/lit/ - Literature

>Sitting in my scroll room contemplating the Righteous Path outlined by Our Master Confucius
>Listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kk6K_5fxZs
>Hear a rabble outside my window
>Slide paper door and peer out upon the courtyard
>There are Taoists hosting a "poetry slam" competition
>Pause my music to listen
>Themes of effortless action, oneness, and cultivated simplicity bombard my mournful ears
>Draw my door and retreat back to my sober contemplations on the harmony and propriety of the Four Books and Five Classics

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>Jelly merchant-class detected

you mad you're legally barred from writing the civil-service exams?

you mad that my knowledge of the analects and classical novels will secure myself a high-paying bureaucrat job?