Chapter 59 Imperfection is life

Everyone strives for a fulfilling life.However, from ancient times to the present, at home and abroad, a 100% perfect life has never existed.That's why I say that imperfection is life. On this point, ancient and modern folk proverbs and literati poems have said a lot.The most common ones are Su Dongpo's words: "People have sorrows and joys, and the moon has cloudy and sunny waxes and wanes. This matter is difficult to complete in ancient times." Fang Yue (according to Mr. Wu Xiaoru's textual research) in the Southern Song Dynasty: "Unfortunate things are often eighty-nine, but you can never talk to others. Two or three." This is what we often quote and is very popular.There are hundreds of similar examples that can be cited.

This statement applies to everyone, including the emperor's father in the old society.They dominate the world, "on the coast of the land, are they the king's ministers", they can do whatever they want, kill and exterminate the clan, it is a trivial matter, and it stands to reason that they should not have any unsatisfactory things.However, in fact, succession to the throne and court struggles are ten thousand times crueler than those among the people.They sat on the throne with majesty, like sitting on pins and needles.Although they fabricated the myth of "Long Yu Shangbin", they themselves did not believe it.They try every means to achieve immortality, and they are most afraid of "once the soul dies, the palace chariot will leave late".Even the British masters such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty were not "exempt from customs".Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty made a golden plate of Chenglu, hoping to drink the fairy dew to live forever; Emperor Taizong of Tang took the elixir of Indian Brahmans, hoping to use it to not die.In the end, things backfired, and it was still the "Long Yu Shangguo".

The ministers under these emperors are "under one person, above ten thousand people", they are extremely powerful, arrogant, unrestrained, corrupt and perverting the law, and they do everything.Among this kind of people, there are probably very few good things, otherwise Bao Gong and Hai Rui would never have passed down the ages and the universe for a long time.But when these people came to the emperor, they were just slaves. As the saying goes: Companion to the emperor is like companion to the tiger, which shows that their life is not easy.It is said that the ministers of the Ming Dynasty carried a little Crane Crown Red on the wat board when they went to court. Once the emperor gave him the death penalty, he quickly licked a little Crane Crown Red with the tip of his tongue, and immediately passed away, resulting in a whole corpse.It can be seen that the life of this group of people is not easy, and there is no talk of a perfect life.

As for ordinary people of my generation, life is even more difficult.Before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it cannot be said that there is no difference, but until today it is still "unsatisfactory things often happen."I was "slaughtered" by a peddler in the morning market in the morning; I was cut off by a pickpocket on the bus, stepped on someone, or was stepped on by someone, and I didn't say "I'm sorry" at all. Or even perform full martial arts.When we go to the store, we will inevitably buy counterfeit and shoddy goods, and we will be angry again. Who can say that our life may be perfect?

Let's talk about our group of intellectuals who have no power to restrain chickens, it is rare in history to live a few days of good life in their lifetime.Just one word "test" can make you talk about "test". Those who "take the exam" also refer to the exam.In the era of imperial examinations in the old society, "thousands of troops and horses cross the single-plank bridge", the only way to advance is the imperial examination. You only need to read Wu Jingzi's book to understand the situation of the imperial examination incisively and vividly.Doesn’t the embarrassment of the group of Jinshi candidates represented by Zhou Jin and Fan Jin make you shudder and make you laugh?

Now we are lucky enough to be born into the new society.However, the word "test" is like the palm of the Tathagata Buddha, you can't escape it.Kindergarten to elementary school, take the test; primary school to junior high school, take the test;Test, test, test, become baked, baked, baked; until the age of knowing fate, bad luck is still inevitable, modern intellectuals fall into this tight sky net, there is nowhere to escape between heaven and earth, we What else is there to talk about in life? Disasters are not limited to intellectuals, "everyone has a hard-to-read scripture."That's why I say "Imperfection is life".This is an "ordinary truth"; but if you can really understand the meaning of it, it will be good for yourself and others.For yourself, you can be calm; for others, you can understand each other.This will greatly benefit the stability and unity of the entire society.

August 20, 1998