明洪武二十二年,朱元璋干了一件最有文化、也最没文化的事情,就是删节《孟子》,居然胆敢跟亚圣叫板。此前20年,这位农民出身,造反起家,当过和尚,做过盗贼,对文明、文化、文人、文章怀抵触情绪的皇帝,就曾经下令把孟子的牌位从文庙里撤出来,取消其配享资格。满朝文武慌了手脚,大家都是孔孟之 Ming Hongwu twenty-two years, Zhu Yuanzhang did one of the most cultural, but also the most non-cultural things, is to delete section “Mencius”, actually dare to challenge with the saints. Over the previous 20 years, the peasant’s origin, rebel, monks, thieves, civilized, cultural, literati, essay conflicting emperors, had ordered the withdrawal of Mencius’s tablets from the Confucian Temple, to cancel its share with qualifications. Full Manchu panic, everyone is Confucius and Mencius