I want to know what the sky means to my ancestors. The ancients often said that the destiny, "Shangshu Tang Shi" said that "non-Taiwanese teenagers dare to talk nonsense; There are many crimes in Xia, and the destiny has been done. " I'm not the only one who dares to make trouble. It is because of Xia's heinous crimes that I fear God's command and dare not go until I conquer it.
Heaven is the highest order in the world, making arrangements for everything in the world. Perhaps in the eyes of our ancestors, fate is inviolable. Whether to go out, whether to rain, whether to send troops to fight, everything can be divined in great detail with tortoise shells. And God must feel this call, and its response is hidden in that deep or shallow crack.
In addition to this way, God will use many other phenomena to perceive the needs of the world. The drought in successive years is a punishment for Wang's laziness, the oriental omen is the birth of saints, and women's dreams of the gods in the sky indicate that they are about to add children. Wait, the list goes on. The distant sky represents justice and ideals, which is an irresistible necessity in the eyes of human beings as small as ants. "Day lost to! The sky is lost! " Witchcraft and belief came into being in areas where ancient people's experience and knowledge could not reach.
Perhaps such an idea belongs to feudal superstition in the eyes of modern people, especially when science and rational thinking dominate everything. However, people often say that we should respect tradition, which is not only meaningful in aesthetics, history and culture, but also shapes our psychological structure and affects our understanding of the world.
For example, the theory of the relationship between man and nature mentioned above is bound to lurk in our thinking until today. Qigong, which believes that ideas can move objects from a distance and take pills out of bottles, has become a common practice since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Some people may say that the education level of the people at that time was low, but even those with higher education, if betrayed by their lover, would abandon all the things of the other party and trample them under their feet, smash them and tear them to pieces, thus realizing revenge on the ungrateful people in their hearts. This coincides with the ancient witchcraft.
So it seems that the ancients in our mouth are not very far away. On the other hand, the modern technology in our hands is also very close. We should not forget to point out that Copernicus in Heliocentrism was only 500 years ago. Even in Copernicus, all celestial bodies were required to move on a perfectly unified circle. Most of the contents of Copernicus's celestial sphere operation theory are written in strict mathematical formulas, so only mathematicians can understand it in the decades after its publication.
Therefore, our science and technology are changing with each passing day, but our writing of scientific achievements is becoming more and more professional and obscure. Except for a few astronomers, how much can we know when we look at the sky than the ancients? We can describe the orbits of celestial bodies more accurately, know the distance between celestial bodies, and even send people to the moon. Our understanding of the universe is getting deeper and deeper, but our understanding of that question remains in the same place, that is, what is the sky?
The ancients believed in the induction between man and nature because they felt the induction of things. Now people say induction, but they don't really believe it, or it's just a statement. Many people have never seen a meteor, and even if they have, they will not think that their wishes will come true. The majesty brought by heaven and the inviolability of fate seem to have disappeared. However, man is really a strange creature. After getting rid of the shackles of this layer of knowledge, he took the initiative to put on another shackle-impermanence of fate.
Destiny is a kind of fate, and it is often said that "life and death have a life, and wealth is in the sky." And life is a kind of contingency, all kinds of emergencies in life. It is precisely because of its contingency and unpredictability, and sometimes even an unbearable change that people attribute it to fate, so they surrender to the impermanent fate, and contingency becomes the master and the inevitability of ruling themselves.
We often say that everything is human nature, and many good things are ground out. Even in the mouth of people of our father's generation with little education, we can often hear such simple words as cross the bridge when we cross it, and we can succeed as long as we work hard. Perhaps this is also the psychological structure engraved in the bones of China people. In the face of suffering, we don't regard suffering as the only way to reach Tao or happiness like an ascetic monk, but emphasize resilience and hard struggle, and often compare ourselves to pines and cypresses.
Today, more people say that birth and opportunity determine everything, which is actually a kind of dissatisfaction with the solidification of the class. A person was born by chance in a country and a family. Life begins with a series of accidents. With the growth of people, facing the chance of fate, there is freedom of choice. However, the practical rational spirit of the ancients is still a practical philosophy.
Confucius seldom talks about destiny. "The master's article can be heard and heard; Confucius' words, heaven can't be obtained and can be heard. "Nietzsche's superman philosophy is anti-God, that is, anti-fate. I don't believe in destiny, but I respect the contingency of destiny. In a limited life, it is called "knowing destiny" to hone brilliant glory in pain and disaster, so as to undertake and build your own life.