Mencius said, "I want to live and surpass the living, so I don't want to get it." Its significance is self-evident, indicating that you will die a martyr and die without regret. Confucianism believes that people should die for the eight virtues of "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, wisdom and faith", but this avoids the topic of death. Because most people die of war or disease and aging, their death is not accompanied by the choice of life and righteousness. Sima Qian said: "People are inherently mortal, either heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather." In his view, people live in a world of high and low, and even if they die, they should be divided into ordinary people. But "when you die, you know everything is empty." People die just three feet of loess buried in bones, and thousands of miles of lonely graves will always mourn. Is it necessary for feudal hierarchical consciousness to continue from birth to death? Death is the same ending for the dead: death erases memory and life. The mark of his life will be washed away by the long river of time; His joys and sorrows will dissipate in the air; Maybe his behavior has an influence on future generations. Later generations appreciate his achievements, read his biography and remember him. His biography is not a few words or thousands of words, but compared with a person's vicissitudes, this is too insignificant. For the living, a person's death will have an impact on their lives and emotions, and even become an indelible mark in their lives.

According to legend, Luz, a disciple of Confucius, was hunted down. Before he died, he shouted, "When a gentleman dies, there must be a crown." In the face of death, he should be natural and unrestrained. But when I think about it, how similar is this to the Confucian saying that "hunger is a trivial matter, and humiliation is a major event"? On the one hand, even death cannot shake human dignity, which is truly respectable; On the other hand, before they died, they were obsessed with "etiquette" and longed for a "gentleman" death, which was a strong feudal hierarchical concept!

Yes, treat death as it is, and you will be free. Death and life are natural products, and even the birth of a baby is more painful than death. Moreover, compared with human history or the history of the universe, human life is extremely small. As the saying goes, "What is the struggle on the snail's horn?" The lightning Shi Huo sent this life. "