The hexagrams in the Book of Changes: "Heaven is healthy, and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement; The terrain is Kun, and the gentleman carries things with morality. " Heaven (that is, nature) is just strong, accordingly, a gentleman should be resolute and hardworking; The potential of the earth is thick and slippery, and the gentleman is tolerant. In ancient China, people thought that heaven and earth were the largest, and it contained everything. The understanding of heaven and earth is: the sky is above and the earth is below; The sky is yang and the earth is yin; The sky is fire and the earth is earth; Strong and soft. It is believed that heaven and earth combine to create everything, and the four seasons are different. Without heaven and earth, there would be nothing. Heaven and earth are the universe, and the universe is heaven and earth. This is China's simple materialistic cosmology in ancient times, and it is also China's cosmology. Among the eight diagrams, dry hexagrams are the first, followed by Kun hexagrams; Dry on the top, Kun is next; South dry, North Kun. ? [2]? It's Gao Xingjian. It is thick and heavy. Then the philosophy of life is further extended from the explanatory attributes of the two hexagrams (that is, heaven and earth), that is, life should be as tall, resolute and independent as the sky, as thick, broad and virtuous as the earth.
"Yi" says that "a gentleman is modest and restrained, and eventually ends up."
As far as Shangshu is concerned, there is a saying that "Heaven rewards diligence". Han Yu once wrote an inscription "Heaven rewards diligence" to encourage others.
"Heaven rewards diligence" is compressed from the Book of Heaven, "Heaven helps me succeed, and Heaven only helps me to be diligent", and similar examples include "Building a harmonious society" and so on. The original text is as follows:
Shu Dawei: God helps me succeed, and I dare not spare Wang Ning's life.