Chapter 51 May Day hobbies

Descending from Taoism, there are also "hobbies" that tie people's hearts.In other words, Taoism is total, which can also include fragmentary hobbies.Hobbies are a state of mind. For certain things, they are usually not necessary for life, but they are happy to have them, so they want to get them.The desire to seek is often very strong. We are used to calling it "addiction", which means that the love is so strong that one wants to quit but cannot.As the saying goes, you can’t be a person without addiction. This can be understood in two ways: conservative and aggressive: conservative means that most people don’t see through all the cultivation. It shows his frankness, even extraordinary, such as Mi Yuanzhang's love stone, Qian Muzhai's love book, Huang Weitian's love inkstone, etc.In this way, addiction may have an outstanding side, and the so-called hobbies of ordinary people are probably not so deep.But this also has its own value. To put it back and forth, there is a lot of cruelty in the world, a lot of hardships and dangers, at least a lot of boring, and a lot of depression and troubles. In the midst of frowning, maybe he can break his face into a smile now and then, right?There are many ways to do this, but having a hobby and being attached to one's heart is always one of them, or one of the important ones.Knowing this, I see that there are all kinds of fans in the world. For example, some people sing Beijing opera and are theater fans; some run stadiums and are football fans; Wait, it's no surprise that there's a lot of variety.

People's hearts are different, and each is as it is, especially in hobbies.Do you have any hobbies?Hobbies are closely related to education level and living conditions. If poor farmers in remote areas in the old days were struggling to survive without enough food and clothing, they probably would not have, or even think of, hobbies.If these two conditions are not met, or in other words, the living conditions are not bad, at least they have not fallen below the level. If they are not like the Indian ascetic monks who intend to practice asceticism and do not have a little leisure, it is almost impossible.And it can be further said that hobbies are only a simple kind, and they must be extremely rare.These hobbies are not one, or quite a lot. They can be simultaneous, such as loving stamps for books; more are simultaneous, such as being good at playing chess and loving dancing at the same time.If there are many hobbies, the burden will increase, such as time-consuming and expensive.But as the saying goes, the good ones are happy, and the good ones become obsessives. In the eyes of the bad ones, it is simply incomprehensible, even ridiculous;This is people, this is life.

Hobbies, everyone is different, which come from various channels.One, perhaps the most powerful, is character.Personality is formed by more innate plus less acquired, and after the formation, there will be vigorous force, which determines the force of behavior.Hobbies must also be manifested in behavior, such as singing Beijing opera, buying stamps, some A is like this, and some B is not, we say this is a difference in personality.Personality has an acquired element, or it cannot be immune to acquired influence, such as Mi Yuanzhang worshiping stones and not collecting stamps, because there were no stamps at that time.There is more than one acquired condition.One is the environment.This is obvious. For example, if you live in a remote mountainous area and have never seen all kinds of rare stamps, you will naturally not develop a hobby of collecting stamps.Another important factor in the environment is people. People with whom you have contacts, the so-called those who are close to vermilion are red, and those who are close to ink are black. That is to say, hobbies can also be contagious. Just follow to dance.The second is the situation, mainly whether there is money and leisure.Hobbies, if you don’t have it before, you want to get it, or if you want to have more, you have to exchange it for money (such as calligraphy and painting), or for leisure (such as chess), or for money and leisure (such as gathering books) .Therefore, when you open your eyes, you will find that, often, the better the situation, the more hobbies.The third is the wind.This refers to the evaluation consciousness that was popular at the time.For example, most people feel that something is valuable, so there is honor, otherwise there is no honor.It is not easy for people to have opinions that go against the trend of the times. So, for example, stamp collection became a trend. Many people, who were not interested in the little ticket at first, followed suit and bought it at a high price.The fourth is tradition.Most of them are scholars, familiar with ancient things, and unknowingly followed in the footsteps of the ancients, such as inkstone and ink, which are almost useless today, but some people are still willing to spend a lot of effort and pay a lot of money to search for Gu Erniang and Fang. Yu Lu.As mentioned above, there are four types of environment, situation, fashion, and tradition. These four types can be marched alone, but it is more common to fight in combination, divided, or united with different efforts, and the result is a variety of hobbies.

All kinds, to be specific, endless, and unnecessary.It can be said that there is a difference between superior and inferior.Anyone who wants to come will admit that there is a difference between superior and inferior.There must be a standard for scoring high and low, and the standard is profound. You can choose the near by choosing the near. For example, two people have similar conditions in all aspects, and both have the desire to win, but they have different hobbies. My favorite is playing mahjong. Almost everyone agrees that A's hobby is higher than B's.That is to say, with this common sense as the standard, hobbies can be divided into four categories from high to low.The first category is the highest, and is related to hobbies and moral education.Take two examples.One is to love classical poetry, buy such books if you have spare money, and chant along with the ancients when you have spare time, or "worry about Li Yuan in the poor years, sigh for the heat in the intestines", or "the belt is getting wider and I will never regret it, and I will help Iraq Make people haggard."After reciting for a long time, practice makes perfect, maybe go further, or climb high and look far away, or spend time under the moon, feel something in your heart, and write it out in a flat form.Chanting and writing may not be able to exchange money, but there is a big gain. It is to shift the mind to the poetic realm. This is the up and down of life, so it can be called high.The other is a hobby of calligraphy and painting, not only collecting, but also doing it yourself.Books can be learned simply from the ancients of the country; paintings can be learned from ancient and modern times.In this regard, it is also very beneficial to become addicted. In the spare time of work, when you start writing, you can’t follow the second king of Jin and the fourth king of Qing to get the same as it is. for high.Besides, the second highest category is that it has nothing to do with studies, but it can be used for leisure.Also give two examples.One is from the old era, who love fine inkstones, especially ancient inkstones, so they spend a lot of effort (energy and financial resources) to search for them and hide them as treasures.This search is not for use, but for appreciation, that is, pleasure to look at.In life, happiness is not easy to come by, so if it can be used for entertainment, it is of great use.The other is the modern ones, who like to take pictures, buy a good camera, learn the techniques of taking pictures, and some even buy developing tools, develop and enlarge by themselves.People, like the passing of time, can leave some traces of life, time has passed, and it is not without benefit to find out, so although it is a laborious (also energy and financial) matter, it can also be said to be very worthwhile.Besides, the third category is not high, which is related to hobbies and interests.In the old days, there were quite a few so-called misers who loved money like their lives. As described, they were just like this.In modern times, it is said that some people collect stamps for profit. If this is the case, then they should also be included in this category.Last but not least, the fourth category is the so-called eating, drinking and having fun, which is harmful to self-cultivation and career.The most typical ones are gambling and drug abuse. If they also become addictions, they will definitely harm themselves and disrupt society.

There are high and low hobbies, needless to say, anyone, as long as he can't have no hobbies, he should tend to the high and avoid the low.It is a pity that in this regard, as far as ordinary people are concerned, it is always more difficult to go up and easier to go down.For example, between being obsessed with calligraphy and entering a casino, the former requires long-term cultivation, while the latter is just a difference of thought.High, difficult, downward, easy, and you have to refrain from going high.But reluctance is an ideal; success depends at least half on reality.This actually has a social situation.People, when they are active in society, based on their own knowledge and feelings, have love and dislike for many things in society, and they have choices and rejections. What they take is always uncommon in society. That is to say, it is personal. Hobbies are not free from the constraints of social conditions.For example, the whole world is busy striving for profit, reading becomes rare, and it is very difficult for personal hobbies to become classical poetry, because there may be no chance to contact them.This transitions to another reality, which is the personal life situation.It is presumed that Wang Xianzhi became a great calligrapher because of his hobby of calligraphy. Why did he have this hobby?The reason, or the main reason, is that he had a calligrapher father, Wang Xizhi. In this way, the social situation plus the personal life situation, the choice of hobbies, the individual can do nothing at all?Not quite.One of the reasons is that, at least under certain circumstances, heroes can make things happen.This is the usual saying that where there is a will, there is a way, and the aspiration comes from the individual. It can be seen that even if objectivity is emphasized, the individual still has more or less activity ability.The second reason is that there are often differences in the objective situation. For example, when you go to the market with money, there are both "Full Tang Poetry" and a camera on the shelf. Which one you buy is the one you take. Hobbies are still up to you.Therefore, in order to avoid the rise and fall of hobbies, we should still do what we can.Before resignation, one must be able to distinguish between superior and inferior, so "knowledge" is very important.

When it comes to knowledge, there is another question related to hobbies that needs to be considered. That is, there is a saying of "playing with things and losing one's ambition", is it right?This question is not simple, because the situation is diverse.The first is what the so-called ambition refers to.According to the usual understanding, it refers to great ambition, that is, the desire to achieve great success and establish a great cause. Will aspiration be reduced or even extinct if you have hobbies?Obviously it depends on the hobby.Eating, drinking, and merrymaking, which are generally regarded as harmful, may have such a great influence.Upward, those who are recognized as harmless, such as Ji Xiaolan's hobby of fine inkstones, seem not to be discouraged, because he can still compile the "Summary of the General Catalog of Siku Quanshu", which has as many as 200 volumes.These two different situations will lead us to realize a principle that can be called the middle way, that is, we can have hobbies that are neither high nor low, but it is appropriate to stop them in moderation.Appropriate but not excessive.There are at least two kinds of excessive performance and its harm.One, manifested as the monopoly of desire.As a result, everything else is ignored, and the career and so on will naturally disappear into nothingness.The other is manifested as insatiable greed.As far as I know, some people who are obsessed with antiques (or one or several or even multiple types) are like this. When they visit an antique shop and see one, they think it is not bad and the price is not low. Xicouu, I got it so easily, and met another one, I thought it was better, and the price was naturally higher. I wanted to buy it, but I didn't have enough strength, and my heart was even more disturbed, so I didn't borrow the seller's pawn, borrowed money, and ran around calling for signs.This is the opposite of going to entertainment because of greed. It was originally for fun, but it caused great distress.This distress, together with the loss of ambition mentioned above, makes us unable to ignore it.Hobbies that are not necessary for life, although they do not occupy an important position in the whole life, and it is not easy to deal with them reasonably, so in order to gain more and lose less, you still have to do it yourself.