Source: Zuo Qiuming, a writer in the Spring and Autumn Period, is the author of "Zhao Gong admonishes Li Wang for slander".
Excerpt from the original text: Therefore, the emperor listened to politics and asked his ministers to present poems, songs, history books, teachers' words, poems, poems and recitations. After that, the king thought about it.
Therefore, when dealing with political affairs, the king asked officials at all levels to present fables, musicians to present folk music, historians to present historical books with reference value, Shao Shi to read proverbs, blind people to recite poems, blind people to read satirical words, and all workers in charge of construction affairs came to remonstrate.
The common people conveyed their opinions to the king, and the ministers close to him did their duty of persuasion. The king's relatives can make up for their mistakes and check their right and wrong. Musicians and historians teach them songs and history books, and the elders further modify them, and then the king considers choosing and implementing them.
This article tells the story of calling Mu Gong to persuade Zhou Liwang to stop "protecting witches and slandering", portrays the image of Li Wang, a headstrong tyrant, with vivid language, and profoundly points out that trying to clamp down the people with iron-blooded policies and spy policies will inevitably lead to "national subjugation".
This article is concise and well-structured, with only a few hundred words. It briefly describes the whole story of China uprising and the expulsion of Li Wang.
This article describes Zhou Liwang's cruelty, oppression and exploitation of the people. Finally, he was finally expelled and exiled by the people. The first paragraph points out that the cause of the incident lies in Li Wang's slander; The second paragraph leads to Zhao Gong's admonition-anti-defamation; The third paragraph explains the natural result of slander and verifies the warning in the second paragraph.
The greatest feature of this article is rhetorical metaphor. "Defending people's mouths is more important than defending Sichuan", which shows that people's opinions cannot be blocked. If tyranny has no way to go, it will go its own way and even threaten to kill people. Although it will temporarily make people "smart" and dare to be angry but dare not speak, it will eventually "collapse".
"The former metaphor is harmful to the people's mouth" and "the latter is beneficial to the people's words". The beauty of the full text lies in its clever use of metaphor, apt and ingenious, vivid arguments, vertical and horizontal brushwork and seamless integration, which makes the writing change wonderful.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhao Gong exhorts Li Wang to slander.