"In ancient times, the sages governed the people, and the way of the people. Just like Dayu's travel to water, the way of water, Zaofu's control of horses, the way of horses, Houji's farming, and the way of land. All of them have the way, where is the way of the Western Regions today?"

Fei Qian looked around for a while and said in a deep voice, "It's in the word "rituals and customs."

Etiquette, etiquette.

Cannibal ethics.

This is a consensus among almost all Chinese people in later generations, but how many people will seriously figure out how to eat, or just follow the crowd. Anyway, someone said that, just follow it.

Ethics is indeed cannibalistic, but why can you eat for so many years? Shouldn’t you explore and think more? Just like no one likes to be exploited, they are criticizing capitalists, but are they really criticizing the essence of capitalists, or are they resenting themselves not being capitalists?

Fei potential Western Regions should promote education.

Of course, it is impossible for Fei Qian to break his legs by himself, and he also needs other people to help him achieve his goals. This group of the latest civil servants who arrived in the Western Regions are undoubtedly the best and only tools for Fei Qian.

Ethics is also a tool, just like a knife that can be used to suppress the people inside, and can also turn the knife into a spiritual shackle to the outside world.

Duke Zhou's rituals and music were an important beginning for establishing the ancient Chinese humanistic spirit, and its original intention was good. This was just like Confucius, Laozi, or Buddha, and the initial moral doctrine was upward and good. Later, Duke Zhou's rituals and music, after Confucius' advocacy and Xunzi's development, formed a huge system, which not only included political systems, but also moral standards and codes of conduct.

During the feudal dynasty in China, why did Confucianism win in the end, defeating the once-rampant Buddhism, and suppressing Taoism with means such as Dragon and Tiger Pill?

When Fei Qian and the civil servants talked about the key points of education in the Western Regions, they also proposed the secret, which is "making etiquette according to customs". That is, to use the forms and internal reasonable parts of the existing customs of the Western Regions as much as possible, and then sort them out, improve them, and inject new things belonging to China. Only in this way can the people of the Western Regions be loved and transformed by them.

"So, when you are an official, you should distinguish the things in the five places..." Fei Qian said slowly, "However, the things in the five places are not rocks, and they will not be transformed for a hundred years, and the people in the land are not copper and iron, and will not change over time. For example, in the Western Regions, there are mountains, forests, hills, rivers, and landscapings. How can one method defeat all things? Once you change it according to the land, time, people and customs, you can safeguard all people in the sixties."

This is the case with ethics, which permeates all aspects of life. Educational institutions are set up in China in prefectures, counties, towns, tribes, neighbors, etc., and the ideals and ethics of Confucianism are resolved into various etiquettes, such as crowning ceremony, wedding ceremony, meeting ceremony, drinking ceremony, archery ceremony, etc., so that people can receive the influence of rituals in rituals that they like to hear.

Take the ceremony for the crown ceremony. Some later generations just thought it was fun. They wore some Hanfu and imitated the ceremony of the crown ceremony, but did not really touch on the essence of the crown ceremony...

Is the crown ceremony really just a hat?

The ancient ceremonies actually represented "adult", and after adulthood, they naturally had their own family. The ceremonies mean independent separation or independent economic rights in some form. This is the actual manifestation behind the ceremonies. They could have been dependent on their parents before, but after the ceremonies, they had to start making money to support their families.

This is completely different from the concept of just attending a ceremony and wearing a hat, then turning back and asking parents for money to play friends...

"There was a Mao sacrifice in the land of China in ancient times, and there were also live sacrifices in the Western Regions, which were not good deeds." Fei Qian said slowly, "There are clouds in etiquette, parrots can speak, not leave birds, orangutans can speak, not leave birds and beasts. It makes people rude, even if they can speak, they are not the hearts of beasts! Therefore, we should be polite to distinguish them from beasts."

"People from the Western Regions have different words and deeds from people in China and cannot communicate. However, there is one thing that can be understood without words..." Fei Qian said with a smile, "Can you know what this is?"

The crowd began to think about it, and Xue Ping, who was beside him, seemed to have thought of something, but he didn't have much courage to say it directly until Fei Qian announced the answer.

『性也.』斐潜缓缓的说道,『喜怒哀乐贪懒馋,皆为性也,与汉地之人相同无二.此等人性,生来有之,喜怒之情,以性为栖.无有外物之时,所藏不露,然感于外,情则显之.故好恶,性也.所好所恶,物也.心为万虑之总,权,然后知轻重,度,然后知长短.物皆然,心为甚.心之所之,情之所之,性之所之.』

"The mind has no fixed will, and wait for things to do, wait for joy to move, wait for practice to settle." Fei said in a deep voice, "The nature within the four seas is the same. Their intentions are different, which is caused by teaching. The emotions of joy and anger are not enough, or they are overly excessive, and can be polite and can be restored to the right. In the Western Regions, what should be done, what should be done, what should be done, what should be done, how to make up for shortcomings, and how to eliminate excessiveness should be discussed... These are the three questions."

The first question is that the general direction is, the second question is that specific measures are, and the third question is somewhat similar to process management.

After asking three questions, everyone was shocked, and then they felt their scalp numb and their heads were tickle.

Fei Qian obviously did not intend to make a decision on the spot, but instead went back with questions and waited for three days before class.

The Western Regions are a very large experimental field, and these people are like seeds. What kind of flowers will they bloom? Fei Qian can only hope and guide, but cannot decide or replace them.

"The Li of Zhou" is a book that expresses the plan for governing the country through the official system, with extremely rich content. The division of labor of the six officials in "The Li of Zhou" is roughly: the Tianguan is in charge of the palace, the localguan is in charge of civil affairs, the springguan is in charge of clans, the summerguan is in charge of military affairs, the autumnguan is in charge of punishment, and the winterguan is in charge of construction. It involves all aspects of social life, which is rare in ancient documents.

It is hard to imagine that at that early on, Duke Zhou had already constructed a huge political official map and provided it to future generations to follow the map.

When Fei Qian just arrived in the Han Dynasty, he didn't think the book "The Book of Zhou" was of great significance, but when he really read it carefully, he realized that the system of rituals recorded in "The Book of Zhou" was actually very systematic, including national ceremonies such as sacrifices, hajj, vocations, hunting, funerals, etc., as well as specific regulations such as the use of a tripod system, music suspension system, chariot system, clothing system, ritual and jade system, as well as records of the levels, combinations, shapes, and degrees of various ritual instruments.

For various reasons, when the "Li of Zhou" was first published, for some reason, even some Confucians with high identities were hidden in the secret palace before they could see it. No one knew it since then. It was not until the time of Emperor Cheng of Han that Liu Xiang and Xin and his son had compiled the documents collected in the secret palace that they discovered this book again and recorded it...

Therefore, Fei Qian has malicious speculation...

Forget it, otherwise someone would whine to say that he didn't like conspiracy theories.

It is necessary to make up for the lesson.

Even if the story that follows this book is exactly what the story, just talking about the content of "The Book of Zhou" alone is enough to show the importance of the system of etiquette. If etiquette is the shell of etiquette, then etiquette is the core of etiquette. The formulation of etiquette is based on humanistic spirit, from form to spirit, from appearance to inside, this is the most important role of etiquette. If it is just a ritual and without reasonable ideological connotation as a support, etiquette becomes a soulless body.

To penetrate the core and touch the spirit of the people in the Western Regions, one must have a better way and method in the early stages of ethics.

Boring etiquette and cumbersome requirements cannot promote the promotion of etiquette in the Western Regions, and may even have a negative effect. Therefore, just emphasizing etiquette norms is of no use. The Western Regions do not have the living environment of China, and they are also different from the Chinese cognition. If you tell the Western Regions that a gentleman is like jade or something, you may even laugh at the Chinese as a fool, but you will like a few broken stones on the river beach...

Letting the civil servants under him think and explore ways to solve the problem does not mean that Fei Qian has no plans to solve the problem.

After Lu Yuxueping and others left, Fei Qian said to Jia Xu, "Education in the Western Regions should start with joy."

That's right, the way Fei Qian prepared for education in the Western Regions began with music.

Or "entertainment industry"?

Jia Xu bowed and said, obviously he had expected it, "The lord is wise. Music is the harmony of heaven and earth, and etiquette is the order of heaven and earth. Therefore, all things are transformed, and order is the order of everything, so all things are different. Now the speech in the Western Regions cannot be smooth, but the method of vocal music can promote the strengths and avoid the weaknesses. Even if the people in the Western Regions do not speak, they can also understand the beauty of China and the principles of China."

Fei Qian nodded, "First use sound to seek the gathering, then use sound to make it prosperous, and then use music to make it clear. It can be said that education and support, and rituals and music complement each other. It is said that "music is made by heaven, and rituals are controlled by earth." This is true. No joy is not ritual, and no rituals are not rituals. Only when heaven and earth are in harmony can there be no way to go. Music is not called Huang Zhong Da Lu, strings and songs are still yang. The last part of music requires the emphasis on the meaning and the moral integrity."

Chinese people like extreme behavior patterns, and don’t know when they develop them. When they are good, everything is good, and when they are bad, everything is bad. A group of old men criticize the mediocre voice, and then turn around and get beaten by the mediocre voice.

When it comes to playing with music, China was actually ahead of the world in the early days, and it had high theoretical support as soon as it appeared.

In the early Chinese music theory, sound, sound, and music were three different levels of concepts.

The difference between sound and sound is that sound has rhythm and tone, but sound does not. Therefore, the early Chinese music theory believed that ordinary sounds were basically called noise, and sounds with rhythm and rhythm were called sounds. Music generally refers to music with connotation and represents a certain meaning. Like insects and animals, they have hearing and can sense the sounds in the outside world, but insects and animals can only reach the level of sound, and humans obviously have higher-level pursuits, so this is also one of the important signs that distinguish humans from animals.

There is a saying in "The Book of Music", "Those who know the sound but do not know the sound are beasts." Although it may be a bit absolute, it does make sense. Those who only pursue sensory stimulation are similar to those who pursue sensory stimulation, and humans... Of course, there are also those who only want sensory stimulation, after all, humans are also beastly.

"The people of the Western Regions also have musical instruments, which can be drummed and musical, but there is no musical sound, and there is no splendor," Fei Qian said slowly, "The emotions are in the middle and expressed in words. The words are not enough, so sigh and sigh, so the sing is not enough, so the sing is not enough, so the hands are dancing and the feet are dancing. Now, looking at the people of the Western Regions, many of whom dance and dance are not enough, we can see that the sing is not enough, which is an opportunity to take advantage of."

Not only the Western Regions, but other people who have no language or culture, such as the Western Qiang people, also like dancing.

It's like some ink. When you see the desert, you will say a word about the setting sun in the long river, and when you feel the wind, you will say a word about thousands of poles that fall into the bamboo. If you have no talent or have not studied much, you may only have two words left...

Sometimes these Western Regions people would hold their ox tails high or dance their leather robes to express their mood in simple movements. They seemed very happy, but in fact they were pitiful because they could express their emotions in very few ways, too few.

This is the opportunity.

What if we add subtle guidance to this?

Just like the methods used by Midi later generations...

The Western Regions are here and the positions are here. If China does not occupy it, there will naturally be other people coming to occupy it.

Under the influence of external objects, people's hearts will leaps up.

Due to the different strengths of external objects, human emotions are manifested at different levels. Music sounds come from the hearts of the people, but they can become a new external object and exert effects on the hearts of the people. This was clearly written in the book "Music" in the early days of China. "All sounds are the ones who produce human hearts. Emotions are moved in, so they are formed in sounds. Sounds are written into words, which is called sounds."

In this regard, the Western Regions were almost blank. So when the bald monk brought a magic weapon and knocked it on, these people from the Western Regions were almost attracted, and then they unknowingly accepted Buddhist missions and developed faith.

Then if you replace the bald monk in it, or replace the contents in it...

There are many types of musical notes, either dignified or arrogant, or delicate or rough. Each one can give people a different feeling and induce the occurrence and transformation of people's emotions. Just like the classical music and rock music of later generations, although they both belong to the range of musical notes, the feelings they give the audience are completely different.

Some people like to listen to classical classics, while others only like rock. The difference is largely determined by the environment, and only a small part is due to nature.

Therefore, Fei Qian wanted to create a new Western Region environment and occupy the high ground that should have been occupied long ago, instead of watching the bald head or other white heads occupying the territory that should belong to China.

Is it easy for ancient people? Under the conditions of such simple and low productivity and poor supply of materials, they prepared so many theories and considered so many methods for future generations, but the descendants of China put it on the shelf and even abandoned it like a piece of grass.

After thinking about it, Fei Qian said to Jia Xu again: "In the Western Regions, sound and sound are the main ones. In the wild, you can value strange sounds, evil sounds, and harmonious sounds. In the city, people in the wild should be tired and exhausted. They should have strange sounds, and they should promote their actions and boost their strength. The people in the city teach and learn, and they should value elegance and harmony, and their voices are not chaotic. In fact, they say that gentlemen enjoy their ways and villains enjoy their desires. There is no need to discuss the ancient and new things, but only the right ones."

Jia Xu nodded and said, "What the lord said is very good. The ancient and new disputes are not conducive to teaching, and it turns out to be confusing. Sound and music are originally like the teaching method. Only by driving it with sound and guiding it with sound can you discuss music. Those who are straight sounds are not enough to discuss music. Those who are happy should not be despised with sounds. Just like those who know a hundred words should not be beautiful, and those who write articles should not laugh at people who know a hundred words."

Fei Qian nodded, "Good. The battle between new and ancient music is just like the struggle between ancient and modern literature, which is not advisable."

The so-called ancient music refers to the elegant music passed down from Yan, Huang, Yao and Shun, such as Huangdi's music "Xianchi", Yao's music "Dazhang", Shun's music "Shao", Yu's music "Xia", etc., with slow and solemn rhythms and full of meanings. New music is the music made during the Warring States Period, represented by the sounds of Zheng and Wei, which tend to be complicated and complex sounds and colors, and has no special meaning.

The struggle between the new and ancient music is actually earlier than the struggle between the modern and ancient literature, and it happened in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the root of the struggle is still a political issue. Because Chinese scholars believe that the mutual connection between music and politics can be used as an indicator to judge the gains and losses of politics.

"In the Book of Songs, there is no such thing as Zheng Wei's desolateness and recording his writings, nor is there a great sonorousness of the Former Qin Dynasty and fearful recording his songs," Fei said in a deep voice, "The way of sound and music can be used to understand its customs and to understand its ruler. Zhou Duke can pick the style of Zhou south, why can't the Han Dynasty pick the style of the Western Regions?"

Jia Xu nodded and added: "That is, with the method of optimistic politics, both ancient and modern times. The king is the lord of all people, and what the king likes must be very good. If the weapon of the country is overwhelmed by the subordinates, it can be seen that the country is extravagant and does not use measurement, and the day of the country is not far away. It has been said in ancient times that the decline of Song was as a thousand bells, Qi was as a decline of Dalu, Chu was as a decline of Wuyin. The countries in the Western Regions had many sad voices, which shows that the lord was in trouble and the people were displaced, so they could take advantage of their opportunity to seek it."

Confucius once said, how is a country like? You can tell what music his citizens often listen to.

Of course, in ancient times, only music was included in the entertainment industry...

"There is no good at changing customs and customs." Fei Qian said, "The education of the Southern Xiongnu was small because of their small states, so they were divided directly. However, the Western Regions were vast and the country was chaotic, so new methods should be used. Use Buddha as the driving force, weaken their ambitions, gather their voices as gatherings, eliminate their barriers, use merchants as bait, and be arrogant to the superiors, give them the advances, and conquer their people..."

"The Taishizi is straightforward in nature, and it is difficult to be so trivial. Therefore, he only talks about the key points of the four people, the way of farming and workers, using military power to suppress unfairness, eliminating traitors and chaos, like fire burning in the wild... And this art of education and erosion... "Fe Qian looked at Jia Xu and said, "Only by being harmonious in literature and harmony can we understand the key points and know the secrets, then use the rules of literature and conduct, accept kindness, and eliminate hatred, like water soaking down... The method of civil and military affairs, water and fire, will last for ten years, if it takes ten years, it will be determined in ten years, and if it is slow, it will be twenty-thirty years. The Western Regions will all belong to China..."
Chapter completed!