Zi said: Chu people are not human, how to understand

This story is from "Kong Congzi Gongsun Long, the original text is like this:

King of Longwen Chu. Zhang Fan's weak bow, carrying the arrow of forgetting to return, to shoot Jiao in Yunmeng.

of the garden, and lose its bow. Left and right requests. The king said, 'Stop.' The Chu people left the bow, and the Chu people got it, so why ask for it? 'Jonny.

Hearing this, he said: 'The king of Chu is benevolent and righteous. It is also said that people just get it, why bother? If so, Zhong Niyi's 'Chu people' is also the so-called 'people'. The husband is Zhong Niyi's 'Chu people' to the so-called 'people', not the dragon's 'white horse' to the so-called 'horse', which is also contradictory. ”

Meaning: I (Gongsun Long) heard that the king of Chu went hunting in the wilderness, and when he came back, he found that the bow was lost, and his subordinates wanted to find it, and the king of Chu said magnanimously: "No need to look for it, in my Chu country."

If you lose the bow in the territory, you will eventually be picked up by my Chu people, just like if you didn't lose it, why bother looking for it? "Confucius.

After hearing about this incident, he said: "The king of Chu wants to do benevolence and righteousness in this matter but fails, isn't it the same for everyone who finds the bow, why bother with the Chu people?" From this point of view, Confucius believed that "Chu people" and "people" were different.

If Confucius is right that "Chu people" are different from "people", then you have come to criticize me (Gongsun Long)'s "white horse is not a horse."

Theory, it's a contradiction!

From this story, an allusion to "Chu people are not human" was left. But what Confucius meant was not that the people of Chu were not people, but that the king of Chu should have the generosity of being a public servant in the world, and that the bow could be picked up by anyone in the world, not only the Chu people.

Gongsun Long was a famous philosopher during the Warring States Period, and his classic theory is that "white horses are not horses", which is from the difference between "white horses" (individual) and "horses" (general), so that "white horses" are not necessarily "horses". Gongsun Long's theory was questioned by many people, and he seized on Confucius's evaluation of the king of Chu to defend himself, but in fact, he distorted the scene and distorted the original meaning of the matter to separate this "Chu people from non-people", which is the so-called out of context.

Not! This is the king of Chu, the bow was lost, and then pretended to be very generous and said: The Chu people lost, and the Chu people gained.

Why bother looking for it? And later. I don't know what happened to be known by Confucius, and then Confucius said that the king of Chu is still not broad enough!

How can it be limited to the Chu people? It is changed to "If someone loses, someone gains." Then let's start to analyze (if Confucius thinks that Chu people = people, then why did he remove the word Chu?)

Then let's conclude that the Chu people are not human and are really sophistry! Pure hand-hitting--

Confucius said: The people of Chu are different from those of us.

Confucius said, "The people of Chu are not ordinary people."