In Tianjin Cultural Street, I happened to see two square and beautiful calligraphy-"Shou Zhuo" on the ajar door of a store. These two words hit me all of a sudden. I took a picture of this calligraphy with my mobile phone and pondered and admired it for several days. All the idioms and allusions about these two words kept swirling in my mind for a long time. The word "shouzhuo" comes from Tao Yuanming's "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields", "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields with Few Suitable Rhymes" "Opening up the wilderness in the south, guarding the stupidity and returning to the garden", which means to stick to one's stupidity. "Be simple and be humble" comes from "Cai Gen Tan", "Be simple and be humble is the way to deal with the world." The word "Bao Pu" comes from "Laozi" "Be simple, be simple, be less selfish and have fewer desires." Being simple and humble is the attitude of Confucianism of the Doctrine of the Mean.
"People are born with good nature." Everyone is sunny and kind when they are born, like a piece of pure white paper. When you first enter the society, you have little experience, so you have fewer opportunities to contract bad social habits; after you have experienced the world, you have experienced more things, and as the city deepens, your scheming gradually becomes apparent. It is the so-called "shallow experience in the world" , the dye is also shallow; the history is deep, the machinery is also deep." In the huge torrent of social life, people are like a stone without freedom, drifting with the current. In the repeated washing and baptism of the waves, and in the impact and collision with other stones, the edges and corners are gradually worn away and become smooth. The same is true for people. The more experience they have, the more obstacles they encounter, the more setbacks they encounter. It is difficult to avoid becoming sophisticated and smooth in the subtle changes of worldly affairs. This may be an eternal truth.
? Once people become shrewd and tactful, they will lose a lot of the joy of life. They will be cautious and compromise in everything, and they will be timid and use all their tricks. Therefore, it is said that "a gentleman is not as simple as being sophisticated; "It's better to be wild than to be sincere." But people's thinking has formed a fixed pattern, and it is difficult to change and break through. It is really difficult to be like Su Shi, who "talked about being young and crazy, holding the yellow on the left and the sky on the right." valuable. When Su Shi was a full moon after giving birth to his fourth son, Dongpo once wrote a poem called "Xi'er Xi Zuo": "Everyone raises his son hoping to be smart, but I have been misled throughout my life by being smart. I only hope that my child will be foolish and carefree, and that he will be able to live in public affairs without disaster." Dongpo said that "I have been tired of writing all my life." He became famous all over the world because of his poems. He also caused the "Wutai Poetry Case" for no reason because of his poems. He was imprisoned and almost died, so the poet gave birth to his son. There is no need to lament the wisdom of the world. Zheng Banqiao advocated that people should be "rarely confused" when dealing with the world. Isn't this the truthful and honest way of Lao Tzu who is detached from honor and disgrace and indifferent to material desires? Huang Tingjian's poem "Shepherd Boy": "There are so many famous and wealthy people in Chang'an who are not as good as you when they have exhausted all their institutions."? Bustling competition Chasing fame and fortune, deceiving others, using all the agencies, and losing one's true nature, it is better than a shepherd boy to settle for ignorance.
? You don’t have to be too smart in life, let alone try to be smart. You must not only hide your clumsiness, but also nurture it. I have adopted the same approach to life as always. No matter how the external environmental conditions change, no matter how people flock to fashion, I always stick to the persistence in pursuit, the silence in the world, and the indifference in tranquility. I will This way of life is called being conservative. It is better to stay humble and keep your heart pure, smile calmly and watch the flowers bloom and fall, the clouds roll and relax, and the fate comes and goes.