Korean pine refused to lower its posture and bent down, which led to its early death, while cedar lowered its posture and was covered with thick snow, making it tall and straight for the coming year. From this point of view, if the waist is too straight, it may not be worth the loss, but lowering the posture can win in "toughness".
Only by lowering your posture can you stand up your hair.
When the smoke of war pervaded around him, when shameless shame was trapped on him, Sima Qian chose to endure silently and persist in his creation, and eventually became a "historian's swan song, leaving Sao without rhyme." When a former classmate finally became an opponent, when his kneecap was brutally cut off, Sun Bin did not give up because of humiliation, but endured humiliation and eventually wrote Sun Bin's The Art of War and defeated Pang Juan. Both Sima Qian and Sun Bin knew how to bear the burden of humiliation and put down their postures, which made their lives brilliant.
Put down your posture and stick to yourself.
Zhang Qian was sent to the Huns. He was attached to the country with him, but he knew the hardships of being in a foreign land, so he chose to wait and endure silently, and finally completed his mission and returned to the Central Plains. Although he temporarily lowered his status in order to deal with the Huns, he always maintained his love and yearning for his home country. Just imagine, if Zhang Qian, with the heart of life is worse than death at that time, refused to lower his posture, he might have died in the desert long ago and could not complete his mission. It can be seen that in order to wait for the weather, Mei-yu bowed her head to the rocks temporarily and lowered her posture, which is also her insistence on herself.
Only by keeping a low profile can we achieve greater success.
Xiang Yu, a hero of the first generation, refused to lower his posture in the face of the siege of a ten-mile ambush and the humiliation of being wiped out by the whole army. Finally, he was ashamed to meet his elders in Jiangdong and committed suicide in Wujiang River. At the same time, Liu Bang knows how to keep a low profile in a difficult situation. At the banquet at Hongmen, he bowed to Wang Xiang, in exchange for Xiang Yu's pride of underestimating his enemy, keeping a low profile, building a clear path, and hiding his position, which finally achieved the great cause of the Han Dynasty. It was Xiang Yu's refusal to lower his posture and Liu Bang's good at lowering his posture that caused two diametrically opposite endings.
Zhou Wenwang condescended to go to prison and performed Zhouyi with humiliation, which made the foundation of the Zhou Dynasty 800 years ago. Shen Congwen endured the hardships of the Cultural Revolution and was bent on creating historical monographs. Sebrina endured silence for more than ten years and eventually became a generation of lotus girls ... They all know how to lower their posture in real life or in the face of insults, and finally achieved the beauty of their own lives.
Therefore, we should imitate the persistence of sand grains and the waiting of insects and cicadas, learn the tenacity of cedar, know how to lower our posture, and wait for the tall and straight after the storm to bloom more beautifully!