Mr. Dong is very angry now because someone wants to smash his food.
And this person is Huo Guang.
Although the book "Gongyang Chunqiu" is not written by Mr. Dong, it is still a book that he has explained all his life. Everyone, including Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, heard him explain the contents of this book, and no one refuted it.
it's good now.
How dare a naughty boy who knows nothing dare to call this book a mystery?
Why don't you blow your beard and stare in anger?
Huo Guang saw that Mr. Dong's whole body was trembling with anger. He was afraid of making the old man very angry, so he had to explain: "Don't be angry. If you are not arrogant, why don't you listen to me first?"
Mr. Dong was angry, but he was still well-educated and said immediately: "Okay, let's listen to your eloquent talk first and see if you can clean my ears!"
Now.
Everyone in the room turned their attention to Huo Guang, including Dong Xun, who had no interest in him at first.
At this time.
Huo Guang put on a show, straightened his clothes, and coughed twice as if he had cleared his throat.
Mr. Dong on the side was angry. Seeing him like this, he immediately knocked on the table with a ruler and said, "If you want to say something, please tell me quickly. Don't do this pretentious thing."
"Teacher, I know you are in a hurry!" Huo Guang smiled slightly and continued: "But please don't be anxious and listen to me slowly!"
The title teacher actually existed before the Han Dynasty.
Initially, it refers to an old and senior scholar or a person who teaches academics. For example, "The Biography of Mencius and Xunqing" contains the sentence "When King Xiang of Qi was king, Xunqing was the most teacher."
Therefore, it was not wrong for Huo Guang to call Dong Zhongshu his teacher.
certainly.
In terms of Confucianism, these great Confucians probably like to be called Master. After all, that is the honorific title given to Confucius by the descendants of Confucianism.
At this time, Teacher Dong frowned very tightly!
Seeing that something was wrong, Huo Guang quickly made a sophistry and said: "Teacher, you just talked about the theory of unification in "Gongyang Chunqiu", focusing on the first record in another book "Spring and Autumn": "The first year, spring, Wang The phrase "the first month of the year".
"It is also said that the first year is the beginning of the monarch's year, and it is also the beginning of the new dynasty's rejuvenation."
"Because the first lunar month is also the beginning of the year, becoming the king on this day means "unification", which means that everything is unified under the king, that is, great unification."
Mr. Dong touched his beard. After hearing this, he thought for a while and thought that what Huo Guang said was roughly the same as part of what he said before. There was no problem, so he nodded and said: "Okay. That’s your understanding, is there any problem?”
What is the problem?
That's a big problem!
Seeing Mr. Dong nodding, Huo Guang had a cunning look in his eyes and said, "Teacher, that's not right. You are deceiving me!"
"When did I cheat on you?" Mr. Dong looked puzzled, a little confused.
Huo Guang said slowly at this time: "Isn't this a lie? You said before that the first month of the Unification Theory is the beginning of the year, but according to the calculation of the Han Dynasty, the first month can be Mengdong, October, November, December, Mengchun January. But in this case, how can we call the beginning of a new year a great unification when we can’t even determine the specific month of the first month?”
"If he becomes the king in the first month of an uncertain month, it can be said to be a great unification!"
"Then if I, the great Han, determine the calendar in the future and only count January as the first month, what is the so-called unification? Doesn't this also deny the unification theory of "Gongyang Chunqiu" that you talked about in disguise?"
After saying these words, Mr. Dong became even more angry. Regardless of the image, he yelled: "Nonsense. If the calendar determines the first month, then as the years grow longer, wouldn't it be out of touch with the four seasons? Since before the Qin calendar, there was the Yellow Emperor calendar, Zhuanxu calendar, Xia calendar, Yin calendar, Zhou calendar, Lu calendar, etc.”
"The most important difference between them is that the starting point of the new year is different every year!"
"In this way, we can be sure that Meng Dong and his wife will conceive a child in October, and the child will be born around mid-autumn and August of the next year, so that the population will be prosperous. How can you, a child with a yellow mouth, understand the wisdom of the sages."
Eh...
Mr. Dong's words made Huo Guang sigh deeply.
Debating with the ancients is really tiring.
Even though he is a great scholar of this era, he is the most knowledgeable and insightful person in this dynasty.
no way.
The gap between the times is too great.
Thinking of this, Huo Guang stopped fussing with Mr. Dong and immediately said: "Forget it, kid, I'm talking nonsense. Then you also explained the theory of king's fate in "Gongyang Chunqiu" before. Don't you think there is a problem with this?"
When Mr. Dong heard this, his eyes widened immediately and he said, "What's the problem with this?"
"There's a problem!" Huo Guang shrugged and said calmly: "The so-called king's destiny theory in "Gongyang Chunqiu" is based on evidence found in another book "Spring and Autumn". What about the unicorn benevolent beast? What's the saying 'If there is a king, it will come, if there is no king, it will not come' and so on."
"I'm not going to discuss whether this Qilin is true or not. The key point is that the evidence for the king's destiny theory in his book actually comes from a fabricated alien beast in another book?"
"Isn't this ridiculous?"
"If I write a book, I make up things that don't exist and name them God, Angels, etc."
"Could future generations write another book and use the descriptions in my book as arguments to prove that these things I fabricated are true?"
Huo Guang spoke this long paragraph heartily and without giving Mr. Dong a chance to interrupt.
After Mr. Dong listened.
He became even more furious and spat: "The Spring and Autumn Annals were written by Confucius. Naturally, we can quote scriptures. How talented is Shu? How can he be compared with the saints?"
"I read in the book that in the fourteenth year of the reign of Duke Ai of Lu, he hunted a unicorn. This means that God gave a message about the appearance of a king! In the same way, I went to the great ancestor to kill the white snake, which is consistent with this."
"These are enough to explain the theory of king's destiny without any problems."
The great scholars of ancient times were so literate in their speech. If Huo Guang was the one who was beaten for his meal, he would have directly exposed the quintessence of the Chinese nation by scolding others.
After listening to Mr. Dong's explanation, Huo Guang did not refute, but felt relieved.
He nodded immediately and said: "Oh, teacher, if you say that, then I can understand. Let me tell you, the content of "Gongyang Chunqiu" is obviously very absurd and far-fetched, but it can be used in my eyes. It turns out that his popularity is all due to his ability to flatter others!"
After listening to the first half of the sentence, Mr. Dong was quite pleased, thinking that he had convinced an ignorant and naughty boy.
As a result, Huo Guang said something later.
He was so angry that he almost fainted on the spot. It took him a long time to come back to his senses, and he pointed at Huo Guang and cursed: "You are such a bastard, you won't listen to what you say, you won't change after being taught, you are extremely ignorant, extremely ignorant!"
"If you don't want to listen, then don't come here to listen!"
"Get out of here, me!"
Said.
Mr. Dong was about to raise his ruler and hit Huo Guang out.
Huo Guang thought to himself that in his two lifetimes, his parents had never beaten him, so how could he be beaten by this old master?
He immediately hid and shouted: "A gentleman can talk but not do anything, I will just leave!"
