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Guanzi
In this issue, I would like to discuss the “Guanzi” mentioned in “On the Road: The Way of the Bin“.
The Guanzi is a book written by a dharma master, a Taoist, or a miscellaneous scholar, and is said to have been written by Guanzhong, although the author is said to have been more than one, with different ideas and phrases in each chapter. It is said to have been written by Guanzhong, but the author is believed to have been more than one. Guanzhong’s thought is rich and seemingly chaotic, and it is thought to have been gradually completed during the long period between the Warring States and Han Dynasties.
Although the Guanzi is said to have been written by Guanzhong, it is in fact believed that many parts of the Guanzi were written by scholars under the Qi dynasty during the Warring States period. In this respect, it is considered to be the work of a “miscellaneous family”. In the Psalms, it is stated that “one knows civility when one’s storehouse is full, and one knows prosperity and disgrace when one has enough food and clothing.” (You will only learn to care about propriety when your granaries and rice storehouses are full, and you will only learn to care about honor and shame when you no longer lack clothing and food.
To cite just a few examples of the baraity of thought in the Guanzi, the “Jingxuan” is a historical document on the history of thought, while the “Guanzi Keiju” is important as a historical document on the history of social economy.
Confucius’ rational thought that respected the reality, unlike Confucianism’s conceptual worldview, as described in “Confucius’ Analects: A Book of Comprehensive Anthropology” which later became the center of Chinese thought, was not highly regarded by Confucius and others as a small vessel, but Ryotaro Shiba, in reading Kanzi, was able to see that the Chinese people’s capacity for thought was not as great as that of the Chinese. While reading Kanzi, Ryotaro Shiba noted that it was a product of a time when the thinking ability of the Chinese people shone as if they were the representatives of the human race, and that the rationalism of Chinese civilization took a strange inverted form, with the Warring States period in BC being closer to “modernity” in terms of both ideology and ego. He also states that in B.C., every type of political theory and philosophical argument conceivable to mankind was formulated, and for the next 2,000 years, it languished peacefully under Confucianism, the state religion.
Kanzi’s philosophy is said to have influenced Cao Cao and Zhuge Kongming of the Three Kingdoms, as well as Kanpei Kuroda, Takanori Ninomiya, and Takayama Uesugi, as described in “Kaido yuku Banshu Ibogawa/Murozu Michi” Takamori Saigo and Houtani Yamada, as described in “Kaido yuku – Hissatsu no Michi” and Eiichi Shibusawa, as described in “Confucius’ Analects: a comprehensive Eiichi Shibusawa, mentioned in “Confucius’ Analects: The Book of Anthropology” and others are said to have been influenced by this book.
Guanzi and Forestry Industry
The Roads of Min (閩) focuses on the forestry part of the road. The following is a description of the original text and interpretation picked up there.
What the earth cannot eat, and what the mountains cannot bear, is worth a hundred and one things. (What the earth does not provide for the economy is, for example, a mountain without trees. A hundred bald mountains are only as good as one forested mountain.) –Riding No. 5
Even though the mountains and forests are vast, even though the plants and trees are beautiful, there are always times when they are forbidden. (No matter how rich the forests and vegetation are, there is always a right time to ban and lift the ban on logging.) –The 13th of the eight views
(No matter how rich the mountains and forests are, there is always a good time for the prohibition and lifting of this ban on cutting down trees and plants. –(Five Elements, 41)
When the Son of Heaven attacks a mountain and shoots a stone, he makes soldiers. When he attacks a mountain and shoots a stone, he makes soldiers. (If a heavenly prince engages in excessive logging and mining, his country will decline, and other nations will invade. Even if he defends himself, he will surely be defeated.) –The 41st of the Five Elements
The Guanzi describes how forests are the foundation of the nation and how difficult it is to preserve them.
The book “Guanzi” was not valued in China after the Han Dynasty, when Confucianism became the state religion. Confucianism is a philosophy of shujin qijie (cultivate oneself and cultivate one’s family) centered on family order. If the order of the circle of family and kinship is maintained, simply enlarging that circle will lead to the rule of the nation and the peace of the world. The relationship between man and nature is neither metaphysical nor metaphysical.
The Zhongyuan (North China Plain), where China’s ancient civilization was nurtured, is covered with yellow soil brought by the Yellow River and the wind. This great soil can produce crops even with little rainfall because of the moisture contained in the soil particles. For this reason, people have been insensitive to the preservation of the forests that store water and bring water to the people. People could survive even if the forests disappeared, so the forest theory of “Kanzi” was not respected.
Other words of Guanzi
The following is a list of famous words of Kanzi other than forestry.
If a man does not devote himself to his lord, he will not be trusted. If you, as a vassal, do not do your utmost for your lord, you will not be trusted. If they do not trust you, they will not listen to anything you say.)
(If you want to achieve results in one year, plant grain. If you want to achieve results in a year, plant a tree. If you want to make a plan for your lifetime, you must nurture human resources.)
Do not be too much of a prince and not enough of a dwarf. (Even if a sovereign is mistreated, it is better than mistreating a minor to a high position because if the other party is a sovereign, it is better to treat him well than to mistreat him. For if the other party is a sovereign, he will not bear a deep grudge if he treats him wrongly, but if a minor is given a high position, he will be left with great harm.)
When a nation dies, it is because of its longevity. When a man loses his own life, it is because of what he has lost. Therefore, he who swims well will die in the pond, and he who shoots well will die in the field. (A nation perishes because of its advantages, and a man perishes because of his advantages. It is like a master swimmer drowning in a pond, or an expert archer being killed by a bow.)
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