Was Confucius a broad minded and benevolent man? What do you think of the Mao Zheng incident?

It's not a positive incident, it's a young positive incident.

According to legend, Confucius was the secretary of the Lu State, and he killed Shao Zhengmao in seven days. This incident was blamed for Confucius's violent vendetta against the communiqué because of disagreement, resulting in death.

However, there is still a lot of controversy about whether the Shaozheng Mao incident really happened, and many scholars and historians have pointed out that Shaozheng Mao is not known about his person, and it is said that he is a "Wenren" of the Lu State, but there is no historical record of his deeds at all. It seems that the earliest mention of Confucius's killing of Shao Zhengmao is still said in an article by Xunzi, and later historical records and other historical materials also cite Xunzi's theory, so Confucius's killing of Shaozheng Mao is more likely to be the author's "free play" (people in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty often cite a hypothetical example when writing articles and examples, which is not necessarily a real event), at least I personally advocate doubts about this event. If you are interested, you can check the relevant information.

The incident of Confucius's killing of Shao Zhengmao believes that Confucius was guilty of five major crimes, namely: "the heart is dangerous and dangerous" (knowledgeable but sinister intentions); Walk with perseverance" (depraved and unrepentant); "False and changeable" (strong words and good at quibbling); "Remembering ugliness and being broad" (deliberately focusing on the dark side of society); "Shun and Zhize" (do not correct wrong words and deeds and modify and maintain), think that it is "chaotic government", so he killed Shao Zhengmao. If this is true, then it is extremely undesirable from a civilized point of view to admit that Confucius's practice set a bad precedent for convicting oneself of one's words, and to serve as an example for the future use of violent means to destroy political or academic opponents.

But it is precisely because of this that this incident is considered to be not a historical fact, not only because it is full of doubts and lacks corroboration. And it is also contrary to Confucius's words and deeds.

Many friends who are particularly interested in history, after reading some history books, will find that there are some discrepancies with some of the texts they have studied. For example, in some literature textbooks for elementary school, junior high school and high school, as well as some traditional textbooks that we usually read, Confucius is a representative of Confucianism. And they also advocate a very benevolent thought, and they also have a relatively high status in society.

Confucius is the representative of Confucianism, and they also seem to represent love and peace, spreading this very loving thought. But what I didn't expect was that after some netizens read the records of some relevant historical materials, they would also find that Confucius, who pays attention to benevolence, righteousness and morality like this, may have some contradictions in his daily life with his own benevolence. For example, many netizens will find that Confucius killed Shaozheng Egg in the process of learning history, so many people will feel that a phenomenon like this is not in line with the benevolence advocated by Confucius, and after killing Shao Zhengegg, it even brutally brutally corpsed him for three days.

The image has collapsed a little, so behaviors like this have also made many netizens put a question mark on Confucius's thoughts, does he really advocate benevolence? Or does he really hate Shaozheng eggs? In fact, according to some information, during the period when Confucius was an official, he killed a lecturer of law, Shao Zhengyu, so phenomena like this will also make everyone's image collapse somewhat.

After all, for these two people, they stand from different angles, one is a representative of Confucianism, and the other is a representative of Legalism.

A state of very fierce competitionAnd Shao Zhengzi was a very famous representative of Legalism in the early days, and he was also an official doctor in Lu at that time, so he also had a certain guiding role in the laws of his country。And he also wanted to make the society adjust accordingly through these changes, but Confucius's Confucianism may have some hedging with these Legalist thoughts. So he is also in a very fierce state of competition, so in this case, both sides are holding their own opinions, and they are also advocating their own schools of thought.

Therefore, in the process of such competition, after Confucius was appointed as the great secretary, he also sentenced Shaozheng to death. Acts like this also make everyone feel very unbelievable about Confucius's behavior, is such cruel behavior really the idea of benevolence that he advocates?

There is a saying that when the judgment continues, there will be trouble, and this may not have much to do with hatred, because the saints see things of course have money before and after, so it is said that the Buddha has five eyes, and the saints are of course and are not excluded.

Because of the contradictions between the two sides, Shao Zhengmao has always been against Confucius, and the two sides can be said to be in flames, Confucius thinks that he should be killed, and feels that even if he is benevolent, righteous and moral, he will talk about it.

Because he still cares a lot about power, he wants to control a lot of people.

I think it's because the competition between the two sides is too fierce, so once one person gains power, the other must be killed.

It can be described as a high authority. Confucius and Sanhuan are equal in position, but they are one level inferior in rank. Sanhuan is the upper doctor, and he is the lower doctor.

Confucius was the most benevolent and righteous person, so he killed Shao Zhengmao because this person was heinous.

Since Confucius was the most benevolent and righteous, he also hated people who did not speak of benevolence and righteousness.

Although he talks about benevolence and righteousness, he also pays more attention to justice and will not kill for no reason.

From the various historical truths of the Chinese later, and the traditions and stealth rules of the Chinese.

The first fire of the new official in the position is the right one, and he can only blame himself.

Zheng Mao and Confucius were originally resentful, both of them ran schools and taught different schools, teaching methods and content were different, and Zheng Mao was more popular.

That's because the two of them have too different ideological realms, and he can't get used to that person.

Paying attention to benevolence and righteousness does not necessarily mean that you will not kill people, nor will you make mistakes, no one is perfect.