Chapter 24 Verse 24: Eternal Life

My Lord Jesus reaches and feels the flow of his blood, "That is eternal life", that is the kingdom of heaven on earth! Her young governess from the Sunday school, and her Mr. Thomas Rowe, the head of a respectable class--what a difference between the two!On the surface, these two lives seem to be similar, but when all the details of their lives are examined, how different they are!For this difference, it is said that it is not essential and irrelevant.True, this difference is inessential, but it would be a mistake to think that it is insignificant.Far from being an insignificant thing, the apparent lack of grace and charm in the religious life under the Protestantism of the English liturgy is a real weakness.You should settle this matter, not leave it to others.

Finally, I intend to point out the most important characteristic of the ideal image of woman in China, a characteristic which is distinct from that of all other countries and peoples, ancient or modern.As far as the characteristic of Chinese women is concerned, it is common to the ideal image of women in any country or nation that claims to be civilized in the world, but what I want to emphasize here is that this characteristic has developed so far in China. The degree of perfection is probably unmatched and unique in any other place in the world.The characteristic I am talking about, described with two Chinese characters, is "youxian".In the previous article, I used the quotation from Mrs. Cao (everyone) in "The Commandments for Women", and I translated it as "modesty and cheerfulness".The Chinese word "you" literally means secluded, shy, mysterious and mysterious. "Xian" literally means "at ease or at leisure".As for the Chinese word "幽", English "modesty" and "bashfulness" can only give you a general meaning. German "sittsamkeit" is closer to it, but I am afraid that French "pudeur" is closest to its original meaning.This kind of shyness, this kind of shyness, this kind of characteristic expressed by the Chinese word "you", I can say that it is the essential characteristic of all women.The more a woman develops this shyness and shyness, the more feminine-feminine she is, the more, in fact, the perfect, ideal woman she becomes.On the contrary, if a person loses this characteristic expressed by the Chinese word "鹙", loses this shyness, this shyness, then her femininity, femaleness, and her mellow fragrance will disappear together, and thus become a A walking dead body or a pile of rotten flesh.Therefore, it is the shyness in the ideal image of Chinese women, the characteristic expressed by the word "you", that makes gangs should make Chinese women instinctively feel and realize that it is indecent and inappropriate to show their faces in public.According to the orthodox concept of the Chinese, it is obscene and extremely inappropriate to go to the stage, sing in front of a large audience, or even sing in the hall of the YMCA.On its positive side, it is this leisure, this secluded love of solitude, this sensitive resistance to the allurements of the world of flowers, this shyness of the Chinese feminine ideal, which endows the real Chinese woman with That kind of fragrance that women of other nationalities in the world do not have, a fragrance that is more mellow and refreshing than the fragrance of violets and the indescribable fragrance of orchids.

Two years ago, I translated the first part of that old love song in Beijing Daily News.It is, I believe, the oldest love song in the world - in this part the Chinese ideal of womanhood is described thus: (z-47) Guan Guan Jujiu, in the continent of the river, is a fair lady and a gentleman. The word "Yaotiao" has the same meaning as "Youxian". Literally speaking, "Yao" means quiet, gentle, and shy; the word "Tiao" means charming, relaxed and happy, and polite . The word "lady" means a pure or chaste girl or woman.In this way, in this oldest love song in China, you will find three basic characteristics of the ideal Chinese woman, namely, quiet and quiet love, shyness or shyness, and the indescribable elegance and charm expressed by "youli", and finally , is pure or chaste.In short, a real or real Chinese woman is chaste, shy and shameless, breezy and charming, courteous and elegant.Only a woman who has these three characteristics is worthy of being called the ideal image of Chinese women, that is, a real "Chinese woman". (z-44)

The Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Confucian classics, was translated by me as "Guide to Life". The first part of it contains the practical teachings of Confucianism in terms of life principles.In this part, there is such a description of a happy family: The wife is very close, like a drum and a zither.The brothers are both Xie, and they are happy and procrastinated.Yier's family, Leer's wife and children. This kind of family in China is nothing short of heaven on earth—as a country with civil order, the Chinese Empire—is that true paradise.The kingdom of heaven descends on the earth and blesses the Chinese people.Therefore, the gentleman, with his sense of shame, his fame, and his "loyalty teaching", became a strong fighter for the civil order of the Chinese Empire; Charming and elegant, with her chastity and shyness, in a word: with her "no self teaching", she has become the patron saint of the Chinese family-the paradise on earth.