Under the Heaven (2)

1 Mozi and Qinhuali advocated that it is admirable and worth of imitation that resource is not wasted; abiding by the worldly decree and regulation; emotion and character should be focused on love and concern of others.

2 Mozi was against music and advocated austerity in his book. He never sang and never mourned for death in his whole life. He was against war, instructed people to love widely and support all creatures. In his dictionary there was no word of “anger”. He, as other scholars, read various books to learn assorted knowledge. He insisted that all kinds of music books should be burned, including Yellow Emperor’s Xianchi, Yao’s Danzhang, Shun’s Dashao, Yu’s Daxia, Tang’s Dahuo, King of Weng’s Biyong and Wu belonging to king of Wu and Duke of Zhou.

3 The ancient funeral treatment was strictly subject to ranks difference. Emperor’s coffin had seven layers; marquis’s five; senior official’s three; junior official’s two. Mozi claimed that in the funeral ceremony people should not sing and not wear sable; people all use three-layer coffin and need no outer coffin, despite of rank and position.

4 The claim of Mozi not only fitted nobody else but also didn’t fit him, because if he acted on it, it means that he didn’t love himself; if he asked others to do so, it means that he didn’t love others. However, the school of Mozi was still popular at that time.

5 I deems however, refraining oneself not to sing when has the mood, gulping back ones tears when is sad and prohibiting the band to play in the guests, all those rules are unreasonable. Moze was a hard working man; he left nothing to his offspring. His regulation was simply too punitive and made people felt depressed and sorry. I don’t think his advocate is workable and I am afraid that his school is not able to become the most acceptable one in the future. My reason is that any one against the will of people and his advocate can’t be executed; it is doomed to be rejected by people, and leave the kingcraft far away.

6 Mozi adored Yu. He held that Yu traveled through three hundred mountains and wading through three thousand rivers for controlling the flood. He channeled water over nine states into the ocean. Moil of many years ground off his hairs on feet. By his moil in rain and wind, he sorted out a living place for people. Thereby, Mozi acclaimed that Yu is the greatest sage who has done greatest contribution to the worldly people.

7 To imitate Yu, Mozi wore sackcloth and geta in his life. He worked day and night, no stop. Mozi explained, “Only doing so makes me carry out the way of Yu. I am competent to be a scholar of Mo school.”

8 Xiangli Qin’s disciples and Wuhou’s disciples belonged to southern Mo school, such as Kudi, Yichi and Deng Lingzi. However, they thought themselves different from other Mo schools. So, they called themselves “Different Mo”

9 These debate-mania scholars have a continuous debate on the feeling of a stone is white by eye and the feeling of a stone is hard by hand and whether the two different feelings are describing the same stone or actually they are two different stones. They look the man, such as Yu, who is austere and hard working as sage, doing according to the sage’s conception and willing to be his successors.

10 Theory of Mozi and theory of Qinhuali have nothing debatable. Only their conducts are of problem. If the successors insist on their conducts, then they are of hardship and fatigue to malformation.

11 On the whole, Mozi’s defects can’t obscure his virtue in his life. Besides his painstaking life is unacceptable by others, Mozi has held steadily his believe and his conducts according to his words, by which he is regarded as an outstanding man.