Caigen Tan is a Confucian classic compiled by Taoist Hong Yingming in the early Ming Dynasty. It is also a collection of quotations about self-cultivation, life, socialization and birth.
Its words are concise, beautiful and elegant, revealing the interest of mountains and forests between the lines and infiltrating the world view of the integration of all things. The way to live in the world emphasizes mentality and personnel, understands the truth of falsehood, points out that wealth and poverty can transform good and evil, and the fortunes are due to the heart, warning the world to change its mentality in time, abstain from greed and lust, and take the middle road.
The content and depth of the book are different, reflecting different experiences and realms.
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Caigen Tan is profound and beautiful beyond words. Its words are concise and clear, which makes people memorable. At the same time, it is also parallel and scattered, melting classics and casting history, and adopting elegance and vulgarity. It's like a quotation, but it's interesting that there are no quotations; Arrange in order, whoever seems to be an essay will have an essay that is not easy to achieve; It's like preaching, but there is an awakening that preaching lacks.
Hong Zicheng's Caigen Tan has beautiful words, neat antithesis, profound meaning and intriguing. It shows Hong's three flavors of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, which is refreshing to read.