An astronomer was observing the starry sky in the dark field. While walking and watching, he stepped on the air and fell into a dry well. So he shouted for help, and a farmer came and pulled him out and asked him, "How did you fall?" He said, "I didn't pay attention to my feet because I only looked at the sky." The farmer said, "Alas! I didn't see the ground clearly, how can I see the sky! " This is a very common example, but it contains profound philosophy: the existence and development of things are contradictory, if it is as the farmer in the material said. Before you look at the sky, you must look at the ground first. When can you finish seeing such a vast land? So when can I see the sky? As an astronomer, he is doing geological exploration, not looking at the sky to see if there are pits here. See if there are any holes there. Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?
It is said that life and death are determined by heaven, but it is not. All dynasties did not prosper and decline in contradiction. Take the Sui Dynasty for example! In the eyes of the world, the Sui Dynasty was undoubtedly a decadent regime. However, during the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty, there was also a prosperous period of "ruling the emperor". Moreover, Zhuo Jun County in the north and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the south were built by Yang Di for the purpose of going south of the Yangtze River, connecting the five major water systems of Haihe River, Yellow River, Huaihe River, Yangtze River and Qiantang River. It can be seen that the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal has contributed a lot to the communication between the North and the South. Therefore, it is not unreasonable for the Tang people to "devote themselves to death and then die, and then die for a thousand miles." Behind the prosperity is the endless disaster of "locusts eat thousands of miles away and young plants are empty within Songkhla". Therefore, in the proclamation of farmers' crusade against Yang Di, there is "endless bamboo in Nanling, endless book crimes; Resolving the waves in the East China Sea is difficult to shed evil. " It seems that everything is divided into two, and there is no world without contradiction.
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus pointed out that "mutually exclusive things are combined". Different tones create the most beautiful harmony. "Coincidentally, in" Entering Ruoyexi "written by five servants in the Tang Dynasty," cicadas are still in the forest, and the palace mountain is more secluded. "To be the swan song of the ages, you can never see the relativity of things in the passionate admiration, and passive silence can achieve the simplest harmony. And Wang Anshi wrote in "Zhongshan Jueju" that "the grass eaves sit opposite each other all day, and a bird doesn't sing the mountain is more secluded. "In Wang Anshi's eyes, absolute peace is the real peace. There is no absolute peace in the world, so Wang Anshi established a theory divorced from reality. Here, we might as well use the poem in the literary inquisition of the Qing Dynasty, "Fu Jie doesn't understand reason, so why bother to change the poem?"? "Then the two sides of the contradiction are interdependent, and the two sides are in a unity.
This world is a contradictory world. We should know how to use the idea of debate, understand things scientifically, solve problems correctly and deal with contradictions between things.