I knew Wen Tianxiang before his poems, and I was once surprised that there was such an iron scholar in the dark Southern Song Dynasty.
When the Yuan army rode south and the country was in danger, he sold his family wealth and destroyed his family to ease the difficulties. When the Song Dynasty was stormy, he led the army to run in all directions, but there was no result. What impressed me the most was that after being arrested, he was able to stick to his integrity and never give in in the face of intimidation and inducement. Compared with many officials in the Southern Song Dynasty, it is even more admirable to reduce the Yuan Dynasty or even destroy the Song Dynasty for the sake of the Yuan Dynasty.
We don't need to delve into the influence of his persistence. A person who can stick to his beliefs and ideals and give his life for it is undoubtedly a bright light, illuminating a corner of dark history. A thousand immortals or less can still inspire people.
Wen Tianxiang mentioned Yan Gao Qing, who died of scolding a thief, in his poem, which shows the power of example. And since the Song Dynasty, everyone knows that Wen Tianxiang, the Zhang Cang River, which moved to the Central Plains in the late Ming Dynasty, is worse than Wen Tianxiang. They have shaped the backbone of China people. A trip by one person is worth a thousand words and contributes little. Wen Tianxiang's character and belief can be seen in his poems. Song of Righteousness and Harmony was written after he was imprisoned by Yuan Army for three years. In it, we can still see his unyielding. In the preface, he described the harsh living environment in prison and had his own righteousness in his chest. Count the sages again to clarify people's hearts. "If you are poor, you can see them one by one." Is a true portrayal of him.
For example, lotus seeds in the mud, take lotus flowers instead of looking at the mud. You don't have to look at that humbleness, that weakness, that submission, that cruelty, just look at this dim but eternal light, which is enough to look forward to your trip to work. In this world, although we don't have to cling to life like Wen Tianxiang, isn't it just what we need to keep upright in our chests and shape our own beliefs? Before he died, Wang Yangming said to his disciples, "What can I say?" It is enough for us to learn from Wen Tianxiang.
I have gone far, leaving a healthy atmosphere, but I am about to carry forward this "Song Zhengqi" and teach it to spread for thousands of years.
"I am good at cultivating my noble spirit" is a sentence in Mencius' Gongsun Chou. As for Mencius' noble spirit, my understanding is that an noble spirit is white and pure, just like the spirit of heaven. The mighty are boundless, broad-minded and selfless; However, spontaneously, spontaneously, naturally from the heart. Mencius' noble spirit is a collection of benevolence, righteousness and Taoism, which combines the noble spirit of benevolence, righteousness and Taoism, integrates with heaven and earth, and has infinite strength and wisdom. Based on this, from the viewpoints of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, I realize that Mencius' lofty spirit has the following properties: pure spirit; Selfless; Out of the spirit that sincerity is faith; Qi of justice; The spirit of truth. The noble spirit and the harmony between heaven and earth conform to the historical development law of human society and act according to objective laws.
The "noble spirit" mentioned by Mencius here refers to a kind of upright mental state when people's moral cultivation reaches a high level. Therefore, this "noble spirit" is "matching righteousness and Taoism", "gathering righteousness and being born" and "nothing, nothing." Only with this "lofty spirit" can we have lofty spiritual beauty and personality beauty. ..... The so-called "cultivating noble spirit" means cultivating a person's noble character of "beauty", "greatness", "holiness" and "spirit". Mencius believed that a person with such lofty character would be spiritually noble, upright and "knowledgeable": not only confident in his own words, but also good at distinguishing all kinds of wrong words. It can be seen that ambition, qi and speech are closely related. ..... "ambition" refers to the heart, that is, the inner character and quality of people. "Qi" is the embodiment of this kind of "ambition" in the mental state, and "speech" is the concrete expression of the characteristics of "Qi". Therefore, Mencius believes that the author must first have the inner beauty of spiritual character and cultivate the "noble spirit" in order to have beautiful and correct words. This kind of thought affects literary creation, so it is emphasized that a writer should first start with personality cultivation and have noble moral character in order to write good works. Mencius' "Qi" is the result of benevolence, righteousness and moral cultivation, which can be learned later, rather than the expression of innate personality and temperament characteristics. Therefore, unlike the "qi" mentioned by Cao Pi later, the "qi" mentioned by Han Yu in Answer to Li Yishu is more in line with Mencius.
Qian Xun said in his ideological education for college students: "The 4,000-year history of China is a history of China full of heroic spirit, just people and stories. Therefore, China repeatedly raised his servant and stood tall. " The Chinese nation has such a healthy spirit that supports the development of the whole nation. Although the Chinese nation has experienced many twists and turns and difficulties, the national justice can finally overcome difficulties and develop and grow. "In history, there have been stories and people who are brave. I want to take Wen Tianxiang as an example to illustrate. Wen Tianxiang represents our patriotic tradition and nationalist spirit in history. He persisted in resisting Yuan, remained steadfast and unyielding, and finally died heroically. His "Song Zhengqi" well reflects why he did it in the first place, and can also help us understand the national spirit.
How can we maintain this character? Just don't care about how beautiful your personal material life is, you should conform to your personal ideals, live up to your conscience and maintain an independent and noble personality. Like the historian of Qi, he wrote books and said that he did not give up for power, and regarded moral personality as more important than life. The so-called "sacrifice one's life for righteousness" means "those who want more than the living and those who hate more than the dead". The value of spiritual life is higher than material life, and material life is not the highest value. In fact, all advanced figures at all times and all over the world put spiritual life and ideal pursuit in the first place; If everyone put material life first, we human beings could not have today's development. This spirit of putting spiritual pursuit and personality ideal first is the outstanding spirit of the Chinese nation and the foundation of our patriotism.
After his death, Wen Tianxiang wrote on his belt: "Confucius said to be benevolent, Mencius said to take justice, but benevolence and righteousness have been exhausted, so it is benevolent. What have you learned from reading the books of sages? Every now and then, I have no conscience. " This reflects his thoughts. Where did he get these? On the one hand, it originated from the tradition of sages, on the other hand, it originated from the traditional culture of Confucius and Mencius. He has been pursuing this all his life. Mencius said that the noble spirit is "born from the collection of righteousness", that is, it is necessary to accumulate continuously to achieve the noble spirit. That's what Wen Tianxiang did. This shows that the root of national spirit is our traditional culture.
On the other hand, how did these deeds pass down and be inherited by future generations? Through the accumulation of culture, through our history books, through literature and other development. Their thoughts are embodied in their poems, such as "No one has died in life since ancient times, and the heart of keeping Dan is based on history", "Worry about the world first, and enjoy the world afterwards" and so on. It is these that make the national spirit develop continuously and be passed down by future generations. If we throw all this away and stop studying history, or history does not talk about this, but only records how the productive forces develop and how the class struggle is carried out, these will be unknown. We should also realize that the national spirit education we are carrying out now is carried out on this basis, and we should fully see its difficulties. Now it is very difficult to tell people what tradition is and what it is, and then help him understand it and let him choose.
Today, this sentence has a strong political color, educational color and various rich connotations. Of course, the atmosphere we are talking about is not the same as Mencius' "noble spirit", but the process of reading is undoubtedly a grand ladder. If an article is the carrier of social life and human emotions, it is naturally the embodiment of the author's opinions, talents and self-cultivation. Shenqing Deqian said: "With first-class mind and first-class knowledge, Sri Lanka has first-class true poetry." The vision of reading determines the vision of writing, and the taste of reading determines the taste of writing. The process of reading is to absorb and accept the bath of the soul. How can you read Qu Yuan without being infected by his earth-shattering patriotic aspirations? How can you read Sima Qian without lamenting his ill-fated experience and admiring his extraordinary achievements? Reading Hawking, we read the light of life and his indomitable spirit contained in his shriveled body; Reading Lin Zexu, we understand the true meaning of "the survival of the country, every cloud has a silver lining". With this accumulation of extensive reading, how can the released words not be crystal clear and open-minded?
I am good at cultivating my noble spirit with nature. Nature gives people life, but also gives people a sense of beauty and purity of mind. Standing on the top of the mountain to enjoy the vastness of the sky, standing in the nearest place to the sky, feeling the ambition to let me fly, there is a feeling of wanting to gallop. Listen to the sound of waves lapping on the shore and experience the omnipotence of the sea. I think the beauty of nature really needs people's taste, and it is a primitive and clean beauty. In this big city, we are always busy, but we seldom stop to think about what we want. Dongshan Kuilai's "Justice" is famous far and wide, and Ba Jin's works are loved because of an original truth. This truth and clarity can make people savor it carefully and return to nature.
We should learn to take the sky as the ruler, and open our broad minds to accept a colorful life. Learn to read birds with the standard of birds and read a touching bird song; Learn to take the sea as a measure and embrace the ordinary world with open arms; Learn to read teenagers and a romantic song with teenagers' feelings; Learn to read old age with the feelings of old age, and read a wise and philosophical feeling. I would like to measure my life into a vast sky with the sky as a ruler; I would like to dilute my life into a vast ocean with the sea as the quantity.
Thoughts on Memorial to Shi Kefa's Ancestral House
"Patrol is still a friend, and Zuo is a teacher. He has a long history and is full of bright history. Meng Wenxin believed in the fate of the country, Muwu township died, and the hatred ended in IX. China finally saw the clothes of the Han Dynasty. " This is a true portrayal of Shi Kefa's life. -Inscription.
A drizzle cannot stop our determination. With a solemn mood, we came to Shi Kefa's ancestral home on the bank of Meihualing.
"Counting the tears of the plum blossoms, February is bright." No sooner had we entered the door than we saw this couplet. I really got to know Shi Kefa when I entered the ancestral temple.
When my mother was born in Shi Kefa, she dreamed that Wen Tianxiang came into her house. His father said, "My home will be prosperous!" "
Shi Kefa was high-spirited in his early years and worshipped Zuo Guangdou as a teacher, but he was framed by eunuchs such as Wei Zhongxian, and his official career was not smooth. When the Qing army entered Shanhaiguan and the peasant uprising broke out, Shi Kefa volunteered to go to the front to defend the enemy, but it increased the arrogance of the eunuch group. They mortgaged rations, detained soldiers, and tried every means to make things difficult for Shi Kefa. Dourgen's hundreds of thousands of troops have arrived at the gates of Yangzhou, while Shi Kefa has only ten thousand foot soldiers. He could have fled to protect his own safety, but instead of escaping, he incorporated his family into the army and vowed to live and die with Yangzhou.
But after all, being outnumbered, Yangzhou City was broken, and Shi Kefa drew his sword and killed himself, but he was stopped by his men. Unable to bear the Qing army's indiscriminate killing of innocent people, Shi Kefa stepped forward despite the soldiers' obstruction. The Qing army immediately put Shi Kefa in front of Dourgen. Shi Kefa refused to surrender no matter how intimidating or indulging. He said emotionally, "I am an important minister in China. How can I serve the two masters? In ancient times, I did my best for Shu, and now I have died for my country, waiting for you like a mouse.
Our heavenly army will kill all of you! Ha ha ha "face upwards whistling, but beheaded.
After listening to the tour guide's explanation, we were already in tears.
It is said that after Shi Kefa's martyrdom, many people with lofty ideals wanted to bury him, but because there were bodies everywhere in Yangcheng at that time, everyone was bloody and Shi Kefa couldn't identify him, so people only put away his clothes and offered them to the ancestral temple. From generation to generation, incense is endless.
"Shi Kefa, people can learn the law, books can learn the law, and Shi Kefa can learn the law now and always!" This is what people say about him. "Do your best and die." Shi Kefa explained this truth with his life! Living in this hot land that countless heroes defend with their lives, what reason do we have to do nothing and indulge ourselves? When the storm comes, we might as well regard it as a test of fate. We must firmly believe that when the clouds are clear and the wind stops and the rain is calm, the charming colorful bridge will definitely show us its charming light! Come on! Let's hold hands and hold our heads high. Don't be afraid of difficulties in study, obstacles in communication and challenges in life. Take a step and let go of our ideals. Everyone can become a strong man in life!
From the internet, thank you.