Why did Emperor Qianlong think that chess, wrestling, calligraphy and poetry were the best in the world?

In fact, his bow is not as strong as three stones, but his servants pretend to please him with all kinds of ugliness: some only open a small part and then gasp; Some of them are half-open, so the shoulders slipped and the waist twisted. They said with one voice that without the strength of nine stones, the king's treasure bow could not be opened. Qi Xuanwang's mouth doesn't close properly for a long time. Until he entered the coffin, he always thought he was pulling a nine-stone bow. The result is "three stones, real also, nine stones, name also. Wang Yue lost his name. " Emperor Qianlong was worse than him. Qi Xuanwang lied to himself on the bow at most, while Emperor Qianlong was cheated almost all his life. Playing chess, wrestling, calligraphy and writing poems, he thinks he is the best in the world.

No one has ever beaten him at chess, including the "big masters" in the palace and among the people; Wrestling, the master of command can't beat him, and the invited Jianghu heroes are also defeated by him; Calligraphy, praised as the second by Wang Xizhi, was reborn in Yan Zhenqing, and his handwriting was everywhere, so that an idiom called "the legacy of Qianlong" was left behind. The most dramatic is his poem. Gan Long wrote 45,000 poems in his life, and more than 43,000 poems from 0755 to 79,000. Before his death, his poems were praised as exquisite, comparable to Li Du's and surpassing Bai Yuan's. However, behind him, none of his poems spread, and his poems were dismissed as humble and appropriate by all writers. From the treatment of Gan Long's poems, we can imagine that his chess skills, wrestling and calligraphy are nothing more than being coaxed and played by everyone, suffering from being too "unworthy of the name".

Why is this happening? There are many reasons, the key is that they are too "unworthy of the name" and seriously lack self-knowledge. The famous sacrificial system in Yuan Dynasty said: "The altar water is round and the altar water is square". It means that what kind of master there is, what kind of liegeman there is. Indeed, regardless of ancient and modern times, Chinese and foreign countries, every leader who "likes his name" will certainly have a large number of flattery followers and hear all kinds of compliments every day. If you paint two painters, someone will praise you as a master of art; Play the piano a few times, and someone will pretend to be fascinated; If you want to shout in karaoke, someone will praise you for three days. If you want to like the Chu-He Han boundary, you will be invincible all over the world, at least on your one acre and three points.

Therefore, a wise leader must be sober enough about his versatility, keep a high degree of vigilance against those who flatter him, understand the relationship between "three stones" and "nine stones" and know his exact weight, so as not to be "unworthy of the name" like Qi Xuanwang. Has been laughed at so far.