come from that era. Various historical allusions and behavioral precedents were born at that time.
The kingdoms of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty had constant disputes, arousing contention among a hundred schools of thought, and people of insight wanted to suppress the disputes and bring order to chaos.
Various theories and ideas collide and stimulate, which is the golden age of our culture and the era of the big explosion of ideas.
The same period happened to be the period of the so-called explosion of thought in ancient Greece.
It was an era when speech was extremely free and everyone had integrity.
Therefore, when I eat it, my first reaction is to think of Jin Wengong Chonger.
The story of Jin Wengong eating soil, I mentioned it when Sister You of Lanbai Society pretended to be aliens to fool the alien earth.
Chong'er was in exile, wandering outside for more than ten years, he and his followers often had no food to eat.
Once when I walked to Wulu, I was really hungry. I saw an old man clearing land, so I asked him for some food and asked if there was any emergency food.
Who would have thought that the farmer was very calm, looked at this group of embarrassed nobles, laughed, bent down and picked up a piece of mud and handed it to Chong Er: "Here! Food!"
Chong Er was so angry that the son of a dignified family even gave him dirt.
He scolded the old man, but the old man said with a look of fearlessness: "Look at my age, I'm still plowing the land, do you think I have food! I only have loess to give you."
Chong Er's follower, Hu Yan, asked, "Where's your son?"
The old man said: "All my sons died in battle."
Chong Er stopped talking, he actually didn't want to hold the old man accountable, but this humiliation made him unable to step down again.
Hu Yan immediately said: "This loess is the land, the community. The people don't give you soil, but entrust the community to you."
Chong Er went down the donkey along the slope, wept immediately, held the loess in his hands, knelt on the ground, looked up at the sky, and vowed that if he became the king, he would let the people live and work in peace and contentment.
This is the allusion that Duke Wen of Jin received the soil and thought that receiving the land was the most important thing.
However, he also did it. He succeeded to the throne in his later years, and he was a late bloomer.
During his exile, Chong Er also ate another bowl of very meaningful food.
According to the description of the origin story of the Cold Food Festival, once Chonger was subsidized food was stolen by others. The group of them ran out of food and were starving in the wilderness. Suddenly, Jie Zitui, his subordinate, cut off his own thigh and made broth for Chong'er to eat. It is said in history: cut the flesh and serve the king.
The "Book of Songs Wai Zhuan" written by Han Ying in the Han Dynasty praised this greatly.
Jin Wengong was a wise ruler of a generation. When he was so hungry, he was humiliated with dirt, but he finally endured it.
However, his grandson Jin Linggong will die.
"Duke Ling of Jin is not a king. Thickness is used to carve walls. From the stage, people are shot and pills are watched. The butcher is not good. Kill them and put them in the baskets, so that women can carry them to the court."
What does that mean? Jin Linggong does not have the appearance of a monarch, and he does not look like a monarch! I like to stand on a high wall, shoot the people below with a slingshot, and watch them dodge the projectile.
He likes to eat bear's paws, so he asked after waiting, but the cook said they were not yet cooked, after all, they are bear's paws, and there is no pressure cooker, how can it be so easy to boil?
However, Duke Ling of Jin was very angry, and said in his heart that I have waited for so long and haven't cooked yet! Annoyed to death, in a fit of rage, he killed the cook...and asked the maid to throw his body away.
There is another story after this story, that is, Zhao Dun, a famous official of Jin State, and his younger brother Zhao Chuan finally couldn't stand this guy's stupidity when they heard about it, and they remonstrated with him again, but Jin Linggong refused to listen, and the quarrel was very unpleasant in the end.
Afterwards, Duke Ling of Jin found an excuse to kill Zhao Dun and set up an ambush. Because of the help of righteous men, Zhao Dun was able to escape.
After that, there is the famous "Zhao Chuan Killing the King" incident.
Zhao Chuan attacked and killed Jin Linggong, and welcomed Zhao Dun back, but Zhao Dun did not deal with his younger brother Zhao Chuan.
Thereupon Jin Tai Shigong Dong Hu wrote: "Zhao Dun killed his lord."
Zhao Dun was very wronged, saying that he wrote it wrong, and it was not me who killed the king. However, Dong Hu did not change, saying that although Zhao Chuan killed the king, it was to welcome you back in exile. You did not leave the country in exile, but did not deal with the thief after returning. You are the mastermind of the king.
This is also the famous "Zai Jin Donghu Pen" in Zhengqi Song.
Jin Wengong wanted to eat some miscellaneous grains, but he was humiliated with soil, but he didn't kill the old man. He was starving to death, and survived on the thigh meat cut off by his loyal ministers.
He developed and strengthened the national power of the Jin State, but his grandson killed the cook in order to eat the bear's paw. He was persuaded by loyal officials and wanted to kill the important officials of the court, and finally died at the hands of the officials.
Bear's paw was a delicacy during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.
Before he died, King Chu Cheng especially loved bear paws.
King Cheng of Chu wanted to kill the prince Shangchen and replace him with a prince, and he had planned secretly.
During the preparation stage, Shang Chen faintly heard the wind and was very anxious, but he didn't know if it was true.
His teacher Pan Chong said, you hosted a banquet for Jiang Mi, the younger sister of King Cheng of Chu, and deliberately molested her during the banquet.
So the merchants followed suit, invited Jiang Mi, and showed great disrespect to him. Sure enough, Jiang Mi scolded: You bastard, no wonder the king wants to kill you and make you a prince!
Well, Shang Chen was sure that his father really wanted to kill himself.
The merchant hurriedly acted preemptively, bought the guards in the palace, surrounded the palace with troops, and forced to kill his father.
Because Jiang Mi leaked the secret, Chu Chengwang was caught off guard, unprepared, powerless to resist, and forced to commit suicide.
Before Chu Chengwang died, he made a request: "Please eat the bear!"
That is, I want to eat a bear's paw!
However, his son did not satisfy his request.
In desperation, King Cheng of Chu hanged himself with the regret of not being able to eat the bear's paw when he died.
Desperate foodie, it doesn’t matter if you kill me, can’t you let me eat a bear’s paw when I die?
haha, in fact, before he died, because his son refused to give him bear paws, King Cheng of Chu asked me what posthumous name I would give after my death.
Shang Chen said directly: Ling.
This is a derogatory posthumous title, that is to say, he was originally called King Ling of Chu.
The King of Chu is in a hurry, you won’t eat your bear’s paw, and your posthumous title is still so ugly, I won’t commit suicide! You kind of kill me.
In order for him to commit suicide as soon as possible, Shang Chen had no choice but to agree to him: Well, the posthumous title is Cheng.
So he was called King Chu Cheng. He didn't get a bear's paw, but got a beautiful posthumous posthumous title.
Speaking of foodie kings, Zheng Linggong is not to be outdone.
That's right, another posthumous nickname...
"Zuo Zhuan·Xuan Gong Four Years": "The people of Chu offered tortoises to Zheng Linggong, son Song and Zi's family will meet, Zigong's index finger moves."
This is the allusion to the "index finger movement".
Young Master Song often brags to others that he can do divination with his index finger. As long as he shakes his index finger, he will definitely be able to taste delicious food today.
Sure enough, soon they got the news that the people of Chu offered a giant turtle to Duke Ling of Zheng.
Zheng Linggong ordered delicious turtle soup to be boiled, but he divided the big portion and gave everyone a little soup to drink, and deliberately refused to give it to Prince Song.
Young Master Song was furious. He walked up to the Monarch Cauldron, stretched out his supposedly sensitive index finger, dipped it in the soup, sucked it in his mouth, and then walked away.
This is the idiom "meaning in the tripod". It is also the origin of the word meddling.
The tripod of the monarch, how can the courtiers get their hands on it? Big faux pas.
So Zheng Linggong was very angry and wanted to arrange someone to kill son Song.
Unexpectedly, son Song acted first... Together with Linggong's son, he killed Zheng Linggong...
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Seeing this, I am afraid that you will feel that the rituals are broken and the music is broken, and you will kill the king at every turn.
Prince Song got his finger on the king's tripod because he didn't get any soup. His fingers were stained with soup. It's too rude. If it was placed in the Qing Dynasty, he would be cut off on the spot.
However, the anger of Young Master Song was quite normal at that time.
It was Zheng Linggong who humiliated him first by deliberately not giving him soup. This is an intolerable insult to the nobles.
If Young Master Song hadn't overreacted, he would not be taken seriously in the aristocratic circle in the future.
The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were the real feudal period in our country, which was different from the false feudalism that later centralized power.
The culture at that time was aristocratic culture. Kings, feudal lords, officials, and scholars are four kinds of nobles. The first three have territories and are feudal lords. Scholars have no land but have noble status.
The honor and dignity of nobles are very important and should not be taken lightly.
In the wars of the Spring and Autumn Period and earlier periods, the nobles had to join the army to fight. When the nobles were captured, the victor had to allow the other party to redeem himself with a ransom.
According to the etiquette at that time, the victor should give a piece of jade to the captured nobleman.
The value of jade, according to the status of the other party, give jade of different value.
The intention is that if the other party’s family cannot pay the ransom, then this piece of jade can be used so that the other party can redeem himself.
Of course, the nobles who are usually captured will not use this piece of jade. Even if they sell the iron, they have to pay the ransom.
This is the ritual of the week, but it is a pity that it was only observed in the early days, and it was not observed in many places in the middle and late Spring and Autumn Period.
Especially after Song Xianggong was defeated and almost subjugated because of benevolence, righteousness and rules, this kind of etiquette was completely ignored.
Of course, only the rule of jade has been simplified, including the disappearance of some rules on the battlefield.
But the honor and dignity of the nobility are still not lost, and many non-war rituals are still observed. Later, this noble dignity was gradually lost, which was caused by Qin Shihuang's unification of the world, the same writing, and the fusion of surnames.
During the Warring States Period, Lord Mengchang, one of the Four Gentlemen, had three thousand servants.
At that time, as aristocrats with no real estate income, scholars could only serve the princes, serve the doctors, and be servants.
Meinke is also called diner, commonly known as Cengfan.
Four gentlemen raise so many toasts, some of them will be used, but many of them will not be used for life, and they will eat rice.
Why do you still keep it? It is to express courtesy to a corporal, similar to buying a horse bone with a thousand dollars. He will support even those who are useless.
Because the scholars were too lazy, at that time it was not one country, but many countries, so if the scholars were not satisfied in one place, they would change places, and if they were not satisfied in one country, they would change countries.
In order to be able to take in those talented scholars, they must treat each other with courtesy, even if some scholars are useless, they must not be rude.
For example, ‘the Qi people have Feng Xuan, who is poor and cannot survive on his own, so he belongs to Lord Mengchang and is willing to send food to his family. '
There was a scholar named Feng Xuan in the state of Qi who was poor and destitute. He sent someone to find Lord Mengchang, hoping to have dinner at his home.
I, scholar, you have to support me.
Jun Mengchang saw that he was in rags, and he only had a sword with him. Well, this is the kind of scholar who is so poor that he is starving to death.
Scholars must wear swords, even if they starve to death, even if they sell everything, the sword cannot be sold.
If there is a scholar without a sword, then he cannot call himself a scholar.
Jun Mengchang asked him very politely: How are you?
What is your hobby?
Feng Chen said: No good customer!
I have no hobbies!
Meng Changjun was taken aback for a moment, in fact, to ask what hobbies are, is to ask the other party's talents, which is a euphemistic question.
So he asked directly: "How can a guest?"
Feng Xuan said: The guest is incompetent!
I can do nothing!
Meng Changjun smiled: All right.
And took him in... arranged for him to stay.
As a result, he didn't stay for long. Feng Chen "leaned on the pillar and flicked his sword", and sang: "The long scorpion has returned! There is no fish to eat."
Sword, sword, let's go, there is no fish here...
He sang there every day when he had nothing to do, and the people nearby went to report to Mr. Mengchang. Mr. Mengchang smiled helplessly and said, "Eating it is like a guest under the door."
Give him fish! As good as the diners, don't treat them badly.
However, not long after, Feng Chen played the sword song again and said, "Changjia is back! There is no car."
Sword, sword, let's go, there is no car to go out here...
Others laughed at him, and then told Mr. Mengchang, Mr. Mengchang said with a helpless smile: "Drive for him, like a guest under the door."
Give him a car, as good as the diners, don't treat him badly.
Feng Xuan sat in the car and said to others: "Mengchang is a guest of mine."
Jun Mengchang is so kind to me.
However, he played the sword song again and said: "The Changjia is back! I can't think of home."
Sword, sword, let's go, there is no home here.
"..." Both the left and the right hate it, thinking that they are greedy but not satisfied. Meng Changjun asked: "Is Mr. Feng close?"
Confrontation: "There is an old mother."
Jun Mengchang made people feed him, and he never got tired. So Feng Xuan stopped singing.
He sent people to bring food to the old mother, and sent people to serve her so that she would not have to work hard, so Feng Chen stopped singing.
This is the allusion of 'Feng Xuan playing the clapper'.
Afterwards, this Feng Xuan worked hard for Lord Mengchang, tried his best to advise him, made a lot of contributions, but never asked for a reward.
When I have nothing and know nothing, you treat me like a guest, and you give me everything I want. Then I have made meritorious service and died for you, and I will not ask you for a reward.
People are called "Banjieke", and the only precious thing around him is the sword.
Jun Mengchang has thousands of diners, and the treatment in terms of food, drink, housing and transportation is the same as himself, regardless of high or low.
Historical Records, Biography of Mr. Mengchang records: "Mr. Mengchang once entertained guests for dinner at night, and one person blocked the fire. The guest was angry and refused to wait for the meal, so he quit eating. Mr. Mengchang started, and compared it with his own meal."
One day he entertained scholars for dinner, and a new scholar was arranged to sit in a relatively dark place.
Because there were a lot of people sitting in the banquet hall, he was blocked from the lights again, so he couldn't see clearly what he was eating.
So the scholar was very annoyed, he patted the table and stood up, stopped eating, said goodbye, and said: Mr. Meng Chang, is my food different from others? Did you arrange worse meals for me than others? Forget it, I'm leaving!
Jun Mengchang stood up immediately, and ran over from his main seat with a table, and asked the gentleman to compare the food with his own: "I eat the same food as you!"
The scholar saw that what he ate was exactly the same as what Mr. Mengchang ate, and he blamed Mr. Mengchang by mistake.
Seeing this, do you think it is impolite for scholars to be proud of their favor and talent? The so-called aristocratic dignity is ridiculed?
Indeed, in order to maintain the dignity of the so-called nobility, they are sometimes very proud.
However, they are also so proud that if they wrong others, they must die to apologize.
"Ashamed to be a guest, self-defeating."
"I wronged you, I'm sorry, I committed suicide." The scholar was so ashamed that he immediately drew his sword and killed himself.
This incident tells us that scholars really cannot live without swords, and it expresses the importance of swords to scholars...haha.
If someone insults your dignity, no matter what your status is, you must report it back.
Conversely, if you misunderstood and insulted others, then you have to apologize with death.
This is the soldier.
Basic food, housing, and transportation are a very important measure of a person's status.
Especially food, food is the minimum need of human beings, so it is often associated with life.
During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, food was the most important thing for people. Nowadays, people always say that "you have to eat together", and work is called "job".
It is because since ancient times, dignified people have exchanged labor for food, talent for food, and human service for food.
This is as it should be, and it is a matter of course, so you have to sacrifice your life to eat. Scholars, as nobles, do sacrifice their lives, but the standard of eating is related to dignity.
I have food because I have the ability. If you want to use my skills, you have to feed me. However, although I eat your food, it is in exchange for your service. I can respect you, and you must respect me, and you must not violate my dignity.
As long as you live, you must eat with dignity.
"Book of Rites. Tan Gong" records that Qian Ao of Qi State impolitely called on the hungry and gave food to the hungry.
I have learned this textbook, so I won’t post it.
At least, this was the case during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. Because scholars have no land and are nobles, if they want to eat, they can only serve the princes and ministers.
When someone feeds you poorly, it is an insult. It just despises you and treats you as a low-ranking citizen with no status.
If the other party treats you disrespectfully and gives alms without courtesy, you can't eat this meal.
Noble banquets must have music.
Different banquet objects have to play different music according to the status of the other party.
At that time, the scholar couldn’t see what he was eating, and felt: What if he was worse than others? I'm a newcomer sitting in a dark corner, it's fine, but if my food is worse than others, it's Mr. Mengchang who looks down on me.
So he stopped eating.
However, Mr. Mengchang treated him very politely and quickly explained the misunderstanding. He realized that he had wrongly blamed others, so he committed suicide.
The diners have high requirements for food, and in order to solve this problem, Mr. Mengchang simply treats everyone equally, regardless of their ability, they all eat the same as Mr. Mengchang himself.
Mr. Mengchang did a good job in respecting corporals.
Compared, Mr. Pingyuan is slightly worse.
Mr. Pingyuan has an allusion of "beauty smiles".
Pingyuan Junjia Building Linminjia. There are people in the family. Scatter and drain. Pingyuan Junmei lives upstairs. When I see you, I laugh. Tomorrow, those who turn away will come to Pingyuanjun's gate, and please say: "I heard that the emperor's favorite scholars, and those who came from thousands of miles away, because the emperor is able to honor the scholars and despise concubines. Unfortunately, the minister has the disease of abandonment, and the emperor's harem When you come to laugh at the minister, the minister is willing to win the head of the laughing minister. ’ Mr. Pingyuan smiled and said: ‘No. ’ Those who turned away went, Pingyuan Lord laughed and said: ‘Looking at this Zhuzi, he wants to kill my beauty just because of his smile.
What does that mean? A stutter is a lame person.
Mr. Pingyuan has a building, and there is a private house nearby. There is a lame man inside, who should be a scholar, but he is not a guest of Mr. Pingyuan. The man limped to carry water and passed Mr. Pingyuan downstairs. Jun Pingyuan's concubine saw her upstairs and laughed loudly.
The next day, the **** came to Mr. Pingyuan, knelt down and begged, "I heard that your majesty loves scholars, and scholars have traveled thousands of miles to join you, thinking that your majesty can respect scholars and despise concubines. Unfortunately, I have a disability. , and Your Majesty's harem is looking down and laughing at me, I hope you can kill her!"
Mr. Pingyuan smiled and replied: "Okay."
The **** then went back, but Mr. Pingyuan smiled at Concubine Ji and said, "Look at this guy, it's too much for me to kill my beauty by laughing at such a trivial matter once!" Ji concubine.
The results of it?
More than half of the guests are slightly attracted away from the guests. Lord Pingyuan blamed him, saying: "Sheng is the one who treats the kings without daring to be disrespectful, and how many people go away?" ’ A member of the family came forward and said: ‘Those who laugh at you because you don’t kill them, think that you love **** and despise scholars, and the scholars will go to the ears. ’ So Mr. Pingyuan cut off the head of the beautiful woman who smiled, and built a gate to enter the beauties, because of thanking Yan. Afterwards, the door came back a little later.
To the effect that, after that, most of Mr. Pingyuan’s guests left one after another. He was very surprised and asked the rest: "I am not rude to everyone, why are there so many people leaving?"
Someone said: "Because the king doesn't kill the lame people who make jokes, the king is greedy for **** and despises the scholars, so they left."
So Mr. Pingyuan panicked, and immediately beheaded the beauty, gave it to the cripple, and apologized to him. After this, those disciples were invited back one after another.
To sum up, the ancients at that time were full of righteousness and integrity.
Even a **** who is not a doorman dares to go to Mr. Pingyuan and ask him to cut off the head of the person who made fun of him.
After this kind of thing was put in the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was not the concubine Ji who died, but the cripple.
Men Ke will not be able to get ahead, because the **** is not even considered a colleague.
However, in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, this was a real class sentiment.
Why only half of the people left? Because the remaining half will not easily betray Lord Pingyuan. They have been eating for a long time, and they have received great favors from Lord Pingyuan, but they have not reciprocated, so they told and advised him not to belittle scholars.
Those who have left are all scholars who have paid off, left when they wanted to, and stayed when they wanted.
In the case of disputes among nations, the behavior of scholars is very free. It is this kind of competition among nations that has fostered a free atmosphere of 'you are not worthy of my service, and I am not worthy of your job'.
There was a scholar in the state of Wei named Tian Wuze, who was very talented. He was the teacher of Marquis Wen of Wei.
One day, the prince was huddled in front of him and hugging behind him, driving a wealthy car on the street with great style. As a result, seeing Tian Zifang driving over in a crude car, the prince got out of the car and stood by the side of the road to salute, because this was his father's teacher.
As a result, Tian Zifang ignored it and drove straight past.
Therefore, the prince was angry and said to Zifang: "Are the rich and noble arrogant? Are the poor and humble arrogant?" Zifang said: "The poor and humble are also arrogant, but the rich and noble dare to be arrogant! The king and the arrogant are lost." In the country, a great man who is proud loses his family. Those who lose their country have never heard of those who treat them like a country. , then take the shoes and remove the ears, and go there without being poor and lowly!" Zi Chi thanked him.
The prince was very angry and asked Zifang: "Are rich people allowed to look down on others, or poor ghosts have the right to look down on others?"
This means actually satirizing Tian Zifang. Although Tian Zifang is an official worshiping the prime minister, he is still a scholar, and he has no fiefdom. He is different from a doctor, a doctor is a feudal prince who enfeoffs his territory. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the land of princes was called "country", the land of officials was called "home", and the houses of common people could not be called homes, but houses.
The so-called Xiangguo, although powerful, but one day this official disappears, he will leave without taking anything with his seal, and he is still a poor scholar. Just like Zhang Yi.
However, to this question, Tian Zifang replied: "Of course poor ghosts have the right to look down on others! A king will lose his country if he looks down on others, and a doctor will lose his home if he looks down on others. Those who lost their country have never heard of people who continue to use the gift of a king. Those who treat each other, the homeless have never heard of anyone who continues to treat each other with the courtesy of a doctor."
"However, we poor and lowly wanderers, who don't accept our advice and don't behave harmoniously, just put on our shoes and leave. We don't have anything outside. Where can we go without keeping our own poverty!"
As soon as these words came out, Prince Chi quickly apologized.
Don’t think that this is unrealistic. The society at that time was like this. Those who were barefoot were not afraid of wearing shoes. When the country fell and lost their land, they were princes and doctors. Has something to do with their scholars? His strategy is not used by others, he will leave, and the country has plenty.
As long as you have the ability, you can go all over the world. Unless you are a fool or a scholar broke the law, you dare not easily offend or even kill a scholar.
Because this will offend the entire scholar class, almost all the scholars who do not own land will leave the country and defect to the enemy country. And a country that kills scholars for no reason will soon decline.
So in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, scholars were very attractive.
The rise of the Qin State was due to the absorption of too many job-hopping scholars from Wei and other countries.
Unfortunately, this free atmosphere no longer exists after the Great Unification.
Because of the great unification, there is only one country, such as the Han Dynasty. If they don’t serve the Liu family, should they serve the Xiongnu?
The Huns don’t need scholars, even if they do, they generally don’t treat others with courtesy.
The Spring and Autumn and Warring States period was able to do this because everyone was in the same cultural circle and competed with each other.
So after the great unification, the real feudal era is over, and the aristocratic era is also over.
The above is the eating in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, which is about dignity and an era in which you don’t eat cheap food.
The food king's salary is a matter of loyalty to the king.
So readers asked this question, so I wrote something about it.
This is gossip, and I will post this after Chapter 76 of the first volume of the free chapter of the main text.
Someone asked me why I wrote these, is it related to novels?
I can only answer: It doesn't matter, you don't have to watch it.
You can understand it as an interaction with readers. For me, this is also a review. Readers ask any question, and I will extend it and organize my thoughts and thinking.
These are not written in the text of the novel, just treat it as a chat. Pick a topic and talk about your thoughts.
No way, I don’t play Weibo, and I don’t use QQ space for a long time. This is the only place where I can write something.
If I want to read a new book, I have to wait. I am taking care of my body and taking medicine.
The story of the new book focuses on the thickness of race and civilization.
If we say that the protagonist of the Blue and White Club is 'all the world is white but I am the only black'.
Then the protagonist of the new book is 'Dragon Fights in the Wild, Its Blood is Black and Yellow'.
What does it mean specifically, will be explained in the next book.
Here I can say a little digression, that is, in these two sentences, there are exactly four words representing colors, which are white, black, black, and yellow.
Taoist yin and yang are the two colors of Xuansu, black is black, and Heidi is Xuandi.
So it also symbolizes my book, from Baidi to Heidi, from Heidi to Huangdi.
Qingfeng, she is Qingdi, a life created by Pan Guban to open up a small flood, a sustenance of Lan's humanity, and a symbol of emotion.
But love cannot defeat reality. Those who can overcome everything with pure love are cartoons.
In my book, love is just a vassal.
So Qingdi is not the protagonist. Strictly speaking, the five emperors are the protagonists, starting with Baidi.
Baidi's characteristic is brain hole, plain fantasy domain, which will breed contained objects, he is the greatest absolute characteristic.
The world is all white, but I am alone in black. The era of the White Emperor is over, and the era of the Black Emperor is coming. This is the alternation of xuansu, the reversal of yin and yang, from the era of containment to the end of containment.
The next new book, the protagonist is the Yellow Emperor.
The Qing Emperor is dead, the White Emperor is transcended, the Black Emperor is in prison, and the Yellow Emperor is ruling the world.
In the era when the White Emperor left and the era when the Black Emperor opened up, the Yellow Emperor acted on behalf of the heavens.
That is to say, from the perspective of the scope of the interface, in the era when the Yellow Emperor was the protagonist, the Black Emperor is still in the interface we observe.
Two colors of black and yellow, one symbolizes heaven and the other represents earth. In the new era, the Heavenly Emperor and the Human Emperor coexist.
Of course, this is a digression, from my point of view, a layer of implication that overrides the entire Five Emperors series, and does not belong to the main text, so I write it here for fun.
There will be another interpretation in the text about "the dragon fights in the wild, its blood is black and yellow".
This sentence can be regarded as Huangdi's comment.
Stop talking, everyone pay attention to your body. This year I will not leave relatives. After the third day of the Lunar New Year, I will write a few short stories about shelter. For example, Lord Gou’s mission experience when he was young would describe some contained objects that could not be written in the text.
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Don’t eat the food that comes at you
After taking a break for a while, Happy New Year everyone.
Last time, my own chapter was harmonized.
Forget it, I don’t bother to ask why, it’s meaningless anyway, so let’s block it.
After reading the comments, I found that many people asked when the new book will be released. Alas, it is included in the testimonials at the end of this book. A new book will be released in March, so I plan to take more rest.
Secondly, I found out that some people still haven’t seen the side stories that I wrote before. Shan Hai Jing 1 to 4 are all in the first volume of the genuine edition, after the seventy-six chapters.
Zhuanxu's short story is located behind the nine hundred and seventieth chapter of the VIP volume of the main text, and it is called Jedi Tiantong Science Fiction Edition.
Daofo talked about some new book ideas, so let’s have a taste of it.
The next book will answer all the unsolved mysteries of the earth because the protagonist Goldfinger is information-aware, and from the perspective of science fiction, religion and mythology will be explained as much as possible...
Because I don’t write about the contents, I guess I will hit the street, and if the next book hits the street, I will finish it.
Someone asked me to talk about eating, my old swan, where do I start.
I can only say that eating is eating, and food is food.
If you don’t talk about food, you can still talk about it.
In terms of pictographic meaning, grasping rough food with hands is called "rice", bowing the head and using a vessel for a meal is "food", high-end enjoyment of delicacies from mountains and seas is "meal", and offering sacrifices to gods is "enjoy".
Some people say that the ancients had two meals a day, and that only three meals a day when they were wealthy.
This is right and wrong.
In fact, China has a three-meal system for a long time, but it is indeed linked to productivity. For a long time, ordinary people have not eaten two meals, or even just one meal.
Emperors and princes not only have three meals, but even four meals.
At least in the Shang Dynasty, there was a tradition of eating regularly. The oracle bone inscriptions called the main meal "big food". Then call another meal a 'snack' and just eat it casually in the afternoon.
"The Analects of Confucius" also said 'not eating from time to time. '
The three-meal system, judging from the literature, existed at the latest in the Warring States Period.
"Zhuangzi" has a saying: Those who are suitable for the wild, will return after three meals, and their stomachs will still be full.
It means to go out to play in the countryside, bring three meals, and go home after a day of playing with a full stomach.
This is not an isolated case. "Warring States Policy · Qi Policy Four" also said: "A scholar can't eat three meals, but a king's goose duck has more food."
It means that scholars can’t eat enough for three meals, but you, the king, have enough food for chickens, ducks and geese. The extension means that there are frozen bones on the road of rich wine and meat.
At that time, scholars had a system of three meals a day. Scholars were not a rich class, from kings to princes to officials, and finally scholars.
The first three levels all have real estate, which belongs to the lord, while the scholars have no real estate, only a noble status.
Three meals a day can be popularized to scholars, which shows that during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period, people with this condition have already widely popularized the three meals.
In the Han Dynasty, there was even a four-meal system, which of course was exclusive to the emperor.
Ban Gu’s "Bai Hu Tong" wrote: "Why does the king eat four times a day? It is clear that there are things in the four directions, and the merits of eating in the four seasons are also."
Four o'clock is the time when the sky just dawns, which is called Danshi. Eating a meal at noon is called a daytime meal. Eat another meal in the afternoon, called evening food. Come for supper at night, which is called "twilight food".
It is worth mentioning that in the Qing Dynasty, the royal family had two main meals a day.
is called breakfast and dinner. One meal at seven o'clock and one meal at thirteen o'clock.
Then you have to wait until the next day. You may be thinking, aren’t you hungry at night?
Even if you are hungry, you have to be like this. This is the rule set by the ancestors in the Qing court and cannot be violated. There are detailed rules on what to eat and how to do it.
Eating is the same every day, and the weight of ingredients is strictly allocated. According to status, different people have different proportions.
And the method, how much salt to add, how many spoons of sugar to put, must be strictly in accordance with the recipe.
You travel to the Qing Palace, you say you have a heavy mouth, and you want to eat something spicy or salty? No, no one in the Imperial Dining Room will give two courses of dinner.
In fact, they are very unpalatable, and they are eaten every day and year after year. Many concubines set up a small stove by themselves, set up a small kitchen in the ear room, and cook by themselves.
However, under such an impersonal system, most people will not go hungry.
Because in addition to the two-course meal, there are also early and evening light meals.
Breakfast is a variety of pastries and snacks, and light meals in the evening are soup and porridge.
If all these are counted, it is actually four meals.
Not to mention, many concubines in the harem have small cooking stoves, and if they are rich, they can eat whatever they want, and let people buy ingredients, which are cooked by the close-knit maids.
If someone is really hungry, they must be of low status.
The Empress Dowager will never be hungry. Every day, there will be a pig and sheep, a chicken and a duck, plus various spices, new rice, flour, honey, and vegetables to make dozens of meals.
The queen also has sixteen catties of pork, sixteen catties of mutton, one chicken and one duck every day, plus various new rice and white noodles, forming dozens of meals.
And so on, and gradually reduce the food standard.
When the concubine agreed with the lowest level, the food was much poorer. Every day, there was a catty of pork for cooking, and every month, note that every month, there were fifteen plates of mutton, each plate was about one catty, and then every month There are five chickens and ducks.
How low? If it's lower, it's a palace lady, a catty of pork a day, twelve taels of fresh vegetables, and five spoons of old rice. Gone.
One heal is 180 grams, and one scoop is 30 grams. A total of 1410 grams of rice.
Two meals a day are counted separately, that is, one meal has 705 grams of rice.
It’s not bad, a meal of half a catty of pork, more than half a catty of vegetables, and nearly three catties of rice can fill you up. This is the treatment of a court lady.
If you want to talk about food, there are too many food in our country, and you can't finish it.
If it’s just to introduce dishes, then I can write millions of words…
So let’s talk about some history related to eating with you.
After all, the question is about 'food', not 'food'.
First of all, I would like to ask a question, which historical period do you like most in the past dynasties of China, before the present?
I think everyone has a preference in mind.
Some people may want to travel through the Tang Dynasty, some people may want to travel through the Three Kingdoms, and some people may want to go to the Ming Dynasty.
And my favorite is the so-called period of "ritual collapse and music decay", the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
That is, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
More than 50% of the idioms in our history come from that era. Various historical allusions and behavioral precedents were born at that time.
The kingdoms of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty had constant disputes, arousing contention among a hundred schools of thought, and people of insight wanted to suppress the disputes and bring order to chaos.
Various theories and ideas collide and stimulate, which is the golden age of our culture and the era of the big explosion of ideas.
The same period happened to be the period of the so-called explosion of thought in ancient Greece.
It was an era when speech was extremely free and everyone had integrity.
Therefore, when I eat it, my first reaction is to think of Jin Wengong Chonger.
The story of Jin Wengong eating soil, I mentioned it when Sister You of Lanbai Society pretended to be aliens to fool the alien earth.
Chong'er was in exile, wandering outside for more than ten years, he and his followers often had no food to eat.
Once when I walked to Wulu, I was really hungry. I saw an old man clearing land, so I asked him for some food and asked if there was any emergency food.
Who would have thought that the farmer was very calm, looked at this group of embarrassed nobles, laughed, bent down and picked up a piece of mud and handed it to Chong Er: "Here! Food!"
Chong Er was so angry that the son of a dignified family even gave him dirt.
He scolded the old man, but the old man said with a look of fearlessness: "Look at my age, I'm still plowing the land, do you think I have food! I only have loess to give you."
Chong Er's follower, Hu Yan, asked, "Where's your son?"
The old man said: "All my sons died in battle."
Chong Er stopped talking, he actually didn't want to hold the old man accountable, but this humiliation made him unable to step down again.
Hu Yan immediately said: "This loess is the land, the community. The people don't give you soil, but entrust the community to you."
Chong Er went down the donkey along the slope, wept immediately, held the loess in his hands, knelt on the ground, looked up at the sky, and vowed that if he became the king, he would let the people live and work in peace and contentment.
This is the allusion that Duke Wen of Jin received the soil and thought that receiving the land was the most important thing.
However, he also did it. He succeeded to the throne in his later years, and he was a late bloomer.
During his exile, Chong Er also ate another bowl of very meaningful food.
According to the description of the origin story of the Cold Food Festival, once Chonger was subsidized food was stolen by others. The group of them ran out of food and were starving in the wilderness. Suddenly, Jie Zitui, his subordinate, cut off his own thigh and made broth for Chong'er to eat. It is said in history: cut the flesh and serve the king.
The "Book of Songs Wai Zhuan" written by Han Ying in the Han Dynasty praised this greatly.
Jin Wengong was a wise ruler of a generation. When he was so hungry, he was humiliated with dirt, but he finally endured it.
However, his grandson Jin Linggong will die.
"Duke Ling of Jin is not a king. Thickness is used to carve walls. From the stage, people are shot and pills are watched. The butcher is not good. Kill them and put them in the baskets, so that women can carry them to the court."
What does that mean? Jin Linggong does not have the appearance of a monarch, and he does not look like a monarch! I like to stand on a high wall, shoot the people below with a slingshot, and watch them dodge the projectile.
He likes to eat bear's paws, so he asked after waiting, but the cook said they were not yet cooked, after all, they are bear's paws, and there is no pressure cooker, how can it be so easy to boil?
However, Duke Ling of Jin was very angry, and said in his heart that I have waited for so long and haven't cooked yet! Annoyed to death, in a fit of rage, he killed the cook...and asked the maid to throw his body away.
There is another story after this story, that is, Zhao Dun, a famous official of Jin State, and his younger brother Zhao Chuan finally couldn't stand this guy's stupidity when they heard about it, and they remonstrated with him again, but Jin Linggong refused to listen, and the quarrel was very unpleasant in the end.
Afterwards, Duke Ling of Jin found an excuse to kill Zhao Dun and set up an ambush. Because of the help of righteous men, Zhao Dun was able to escape.
After that, there is the famous "Zhao Chuan Killing the King" incident.
Zhao Chuan attacked and killed Jin Linggong, and welcomed Zhao Dun back, but Zhao Dun did not deal with his younger brother Zhao Chuan.
Thereupon Jin Tai Shigong Dong Hu wrote: "Zhao Dun killed his lord."
Zhao Dun was very wronged, saying that he wrote it wrong, and it was not me who killed the king. However, Dong Hu did not change, saying that although Zhao Chuan killed the king, it was to welcome you back in exile. You did not leave the country in exile, but did not deal with the thief after returning. You are the mastermind of the king.
This is also the famous "Zai Jin Donghu Pen" in Zhengqi Song.
Jin Wengong wanted to eat some miscellaneous grains, but he was humiliated with soil, but he didn't kill the old man. He was starving to death, and survived on the thigh meat cut off by his loyal ministers.
He developed and strengthened the national power of the Jin State, but his grandson killed the cook in order to eat the bear's paw. He was persuaded by loyal officials and wanted to kill the important officials of the court, and finally died at the hands of the officials.
Bear's paw was a delicacy during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.
Before he died, King Chu Cheng especially loved bear paws.
King Cheng of Chu wanted to kill the prince Shangchen and replace him with a prince, and he had planned secretly.
During the preparation stage, Shang Chen faintly heard the wind and was very anxious, but he didn't know if it was true.
His teacher Pan Chong said, you hosted a banquet for Jiang Mi, the younger sister of King Cheng of Chu, and deliberately molested her during the banquet.
So the merchants followed suit, invited Jiang Mi, and showed great disrespect to him. Sure enough, Jiang Mi scolded: You bastard, no wonder the king wants to kill you and make you a prince!
Well, Shang Chen was sure that his father really wanted to kill himself.
The merchant hurriedly acted preemptively, bought the guards in the palace, surrounded the palace with troops, and forced to kill his father.
Because Jiang Mi leaked the secret, Chu Chengwang was caught off guard, unprepared, powerless to resist, and forced to commit suicide.
Before Chu Chengwang died, he made a request: "Please eat the bear!"
That is, I want to eat a bear's paw!
However, his son did not satisfy his request.
In desperation, King Cheng of Chu hanged himself with the regret of not being able to eat the bear's paw when he died.
Desperate foodie, it doesn’t matter if you kill me, can’t you let me eat a bear’s paw when I die?
haha, in fact, before he died, because his son refused to give him bear paws, King Cheng of Chu asked me what posthumous name I would give after my death.
Shang Chen said directly: Ling.
This is a derogatory posthumous title, that is to say, he was originally called King Ling of Chu.
The King of Chu is in a hurry, you won’t eat your bear’s paw, and your posthumous title is still so ugly, I won’t commit suicide! You kind of kill me.
In order for him to commit suicide as soon as possible, Shang Chen had no choice but to agree to him: Well, the posthumous title is Cheng.
So he was called King Chu Cheng. He didn't get a bear's paw, but got a beautiful posthumous posthumous title.
Speaking of foodie kings, Zheng Linggong is not to be outdone.
That's right, another posthumous nickname...
"Zuo Zhuan·Xuan Gong Four Years": "The people of Chu offered tortoises to Zheng Linggong, son Song and Zi's family will meet, Zigong's index finger moves."
This is the allusion to the "index finger movement".
Young Master Song often brags to others that he can do divination with his index finger. As long as he shakes his index finger, he will definitely be able to taste delicious food today.
Sure enough, soon they got the news that the people of Chu offered a giant turtle to Duke Ling of Zheng.
Zheng Linggong ordered delicious turtle soup to be boiled, but he divided the big portion and gave everyone a little soup to drink, and deliberately refused to give it to Prince Song.
Young Master Song was furious. He walked up to the Monarch Cauldron, stretched out his supposedly sensitive index finger, dipped it in the soup, sucked it in his mouth, and then walked away.
This is the idiom "meaning in the tripod". It is also the origin of the word meddling.
The tripod of the monarch, how can the courtiers get their hands on it? Big faux pas.
So Zheng Linggong was very angry and wanted to arrange someone to kill son Song.
Unexpectedly, son Song acted first... Together with Linggong's son, he killed Zheng Linggong...
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Seeing this, I am afraid that you will feel that the rituals are broken and the music is broken, and you will kill the king at every turn.
Prince Song got his finger on the king's tripod because he didn't get any soup. His fingers were stained with soup. It's too rude. If it was placed in the Qing Dynasty, he would be cut off on the spot.
However, the anger of Young Master Song was quite normal at that time.
It was Zheng Linggong who humiliated him first by deliberately not giving him soup. This is an intolerable insult to the nobles.
If Young Master Song hadn't overreacted, he would not be taken seriously in the aristocratic circle in the future.
The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were the real feudal period in our country, which was different from the false feudalism that later centralized power.
The culture at that time was aristocratic culture. Kings, feudal lords, officials, and scholars are four kinds of nobles. The first three have territories and are feudal lords. Scholars have no land but have noble status.
The honor and dignity of nobles are very important and should not be taken lightly.
In the wars of the Spring and Autumn Period and earlier periods, the nobles had to join the army to fight. When the nobles were captured, the victor had to allow the other party to redeem himself with a ransom.
According to the etiquette at that time, the victor should give a piece of jade to the captured nobleman.
The value of jade, according to the status of the other party, give jade of different value.
The intention is that if the other party’s family cannot pay the ransom, then this piece of jade can be used so that the other party can redeem himself.
Of course, the nobles who are usually captured will not use this piece of jade. Even if they sell the iron, they have to pay the ransom.
This is the ritual of the week, but it is a pity that it was only observed in the early days, and it was not observed in many places in the middle and late Spring and Autumn Period.
Especially after Song Xianggong was defeated and almost subjugated because of benevolence, righteousness and rules, this kind of etiquette was completely ignored.
Of course, only the rule of jade has been simplified, including the disappearance of some rules on the battlefield.
But the honor and dignity of the nobility are still not lost, and many non-war rituals are still observed. Later, this noble dignity was gradually lost, which was caused by Qin Shihuang's unification of the world, the same writing, and the fusion of surnames.
During the Warring States Period, Lord Mengchang, one of the Four Gentlemen, had three thousand servants.
At that time, as aristocrats with no real estate income, scholars could only serve the princes, serve the doctors, and be servants.
Meinke is also called diner, commonly known as Cengfan.
Four gentlemen raise so many toasts, some of them will be used, but many of them will not be used for life, and they will eat rice.
Why do you still keep it? It is to express courtesy to a corporal, similar to buying a horse bone with a thousand dollars. He will support even those who are useless.
Because the scholars were too lazy, at that time it was not one country, but many countries, so if the scholars were not satisfied in one place, they would change places, and if they were not satisfied in one country, they would change countries.
In order to be able to take in those talented scholars, they must treat each other with courtesy, even if some scholars are useless, they must not be rude.
For example, ‘the Qi people have Feng Xuan, who is poor and cannot survive on his own, so he belongs to Lord Mengchang and is willing to send food to his family. '
There was a scholar named Feng Xuan in the state of Qi who was poor and destitute. He sent someone to find Lord Mengchang, hoping to have dinner at his home.
I, scholar, you have to support me.
Jun Mengchang saw that he was in rags, and he only had a sword with him. Well, this is the kind of scholar who is so poor that he is starving to death.
Scholars must wear swords, even if they starve to death, even if they sell everything, the sword cannot be sold.
If there is a scholar without a sword, then he cannot call himself a scholar.
Jun Mengchang asked him very politely: How are you?
What is your hobby?
Feng Chen said: No good customer!
I have no hobbies!
Meng Changjun was taken aback for a moment, in fact, to ask what hobbies are, is to ask the other party's talents, which is a euphemistic question.
So he asked directly: "How can a guest?"
Feng Xuan said: The guest is incompetent!
I can do nothing!
Meng Changjun smiled: All right.
And took him in... arranged for him to stay.
As a result, he didn't stay for long. Feng Chen "leaned on the pillar and flicked his sword", and sang: "The long scorpion has returned! There is no fish to eat."
Sword, sword, let's go, there is no fish here...
He sang there every day when he had nothing to do, and the people nearby went to report to Mr. Mengchang. Mr. Mengchang smiled helplessly and said, "Eating it is like a guest under the door."
Give him fish! As good as the diners, don't treat them badly.
However, not long after, Feng Chen played the sword song again and said, "Changjia is back! There is no car."
Sword, sword, let's go, there is no car to go out here...
Others laughed at him, and then told Mr. Mengchang, Mr. Mengchang said with a helpless smile: "Drive for him, like a guest under the door."
Give him a car, as good as the diners, don't treat him badly.
Feng Xuan sat in the car and said to others: "Mengchang is a guest of mine."
Jun Mengchang is so kind to me.
However, he played the sword song again and said: "The Changjia is back! I can't think of home."
Sword, sword, let's go, there is no home here.
"..." Both the left and the right hate it, thinking that they are greedy but not satisfied. Meng Changjun asked: "Is Mr. Feng close?"
Confrontation: "There is an old mother."
Jun Mengchang made people feed him, and he never got tired. So Feng Xuan stopped singing.
He sent people to bring food to the old mother, and sent people to serve her so that she would not have to work hard, so Feng Chen stopped singing.
This is the allusion of 'Feng Xuan playing the clapper'.
Afterwards, this Feng Xuan worked hard for Lord Mengchang, tried his best to advise him, made a lot of contributions, but never asked for a reward.
When I have nothing and know nothing, you treat me like a guest, and you give me everything I want. Then I have made meritorious service and died for you, and I will not ask you for a reward.
People are called "Banjieke", and the only precious thing around him is the sword.
Jun Mengchang has thousands of diners, and the treatment in terms of food, drink, housing and transportation is the same as himself, regardless of high or low.
Historical Records, Biography of Mr. Mengchang records: "Mr. Mengchang once entertained guests for dinner at night, and one person blocked the fire. The guest was angry and refused to wait for the meal, so he quit eating. Mr. Mengchang started, and compared it with his own meal."
One day he entertained scholars for dinner, and a new scholar was arranged to sit in a relatively dark place.
Because there were a lot of people sitting in the banquet hall, he was blocked from the lights again, so he couldn't see clearly what he was eating.
So the scholar was very annoyed, he patted the table and stood up, stopped eating, said goodbye, and said: Mr. Meng Chang, is my food different from others? Did you arrange worse meals for me than others? Forget it, I'm leaving!
Jun Mengchang stood up immediately, and ran over from his main seat with a table, and asked the gentleman to compare the food with his own: "I eat the same food as you!"
The scholar saw that what he ate was exactly the same as what Mr. Mengchang ate, and he blamed Mr. Mengchang by mistake.
Seeing this, do you think it is impolite for scholars to be proud of their favor and talent? The so-called aristocratic dignity is ridiculed?
Indeed, in order to maintain the dignity of the so-called nobility, they are sometimes very proud.
However, they are also so proud that if they wrong others, they must die to apologize.
"Ashamed to be a guest, self-defeating."
"I wronged you, I'm sorry, I committed suicide." The scholar was so ashamed that he immediately drew his sword and killed himself.
This incident tells us that scholars really cannot live without swords, and it expresses the importance of swords to scholars...haha.
If someone insults your dignity, no matter what your status is, you must report it back.
Conversely, if you misunderstood and insulted others, then you have to apologize with death.
This is the soldier.
Basic food, housing, and transportation are a very important measure of a person's status.
Especially food, food is the minimum need of human beings, so it is often associated with life.
During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, food was the most important thing for people. Nowadays, people always say that "you have to eat together", and work is called "job".
It is because since ancient times, dignified people have exchanged labor for food, talent for food, and human service for food.
This is as it should be, and it is a matter of course, so you have to sacrifice your life to eat. Scholars, as nobles, do sacrifice their lives, but the standard of eating is related to dignity.
I have food because I have the ability. If you want to use my skills, you have to feed me. However, although I eat your food, it is in exchange for your service. I can respect you, and you must respect me, and you must not violate my dignity.
As long as you live, you must eat with dignity.
"Book of Rites. Tan Gong" records that Qian Ao of Qi State impolitely called on the hungry and gave food to the hungry.
I have learned this textbook, so I won’t post it.
At least, this was the case during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. Because scholars have no land and are nobles, if they want to eat, they can only serve the princes and ministers.
When someone feeds you poorly, it is an insult. It just despises you and treats you as a low-ranking citizen with no status.
If the other party treats you disrespectfully and gives alms without courtesy, you can't eat this meal.
Noble banquets must have music.
Different banquet objects have to play different music according to the status of the other party.
At that time, the scholar couldn’t see what he was eating, and felt: What if he was worse than others? I'm a newcomer sitting in a dark corner, it's fine, but if my food is worse than others, it's Mr. Mengchang who looks down on me.
So he stopped eating.
However, Mr. Mengchang treated him very politely and quickly explained the misunderstanding. He realized that he had wrongly blamed others, so he committed suicide.
The diners have high requirements for food, and in order to solve this problem, Mr. Mengchang simply treats everyone equally, regardless of their ability, they all eat the same as Mr. Mengchang himself.
Mr. Mengchang did a good job in respecting corporals.
Compared, Mr. Pingyuan is slightly worse.
Mr. Pingyuan has an allusion of "beauty smiles".
Pingyuan Junjia Building Linminjia. There are people in the family. Scatter and drain. Pingyuan Junmei lives upstairs. When I see you, I laugh. Tomorrow, those who turn away will come to Pingyuanjun's gate, and please say: "I heard that the emperor's favorite scholars, and those who came from thousands of miles away, because the emperor is able to honor the scholars and despise concubines. Unfortunately, the minister has the disease of abandonment, and the emperor's harem When you come to laugh at the minister, the minister is willing to win the head of the laughing minister. ’ Mr. Pingyuan smiled and said: ‘No. ’ Those who turned away went, Pingyuan Lord laughed and said: ‘Looking at this Zhuzi, he wants to kill my beauty just because of his smile.
What does that mean? A stutter is a lame person.
Mr. Pingyuan has a building, and there is a private house nearby. There is a lame man inside, who should be a scholar, but he is not a guest of Mr. Pingyuan. The man limped to carry water and passed Mr. Pingyuan downstairs. Jun Pingyuan's concubine saw her upstairs and laughed loudly.
The next day, the **** came to Mr. Pingyuan, knelt down and begged, "I heard that your majesty loves scholars, and scholars have traveled thousands of miles to join you, thinking that your majesty can respect scholars and despise concubines. Unfortunately, I have a disability. , and Your Majesty's harem is looking down and laughing at me, I hope you can kill her!"
Mr. Pingyuan smiled and replied: "Okay."
The **** then went back, but Mr. Pingyuan smiled at Concubine Ji and said, "Look at this guy, it's too much for me to kill my beauty by laughing at such a trivial matter once!" Ji concubine.
The results of it?
More than half of the guests are slightly attracted away from the guests. Lord Pingyuan blamed him, saying: "Sheng is the one who treats the kings without daring to be disrespectful, and how many people go away?" ’ A member of the family came forward and said: ‘Those who laugh at you because you don’t kill them, think that you love **** and despise scholars, and the scholars will go to the ears. ’ So Mr. Pingyuan cut off the head of the beautiful woman who smiled, and built a gate to enter the beauties, because of thanking Yan. Afterwards, the door came back a little later.
To the effect that, after that, most of Mr. Pingyuan’s guests left one after another. He was very surprised and asked the rest: "I am not rude to everyone, why are there so many people leaving?"
Someone said: "Because the king doesn't kill the lame people who make jokes, the king is greedy for **** and despises the scholars, so they left."
So Mr. Pingyuan panicked, and immediately beheaded the beauty, gave it to the cripple, and apologized to him. After this, those disciples were invited back one after another.
To sum up, the ancients at that time were full of righteousness and integrity.
Even a **** who is not a doorman dares to go to Mr. Pingyuan and ask him to cut off the head of the person who made fun of him.
After this kind of thing was put in the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was not the concubine Ji who died, but the cripple.
Men Ke will not be able to get ahead, because the **** is not even considered a colleague.
However, in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, this was a real class sentiment.
Why only half of the people left? Because the remaining half will not easily betray Lord Pingyuan. They have been eating for a long time, and they have received great favors from Lord Pingyuan, but they have not reciprocated, so they told and advised him not to belittle scholars.
Those who have left are all scholars who have paid off, left when they wanted to, and stayed when they wanted.
In the case of disputes among nations, the behavior of scholars is very free. It is this kind of competition among nations that has fostered a free atmosphere of 'you are not worthy of my service, and I am not worthy of your job'.
There was a scholar in the state of Wei named Tian Wuze, who was very talented. He was the teacher of Marquis Wen of Wei.
One day, the prince was huddled in front of him and hugging behind him, driving a wealthy car on the street with great style. As a result, seeing Tian Zifang driving over in a crude car, the prince got out of the car and stood by the side of the road to salute, because this was his father's teacher.
As a result, Tian Zifang ignored it and drove straight past.
Therefore, the prince was angry and said to Zifang: "Are the rich and noble arrogant? Are the poor and humble arrogant?" Zifang said: "The poor and humble are also arrogant, but the rich and noble dare to be arrogant! The king and the arrogant are lost." In the country, a great man who is proud loses his family. Those who lose their country have never heard of those who treat them like a country. , then take the shoes and remove the ears, and go there without being poor and lowly!" Zi Chi thanked him.
The prince was very angry and asked Zifang: "Are rich people allowed to look down on others, or poor ghosts have the right to look down on others?"
This means actually satirizing Tian Zifang. Although Tian Zifang is an official worshiping the prime minister, he is still a scholar, and he has no fiefdom. He is different from a doctor, a doctor is a feudal prince who enfeoffs his territory. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the land of princes was called "country", the land of officials was called "home", and the houses of common people could not be called homes, but houses.
The so-called Xiangguo, although powerful, but one day this official disappears, he will leave without taking anything with his seal, and he is still a poor scholar. Just like Zhang Yi.
However, to this question, Tian Zifang replied: "Of course poor ghosts have the right to look down on others! A king will lose his country if he looks down on others, and a doctor will lose his home if he looks down on others. Those who lost their country have never heard of people who continue to use the gift of a king. Those who treat each other, the homeless have never heard of anyone who continues to treat each other with the courtesy of a doctor."
"However, we poor and lowly wanderers, who don't accept our advice and don't behave harmoniously, just put on our shoes and leave. We don't have anything outside. Where can we go without keeping our own poverty!"
As soon as these words came out, Prince Chi quickly apologized.
Don’t think that this is unrealistic. The society at that time was like this. Those who were barefoot were not afraid of wearing shoes. When the country fell and lost their land, they were princes and doctors. Has something to do with their scholars? His strategy is not used by others, he will leave, and the country has plenty.
As long as you have the ability, you can go all over the world. Unless you are a fool or a scholar broke the law, you dare not easily offend or even kill a scholar.
Because this will offend the entire scholar class, almost all the scholars who do not own land will leave the country and defect to the enemy country. And a country that kills scholars for no reason will soon decline.
So in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, scholars were very attractive.
The rise of the Qin State was due to the absorption of too many job-hopping scholars from Wei and other countries.
Unfortunately, this free atmosphere no longer exists after the Great Unification.
Because of the great unification, there is only one country, such as the Han Dynasty. If they don’t serve the Liu family, should they serve the Xiongnu?
The Huns don’t need scholars, even if they do, they generally don’t treat others with courtesy.
The Spring and Autumn and Warring States period was able to do this because everyone was in the same cultural circle and competed with each other.
So after the great unification, the real feudal era is over, and the aristocratic era is also over.
The above is the eating in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, which is about dignity and an era in which you don’t eat cheap food.
The food king's salary is a matter of loyalty to the king.
So readers asked this question, so I wrote something about it.
This is gossip, and I will post this after Chapter 76 of the first volume of the free chapter of the main text.
Someone asked me why I wrote these, is it related to novels?
I can only answer: It doesn't matter, you don't have to watch it.
You can understand it as an interaction with readers. For me, this is also a review. Readers ask any question, and I will extend it and organize my thoughts and thinking.
These are not written in the text of the novel, just treat it as a chat. Pick a topic and talk about your thoughts.
No way, I don’t play Weibo, and I don’t use QQ space for a long time. This is the only place where I can write something.
If I want to read a new book, I have to wait. I am taking care of my body and taking medicine.
The story of the new book focuses on the thickness of race and civilization.
If we say that the protagonist of the Blue and White Club is 'all the world is white but I am the only black'.
Then the protagonist of the new book is 'Dragon Fights in the Wild, Its Blood is Black and Yellow'.
What does it mean specifically, will be explained in the next book.
Here I can say a little digression, that is, in these two sentences, there are exactly four words representing colors, which are white, black, black, and yellow.
Taoist yin and yang are the two colors of Xuansu, black is black, and Heidi is Xuandi.
So it also symbolizes my book, from Baidi to Heidi, from Heidi to Huangdi.
Qingfeng, she is Qingdi, a life created by Pan Guban to open up a small flood, a sustenance of Lan's humanity, and a symbol of emotion.
But love cannot defeat reality. Those who can overcome everything with pure love are cartoons.
In my book, love is just a vassal.
So Qingdi is not the protagonist. Strictly speaking, the five emperors are the protagonists, starting with Baidi.
Baidi's characteristic is brain hole, plain fantasy domain, which will breed contained objects, he is the greatest absolute characteristic.
The world is all white, but I am alone in black. The era of the White Emperor is over, and the era of the Black Emperor is coming. This is the alternation of xuansu, the reversal of yin and yang, from the era of containment to the end of containment.
The next new book, the protagonist is the Yellow Emperor.
The Qing Emperor is dead, the White Emperor is transcended, the Black Emperor is in prison, and the Yellow Emperor is ruling the world.
In the era when the White Emperor left and the era when the Black Emperor opened up, the Yellow Emperor acted on behalf of the heavens.
That is to say, from the perspective of the scope of the interface, in the era when the Yellow Emperor was the protagonist, the Black Emperor is still in the interface we observe.
Two colors of black and yellow, one symbolizes heaven and the other represents earth. In the new era, the Heavenly Emperor and the Human Emperor coexist.
Of course, this is a digression, from my point of view, a layer of implication that overrides the entire Five Emperors series, and does not belong to the main text, so I write it here for fun.
There will be another interpretation in the text about "the dragon fights in the wild, its blood is black and yellow".
This sentence can be regarded as Huangdi's comment.
Stop talking, everyone pay attention to your body. This year I will not leave relatives. After the third day of the Lunar New Year, I will write a few short stories about shelter. For example, Lord Gou’s mission experience when he was young would describe some contained objects that could not be written in the text.
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