There are roughly two different versions of Caigen Tan-Qing edition and Ming edition. The Ming edition comes from the inscription of the owner of Sanfeng, and is collected by Hirasakamoto, the head of the cabinet library of Japan. According to legend, it was first seen in Eight Stories of Respecting the Saints in Yashangzhai edited by Gao Lian in Ming Dynasty. The book is divided into two parts, the first part contains 225 articles, the second part contains 135 articles and * * 360 articles. This entry adopts the clear edition, mainly the woodcut edition of Yangzhou Tibetan Classics Institute during the reign of Emperor Guangxu Dinghai, and the typographic edition of Buddhism Publishing House in the 23rd year.
Caigentan quip
Morality lasts forever, power lasts for a while, virtue comes first, and Caigentan comes last.
[1] It is a blessing for people to retire and protect themselves. It is a blessing to know them and to prevent their crimes. Those who regret their glory but don't dye their wits, don't care about their fame, and let their fame harm themselves, raise their morality, protect their ears and brush their hearts. Virtue, stone, heaven, avoiding profit and western gods are indispensable. Sincerity and kindness are better than reading words. It is light for people. It's always moving and decent. I feel nervous when I am free. A busy place is leisurely and quiet. Clean up the dirt, turn your head and brush your heart back. Don't surrender. Polite, the heart of killing fakes. Be aware of ignorance and sadness. Be sure to relax the frontcourt. Hui Ze wants to stay in the long mountains and forests, smell the corridors and pass through the temples. Stay one step and subtract three points. No merit, no resentment, no vulgarity, no fame, no fatigue, no stagnation. [2]
Caigen Tanwei 1
The guest is alone, and the screen is in the shed. I am very happy to travel with people in my party, but I am not happy to travel with people outside my party. Silly and two or three boys are wandering in the changing foothills of Yunshan. The sun and the fisherman, Fu Tian Lang sang in harmony with the shore of the five lakes and the hollow of the green field. Within a few days, they exchanged arms with people who were fighting for knives and cones, and expressed their feelings in the fields that were hot and cold, and the caves that were bloody. Lian, Luo's words, Gan's walkers, Xizhu, and those who avoid and diaolong's arguments are enough to meet them in the mountains. If you have a friend, Hong Zicheng, show me Caigen Tan and give it a preface. Let me have a look first. After reading it, I feel that my tan life has gone straight into darkness, and human nature is full of the dangers of rock and roll. Pitching heaven and earth, seeing the chest is second to the Jews; Dust mustard becomes famous and has a high interest in learning. Tao Zhu is nothing more than green trees and green mountains; In the chemical industry, kites and fish jumps are everywhere. What is its complacency? It's hard to convince people, and it's hard to grasp the words according to all the facts, let alone a flashy thing. Tan's name is "vegetable root". Roots are industrious, roots are cultivated and roots are irrigated. His ups and downs can be imagined. Hiroko said: "I am a natural person, and I am willing to make up for the sky; God met me, and I had a high road to go through it. "Self-reliant people can think about it. So it's a few words to let everyone know that there is a real taste in the root of the dish.
(This order was written by Yu Kongbian, a good friend of Hong Zicheng. Yu, a native of Jintan in Ming Dynasty. When the word was written, it was a scholar in Wanli, and the official was the official. Later, he was demoted for his outspoken suggestions. In his later years, he was named "Master of Three Peaks". Twenty years in seclusion after retiring from other places)
Preface 2 of Caigentan
Autumn of the fifth child, looking forward to July, sick in the mountains, forbidden to read and collect. Cong Gong from Yun Xiu Supervision Institute visited Beijing and talked about the book of carving vegetable roots. Enough is enough, and the rest of his life will be in order. And he said to himself:' Lai Lin was near the circle at first, just wanting to teach in the west and listen to the old people. In his spare time, the old man admonished privately: "It is the foundation of Bodhi and wisdom to have a high virtue, stay at the law desk for a long time, adjust your body and mind, follow the five-summer system, and be familiar with the writings of the three sessions." Why are you in such a hurry to attend the class? "I can't live for a few years, my heart is bad and I have lost too much blood. I know that the law is meager, and I want to return it. Weng said, "Good! Charles's fate is there, and he should cheer up greatly. However, I'm afraid I can't learn the legal department after serving in the Ministry. I have a book, the first topic of vegetable root talk, written by Hong Yingming. There are body language, social language, seclusion language, insightful language, dynamic language, intermediate language, benevolent language, righteous language, Zen language, interesting language, scholar language and audience language: concise and to the point. Assuming that you can be familiar with Shen's play and encourage it, you can make up for it, and you can enter morality, which is close to the law and it is also close to the Tao. Today, I should know how to cherish! "Although it is respectful, it is self-evident. Since then, I have been in charge of permanent affairs, and they all have important positions. When the sky is in front of flowers, I don't know Yuan from the eyes; I don't know if Shui Yue is real, but it is the shadow of the sky. Because the mind is moved by the environment and tired, it is not a serious illness. Fortunately, it's not enough! There is no way to relieve depression, because I recalled the past and replied to this book three times. I realized that everything in the past was wrong, and I was deeply disappointed that the old man gave me books! Unfortunately, the book has been kept for a long time, and the original board can't be found. So I asked the workers to write a reprint, so please say something at the beginning to enlighten future generations. Enable people who read and listen to practice; Don't let the Tathagata Party regret it, but feel ashamed and hurt. This is a hope! After listening to Cong Gong, I sighed and said,' Hong Yingming, I don't know why, but I don't know what his first title means, so I'll sort it out?' Food is a thing, it is indispensable for daily use, and food is delicious. But the taste comes from the roots, so whoever grows vegetables must cultivate its roots thick and its taste will be thick. The taste of the world mentioned in this book, the taste of the world, are all really Bacon's theories? Another old saying is, "Sex sets the fragrance of vegetable roots." Husband's vegetable root was discarded, and many people ignored it. The smell of vegetable root was indescribable. Such a book. Only those who meditate can achieve their goals. Yes and no? You can't reverse the quality, but chatting will teach future philosophers! That is, the order is this. In the thirty-third year of Qianlong, three days after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the sick man of Sanshan was sensible.
Preface III of Caigen Tan
I searched the ancient temple and found the record of Caigen Tan in the lost paper. Looking back, although it belongs to Zen, it is actually the inventor of the study of physical and mental life. I am eager to bring it back, proofread it again and write a book. Old and orderly, indecent and tame, books have nothing to do with language, so they win. The author of the book is Hong Yingming. I don't know why he is alone. On February 2nd, fifty-nine years, Qianlong became the master of the hall.
Preface IV of Caigen Tan
Hong Yingming, the author of Caigen Tan, is sincere, but he is still a novice and his life story is unknown. It is speculated that he is probably a native of Jintan County and a hermit who has lived in the mountains for a long time. The book may be published in the middle and late Wanli period. At this time, Zongshen could not govern the country, the eunuch was authoritarian and the party was in trouble. During the Jiajing period, the internal and external troubles that began to show signs became more and more serious. People of insight were extremely dull and could not be freed from the fierce social contradictions at that time, so some people expressed the voice of the times. Caigen Tan and Jin Ping Mei are both works in this historical period, but their forms of expression and social effects are different. Jin Ping Mei in Caigentan, Cai Zhizhong —— The Taste of Life Shanghai: Sanlian Bookstore.
The form of art novels exposes the darkness of society, which is shocking and thought-provoking; Caigen Tan points out the good and evil of human nature in the form of moral aphorisms and teaches people how to get rid of complex interpersonal relationships. Jin Ping Mei has become a literary treasure because of its magnificent architecture and delicate description of social forms, and it has been passed down to this day. Cai Gentan, on the other hand, can only spread among monks, Taoists and poets with its lofty moral preaching. For hundreds of years, it has been hidden and almost lost. However, Caigen Tan is cherished by people from all walks of life in Japan. Successful people love reading, and so do frustrated people. Business people love reading, so do politicians and academics.
Caigen Tan is not a systematic and logical academic work, but a philosophical confession of a retired bureaucrat more than 300 years ago. The author combines Confucianism's doctrine of the mean, Taoism's inaction and Buddhism's thought of being born into a systematic way of life. This is the most prominent feature of the book. However, Caigen Tan is not a completely negative and world-weary moral sermon, but an exhortation to make contributions, actively join the WTO and be optimistic and enterprising. For example, he said: "heaven and earth have existed for a long time, and this body no longer exists;" Life is only a hundred years, and this day is the easiest. Those who are lucky enough to live in it must not know the joy of life, and they must not worry about the emptiness of life. "His idea of actively joining the WTO is limited. He asked people to adhere to a moral standard, and when they meet it, they can actively join the WTO. On the contrary, they would rather "be lonely for a while than suffer forever". This principled position of paying attention to morality still has reference significance to modern society. Hong's Caigen Tan is beautiful in writing, neat in antithesis, profound in meaning and intriguing. Mr. Taiwan Province selected one hundred and twenty-five of them, showing Hong's ignorance of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism with his unique cartoon form. It's really unique and refreshing to read. My family was poor when I was a child, but I was optimistic by nature. I often like licking some olives. Reading all kinds of picture books, comic books and cartoons on the threshold, especially the works of Feng Zikai and Zhang Leping, often brings people a lot of joy and hope, and makes people forget the pain and troubles after using them. Only my mother's call for vegetable rice can wake me up from my obsession with reading comics. I don't know how many years I haven't tasted olives and paella. This time, I carefully read Cai Zhizhong's "Comic Vegetable Root Tan", which naturally reminds me of these two things. Their fragrance and taste remind me of my easy life as a teacher. It's light but delicious. I believe my students, colleagues and some friends in the enterprise will also like this comic book collection. It can help us understand the taste of life, look back on the past and look forward to the future. My friends, when you savor the taste of life, no matter whether you feel the ups and downs or the combination of ups and downs, please don't forget that the original taste of life is only faint. Otherwise, wouldn't it be disappointing to Cai Jun's cartoons?
1at the end of 989, Beijing (this sequence is Yu Zuyao's preface to Cai Zhizhong's "Caigen Tan-the Taste of Life": Shanghai Joint Publishing Company)