Children are the stage of human birth; Childlike heart is the heart in the initial stage of life. How to lose your heart in the initial stage of life? However, why (many people's) childlike innocence will be lost so quickly? Probably in early childhood, people heard a lot of words and saw a lot of things through their eyes and ears, and these (what they heard and saw) often entered their hearts, which made them lose their childlike innocence. With the growth of age, what we see and hear becomes the inner "truth", and these ("truths") often enter our hearts and make our childlike innocence lose. These "truths" and "smells" are increasing day by day, so people's knowledge and feelings are increasing day by day, so they understand the benefits of a good name, pursue it hard, and lose their childlike innocence; Understand the disadvantages of an ugly reputation, but try to cover it up and lose childlike innocence; Those "truths" and "smells" are all obtained from reading more books (sage books) and knowing more (sage books) and "righteousness" Don't ancient saints read books? Even if they don't study, their childlike innocence still exists; Even if you read more books, it is only to protect this childlike innocence and not to lose it. Unlike later scholars, reading more books and knowing more about "righteousness" covered up the original childlike innocence. Since scholars cover up their original childlike innocence by reading more books and learning more (books of saints), why do saints write more books to cover up their childlike innocence? People's childlike innocence is covered up, so they speak insincerely; If you are an official, there will be no roots in politics; If you write a book, you can't express your meaning accurately. This is because it is not the external expression of the beauty of the soul, nor the glorious expression of honest personality. Even if you want to get a (real) German word, you won't get it after all. Why is this? Because childlike innocence has been covered up, the "smell" and "truth" that entered from the outside are regarded as "heart".
Since "smell" and "truth" from the outside world are regarded as "heart", they are all said, not the truth from "childlike innocence". Although such remarks are wonderful, what does it have to do with me? Isn't this a dumb person telling lies, doing fake things and writing fake articles? Because he is a fool, what he did is true. Therefore, if you talk to the dummy with lies, the dummy will be happy; Tell a fake story to the dummy, and the dummy will be happy; Talking to the dummy with a fake article will make the dummy happy. Everything is true, so you don't like everything. It's all fake. How can the people present (fake) defend themselves? In this way, although it can be called the best article in the world, how can it be less? Why? The best articles in the world are all from Childlike Heart. If "childlike innocence" persists, those false "truths" will not be popular and false "smells" will not be established. Then, you can't write a good article, you can't write a good article, and a system without innovation can't be called a good article. In this case, why do you think that only the ancient poems in the Selected Works of Zhaoming are good poems, and the articles before Qin Dynasty are good articles! With the changes of the times, literature has become a poem of the Six Dynasties, a modern poem, a legendary novel, a drama of the Song and Jin Dynasties, a drama of the Yuan Dynasty, a romance of the West Chamber, a novel of the Water Margin, and finally a text of the imperial examination. Contemporary wise men think that the writing theories of ancient sages (and literary creations of past dynasties) are the best articles in ancient and modern times, and we can't judge the pros and cons by the distance of the times. So I think "Childlike Heart" is a natural and sincere article, not to mention the Six Classics, not to mention the Analects of Mencius.
As for the Six Classics, the Analects of Confucius and Mencius, they were either excessively praised and praised by historians or praised by courtiers. Otherwise, those pedantic students and confused disciples learn the teacher's theory from memory, and they have no beginning and no end. If they remember it, they forget the front. According to their own opinions, they wrote a book at random. Scholars of later generations thought that these books were written by ancient saints, and decided to regard them as classics without careful investigation. Who knows that most of them are not the words of saints? Even if it really comes from the mouth of the holy family, its essence is targeted remarks, but it is like prescribing a symptomatic prescription at any time to save those confused disciples and pedantic students. (The sage rebukes the big prescription like this) He treats a fake patient, and the prescription is difficult to determine. Can this be regarded as eternal high-sounding remarks? In this view, the Six Classics, the Analects of Confucius and Mencius are just excuses made by Taoists and dummies, and they cannot be compared with childlike innocence at all. Hey! How can I find the Great Sage who is really childlike and talk to him about writing articles?
Tip: In this paper, the most important point of Li Zhi is to put forward the theory of "childlike innocence". He said: "People who are childlike are sincere." Childishness is also a child's sincerity. He believes that children's hearts are natural and sincere, and have not been polluted by "truth and taste" (that is, Confucian orthodoxy). With the growth of age, more and more Confucian "truth" and "smell" education, people will be more and more polluted and lose sincerity and nature. In addition, Li Zhi believes that as long as there is a "childlike innocence", the works created by anyone at any time, any place and in any institutional form are "the best in the world". In short, in Li Zhi's view, "childlike innocence" is not only the source of all creation, but also the only criterion for evaluating all literary creation. The background of Li Zhi's theory of childlike innocence was that at that time, the theory of restoring ancient ways by the former and the latter seven scholars was popular in the literary world, and the theory of restoring ancient ways by "literature must be in Qin and Han Dynasties" and "poetry must flourish in Tang Dynasty" was rampant, and Li Zhi opposed it with the theory of childlike innocence. The theory of "childlike innocence" also provided a theoretical basis for the later theory of "spiritual nature" of the public security school, and influenced the Jingling school of Zhong Xing and Tan and the theory of "spiritual nature" of Yuan Mei. Li Zhi's theory reflects the awakening of people's thoughts and is of deviant significance. But it shook the ideological foundation of feudal rule and was bound to be strangled by the feudal ruling class. However, he thinks that there can be good works of "childlike innocence", which also simplifies the complex creative activity of literary creation.