Why are scholars pedantic?

Literati pedantic: refers to relying too much on rules and regulations and sticking to the rules. If you don't know how to be flexible, it is even more impossible to know what is' improvisation' and what is flexibility. The outstanding advantage is that scholars are pedantic, but they will not murder the second or third person with their own selfish desires.

Pedantic: refers to people's old and rigid speech and behavior, which is out of date, mostly used in people's words and deeds and has a small scope of application. To describe a person is to stick to the rules without looking up at the world, just like a camel in the desert knows that a sandstorm is coming but just buries its head in the sand.

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The pedantic man was defeated by Song Xianggong.

Song Xianggong is ambitious and wants to inherit the hegemony of Qi Huangong and compete with Chu for hegemony. He was once detained by the state of Chu. 638 years ago, he crusaded against Zheng and fought against the Chu soldiers who saved Zheng in the flood. ChuBing powerful, Song Xianggong pay attention to "righteousness". He won't fight until Chu Bing crosses the river. As a result, he was defeated and injured, and died of serious injuries the following year.

In 638 BC, Song and Chu fought for the hegemony of the Central Plains, and a war broke out in the flood. At that time, Zheng was close to Chu and sent troops to attack Zheng in order to weaken Chu. When Chu sent troops to attack Song Dynasty to save Zheng, the war broke out.

At that time, Chu was strong and Song weak, but at the beginning of the war, it was beneficial in form, but it clung to the pedantic dogma of "not taking advantage of others' danger" and refused to accept the correct opinion, so that it almost missed the fighter plane and was defeated.

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