Wild Coupling: The Foundation of a Nation's Robust Vitality, the Beginning of National Fortune's Revival!

2006/3/23 20:12:53

The recent TV series "Emperor Wu of Han" was like Jiangnan silk-and-bamboo music forced to play a grand northern frontier tune — yet somehow earned a round of applause. Truly a dog impersonating a tiger. Laughable to the extreme. In truth, the robustness of the Han Dynasty was already foreshadowed by a famous episode of wild coupling involving Emperor Gao's mother, Lady Liu. Sadly, from that point on, the tradition of wild coupling faded away in Confucianized history, and the nation's vigor also gradually and elegantly declined along with it.

With particular irony, the founding patriarch of Confucianism himself — Confucius the Second — was the product of an even earlier famous episode of wild coupling. And the earliest famous wild coupling recorded in text was Yu's tryst with the Tushan maiden at Taisang, squeezed in while he was busy taming the floods. The result of that encounter was Qi, who went on to found the Xia Dynasty.

What is there to be ashamed of in a history of civilization that begins with wild coupling? The beginnings of all nations ultimately trace back to wild coupling. Wild coupling symbolizes a nation's robust vitality. A nation that abandons wild coupling has also abandoned its robust vitality. And reviving a nation's robust vitality can only and must begin with reviving "wild coupling."

Wild coupling: the foundation of a nation's robust vitality, the beginning of national fortune's revival! So-called "civilization," for a nation's robust vitality, has always been a synonym for servility and eunuch-ification. A truly powerful nation must be one that maintains its powerful primal life force even amid the march of civilization. Otherwise, it becomes like a caged beast, its temper gone, at the mercy of anyone's hoodwinking!

Robust national primal vitality — that is the heaven-and-earth-as-bedding, yin-yang-shaking-off, sky-embracing-and-earth-spanning spirit. It is the boldness of grasping the serpent and declaring war on God. What do life and death have to do with me? I — under the heavens and above the earth, I alone am supreme. Churning the great earth into gold, transmuting poison into ambrosia — without this most primal impulse, any science or civilization becomes poison. How could it ever become ambrosia?