At the moment, the sun is shining into the house through the shutters, leaving a trail of light and shadow on the wall, and the new leaf green of the turtle back bamboo is more tender and shiny; The birds in spring outside the window are already singing Haruka, or Yingying is euphemistic, or the words are crisp. A picture of a vibrant spring.
It's been thousands of years. "Spring clothing MoChun, crown five or six people, the lad six or seven people. He bathed in explanation, the wind danced and returned singing. " This is the ambition of Ceng Dian, a student of Confucius. He is talking about the Spring and Autumn Period, traveling in nature together in late spring and March, and returning with songs, how happy it is. In this regard, Confucius praised "I and Point". Perhaps it is the peaceful picture described by Ceng Dian that is Confucius' life ideal of restoring rites and music, governing the country by virtue and rebuilding the paradise.
Time passed in 352 AD, and on March 3rd, 9th year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi, his friends Xie An, Sun Chuo and other celebrities, relatives and friends gathered in Lanting, and 42 people * * * gathered to "fix things". It was also on this day that a peak in the history of calligraphy in China was born-Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting Collection.
Looking back at the beginning of late spring, the sky was crisp and the talents came forth in large numbers. The newcomers were all romantic gentlemen at that time. Everyone sits on both sides of Qushui and puts the wine on the clean stream. Whoever floats to the front will improvise poetry, otherwise he will be punished three times. It is said that 26 people wrote 37 poems at this party. Wang Xizhi compiled a collection of poems by various people and made a 324-word preface. This is the Preface to Lanting Collection, which is known as the "best running book in the world".
In the Tang Dynasty, Shangsi Festival was already a very important spring outing festival. Du Fu wrote a poem, "On March 3rd, it was a sunny day, and many beautiful people enjoyed the cool by the Chang 'an Waterfront". Is to describe the festival at that time. Emperor Taizong also loved Preface to Lanting Collection too much, and regarded the hard-won original as a treasure. It is said that he died a martyr. Up to now, the whereabouts of the original manuscript of Preface to Lanting Collection is still a huge mystery.
Today, Shangsi Festival has been submerged in the long river of history and is no longer mentioned. Is thatching in spring still of practical significance today? Why spring? Perhaps it is a pleasant climate in spring, which is very suitable for going outdoors to feel the breath of nature.
Mr. Zhu Guangqian once wrote: "How should people live? I said, just live according to the nature endowed by nature, like plants, insects and fish. Life is for life, and there is no other purpose. " Maybe this is the true meaning of life. When you walk into nature, you see that plants, fish and insects are so fresh in the breeze and dew, and they are still so fresh in hot summer and cold winter. This is not to seek a way of life outside life, nor to seek a purpose outside life.
With the development of society, the material is getting richer and richer, and our desire is getting bigger and bigger. Sages such as Emperor Taizong also have the obsession of taking what they like as their own through disgraceful channels, not to mention ordinary people. In fact, people don't need many things to live a lifetime. However, our home is occupied by too many useless things, and our hearts are full of all kinds of illusory ideas.
In today's world, we should not only remove the dirt on the body, but also remove the dust on the mind. Sometimes what bothers us is excessive desire beyond our ability and delusion beyond the essence of life. What blinds us is often evil thoughts and delusions, which make us fall into all kinds of blindness, constantly pursue confrontation with nature, and finally exhaust ourselves. As Wang Yangming said, "It's easier to beat a mountain thief than to break a thief in your heart".
Fortunately, the Chinese civilization has lasted for 5,000 years, and the sages of all ages have left many classic works, just as Lao Tzu said, "Good is like stopping water", which cleanses our hearts with good words and wisdom, and makes our hearts full and glorious, just like Huang Tingjian's sentence: If we don't study for three days, we will feel that the language is tasteless and the face is disgusting.
The last four festivals, taking classics as water and repairing things, are also a Spring Festival.