Selling apricot blossoms｜What did Kong Yiji steal from your house that you have to use him as a scapegoat?

Recently, Kong Yiji has probably become popular. Nowadays, besides those that are 404’d, those that should be popular are popular, and those that shouldn’t be are also trending.

But things are changing, and Kong Yiji also seems to be on the verge of being 404’d. Some people online have dug up his long gown from the chaotic burial grounds in the urban-rural fringe of Shaoxing, put it on themselves, and look very miserable and accusatory.

This is not only absurd, it’s simply outrageous. Regardless of whether your reliance on your parents or your pension reaches one hundred and seven copper coins, you shouldn’t be so shameless, especially shouldn’t force Teacher Kong Yiji to be your spiritual leader.

Kong Yiji is not as base and vile as you are; he never blames the government for his misfortune, and never curses society for his bad luck. Even when he was starving and emaciated, he didn’t complain about the court; even when he was a thief, he didn’t become a rebel.

Before his death, he had his legs broken by Ding the scholar (referring to the treatment of a cadre-level official’s family), but he only picked up a broken cattail bag to tie under his buttocks, moved his hands and feet to make a living, never thought of going to the civil affairs department to ask for disability benefits, and never crawled in the bustling city in broad daylight, affecting the city’s appearance and the people’s good mood. This realm, how can it be compared to some petty people?

Can a scholar’s matter be called stealing?

Can the court’s matter be wrong?

My textbooks when I was a child said that Kong Yiji was a victim of the imperial examination system, poisoned in body and spirit by the Four Books and Five Classics, making him poor, strange, and lazy, and eventually going down the road of no return.

But in the old society in the textbooks, there was not only Kong Yiji, who wore a long gown and stood drinking (recommending a non-additive yellow wine that Kong Yiji would pawn his long gown to buy), but also Xiangzi, the taxi driver whose clothes couldn’t be any shorter.

The teacher only told me that Kong Yiji died of laziness and poverty, but Xiangzi was neither lazy nor poor, and he didn’t even know how to write the word ‘fennel’, so why did he die so miserably?

So, in the final analysis, some people should have died miserably from hunger and cold, and it has little to do with whether they wear long gowns or bikinis.

The problem is that in the bikini era, the lazy men and women are wearing less and less, but demanding more and more. Look at Kong Yiji and Xiangzi, they didn’t live great lives, and their deaths were also inglorious, but who did they complain about?

The corruption of a society begins with some people not screwing in screws properly, but instead tapping on keyboards.