Several Petty Bourgeois Professions In Ancient Times

1, higher than the average social income, but not to get rich.

2, this kind of occupation is not popular. It has some distance from the popular work and belongs to the other people who are curious about it.

3, this occupation is not only to meet the survival of the material, but also to bring.

Hermit: let me stay away from the world.

Petty bourgeoisie

Representatives: Xu, Tao Yuanming, Chen Tuan

The premise of hermit's existence lies in his determination that his own cleanliness is incompatible with this foul human world, just like water and fire, profit and blunt, fierce women and prodigal son, he has to choose to leave and give up.

Let me go further away from the world. All the ancient hermits still murmured this in their tombs.

If you want to be a hermit, you have to have better economic conditions to support it, otherwise you will just starve to death.

Tao Yuanming's story is widely read by posterity, but people seldom think about a problem, that is, Tao Yuanming does not want to bow to five meters. He simply does not need this five meters. His family's industry is enough for him to live in the elegant life of poetry, wine and flowers without worrying about it.

Otherwise, "under the south of the bean, the grass and seedlings will be sparse," which makes the peasants cry for no tears.

Librarian: a wise man in solitude

Petty bourgeoisie

Representative figures: Laozi and Sima Qian

In the prosperous metropolis, the library is always lonely or relatively lonely. Knowledge must be far away from all mortal beings, so that they can be passed on by fire, because they are the two opposites of things.

The ancient library was more lonely.

Our first The Royal Library curator, his name is Li Er, the Laozi, the author of Tao Te Ching.

Lao Tzu, the librarian of the Zhou room, has little work to do.

In such a large library, there are piles of bamboo slips that have grown many white spots. When the weather is fine, Lao Tzu will instruct the staff to carry out these heavy things.

And that.

We thought Lao Tzu would read eagerly in the library, just like a hungry man on the bread.

In fact, this idea is too childish. For such a wise man as Lao Tzu, where do I need to absorb nutrition from those parrot slips?

Swordsman: a double-edged sword with pain and speed.

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Representative: Jing Ke

"Ten years of grinding a sword, frost blade never tried.

Who will be unfair today?

The swordsmen live in the world as if for just one thing, that is, when people ask questions -- especially those who appear to be disadvantaged groups -- "have you met any injustice? I can fight for you, even if I pay for my life."

The life of chivalrous swordsman is so full of blood and light. This blood and light may be the most beautiful and romantic ornament in their life.

But this is also a high risk occupation. Since ancient times, how many chivalrous people have not died under the sword? So the sword they drew is double-edged. It has both the fast and the painful side, and the pain and speed also constitute the main theme of chivalrous life.

To put it in a sentence, it is painful and happy.

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Court musician: if you are happy, clap your hands.

Petty bourgeoisie

Representatives: Li Yannian and Li Guinian

The court musician should be an old profession. In legend, Mr. Huang's old man also has musicians working for him. That's a legend.

However, at the latest in Zhou Dai, the court musicians had already held the Guqin in the pavilions.

The working people do not understand elegant music, but the court understands that the literati understand.

In the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, Li Yannian and Li Guinian, who represented the highest achievements of elegant music, were always smiling when they came out.

The history book clearly states: "every time the new voice changes, the listeners are moved."

Is this not the highest reward for an artist?

Teacher: class, children.

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Representative: Confucius

Lao Tzu did not read books when he was the director of the National Library, but a young man with a small name often went to the east to look at it.

Confucius, who only had noble children to go to school in ancient times, pioneered private learning, and attracted the students of the broad masses of working people with the principle of teaching without distinction. This made him jump from teaching to educationist.

Confucius's teaching methods really envy future generations.

Confucius sat in the Xinglin of Qufu, where students sat around him. Mr. Kong could speak two times fluently.

At other times, he asked his disciples one by one with various questions that he had designed in advance.

Later, he simply took his disciples to ride the ox cart to travel around the country, read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles, and all kinds of problems of life would like to be dealt with and resolved in such a magnificent tour and lecture.

Famous doctor: please stick out your tongue.

Petty bourgeoisie

Representatives: Qin Yue, Zhang Zhongjing and Sun Simiao

If you are not good, you will be a good man, but a good doctor will not be a good one.

After seeing the good doctors in good condition and good will, we can see that this kind of occupation has a high social status in ancient China.

In ancient times without western medicine competition, the status of a famous doctor was outstanding.

From the dignitaries to the common people, there may be very few people who do not hold deep reverence for them.

This awe is, in the final analysis, an investment in one's health.

"Please stick out your tongue and let me see your tongue."

A famous doctor usually has 40 years old and has a strong body and sharp eyes. He sits in the hall with famous calligraphy and paintings and hangs gold tablets, and uses his approachable voice to gently open lips to each patient.

Of course, when a young doctor is young, he may not always sit in the hall to inquisition, but walk on the dusty road. Just like today's science and technology, health culture, three experts who go to the countryside, birds fall to the public. They will build their own fame in the years belonging to the people.

Tai: do you know my happiness?

Petty bourgeoisie

Representatives: Du Mu and Ou Yangxiu

Among the various official posts in ancient China, the supreme ruler was the most admired.

As a senior local official, it has different names in the past dynasties. For example, it is called "Shi Shi", also known as "Zhi Zhou" or "prefect", but in general, it is equivalent to the mayor of prefecture level city today. They constitute the backbone of Chinese Empire.

The prefect is also a kind of petty bourgeoisie, especially in those years of ascension.

Look at the Chinese literati, so many people have done the Imperial Guard, you will understand this: Xie Lingyun, Wang Changling, Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Du Mu, Ou Yangxiu, Su Shi, Su Shi...

These happy guards in their duties, most of the territory is quiet, the country is nothing, so do some redevelopment of Yueyang Tower, or visit the drunken Pavilion and other elegant things.

On the one hand, they themselves are literati, and some of them are the leaders of the literary circles at that time, occupying important discourse power; on the other hand, the position of the prefect is not too high, but it is not comparable to the small officials under the wind and dust. All kinds of desires of life can be well conditioned.

Poetry collector: flying bees in the folk

Among all the cultural related occupations, the poetry collector is one of the oldest and most culturally sophisticated among them.

In the distant Zhou Dai, their figure has already appeared on the land of the Central Plains.

This is a work that goes all over the world in the name of poetry. It is always as popular as a bee to fly in flowers.

Folk suffering is often understood by Zhou kings and other princes through these folk songs.

In the era of his poetry, the official of the collection of poems was actually the important task of the national public opinion investigator, the journalist and the National Poetry recorder.