? "New every day, new every day." This sentence is taken from "Book of Rites", which roughly means that if it can be new every day, it should be kept new every day, and when it is new, it should be updated. As the saying goes, there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand viewers. Everyone's understanding of this sentence is different. My understanding is that you should spend your entire life seeking boundless knowledge, constantly enriching your experience, broadening your horizons, and firmly grasping the pulse of your life.
? Throughout the ages, how many people have been forgotten in the long river of history, but those who regard "new every day, new every day, new every day" as their life creed, and finally have the ability to control their own lives. But it’s unforgettable. For example, Master Hongyi Li Shutong. In the first half of his life, he was a charming and talented man, and in the second half of his life, he was an eminent monk. Li Shutong was born to his father Li Shizhen and his concubine when he was 68 years old. His father died when he was 5 years old. He came from a very well-educated family. He read the Four Books and Five Classics, studied calligraphy and epigraphy at the age of 8, and practiced exegesis and mastered the calligraphy of previous dynasties at the age of 13, before he became famous. At the age of 15, he could recite the famous line "Life is like the sun on the west mountain, and wealth will end like frost on the grass." When he was 20 years old, seeing that the country was in a state of internal and external troubles, he was full of passion and wrote: "As I try to judge the times of the world, I lament that China has a benevolent dynasty, but how come there is only one minister who can go abroad?" Whoever understands the king's heart and is good at realizing the king's will..." Such an indignant article.
During the reform and reform, he was very enthusiastic about politics. He advocated the new ideas with others everywhere and carved the seal "Kangliang of Nanhai is my teacher". After the reform failed, he was suspected of being an accomplice, so he took his family to avoid trouble in Shanghai. He was a student of Economics at Nanyang Public School, but in order to support the student movement, he dropped out of school and founded the new academic organization "Shanghai Society", which opened speech workshops and organized new student plays. Soon, Li Shutong became one of the most popular celebrities in Shanghai because of his poetic talent and uninhibited style.
At the age of 25, Li Shutong was devastated by the death of his loving mother, and his family's refusal to organize funeral arrangements for his mother made him hate feudal etiquette and customs. So he left China and traveled east to Japan to study. He marveled at Japan's development after the Meiji Restoration and was immersed in Western civilization. He studied painting, music, drama, calligraphy, seal cutting and poetry diligently, and became a famous artist in modern China and one of the pioneers of Chinese drama.
After returning from Japan, Li Shutong served concurrently as an art and music teacher at Nanjing Normal University and Zhejiang Normal Middle School. Li Shutong was the first Chinese to bring mannequins into art education and was a pioneer of modern Chinese art. He was also the first Chinese to compose music using five-line notation, and was the enlightener of modern Chinese music. At that time, almost all celebrities in the literary and artistic circles in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were students of Li Shutong, such as cartoonist Feng Zikai, traditional Chinese painting master Pan Tianshou, musician Wu Mengfei, and calligrapher and painter Qian Juntao. Later, Li Shutong broke through the world of mortals, escaped into Buddhism, and studied the Vinaya sect, which is the most austere and difficult practice in Buddhism. After becoming Master Hongyi, Li Shutong revived the Nanshan Vinaya Sect, which had been isolated in China for more than 700 years. Buddhism calls him "the eleventh generation founder of the Nanshan Vinaya Sect who revived the Nanshan Vinaya Sect."
Master Hongyi’s achievements are astonishing. But we can learn from his spirit of bravery and innovation. Perhaps throughout our lives, we will never be able to match it. But I believe that as long as we adhere to the life creed of "new every day, new every day, and new again every day" and maintain the life attitude of "seek endless knowledge with the end of our lives", we can also grasp the pulse of life and achieve unique achievements. of myself.