Unadorned in Love, in Bed, or Bedding: Wisdom Confucius Could Have Shared but Didn’t

By Yang Hanlun

What if the wise ones of ancient times were still around? What if Confucius himself were alive today? What would they say to us moderns, in this busy, next-computer, next-phone, space age of ours? This book is a collection of sayings from “those very wise who also are human,” on everything we always wanted to know but were too afraid to ask - on love, sex, the sexes, marriage, passion and anything under the sheets, and in and out of the bedroom - unadorned, sharp, and thought-provoking, and as relevant today, as only the wise ancients would have them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Feb 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543748536

Yang Hanlun

YANG HANLUN (pinyin of Yong Hon Loon), who obtained his post-graduate degree from the Claremont Graduate University, CA, USA on a Fulbright-Hays scholarship, lives in Singapore with his wife and two sons.

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Copyright © 2019 by Yang Hanlun.

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Contents

By Way of an Introduction

Unadorned in Love, in Bed, or Bedding Wisdom Confucius Could Have Shared but Didn’t

Note on Translations

For Fiona, Allen, and Ian.

In memory of Grandma.

But true wisdom comes from those very wise who also are human.

—An old saying

By Way of an Introduction

A few centuries ago, or more I think, when this now modern world was, as they say, old, meaning not as modern as it is now—ancients came up with, if you think about it, quite a straightforward tenet. It’s one that everyone I know, even in the very small circle I move in, seems to know—an exhortation, if you will. And it’s very simple for anyone and everyone—which is most—to follow.

In plain English, nothing being plainer (except, nothing surprises us; ancients were already ahead of their time, dabbling in exponential mathematics), it translates as follows:

Go forth and have a thousand sons and ten thousand grandsons.

With the ancients’ kind permission, I’ll stay true to the ever relevant and true yin yang principle to change, only just slightly, this tenet for our modern times. But wait, you say. Shouldn’t it be 2000 + 20,000, not 1000 + 10,000? No, I’ll leave it at that. You know what I mean:

Go forth and