Who is more credible, bamboo chronicles or historical records?

The origin of Bamboo Book Bamboo Book is the second year of Taikang in Jin Dynasty (28 1). When a grave robber was robbing a tomb in Jixian County (now Weihui City, Henan Province), he accidentally found many bamboo slips and threw them all over the floor. After the villagers discovered it, they reported to the government that a large number of ancient books were unearthed, one of which was bamboo books. Later, through analysis, it can be known that this is a annals written by Wei historians in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period of Jin State, which is of great historical value to the study of pre-Qin history.

The content and version of the bamboo book are very simple. Compared with historical materials, the contents are mostly the same. However, this short history shocked the whole world. Some contents in Zhushu completely subverted the image of saints advocated by Confucianism, such as Shun's imprisonment of Yao, Qi and Wang Taijia's exile. However, there are two kinds of bamboo books, ancient and modern, and many reasons that undermine the three views may have been written by later generations.

According to the Book of Jin, there are 13 kinds of ancient books unearthed in the second year of Jin Taikang, including Xia, Shang and Zhou, followed by Jin and Wei. After Wang Ping moved the capital, he interacted with the State of Jin, and after the partition of the State of Jin, the three clans interacted with the State of Wei until the twentieth year of Wang Wei.

King 1 abdicated. The abdication advocated by Confucianism is a model of rule by courtesy and occupies an important position in the Confucian ethical system. However, Zhu Shu directly overthrew it, pointing out that there was no abdication at all, just a snatch. This record is of course from this version of the bamboo book, because the ancient version of the bamboo book began in the Xia Dynasty.

Yi Yin, the founder of Shang Dynasty, set a loyal example in ancient Confucian classics. Tai Jia was imprisoned in the same palace by Yi Yin because he didn't keep the king's way. Later, he turned over a new leaf and returned to Beijing. On the contrary, the Bamboo Book records Tai Jia's exile and independence. Two years later, Tai Jia fled from the same palace to Wang Du, killed Yi Yin and restored the throne. However, he is generous to his two sons.

However, we can clearly see that behind these two statements, it is a challenge to the benevolent government and the rule of courtesy advocated by Confucianism and Taoism. Whether this version subverts Zen Buddhism or the ancient version destroys Yi Yin's image as a loyal minister, it completely denies the Confucian model of Shun Di and Yi Yin as monarch and minister. What Zhushu wants to convey is that the Confucian benevolent policy does not exist at all, but is just a means to confuse people.

The record of abdication comes from this version of the bamboo book. Why did future generations forge this passage? First of all, is it to echo the easy sound of Xia Dynasty? In order to tell the world, there is no such generous and loving monarch and no such loyal minister. Yao and Shun don't scrape the rafters, but they are not firm. Although there are storehouses, they don't worry. Jade chisels the dragon gate, opens the summer, sets up Jiangshan Pavilion and releases it into the sea. He made himself a hairless leg. Neither his officials nor his prisoners worked so hard. ? All people who value the world have dissolute desires. Emphasize the law and dare not do evil to control the internal affairs of the ocean.