Philosophically, a static movement constitutes the whole world and other past, present and future. Motion and static are two forms of things, and there is no distinction between high and low, or static or dynamic, and its own internal laws are at work. However, for these two brothers, China people seem to prefer silence. After thousands of years of development, liking and pursuing quietness has become the common mentality of China people. In the splendid Chinese culture, "Jing" firmly occupies a dominant position and cannot be shaken.
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Poetry is the mainstream of China culture, which can generally reflect people's spiritual development. One of the characteristics of China's poems is that there are more lyric poems than narrative poems. From the circulated poems, we can clearly feel the spiritual world of poets (even China people), and the description and expression of quietness is an important content in China's poems in past dynasties. As long as we taste these poems, we will know what people's attitude towards silence is:
Ruruoye creek
Wang Ji
What's average? Empty water. The afterglow of the sunset rises from the distant mountains, and the sun shines on the winding water.
The cicadas are singing, and the Woods are particularly quiet; The singing of birds in the mountains is more beautiful than usual. This place has given me a hermit's heart. I'm tired of my official career but I'm not retired and sad.
In the poet's pen, Ruoyexi is quiet: the empty water is flowing, the clouds are out of the hole, and cicadas are singing. The quiet Joye Creek is really what poets like. However, the poet did not praise this kind of tranquility directly, but expressed it with clever brushwork: "cicadas make the forest quiet, and the sound palace mountain is quieter." The reason why these two poems have been praised by people for thousands of years is not only to tell people the fact that this is a quiet kingdom, but more importantly, to show the poet's joy in tranquility, one is "quieter" and the other is "quieter", which shows the poet's joy. It is much better to use contrast in poetry, that is, to write silence by sound and static scenery by movement, than to directly say that it is quiet here. Why do poets like the silence here so much? At the end of the poem, he clearly said: I am sad and tired for many years. There seems to be a profound reason why poets like silence.
Thoughts in the dead of night
Lipper
The foot of my bed is shining so brightly. Is there frost already? I looked up at the moon and looked down, feeling nostalgic.
Li Bai is a person who doesn't want to be bound. People and poems are unconstrained and unconstrained. "Laugh at the sky and go out. Are we Artemisia people? " And "oh, how can I solemnly bow and scrape to people of high rank and position?" He left the impression that "he will never suffer, never suffer". However, boldness is only one aspect of Li Bai. In the dead of night, the poet became less bold, but showed the other side of his nature: in the frosty moonlight, the poet enjoyed silence and missed his hometown. As he said, he crossed the bright moon with his thoughts and returned to his distant hometown. Silence has brought him a lot, not only the inspiration for writing, but also the deep thoughts of his hometown relatives. Su Dongpo, an uninhibited master, not only sang "The River of No Return, a Romantic Man through the Ages", but also sang "I don't know the Heavenly Palace, what year is it tonight?" I want to ride home in the wind, but I'm afraid I'm too cold. "A deep sigh. The creative practice of two great poets tells us that it is difficult to find a completely bold person in the world, and elegance seems to be in line with the nature of more people. Just like Xin Jiaxuan, he wrote a poem praising silence while he was bold and unrestrained: the bright moon surprises the magpie, and the breeze cries at midnight. The countryside, moonlit night, breeze and cicada singing constitute a unique and peaceful rural picture, and the poet's joy in this scenery is beyond words. This seems to be inconsistent with his ambition of "watching swords while drunk", but it is a part of the real great poet Xin Qiji.
Ishii Seiko
This quiet girl is so cute that she will come to the corner of my town. Deliberately hiding for me to find, scratching my head.
The quiet girl looks good. Give me a tong tube. Red has a bright red color. Love it is really a bright color.
This country exploits me, Meili Yi and is rare. It is not as beautiful as weeds, and beauty gives people deep affection.
A beautiful poem shows us a beautiful love. What the poet describes to us is the fiery emotion of a man in love, but there is no impulse, no shouting, no madness, everything is happening quietly, and there is only a kind of inner joy and happiness. What we can see in the poem is the quiet corner of the city, bright red pipes, exotic grass sent by my sweetheart, and girls hiding in the distance. In order to make this scene more touching, the poet simply called this beautiful girl "Jing Nv", a spoony and somewhat naughty girl. Although her heart is warm, her behavior and temperament give people a quiet feeling. A word "quiet" has placed people's beautiful feelings. In thousands of years of history, evaluating a girl's gentleness has often become an important standard, and gentleness has also become a cultural symbol closely related to women. .
Over time, quietness has become a spiritual choice of literati, especially in literary creation, which is expressed by almost all literati. Li Bai's Sleeping in the Mountain Temple: A dangerous building is 100 feet high, and you can pick stars with your hands. Standing here, I dare not speak loudly for fear of disturbing the gods in the sky. There is silence in this poem; Su Shi's When is the Bright Moon? Show a nameless melancholy. Zhang's "Moonlit Night on a Spring River" describes deep thinking in silence; Although Wei's "Looking at Chuzhou Xixi" is about orioles singing, people still strongly feel a rare peace; Tao Yuanming hated officialdom and returned to his quiet hometown, so his mood was calmed down. Zhu Ziqing was bored, but walking by the quiet lotus pond and enjoying the unique lotus flowers quietly made his heart much more peaceful. Wu Jun's "To Zhu Shu" is a hymn of "respect". In a word, quietness is the spiritual hope of writers, and it is their choice and interest pursuit after they are extremely disappointed with officialdom and society.
China has always had a poem, mainly about the moon. Why do poets have such unusual feelings for the moon? Is the scenery under the moon particularly beautiful, or is it because of something? Of course, there are many reasons, the most crucial reason is that the moon represents tranquility. The world under the moon is a quiet and peaceful world, and it is a spiritual world carefully created by poets. It is quiet here. Poets can temporarily forget the secular life of the day and forget the noise that brings them infinite pain. Hiding in the small building will become unified, no, hiding in the moonlight will become unified, and poets will become kings of this small country.
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In fact, it is not only the literati who have special feelings for quietness, but almost all people are influenced by the culture of quietness, and quietness has become the basic principle and concept of people's self-cultivation and life. We can see these from some existing idioms.
Calm, quieter, deeper, quieter, quieter, quieter, quieter, quieter, quieter, quieter, quieter, quieter.
The above is a description of the situation.
Wait and see, silence is better than sound. It is better to think quietly and observe silently than to look calmly.
The above explains the way of doing things.
Quiet is always as quiet as a virgin and as moving as a rabbit. Juan is so quiet and elegant.
The above is the expression of temperament and mentality.
Quiet and far-reaching, quiet and calm, quiet and motionless.
The above is the truth of revealing self-cultivation
From the philosophical point of view, static and dynamic are a pair of complementary contradictions, and the development of modern science and materialist dialectics tells us that there is no absolute static in the world, and everything is dynamic in essence, but the dynamic manifestations are different. But these theories are pale and powerless in the face of China culture. Although China people admit that motion and stillness exist at the same time, they mostly use a kind of static thinking when thinking about problems. In everyone's understanding, stillness is the root of things, stillness is the original state of things, and movement comes from stillness and finally returns to stillness, which is universally appreciated and pursued by people. Regarding the relationship between motion and stillness, people think that motion and stillness can of course be regarded as a parallel relationship, so there is a saying that "stillness is like a virgin and motion is like a rabbit". However, in many cases, motion and static do not match, so there are such sayings as "static is effective" and "motion is not as good as static", and the status of motion and static is obvious. Even in some cases, people think that motion is only a means for people to achieve the goal of quietness, and "writing quietness with motion" is the product of this concept. "Sit tight", change is movement, it is just the object of people sitting tight. Visible, in the depth of understanding, people's understanding of "static" is a higher level than "dynamic".
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Why do people in China have a soft spot for silence? It's not that people can't feel the existence of sports. I believe that no nation can feel the dynamic development of this world. However, the quiet consciousness has tenaciously taken root and sprouted in the consciousness of Chinese people, which is really worth pondering.
This kind of knowledge and culture has been generally recognized and strengthened by people, which should be after the Han Dynasty. However, the source of this understanding is very long. If we want to pursue it, the source is probably the philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi. An important thought of Laozi and Zhuangzi's philosophy is inaction. To treat the unknown nature and society and protect ourselves, we must adhere to the practice of inaction. It is unwise and irresponsible for us to act like Confucius. The result of inaction will naturally be quiet, so Lao Tzu told us "big voice, big hope." On the surface, the voice of hope is of course quiet, but its effect has reached the realm of loud voice. After the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty, the theory of Huang Lao occupied a dominant position, and this idea of seeking quietness and being afraid of movement was further developed. No change in history can be recognized by the people, and it is difficult for reformers to win the support of the people.
Second, China has always been a country dominated by agricultural civilization. Unlike many nomadic people and even many people who enjoy migration, even if there are factors in people's bodies that want to try to migrate, the land can't move, which is the basis of people's survival, so people should hold on to this land tightly, even if it is likely to be barren. Even though many poor people have no land, the long-term cultural influence makes them unwilling (dare) to stay away from their hometown for a long time. Therefore, even some people who have traveled abroad always have their roots in the small village where they were raised. Whether he makes a fortune or achieves nothing, he will eventually return to his native land. To put it mildly, it is difficult to leave his native land. To put it mildly, it is called "seeking roots". Hometown is a quiet harbor and the best place to treat people's mental trauma. Almost all life trajectories are like this: returning home from the army, returning to other places, and leaving home for the elderly. The final result is that the leaves fall to the roots, where it is quietest and people can get peace of mind.
On the surface, it is a psychological phenomenon, but actually it is a cultural phenomenon. Influenced by this culture, China people often show the defect of lack of initiative, and it is a common mentality under the influence of this culture to seek no merit but no fault. Of course, there is nothing wrong with pursuing inner peace, but when this pursuit goes too far, it becomes a negative factor that restricts people and prevents them from moving forward.
Silence is a very complicated concept, which can not only show the tranquility of nature, but also show the inner peace of people, and can also be understood as human quietism. These constitute an important part of China culture. In fact, in today's era, it is a rare luxury to live a quiet life. The deteriorating environment, the growing population and people's diligent pursuit of interests always make people suffer in the noise, which is also the fundamental reason why modern people are always unhappy.