How do you view the two-sided life of Zhu Xi, a great scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty? Looking for answers

In the history of our country, celebrities, especially "saints", have been highly respected by people. In fact, there are also falsehoods, and there are even other sides that you don't know they hate. For example, they were canonized as "saints" by the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Zhu Xi, a great scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty, has been the moral benchmark of traditional Chinese society for more than 800 years. However, if we look at the back of history, we will find that the other side of Zhu Xi is very immoral. He is even said to be a hypocrite, a false Taoist, and a duplicity. , It is not an exaggeration to say that it is sinister and vicious.

The duplicitous Zhu Xi Zhu Xi (1130-1200)

, named Yuanhui, nicknamed Hui'an, was a native of Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province in the Southern Song Dynasty. He was a Jinshi at the age of 19 and served as the governor of Jinghu South Road. The envoy will go to Baowen Pavilion to wait for the appointment. A famous Neo-Confucian, thinker, philosopher, educator, poet, and representative of the Fujian School in the Southern Song Dynasty, known as Zhu Zi in the world, he was the most outstanding master in promoting Confucianism since Confucius and Mencius. Zhu Xi was praised by Xin Qiji and said: "Thousands of years of Emperor Yao's reign in the Tang Dynasty, there were only two or three Rugong. Western researchers praise him as a great philosopher who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Aristotle. His ideals of Confucianism were not only regarded as authentic Confucianism by the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and have been influential to this day, but also spread far and wide overseas...

Zhu Xi's reputation has been deified by feudal rulers of all ages and praised by cultural people

Ye Shaoweng's "Records of Hearings and Seeings of the Four Dynasties"

Records: Zhu Xi took two beautiful nuns on a vacation, and used sweet words to trick them into "accompanying" them, and eventually became his little wives; He abuses his old mother and belongs to the series of unfilial sons; he takes advantage of the opportunity of his children's wedding to accept red envelopes and gifts; he opens a school under the name of a well-known professor, raises prices without authorization, and charges high tuition and miscellaneous fees; he commits adultery with his wife, and even makes her Pregnant; instructing family members to steal other people's cattle, slaughter them and eat them; forcefully occupy the mountains and forests left by Fan Ran's ancestors, build his own high-rise buildings, and falsely accuse him and punish him; poach Chong'an archers He buried his own mother in his parents' grave, without caring about other people's ancestors' corpses being exposed in the wilderness; he took advantage of his important position to accept bribes and "did tens of thousands of things in one year."

Look again at Master Zhu’s method of dealing with Yan Rui, a prostitute in Taizhou, for no apparent reason.

Yan Rui is a camp prostitute (Miss Zuotai) in Taizhou. She is "the best in sex and art". She is good at playing piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and singing, and her reputation spreads far and wide. Tang Zhongyou, the magistrate of Taizhou, was acquainted with Yan Rui, and often asked Yan Rui to accompany her at banquets. During one banquet, she wrote her famous song "Like a Dream". Tang Zhongyou was at odds with Zhu Xi, and the two had academic differences, which escalated into factional disputes in the officialdom. Therefore, when Zhu Xi was appointed as the envoy to Changping in eastern Zhejiang and patrolled Taizhou, he began to collect evidence of Tang Zhongyou's crimes and wrote a letter of impeachment. One of them was the "personal style issue" that had been tried and tested for thousands of years. Zhu Xi heard that Tang Zhongyou had an ambiguous relationship with Yan Rui, so he took Yan Rui to prison and held him for two months. He was tortured every day and was even almost beaten to death several times. But although Yan Rui is a promiscuous woman, she has a very professional ethics. If she has it, she has it, and if she doesn't, she doesn't have it. From the beginning to the end, she only admits to accompanying her with drinks, not to sleeping with her. Things quickly went beyond Zhu Xi's control because the emperor knew about it. The emperor sent an imperial envoy to investigate the matter. The imperial envoy admired Yan Rui's integrity very much. He not only sentenced Yan Rui to be a good person, but also asked her to write a poem to express her ambition. Yan Rui wrote a poem in front of the audience: "It's not love." The wind and dust seem to be misled by the front. When the flowers fall and flowers bloom, they will eventually go away. If you have a head full of flowers, don't ask where the slave will go. In the game, Master Zhu was disgraced. Not only did he fail to defeat Tang Zhongyou politically, but Miss Yan became a noble and upright saint.

Some people believe that it was his political opponents who criticized Zhu Xi.

Ye Shaoweng, the author of "Records of Hearings and Seeings of the Four Dynasties"

was Zhu Xi's fellow villager in Fujian, and he only served as a minor official for a short time. He lived in seclusion in Qiantang West Lake for a long time, and stayed with the emperor at that time. If the popular figure "Zhu Shengren" is not involved, how can his political opponents attack him? After the "Records of Hearings and Seeings of the Four Dynasties" was exposed, there was a stir in both the government and the public, and they began to impeach the old master. Zhu Xi could not deny it, so he had to apologize to the emperor. If Ye Shaoweng's revelations were too revealing, could Master Zhu, who valued face more than life, admit defeat? Besides, Wang Anshi, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, had a clean and noble character that even his political opponents had to admire; if Master Zhu was like Wang Anshi, his personal integrity was impeccable, even if his political opponents wanted to attack him, they would not be able to attack him. Ji Xiaolan, a talented scholar from the Qing Dynasty, also commented on the "Records of Hearings and Seeings of the Four Dynasties" and believed that what was recorded in the book was basically true.

Master Zhu’s two-sided life.

When he was an official, he had benevolent governance and torture; his educational level was higher than that of Confucius, pushing China's academy culture to its peak, but he had no worthy successors, and his disciples dispersed when he died; he fought against Jin His attitude was also wavering, first he advocated war, and later he advocated peace; he smashed Qin Hui's temple, and then praised Qin Hui; he advocated "conquering human desires and preserving natural principles", but he committed incest...

It can be seen that, Among the famous people in Chinese history, the two-sided life is most vividly reflected in Master Zhu.

Some commentators pointed out: "Zhu Xi's fate, to put it bluntly, was that of a talented, unique, and persistent intellectual; he was also the type of would-be slave that Lu Xun pitied and hated. The fate of the Chinese who cannot be slaves; it is also the fate of an ordinary person who has seven emotions and six desires and wants to have enough food, clothing and warmth.

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How to evaluate Zhu Xi is a very tangled and helpless matter. You can despise him, or you can worship him; you can rebuke Zhu Xi's countless mistakes, but you can't help but remember his mistakes. Contribution. When we look at saints, we always only see their "holy" side, but forget their "human" side. Zhu Xi is also a person of flesh and blood, so the shady activities behind his back are very credible throughout the ages. , Celebrities like Zhu Xi, under their glamorous shells, hide many shady and dark sides, but the grassroots people don't know it.

Author: downtown Yibo