Chapter 37 Postscript It's not bad to be He Bo
As soon as autumn comes, rain comes.
The autumn water from the big and small rivers flows into the Yellow River, and the Yellow River becomes very wide.Standing on the shore and looking across the sandbar across the water, I can no longer tell whether the animals on the opposite side are cows or horses.
The God of the Yellow River was pleased with himself, thinking that all the beauty in the world lies in himself.
The complacent Huang Hebo decided to visit the God of the North Sea.However, when he came to the North Sea along the river and looked east, he found that the water of the North Sea was boundless, and he could not see the limit from afar.
The Yellow River Bo looked at the ocean and sighed.
He said to Bei Hairuo, if I don't come to your door today, I will always be ridiculed by people who have attained the Tao!
I also felt this way when I read the pre-Qin philosophers.
Indeed, the thoughts of the philosophers are like the water of the North Sea, boundless and boundless.What's more, if Beihai also told Huang Hebo that the four seas are nothing more than a hole in Daze to the heaven and earth; China is nothing more than a drop in Taicang to the four seas.So, will I also "look and laugh at the generous family"?
Most likely.
I read Zhuzi books when I was very young.What first attracted me were those idiom stories, such as Mencius’s story about a drop in the bucket, Zhuangzi’s story about chaotic times, Han Fei’s stories about waiting for rabbits, old horses know the way, and Zheng people buy shoes.
Later, I began to endorse some famous aphorisms in the book, such as "All within the four seas are brothers", Mencius's "The weather is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the harmony of people", Zhuangzi's "My life has a limit, but knowledge has no limit", Xunzi's "Perseverance, gold and stone can be carved" and so on.The advantage is that it is useful for writing essays, and it is also very inspirational.I even once guessed, what was it like for Confucius to climb Mount Tai and make the world small?
Later, I went to the mountains and went to the countryside, and then I began to criticize the law and Confucianism.Criticism of Law and Confucianism was a political movement in the 1970s, the content of which was to criticize Legalism and Confucianism.At this time, I had the opportunity to re-read the philosophers.Although public speeches have to scold Confucianism like hell, but in private, I still feel that at least "the three armies can win the commander, but the common man can't lose the ambition", isn't it good?
What's more, life at that time was really hard.So I feel even more that Mencius's "Heaven will send a great mission to man, he must first suffer his mind, his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, and empty his body", "then know that he is born in sorrow and die in peace" and so on, it is really true Great!The Tao of Confucius and Mencius cannot be completely denied, right?
I don't know if Mencius was really hungry, or if he looked up at the starry sky as hungry as I did back then, and had the desire to eat aliens.But there is a sentence that really resonates after a long time.
This sentence is called: There is a reputation for being unexpected, but there is a ruin for seeking perfection.
Unexpected reputation is unexpected praise; perfect slander is too harsh slander.I've experienced both of these over the years.The criticism that this history of China will face will probably be the same.Especially in this volume, if you must demand full blame, it can be cut into pieces.Because the pre-Qin philosophers are the Pacific Ocean, this book is not yet the Huangpu River.
Then take it at your own convenience.
The only thing to explain is that this topic is not finished.For example, the most important thought of Confucianism-the structure of benevolence, as well as the later relationship between Confucianism and Legalism, will be arranged in the eighth volume.Because of these two problems, it was only after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed the Confucianism that a hundred schools of thought dominated Confucianism that they could see it clearly.As for the general evaluation of the contention of a hundred schools of thought and its influence, it may be the last volume.
However, the pre-Qin philosophers will always accompany us in the following journey.
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