What I appreciate most is Professor Yu Dan's simple and happy understanding of The Analects. Every nation has its own mother tongue culture. The Chinese nation respects the earth after the emperor and takes the earth as its mother, so it has formed a national traditional culture with the Confucian doctrine of the mean as the main body and the characteristics of peace and generosity. We know that western countries are based on religion, while China has long been based on Confucianism.
Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ousted 100 schools of Confucianism, no matter how many years of wind, frost, rain and dew, and how many dynasties changed, the core position of Taoism and Confucianism in national culture has never changed, and two thousand years of farming civilization has been passed down from generation to generation.
We have received the Confucian ethical education of "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith" since childhood. From Kong Rong's respect for pears at the age of three to Fan Zhongyan's sense of hardship, which is "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later", all show the inseparable infiltration of Confucianism in the process of national growth. For thousands of years, the world is still willing to respect Confucius and take his words as the motto and the principle of self-cultivation. I think this has something to do with Confucius' "Being straightforward and serving people, why not!" Our thoughts are closely related, because we all firmly believe that tomorrow is the world of upright people!
I like serving tea. Every time I am in front of tea, I feel that everything has become peaceful and beautiful. Appreciating life and worrying about life are the same themes of tea ceremony and Confucianism. Some people taste tea "tea is feasible", while others taste tea "tea collapses and sleeps in a book", which is both moral and interesting. In the past, Confucian scholars could not live without tea for a day, and their articles could not help but take tea as a metaphor. I just know that this leisurely life is the pursuit of tea by Confucian tea people! Professor Yu Dan understood that The Analects "finally conveyed an attitude, a simple and warm attitude towards life, and Confucius influenced his disciples with this attitude." How can I live a warm and happy life that my heart needs? I understand it as: peace.
Tea is a pleasant temper and gets along well with everyone. Chai Men entered, and so did the back door. He is neither arrogant nor coquettish. Therefore, I can also have Chyi Chin, calligraphy, painting and wine gracefully in my daily life, and play an indispensable role in that romantic world. Just like a person with extremely high artistic talent, after gorgeous, he turns dull, and he doesn't comment himself, just waiting for others to taste. In the eyes of Confucianism, harmony is the middle, harmony is the degree, harmony is appropriate and harmony is the time. Harmony means that everything is just right and nothing is wrong. Harmony is the foundation of Confucianism and the golden mean. Calm down will make people "happy", and "happy" means harmony and pleasure. In the process of making the body and mind "happy" in the tea ceremony, it coincides with the true meaning of The Analects of Confucius, which is to tell everyone how to live a happy life that we need in our hearts (Professor Yu Dan's words).
Confucius advocated benevolence, but he didn't think that we should forgive everyone's mistakes with unprincipled kindness. The Analects of Confucius tells us that we should respect everyone equally and rationally, and leave a little discretion between each other and a little land. As the saying goes, the world is a big family. Since we are at home, it is inevitable that people have their own aspirations and different temperaments, just like tea lovers like Longjing and Oolong tea, but they are all seeking truth. "Don't rob it of its true fragrance" and "Don't damage its true flavor". Then, what's the reason why you can't treat people sincerely, speak sincerely and be a real person?
Taste life, cultivate one's morality and cultivate one's sentiment, the purpose of which is to spend this reincarnation in a happy life. Live with an indifferent attitude, an open mind, a detached temperament and a relaxed attitude, and integrate your emotions and life into a natural state. Only in this way can you remain pure to your ancestors and find inner peace, just like Confucius taught us the secret of a happy life.