"The book of songs, the book of history, the book of rites, the book of changes..." Wang Meng and Yan Huan looked at Julian and warmly recommended: "especially the book of rites, it is strongly recommended that you buy more."
Julian is blinking. He can speak Chinese, but it doesn't mean he can understand all Chinese characters. He wanted to buy books that could learn practical knowledge, but he really couldn't list a title.
In fact, let alone Julian, even well-educated scholars are not sure that they can understand all Chinese characters.
"Ceremony is the foundation of man, which is also the fundamental difference between civilization and barbarism." Wang Meng said very sincerely, "the strong stool of the Han Dynasty is based on the courtesy, which is also the biggest difference between Zhuxia and barbarians."
Julian thought and thought that Wang Meng was right.
Isn't the difference between Rome and the surrounding barbarians also based on the civilization system? He has learned from Wang Meng that the institutional basis of the Han people is based on the norms of the book of rites. If he wants to know more about why the Han country is so powerful, he should start with the system.
"The book of songs can be regarded as the historical carrier of Zhuxia, and every poem in it is the history of our ancestors." Wang Meng took a Book of songs in his hand, turned to the page of Xiaoya. Getting out of the car, and slowly read, "I'll get out of my car and herd there. Since the son of heaven, it's called me. Calling that servant is called carrying. How difficult it is for the king to maintain his thorns."
Julian, that is, he can speak in vernacular. When it comes to classical Chinese, he can understand it word by word, but he can't understand it when it's all connected.
"This poem, by singing the victory of King xuanwang's crusade against Hu in the early years of Zhou, enthusiastically praises the great achievements of commander Nan Zhong, and shows the self-confidence of ZTE's monarchs and officials in making achievements." Wang Meng took a deep breath and said very seriously, "that's a part of the history of Zhuxia!"
Julian continued to blink and ponder. Once again, he felt that Wang Meng was very reasonable. If you want to understand a powerful country, you always have to interpret its history to find out what kind of changes the powerful country has gone through to become powerful step by step.
"Let's talk about this book of history." Wang Meng changed the books in his hand and said seriously: "in the history of Zhuxia, it has always been around the core idea of 'respecting the king and bustling the foreigners'."
Julian asked, "what does it mean to respect the king and bustle with foreigners?"
"Is to unite around the king, love the king, love the king, obey the king's orders, and carry out the most resolute struggle with foreign enemies!" The one Wang Meng said was sonorous and powerful. In order to increase persuasion, he raised his arm and clenched his fist: "the book of history records the announcements of the previous kings of various Xia dynasties and the advice of his subordinates to the kings. It is strongly recommended that you study it carefully."
Needless to say, as long as he really had the idea of uniting with the king, Julian felt that he should comprehensively promote the activity of reading the book of history in Rome and learn how the Han people loved, respected and obeyed the king. Once the idea of obeying the king becomes the mainstream, there should be no civil strife in the country, right?
Well, the reason why Zhuxia has been changing dynasties is that it did not promote Shangshu?
"In addition, the book of changes is also a must read!" The book in Wang Meng's hand was naturally replaced by the book of changes, which was turned to the page with pictures: "try to learn it, apply it, you will get closer to the existence of heaven, and you can use the learned knowledge to predict destiny!"
"Ah!!?" Julian quickly put his head on the opened book of changes. What he saw was a very complex pattern with dense fonts: "can you really do that!?"
Wang Meng nodded with great certainty: "it combines the Sutra and biography. The Sutra is mainly composed of 64 hexagrams and 384 hexagrams. The hexagrams and hexagrams have their own explanations (hexagrams and hexagrams), which are used for divination."
Julian certainly knew such a thing as divination. When Rome mainly believed in the Olympian God system, he did not engage in divination activities. It was only after the rise of ji1 Du1 religion that divination was weakened and replaced with other modes, such as meditation and communication.
Not only Rome, it should be said that any gregarious race in the world, no matter how small a tribe, also has special clergy, which must have divination business.
"This..." Julian wanted to grab the book of changes in Wang Meng's hand. He stared at the book of changes and asked casually, "will your country do divination before going to war?"
"Of course!" Wang Meng gave a positive answer: "since ancient times, divination is needed for any national event, and it is a necessary ceremony to go on an expedition."
There is absolutely no lying. In ancient times, people paid more attention to it, but the later they did not care. Even if they artificially interfered with the divination process, the worst divination can be interpreted as good luck and become a pure form. No matter whether the divination is good or bad, it is serious to inspire people's morale.
Julian believes that Wang Meng has no need to lie about such a thing.
After all, they can find the results by checking later.
Wang Meng will not recommend books such as university, nine chapters of arithmetic, Gewu... And even those books above have certain risks.
After all, the words of recommendation Wang Meng said are not nonsense. For example, if the knowledge of Shangshu and the book of rites is really used well, it can also achieve the goal of becoming a powerful country.
Just... Uh! Learn those words and wait for the gradual Sinicization of ideas and values.
"Recently, the emperor is creating." Wang Meng only heard some rumors, but he could say: "at the beginning of man, nature is good. Nature is similar, practice is far away.", After reading a paragraph, he said with emotion, "you have spoken the truth of the road, haven't you?"
It's the Three Character Classic!
The problem is that Liu Yan only knows a little in front of him. He really can't compare with those who travel through his peers. He can't remember the full text of the Three Character Classic. He gives a general core idea for Dr. Chaozhong to complete and improve.
It is conceivable that in this version of the Three Character Classic, in addition to Liu Yan's reading at the beginning, "at the beginning of man, nature is good. Nature is similar, practice is far away.", The content after that must be different.
"When people were born..." Julian was a little stunned. He wanted to say that the moment people were born was a piece of white paper. There would be no distinction between good and evil. What kind of character was caused by the environment in the process of growing up, but he knew he could not refute it and said against his heart: "people are born for good..."
That's right. "At the beginning of human life, people are good in nature. Similar in nature and different in habits" means that people are born good, but because the learning environment is different in the process of growing up, there is a difference between good and bad temperament.
It weakens the fact that babies have no view of right and wrong.
Wang Meng doesn't care too much. What he needs is to recommend some Chinese patches to contribute to Datong in the world.