"Learning to be suspicious" directly reflects that you should be good at finding problems, often questioning problems and being able to put forward your own opinions, which requires critical spirit and courage to question. Ask if learning is expensive, and ask if learning is expensive. There are doubts about learning expensive, which comes from a sentence that Chen Xianzhang advised students in the Ming Dynasty. The whole sentence is: predecessors said that learning is expensive and doubtful, small doubts and small progress, big doubts and great progress. Skeptics have a chance to realize. Awakening and progress.

In the twelfth year (1447), Chen Xianzhang, 20, won the ninth place in the rural examination. The following year, he went to Beijing to take the does examination, won the vice list, and was elected to study in imperial academy. In the second year of Jingtai (145 1), I took the exam again and came second. However, Chen Xianzhang persevered in his pursuit of knowledge.

At the age of 27, he heard that in Linchuan County, Fuzhou, there was a famous scholar, Mr. Kang Zhai (formerly known as Wu Yubi), with profound knowledge and accomplishments. He read Zhu's The Origins of Ilo Prefecture, and also studied the origins of Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties, the way of sages in the Ming Dynasty, and the biography of Confucius and Mencius.

In order to visit famous teachers, Chen Xianzhang was not afraid to travel long distances, crossed Gengling and Meiguan, and arrived in Ganzhou (now Jiangxi Province). He first went back to Jiangxi, went to Qingjiang via Jishui, and came to Chongren County by land after landing. Finally, he found Mr. Wu Yubi who abandoned his official position and preferred to give lectures at home.

Wu Yubi is very strict in his studies. He asked students to concentrate on their learning attitude, not to be distracted, to concentrate on their thoughts, to cultivate themselves in silence, to assess the situation dynamically, and to make their inner Zhan Ran ethereal and bright. I was inspired and benefited a lot, but I was not satisfied with Wu and Bi's analysis of the Book of Changes.

The next year, he bid farewell to Mr. Wu and returned to Baisha Village in Jiangmen. At the southern foot of Lu Xiao Mountain, he built a large bookstore called "Balcony in Spring". From then on, Chen Xianzhang lived in seclusion, absorbed in reading and never left home. In order to reduce the disturbance to him, the family cut a hole in the wall, through which food and clothes were handed in.

Chen Xianzhang lived in seclusion on the balcony in spring, studying classic works and discussing the philosophy of his ancestors. After ten years of hard study, meditation, giving up complexity and taking appointments, he grasped the key to the harmony between mind and reason, knowledge and cultivation, and made great progress. 1465 Spring (the first year of Ming Chenghua), Chen Xianzhang decided to set up a teaching library on the pure balcony, and rural students from surrounding cities came here in succession.

Chen Xianzhang (1428165438+1October 27-1March 9, 500), whose real name is Gong Fu, alias Shi Zhai, was born in Baishali, Xinhui County, Guangfu, Guangdong Province (now Xinhui District, Jiangmen City), so he was also called Mr. Baisha, and the world was called Chen Baisha.

Thinker, philosopher, educator, calligrapher, poet and guqin in Ming Dynasty. The only great Confucian in Guangdong who worships Confucius Temple was the founder of Mind Studies in Ming Dynasty, and was later called "a generation of true Confucianism", "Lingnan Family" and "Ling Xue Confucianism".

Chen Xianzhang was born in Metropolis Village, Xinhui City, Guangdong Province, and moved to Baisha Village with his grandfather at the age of/kloc-0. At the age of twenty, he was a scholar in the spring exam and ranked ninth in the autumn exam of the same year. In April of the 13th year of Orthodox Church, Jinshi went to imperial academy to study.

Jingtai took the senior high school entrance examination in the second year, took Jiangxi Wu and Bi as teachers, returned to Beijing in the second year of Chenghua, and went to imperial academy. He became famous with the poem "No rhyme with Yang Guishan this day", and made a toast to make him surprised by the return of true Confucianism, which will be compiled into an anthology of official departments. After resigning from his post, he returned to Baisha, Xinhui, and gathered disciples to give lectures, attracting scholars from all over the world.

In the 19th year of Chenghua, Ming Xianzong was tried and released by imperial academy. Since then, Chen Xianzhang has been living in his hometown to give lectures, and he can't afford to recommend it repeatedly. In the early years of Wanli, from the beginning of offering sacrifices to Confucius Temple, the pursuit of Wen Gong. This book was later compiled into the Complete Works of White Sands.