Duke Zhou spits out his milk, and the world returns to him. When Cao Mengde wrote his short song, the image of Duke Zhou had already transformed into that of a person who thirsts for talent, shedding the characteristics of a primitive tribal leader.
The originator, will there be no successors? When Confucius expressed this sentiment, it had already been five hundred years since Duke Zhou. The living human sacrifices in the wine pools and meat forests had become a secret and primitive religious and cultural practice, completely different from the character of the Zhou people.
To eliminate the living human sacrifices, the Zhou people used education and silence. It is called the Spring and Autumn style of writing.
In the moment of contemplative excitement, Zarathustra wanted to stand up and speak the truth to the dwarf, but at the moment of utterance, he felt the danger.
The danger of truth lies in its contradiction with the common intuition of ordinary people. Behind the story of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, philosophers dare not easily speak of the fact that the wolf bites and eats the goat.
Life is short like autumn, and the milestones are shallowly buried in the desert. What purpose do the contents I have unearthed today serve in this bustling world?
The Zhou Dynasty lasted for eight hundred years, equivalent to the combined length of the Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties. Of the civilization accumulated over these eight hundred years, only the character "Zhou" remains today.
The dynasties of Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen were but a moment. How many people are now eagerly anticipating Wang's ambition in this boiling empire?