Forcibly transforming the concept of a space into the concept of time shows that people are demanding more and more speed. In modern times, they can't wait to change all their space into time, so they have the development of exhausting their resources and fishing, tapping the bones and absorbing the marrow, and cooking cranes for entertainment. Modern people desperately extort resources and time and space, which is very similar to Louis XV's meanness and greed.
Slowly, gradually become a thing of the past. Now even if you want to slow down, it's like meditating on a train. How can you stand your leisure? Slow motion, must be played back; If the pace is slow, review it; Slow life must be recalled. The slow ones are the tea, simple meals and clothes in the yellow photo album. You can't know its taste, but you can't see its shape.
It is said that God was impatient when he created the world. He created mountains, rivers, plants, insects, fish, birds and animals in seven days. After he caused it, he regretted it and felt guilty about his carelessness. Everything was like a dog. So he decided to calm down and complete a perfect creation: people. In The Moon and Sixpence, Mao Mu tells the true meaning of God's creation: "God's millstone turns slowly, but it grinds very finely". Indeed, all God's configurations for human beings embody one word: slow-slow development, slow maturity and slow death. Man is the soul of all things, but the development of man is very slow among animals. A three-year-old mare can give birth, while a man is still a baby at the age of three. Thirty-year-old horses are dying, but human beings are in their prime. At every stage of early development, human beings were left far behind by other animals. Kittens can cross the room soon after birth, and they can catch mice in a few weeks, while babies need months to take the first step and years to learn to tie their shoelaces. Humans can't fly over birds, jump over monkeys, run over antelopes, or beat tigers and leopards. However, slowness has brought great benefits to mankind. Look at our human world, and then look at the world of other animals, and you will know how eccentric God is.
All human interests, emotions, thoughts and wisdom come from slowness, and are digested, condensed and sublimated in slowness. Once accelerated, human beings will become dull, boring, selfish and violent, just like other animals. In the slow world of human beings, plants, insects, fish, birds and animals that grow rapidly have all become the background and tools of human leisurely life without exception:
Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty wrote: "All tea picking is between February, March and April. Tea bamboo shoots, born in rotten stone fertile soil, are four or five inches long. If ferns start to smoke, dew will bloom. The tooth of tea grows on the sparse bush, with three, four and five branches. Choose the one with outstanding branches. "
Li Yu, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, wrote about birdsong: "The loveliest birdsong is not when people are sitting, but when people are sleeping. Birds should listen to the sound of dawn ... dawn means that before people get up, that is, there are few people who get up, and birds have no intention of preventing problems and do whatever they can. And after a night of verbal warfare, I feel itchy in my heart. At this point, I thought of teasing. The so-called silence is already a blockbuster. This is unique to Xiaoye. "
The Frenchman Fabers described insects like this: "The dung beetle rolls its ball sacredly, just like a scavenger explaining the movement of stars;" Cicada composes summer symphonies year after year in the underground dungeon; Cricket plays the piano in the round window and the grass shadow, and the distant and vast galaxy has not discouraged them. "
Russian writer Prishven described the leaves like this: "I sat by a small birch tree, eager to listen to the trembling rustling of the leaves, but I couldn't hear anything ... The gray-headed finches took the opportunity to cheer. It sounds really exciting-you will feel how wonderful it is to live on earth! However, I really want to hear the rustling of the yellow, shiny and fragrant leaves on that birch tree. Don't! They are still so young that they can only tremble, flash and smell, but they can't be silent. "
It can be seen that when the pace of people's life slows down, they will have leisure, ambition and magnanimity, and their knowledge and understanding of nature will never be reached by flowers, birds, insects and fish in a hurry. Because of slowness, human beings take this opportunity to put their perceptual tentacles into everything quietly and far, and spy out their wonderful organization, unique laws and secret mental operation.
Communicating and singing with different species and other things is a necessary condition for the emergence of human literature and art. The Spanish poet lorca has a poem about a dumb boy trying to find his own voice. King Cricket stole his voice. When the dumb boy finally found his voice, he happily put on cricket clothes and became an insect. As China poet Gu Cheng said, it takes a long time to become a poet. Poets need to blend in with everything given by God and ferment slowly there, just as water turns into wine, soil into pottery, silk into brocade, and various symbols turn into paintings, melodies and articles. Because of slowness, people began to build castles of poetry in the hinterland of life and establish their faith in beauty. There can't be only "three days and one floor" economic high-rise buildings and once-in-a-century political buildings! Gu Cheng put it well: "Insects are life without delusion to me, and will not become very big". This is actually a portrayal of the poet himself.
Due to the slow guidance, we saw john muir walk into the Sierra Nevada like a happy bird, with a group of dogs and a group of thin sheep. The refreshing wind of nature, like the Oracle, comes from his "Walking on the Mountain in Summer".
We saw John Burroughs build his own "Riverside House" on the west bank of the Hudson River. In his book Birds and Poets, he calmly described the flapping sound of sparrows flying by, the rhythmic sound of seagulls, and the wonderful nest of squirrels hiding under old oak trees.
We saw Thoreau borrow an axe from a friend, broke into the forest by Walden Lake, cut down trees and built a hut by himself. He lived there for two years, two months and two days. Walden is not only a literary classic, but also a portrayal of an ideal life style.
We see that aldo leopold has lived on an abandoned farm for thirteen years. Not only did he write a masterpiece "The Yearbook of Shaxiang" which can be compared with nature, but he also planted thousands of trees with his family every year, and he was completely integrated with the land as a laborer.
We saw John Bross turn a barn into a study, where he was connected with all directions, and even the slightest tremor of every little thing made him really excited. He said: "When it is raining heavily outside and the branches are swinging violently, how I want to hear its history and the life story of the people who shook it."
We can see that Lin Yutang advocates the "marginalization" of the mind and draws the sun, moon and stars for the gloomy life with humor and enthusiasm. He hoped that in the streets after the Millennium, people would not be in such a hurry, not by car, but by ox cart at most, and it was best to greet everyone while walking in slippers.
We see that Han Shaogong is determined to leave this city and settle down next to Bajingdong Reservoir in Miluo, Hunan. He studied and wrote there, and also grew vegetables and cultivated there. "Mountain south and water north" is a spiritual fire and soul light tempered in the long night in the countryside, and a string of pearls picked up from traditional labor life.
However, in the era of airplanes, high-speed trains and computers, slowness is obviously out of date. People are scrambling to squeeze into the fast lane, thinking about getting rich quickly, getting promoted quickly and succeeding quickly, and even happiness is alienated into "fast" happiness. Shuowen Zhu Duan said: "Quick, happy." It can be seen that happiness is a joint phrase, and happiness is also happiness, not the popular "eat, drink and be merry as soon as possible". "Fast" contains happiness and righteousness, which means a kind of psychological feeling, not body speed. Contemporary people are trying to replace psychological feelings with body speed, replace soul with senses, and digest spirit with matter. They are constantly accelerating, surpassing, accelerating and surpassing in the fast lane of fame and fortune ... Even if there is no rear-end collision or collision due to superb technology, they will be tired and anxious because of high vigilance and increasing chasing.
China people drink good wine, and there is a saying: "When you are drunk, you will get rich, and the sun and the moon will grow in the pot." . I am not good at wine, so I changed to say, "Slow and exhausted, the sun and the moon grow in books." Use this to encourage yourself and give it to all gentlemen who are fortunate enough to read this article.