Nowadays, a kind of "chicken soup" is popular, which means that an angular stone will fall beyond recognition when rolling down the hillside; But if it's a polished pebble, it will be much smoother and easier.
What do you mean? If you cannot change the world, you must learn to change yourself. This is the secret of a person's success.
Sounds reasonable and useful. But in essence, this is tantamount to a bowl of "poisoned chicken soup". One should learn to compromise, conform, lose personality and live comfortably. Finally, even if he really achieved the so-called "success", is it meaningful to put such success in history and society?
Conversely, if a tenacious soul refuses to compromise with the world and the status quo from time to time, even if it fails, is such a failure more meaningful and worthy of respect?
Today, the person who loves Jun the most will talk about a "failure".
▲ Portrait of Fu Shan. After his death in Ming Dynasty, he was named as "Zhu Yi Taoist".
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Fu Shan (1607— 1684), a native of Shanxi Yangqu, was a strange man in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Many people know him, probably from Liang Yusheng's martial arts novels. In "Seven Swords Down the Tianshan Mountains", Fu Qingzhu is a world-famous master, who is both civil and military, with superb medical skills and superb calligraphy and painting.
Liang Yusheng is not just talking nonsense. Fu Shan in history really deserves these comments.
But even with all his stunts, Fu Shan is a "loser". Because, he did not follow the custom, always confronted the world, and finally became that angular stone.
Fu Shan is a genius with a strong memory. Once, he compared his memory with a classmate named Ma, and his brother Fu Geng delineated 53 poems to see who could recite them all in the shortest time.
Ma Tongxue recited all day before he recited four or five articles. Fu Shan learned it word for word from getting up and washing to having breakfast. This made Ma Tongxue admire and admire.
With such a memory, the imperial examination should be a cinch. According to the experience of Li Zhi, a great thinker in the late Ming Dynasty, it is the easiest to take the imperial examination, which is nothing more than memorizing 3,500 model essays, looking up questions during the examination and memorizing one to ensure high school.
However, Fu Shan can pass the test in the bag. The topic is how to cultivate one's morality, but Fu Shan's answer sheet is full of all kinds of dangers facing the country. This is called deliberate misjudgment. Later, he recalled this experience in his poem and said, "When I was weak, my life skills were not so old. The test is full of rivers and mountains. "
The word "guess" shows his state during the exam, and his mind is full of thinking about such vital things as rivers and mountains, regardless of the title of the test paper. He just wants to wake up the authorities.
His teacher Yuan Jixian was very sorry, saying that Fu Shan's article was really good, but it was full of "forest breath". The implication is that the authorities don't like it.
Actually Fu Shan didn't care. He has no interest in stereotyped writing and will not force himself to study it. He later said, even if the stereotyped writing is invincible in the world, what's the use? I hope to continue the pulse of Confucius and Mencius with eight-part essay. "disgusting, disgusting!"
Therefore, in the secular sense, young Fu Shan is a complete failure.
▲ Liu Jialiang plays Fu Qingzhu in the martial arts movie Seven Swords.
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Born in the late Ming Dynasty, this is the fate of Fu Shan's generation. When the national fortune sinks, the future of a whole generation will be finished.
Fu Shan was 37 years old when the Ming and Qing Dynasties changed. The emperor's body hanging on the locust tree in Jingshan Park is an ever-present moral lash to the adherents-we must win the barbarians at all costs-now, the barbarians have entered the Central Plains, and even Emperor Chongzhen has become a "price". Are the literati of the Ming Dynasty qualified to be "we"?
Obviously not. Readers are always "price".
Before the Ming Dynasty, Fu Shan was actually very dissatisfied with the rule of the Ming Dynasty. His teacher, Yuan Jixian, a Shanxi secretariat, violated the interests of Wen Renren, a contemporary official, because he dared to speak. Zhang Ba, the messenger of Wen, was framed as a crime and escorted Yuan Jixian to Beijing.
When Fu Shan learned about this incident, he was very angry at the court's reversal of black and white, so he sold his property and led 130 students to Beijing to express their dissatisfaction. They posted everywhere to expose the truth, hoping to reach the sky.
After more than half a year's efforts, the unjust case finally came to light and Yuan Jixian was re-employed. As the leaders of this student movement, Fu Shan and his classmate Xue were soon known as "people with two meanings" and became famous all over the world.
It is not difficult to see that in the late Ming Dynasty, Fu Shan was a man who tried his best to change the world, not himself.
But the Qing army soon entered Shanxi, and the people cried. After hearing the news, Fu Shan raised a glass and wept bitterly with several friends. On New Year's Eve that year, he wrote a sad poem: "Thirty-eight years old, you can die. What can you say if you live or not? " ..... Who is afraid of sleeping and dancing with chickens and falling in love with Chongzhen for seventeen years? "
Yuan Jixian was later captured during the anti-Qing Dynasty in Nanming, but he refused to surrender. Before he was killed, he wrote a letter to Fu Shan. The letter said: "The Jinshi family knows that I am very deep and it is not far to build a coffin. I dare not betray my family's gratitude, which makes me ashamed to call Yuan Jixian a friend. "
It means that if I surrender, you students will be ashamed of me, too.
Yuan Jixian's death touched Fu Shan greatly. For a long time, Fu Shan took his old mother and son all over the country to fight against the Qing Dynasty and see the light again.
In June of the 11th year of Shunzhi (1654), Fu Shan was suddenly arrested and became a prisoner in Taiyuan prison.
It turned out that Song Qian, who was appointed by Nanming regime to launch an anti-Qing uprising in the north, was arrested and abandoned Fu Shan. After the death of Emperor Chengzu of Ming Dynasty, Fu Shan became a monk, dressed in a red cassock, and called himself a Taoist named Zhu Yi. Song Qian knew Fu Shan's name, age, clothes and other information like the palm of his hand, so the Qing court sent troops to arrest people.
With Song Qian's confession, it is no problem that the Qing court sentenced Fu Shan to treason and capital punishment. Fu Shan's mother also prepared for the worst. She said to her friend in Fu Shan, "Taoist priests naturally have today's things, that is, they die together, and there is no need to save them."
That is to say, my son was caught by accident, which is expected. Even if he dies, it's worth it. You don't need to bother to save him.
Surprisingly, Fu Shan was released after a year in prison. His friend tried his best to rescue him, but he succeeded.
After he was released from prison, Fu Shan fell into a state of mental pain and could not extricate himself. He wrote many poems and repeatedly lamented his shame:
"If you are ill, you can go back to the mountain temple. If you are born outside prison, you are ashamed. "
"There is a head facing the old mother and no face facing China."
"If you die, you will hate it. If you don't die, you will be ashamed."
There is no hope of regaining sight and being jailed again. After I got out of prison, I had to bear the mental burden of life. ...
Therefore, in the secular sense, middle-aged Fu Shan is also a complete failure.
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In addition to mental torture, material test has become a nightmare that Fu Shan can't get rid of in his later years. To put it bluntly, it is poverty, and poverty will accompany him to death.
Before the Ming Dynasty, Fu Shan's family was well-off, and he owned many properties in his hometown of Xinzhou and Taiyuan. After the death of Ming Chengzu, on the one hand, he ordered traitors to engage in anti-Qing activities, on the other hand, he dispersed some of his property to his people, so the economic conditions took a turn for the worse.
He had to make a living by selling books and paintings, practicing medicine and selling medicines, and often sought the help of his friends to make a living.
On one occasion, he heard that the price of rice in Qixian county was cheaper than that in the provincial capital, so he wrote to entrust a friend to buy it on his behalf. This kind of sadness can be imagined.
Poor vagrancy made Fu Shan feel infinite guilt for his old mother. He later recalled that he had served his mother for 27 years after her death, during which there was either food without vegetables or food without oil, salt and charcoal. In short, the old man can't eat well for at least half a month.
When he and his son Fu Mei were in prison, on New Year's Eve, Fu Mei was released to visit her grandmother. On entering the room, she realized that there had been no food at home for several days.
One year, it was Fu Shan's birthday. A long time ago, a friend said he would cut him two Jin of meat. He waited and waited, but on his birthday, the man didn't do anything. Fu Shan was so depressed that he had to go to the temple and drink a big pot of porridge.
Not only that, but even the basic equipment of literati has become a problem. A good friend asked Fu Shan to write an inscription on the fan. Fu Shan said yes, but it will take several days. Why? Because he doesn't even have a fan's brush and inkpad at this time.
However, Fu Shan is fully capable of making life better without being so miserable. He has an extraordinary talent for painting and calligraphy, and his medical skills are quite good. He is as famous as a first-class star. Because of Fu Shan, a bunch of first-class people went to Shanxi at that time, such as Gu, Qu Dajun, Yan Ruoqu and Wang Shizhen. Shanxi became the national cultural center in the early Qing Dynasty.
As long as Fu Shan is willing to change himself into a smooth pebble, wealth and official positions will roll in.
But he didn't. For him, these changes touched the bottom line of a scholar, and he would never do it. No matter how big the temptation is, it will not waver.
I would rather live in poverty than let the noble soul fall in price.
People praised his good handwriting and asked him to write a few words. He wrote with a pen, "What's so good about my book?"
If you know calligraphy, brag about it.
People buy his handwriting, but they are afraid of buying a fake ghost, so they want him to write it face to face. He said directly: "mundane things force a book to be true. In fact, for the author, none of them are impressive. And first of all, there is anger in the middle, and it is a wonderful thing to let it happen against your will. How can a real outsider know? "
You local tyrants are so stupid that you think what you are writing is the real thing. In fact, I'm not happy inside. What you wrote is dead words and dead poems.
He refused to treat two kinds of people: slaves (slaves) and conference semifinals (fools). His reason is that magic drugs and panacea can't cure laity's diseases.
Even though he is poor, he is still the persistent, proud and noble Fu Shan. Even Gu lamented Fu Ru and said, "I'm not as good as that, because I'm too ignorant."
But in the secular sense, poor Fu Shan failed in his later years, quite a failure.
▲ Fu Shan has excellent medical skills, especially in gynecology. The picture shows his "medical manuscript".
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In the eighteenth year of Kangxi (1679), in order to appease the intellectual elite, Emperor Kangxi held a special erudition and erudition examination. More than 180 "learned men" were recommended from all over the country, which almost wiped out the great V in the north and south of the river.
Fu Shan is famous and knowledgeable, so he naturally ranks among the official conquerors. He claimed that he could not get rid of the disease, and local officials insisted on taking him to the capital. In a temple outside Beijing, Fu Shan would rather die than go to Beijing. The emperor had no choice but to let him go back.
At this time, it has been more than 30 years since the demise of the Ming Dynasty. Except for a few die-hards such as Fu Shan and Gu, most intellectual elites are eager to win over the Qing court.
Fu Shan felt sorry for this. According to his statistics, in the tenth year of Chongzhen (1637), among the 19 people who entered the Shanxi examination, 16 people were Manchu, and they were officials in the alternation of generations.
Seeing such a rapidly changing world and people's hearts, he knew that he had no strength and ability to stop others from flocking, but he didn't follow the crowd and didn't change himself.
78-year-old Fu Shan wrote a "suicide note" before he died, thanking himself for finally "returning to nature" and asking for no obituary and no condolences. Until his death, he never gave in to the world.
This is the road that Fu Shan walked, a rugged road.
Nowadays, the proliferation of chicken soup will never teach us to take the difficult road, but will only cater to our comfort zone. Cooking frogs in warm water will make us feel very anxious and enjoy it at the same time.
Fu Shan, such a noble soul, is an idiot and a loser in their dictionary. They will only admire those geniuses who cater to the needs of both sides. They are good at changing themselves and adapting to the environment. The winner is king.
Today's intellectual elites are too good at making themselves comfortable in harsh environments. In their cognition, Fu Shan is the winner of life as long as he changes his mentality or even does nothing.
In youth, don't be so cynical, praise the sauce jar in the late Ming Dynasty and write down the official documents of the imperial examination, and you can get a scholar.
When people reach middle age, don't be so honest, shout twice to clear your eyes and make a gesture to let the whole world know that you have two hard bones. Then, secretly be a docile subject and make a gesture to the new master. Won't senior officials be generous?
Don't be so hot-tempered in your later years. If you are too rich and don't love the poor, write to whoever gives more money. It looks good and sounds good. Whoever pays more money will see a doctor, prescribe good medicine, prescribe expensive medicine and make a fortune. Isn't this a matter of minutes?
But they didn't expect that there might be many "Fu Shan" in that era, because there were so many that none of their names stayed; Even if they leave their names, future generations will not miss them.
The real Fu Shan, despite his "failure" during his lifetime, left a few streets of success at that time and became a symbol of national pride; Although he was as poor as a church mouse before his death, a cursive script behind him sold for a sky-high price of 32.775 million yuan (20 1 1 year), which made the dying successful people unable to hold the coffin board.
▲ Fu Shan cursive script "Textual Research, Biography of Mr. Taiyuan Three".
I admire Fu Shan's axis and stubbornness, praise Fu Shan's "failed life", and despise those chicken soup articles that look delicious but are not nutritious or even toxic for only one reason:
No matter how small the power is, no matter how small the individual is, it may change the world; Even if you can't change the world, don't let it change you.