Adapted from Li Kang's "The Theory of Destiny" in the Three Kingdoms period-piled on the shore, the flow will surge.

Original: it is natural that a husband is loyal to the Lord and loses to the vulgar alone. Therefore, the wood in the forest is beautiful and the wind will destroy it; When piled up on the shore, the water will surge; Walking is higher than people, and the public will not.

Loyal words and deeds offend the monarch, and independent conduct is not secular, which is the trend of things. So the tree is taller than the forest, and the wind will definitely blow it away; The mound protrudes from the river bank, and the rapids will surely wash it away; Virtue is above everything else, and everyone will definitely slander him.

Extended data:

1, creative background

Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties was the most intense period of hegemony and turmoil in China's history, and it was also the most chaotic period of politics and the most painful period of society. When the regime changes like a lantern, people's fate is like autumn grass on the night of the Yuan Dynasty, which withers and flourishes only in an instant, and the first victims are naturally literati.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were many articles about fate, which became a strange phenomenon in the history of China's thought. The more confused the scholar is, the more afraid of fate, the more he wants to be above. He searched the green void and explored the mystery of fate in the yellow spring below. Born in Wei and Jin Dynasties, the author felt the rise and fall of the country and the impermanence of the encounter between monarch and minister, and entrusted all this to fate.

2. Introduction to the author

Li Kang was born in Wei Zhongshan (now Dingxian County, Hebei Province) in the Three Kingdoms period. Geng Jie, not welcome. He once wrote "Nine Poems about Mountain Tour" (now lost), which Wei Mingdi appreciated very much. He used this as a way to seek Yang's strength, and later sealed Yang Hou.

The original versions of the two volumes have been lost. Today, The Theory of Destiny has been preserved and Selected Works has been included. The article vigorously promotes the theory of destiny, but it is beautifully written. Among them, "the wood in the forest is beautiful, and the wind will destroy it; When piled up on the shore, the water will surge; It is quite famous to be above others, and people must be wrong. See "Selected Works" and Shan Li's comments on "forest harvesting".

3. Appreciate

Li Gang witnessed the power of Cao Wei regime fall into the hands of Sima family in his later period. He felt that the country rose and fell, and the encounter between the monarch and the minister was unpredictable, so he entrusted everything to fate. It is believed that this kind of "luck" cannot be changed, and that personal origins are poor and noble, both of which are dominated by the "fate" of personal destiny and the "time" of the fate of the times. To prove this point, he listed many pros and cons in history.

After Sean received a book about this book, he used the Art of War to lobby the heroes. No one understands that when he meets Emperor Gaozu, he will listen to everything he says, simply because his luck used his tactics. Another example is that Confucius is a generation of saints, but his virtue is not as good as Confucius' thought and summer, but he is powerful and charming, which is doomed by fate.

"The Theory of Destiny" is a political essay with a parallel style, with neat words and sentences, full of sounds and feelings and rich allusions. It can be said that it is a very mature parallel prose, which has a decisive influence on the development of parallel prose in the later period.