Allusions:
Mou Zi used to be a Confucian scholar, who read a lot of books and also read fairy books. However, he thought that false life was not credible and was often embarrassed by the Five Classics. After the death of Emperor Ling in the sixth year of Zhong Ping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (189), the world was in chaos. He turned to his mother and prayed for good luck. At the age of 26, he went back to his hometown Cangwu (where he ruled in Wuzhou, Guangxi) to marry. Because of the feeling that "the world is in turmoil, it is not the autumn of self-show", he insisted on not being an official, but devoted himself to Buddhism and studying Laozi. "Secular people are wrong, thinking that they will learn the Five Classics and find another way", which is a reply to The Theory of Reason and Confusion, and puts forward various arguments and difficulties caused by the introduction of Buddhism into China.
Mouzi:
Mouzi (170 ~? ), Rongming people, Zibo people. Cangwu county has a wide range of folk beliefs. Buddhists in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Cangwu hermit, a well-read and knowledgeable person since childhood. He was proficient in hundred schools of thought and became the first person to learn Buddhism in Guangxi. He spoke highly of Laozi's theory of "abandoning wisdom and self-discipline". The Theory of Reason and Confusion (37 articles) written in the early Three Kingdoms is the first Buddhist monograph in China.
Mou Zi's Inference and Confusion Theory
There are 39 chapters in The Confusion of Mou Zi. The first chapter is generally called preface, and the last chapter is called postscript and text ***37 chapters. The preface introduces Mou Zi's experience and the reasons for writing this book. Most historical events can be verified by historical facts, and some can make up for the lack of historical materials. The social unrest at that time, the dynamics of the ideological and academic circles in Jiaozhou, and why the author wrote this book were all in line with the actual situation after investigation by scholars. All the books are conducted in the form of self-designed questions and answers between the guest and the host. Suppose the questioner is a Confucian from the north. He was in the capital, went to Dongguan, visited imperial academy, regarded the rules of a gentleman, listened to the theory of Confucian scholars, thought that practicing Buddhism was expensive, and was ashamed of it, and raised various questions about Buddhism. The answer was Mou Zi, who quoted a large number of books of Confucianism, Taoism and a hundred schools of thought to explain according to the different questions raised by the other party, and expounded Buddhist teachings, so as to prove that the views of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are the same.
Mouzi's theory of confusion actually reflected people's views and understanding of Buddhism at that time from two different angles.