Why is the statue of Confucius presented in such a gesture? Is there any special meaning?

The explanation given by Baidu is: "Confucius motioned the ancient scholars to meet each other and asked them to bow slightly, with their hands crossed in front of the whole body, with the male left hand in front and the female right hand behind, indicating piety and humility."

It happened that Professor Zhang Shiya of Southwest University was in our school and asked him for advice on this issue.

The learned teacher Zhang really explained Confucius' gestures from the cultural and educational level.

Confucius crossed his hands and palms up. This is five. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, five words are written as "two to five lines." It means that the last horizontal plane of the word "two" is the sky, and the next horizontal plane is the ground. The two hands intersect and are written as "Yao" (pronunciation), which means that the five elements of Yin and Yang meet in the afternoon between heaven and earth.

In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the number of days is five and the number of digits is five. The five odd numbers of one, three, five, seven and nine are negative numbers, referring to the sky, which is cloudy; The five even numbers of two, four, six, eight and ten are all positive numbers, which refer to the ground and the ground respectively.

The word "stubbornness" is exactly the way Oracle Bone Inscriptions wrote the word "teaching": teaching is applied from above and effective from below. From filial piety to filial piety. Its word structure is composed of filial piety and filial piety, which literally follows the son. Oracle Bone Inscriptions glyph is holding a stick in his hand, trying to prove the truth. It means that both hands are "stubborn" and strive for harmony between heaven and earth; Holding a wooden stick to ask for heaven, thus obtaining teaching qualifications. The words "blood" and "Jue" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions all contain this meaning.