This is what Fang Xiaoru of the Ming Dynasty said.
China has a culture of awe since ancient times. Confucius once said: "A gentleman has three fears: fear of fate, fear of adults, fear of the words of a gentleman, and fear of fate for a villain." -The Analects of Confucius and its disciples during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Confucius said: "A gentleman should have three fears: the fear of heaven (the law of nature), the words of respecting the monarch, and the words of saints. I don't know god's will, so I'm not afraid. He looked down on the respected princes and looked down on the words of saints. "
The so-called awe is awe, and life is fearless. This is the real danger. Fate is the master of the transcendental world. From a modern point of view, it is a natural law that must be followed, and it is the ultimate decider of life, far higher than the majesty of adults and saints. The words of adults and saints belong to the real world. The majesty of adults lies in power, the majesty of saints lies in morality, and morality is the embodiment of goodness.
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Fang Xiaoru (1357 ——1July 25th, 402), a native of Ninghai, was called "Mr. goucheng" because his hometown used to belong to goucheng. When King Xian of Shu was in Hanzhong Prefecture, he named his reading room "Zheng Xue", also known as "Mr. Zheng Xue", a minister, scholar, writer, essayist and thinker in Ming Dynasty.
Fang Xiaoru was smart and studious, alert and agile. When I grow up, I will learn from Song Lian, a great scholar, and be respected by my peers. In the thirty-first year of Hongwu (1398), he died of illness. After he acceded to the throne, he followed Mao's instructions, called Fang Xiaoru to Beijing, entrusted him with an important task, and successively named him a bachelor of Hanlin and a bachelor of Hanlin. ?
Judy, the prince of Yan, made an oath of "Jingnan" and sent troops south to build the capital. Hui Di also sent troops to the Northern Expedition. At that time, all the letters to the prince were written by Fang Xiaoru. ? In May of the 4th year of Wen Jian (1402), after the Prince entered Beijing, many civil and military officials turned defeat into victory and surrendered to the Prince. Fang Xiaoru refused to surrender and was arrested and imprisoned.
Judy, the prince of Yan who later launched the "Battle of Jingnan", refused to draw up a memorial, and was destroyed by Judy, accounting for 873 people. ? Fang Xiaoru endured grief and never gave in. At the age of 46, he was killed outside Jubaomen, Nanjing, Jiangsu.
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