Anyone who has read Caigen Tan will be deeply impressed by so many aphorisms in it. The ancients often said: "The world is clear and knowledgeable, and human cultivation is an article." If you want to understand, if you want to make it clear, you really do it. Then Hong Zicheng should probably be regarded as a man who understands the world. Unfortunately, there are too few historical materials about him, except that he and Jintan Yukong are good friends. So a scholar in Wanli period had his preface in the original issue of Caigen Tan. Caigen Tan was also selected as a textbook in the history of education in China, but it rarely entered the mainstream discourse of education for a hundred years because of the overall negative ideas. On the contrary, the Japanese especially admire it. Many contents in primary and secondary schools and even universities are taken from Caigentan. Cai Zhizhong, a Taiwanese cartoonist, likes to use cartoons to entertain and entertain ideological and philosophical works. Recently, Cai Gentan was praised by young people for his cartoons. Unfortunately, Cai Zhizhong's cartoons are somewhat profound and entertaining. I always feel that the educational function of aphorisms can only be brought into play through in-depth thinking and clear analysis, supplemented by observation of life experience.
Hong Zicheng has a very surprising feature. His writing at that time was actually a conscious pursuit of popularization, and his language was popular and fluent, as if he were writing for ordinary people he had never met. We read the literature of the Ming Dynasty, mostly in a simple and natural style. Even the imperial edict and so on are often colloquial. No wonder vernacular novels developed so fully in the Ming Dynasty. And Hong Zicheng's language, in my opinion, is also an excellent combination of popularity and elegance.
The following words of Hong Zicheng are from ancient notes. I didn't find it in Caigen Tan. It may belong to Wen Yi, but it's interesting.
Heaven and earth have infinite power, but when one afternoon comes, they disappear in a hurry to store the future glory. I just arrived in Qiu Lai a year ago, and then I quickly concentrated on supporting my development in the coming year. What is the natural geometry of life? Component geometry? And hands-on, happiness will be enjoyed, and skill will be exhausted. It is to burn the forest and hunt, and to exhaust the ze and fish. If there are no wild animals and no fish next year.
When we are told to do things, enjoy happiness, make talents and show talents, we should leave appropriate space for future development. As an educator, I am very enlightening to students and myself.