What is the main point of the book Thick and Thick? Will it mislead young people? Recently I was reading my brother is very addicted to this book, he said this book is very suitable for me to read!

The Thick and the Dark ostensibly teaches people to play tricks, but in fact it is a critique and inheritance of traditional Chinese culture, and many of its ideas and innovations are valuable even today.

Li Zongwu first wrote "Thick and Black" in the early years of the Republic of China, in which he mercilessly exposed and criticized the hypocritical feudal ethics and sages under China's authoritarian system, and tore the benevolence and righteousness and morality that the feudal autocratic rulers had pasted on the history clean;

Not only that, but he also pointed the sharp sword of criticism straight at "Yao, Shun, Yu, and Tang". Yao, Shun, Yu and Tang" and other "sages", claiming that the sages are the highest level of thick black people, is "thick and invisible, black and colorless", into the "no sound, no smell, invisible, colorless The saints are the highest level of thick and black people, "thick but invisible, black but colorless", entering the realm of "no sound, no smell, no form, no color". Whether it is from the strength or depth of criticism, it is comparable to Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman, which exposed the cannibalistic nature of the rituals.

From the point of view of time, Li Zongwu published Thick and Dark in the early years of the Republic of China, around 1912, earlier than the New Culture Movement in 1915. Moreover, at the beginning of the New Culture Movement, criticism and reflection on traditional culture had become an unstoppable trend, and the spirit of Li Zongwu, who dared to challenge a cadre of defenders with one man's strength around 1911, is honorable and admirable.

Despite Li Zongwu's bitter criticism of authoritarian culture, but is definitely not "cynicism", his criticism of traditional culture, properly stayed in the feudal autocratic rulers will be the distortion of the doctrines of the hundred schools of thought of the whitewash and the use of the above, his own Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism are extremely high praise, but never superstitious, the spirit of this early years of the Republic of China is extremely valuable.

His criticism coincided with the tone set by Chen Duxiu in the New Culture Movement, that is, the criticism of Confucianism was not directed at Confucius himself, but at the distortion, packaging, and whitewashing of Confucius' original intentions by the autocratic rulers, that is, the Confucius who appeared in the face of the "talisman of the autocratic monarchs of the empires of all times", that is, the Confucius who appeared in the face of the "talisman of the autocratic monarchs of all empires". The "Confucius of the past" is the one who has appeared in the face of "the talisman of successive imperial despots".

Expanded:

Lee Zongo's Thick and Dark is more suitable for the simple and kind-hearted to read. Li Zongo's original intention:

In terms of Li Zongo's original intention of writing this book, he also didn't want people to learn how to be bad, he was just teaching people how to make themselves stronger, as well as how to better live in this society.

Li is said to have developed the idea of "thick and dark" thanks to the fact that when he was teaching at Fushun County High School, a faculty adviser living next door to him, Mr. Zhang, had poorly insulated walls at the time.

One day, I don't know what bothering old Zhang, tossing and turning in bed, sighing, and suddenly exclaimed: "Today's things, not thick-skinned, black heart can not."

So Li Zongwu seemed to be like getting inspiration, he followed the old Zhang's theory of digging deeper, and then compared to the so-called successful people throughout the ages, it is almost as if Wang Yangming invented the theory of materialism and knowledge.

So he transmitted this theory to his friend, and under his friend's persuasion, he created "Thick and Dark".

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Thick Heirology