The son of heaven attaches great importance to heroes, and the article teaches two Cao.
Nothing, but reading is high.
Children must study hard so that the article can stand on its own feet.
Zhu Zigui is full of scholars.
Zhao Kuangyin Chen Qiao mutiny, yellow robe, the establishment of the Song Dynasty. Because of this, Song Taizu, who gained power through mutiny, has always had a bad feeling towards military generals. After he released the soldiers with a glass of wine, he has been implementing the national policy of valuing literature over martial arts, making the military commanders in the Song Dynasty the most aggrieved military commanders in all previous dynasties. Scholars in Song Dynasty continued the glory of Tang Dynasty and wrote many touching poems.
The widespread popularity of the phrase "everything is inferior, only reading is high" also reflected the social atmosphere at that time.
The salaries of officials in the Song Dynasty were generally higher, and the treatment of civil servants was even higher than that of military commanders. At that time, civil servants were very rich and carefree, and they could be very comfortable and chic. Ouyang Xiu's famous Preface to Drunk Pavilion was written by him taking officials to the suburbs to play.
This "article can stand on its own feet" means that as long as the article is well written, you don't have to worry about your livelihood. Being an official in the Song Dynasty is like being a civil servant in modern times. As long as you don't make a big mistake, it's just like being in a safe. The state takes care of your life, illness and death.
If you don't know the background of this poem, it's easy to be misled.
Throughout the poem, the basic theme is: "As a prime minister, you must use scholars. In today's words, study hard, as long as you are admitted to the civil service, you will be king and enjoy a carefree life.
Taking reading as a means to get a good job is far from the truth, let alone a universal truth.
After the Song Dynasty, being an official did not have such a high salary, but after being admitted to fame and became an official, scholars gained some power. Some of them became corrupt officials. Therefore, it seems to be a trend that there are many corrupt officials in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
However, people's misunderstanding of this sentence continues to this day. Now this sentence, on the one hand, has become a famous saying to encourage scholars to study hard; On the other hand, it has become the spoken language of some scholars.
In order to let their children "study hard", many modern parents say to their children, "Don't worry about things at home, just study hard." It seems that as long as children read good books, they are not inferior. If he can be superior, everything will be fine. This kind of education has trained a lot of nerds who are superior but ungrateful.
It's not the Song Dynasty now. In modern times, there are many universities and scholars. It is no longer effective to be an official by reading.
Those nerds who only know how to study, graduating from college means losing their jobs, or barely getting wages worse than those of migrant workers. The huge psychological gap has become a pain in the hearts of these scholars. They can't even guarantee their own quality of life, how can they benefit others?
"Everything is inferior, only reading is high" is not true in itself. If you regard what is not truth as truth, you will naturally suffer.
All laws are equal, and there is no distinction between high and low; As long as it appears, it has its own magical function.
Whether a person is top grade or bottom grade has little to do with how many books he has read. Man's quality is determined by his contribution to society. The greater the positive contribution to society, the higher the quality of people.
All kinds of color methods are inferior, and only good character is high.
Reading, if it is for the benefit of all beings, will improve people's quality; Reading, if it is for personal benefit, will narrow the pattern of people. In the final analysis, reading is just a tool, and how to use it depends on people's intentions.
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About the author: Wang Zhu was born in a family of county officials. He has been smart and studious since childhood. He can write poetry at the age of nine and is known as a child prodigy. His title of "child prodigy" began with such a story:
One day, the magistrate of Qinxian county led the county juren and scholar to visit Confucius icon in Confucius Temple. After the worship ceremony, the magistrate suddenly found a poem written in charcoal on the wall of the hall:
Yan Hui watches the stars at night, and the master walks in the rain.
How many officials have been issued since then, and who is willing to repair their money?
The inscription below bears the name of a nine-year-old boy, Wang Zhu.
The magistrate looked around the hall. Not only is the hall dilapidated, but the icons of Confucius and Yan Hui also lack shoulders, which is really degrading and shameful. But on second thought, how can a nine-year-old child write such a poem? I'm afraid someone is pretending to be a child and deliberately satirizing me? Thinking of this, he said to the officer, "Go and find out what kind of person this Wang Zhu is and invite him to see me."
Wang Zhu's father, Wang Yuanji, is a small official in the county. Because of his poor family, Wang Zhu helped the family to keep the geese, and read and write between the geese at night. One day in early spring, Wang Zhu drove a flock of white geese to graze in the wild. He saw the green grass in front of the Confucius Temple, so he let the geese eat grass and read by themselves under the big tree. Unexpectedly, after a sudden cold wind, it began to rain heavily. I quickly put away my books and drove the geese into the Confucius Temple to shelter from the rain.
As soon as Wang Zhu entered the temple gate, he saw the bottom of the temple broken, cobwebs knotted, icons broken and bird droppings everywhere. I think my father always said that more than half of the officials in the imperial court were just Confucius' students.
Now that they are officials, they are enjoying themselves, but Old Master Q is sitting in this ruined temple, and no one will pay for it. The more he thinks about it, the angrier he gets. Seeing the charcoal left in the corner of the temple, he lifted it up and wrote this poem on the wall, only to be found by the county magistrate.
When the county magistrate asked Wang Zhu, Wang Yuanji just stood by and said, "This Wang Zhu is a despicable traitor and offended adults. Wait till I call him and listen to your master's lesson! "
Wang Yuanji hurried home. When he saw Wang Zhu, he said, "You have created a catastrophe! We're in big trouble! Come with me to see master! "
Wang Zhu asked inexplicably, "My son studies all day, herds geese, keeps his place, and never does anything immoral. Where did the disaster start? "
"Also said where to start? What poems did you write in Confucius Temple? Your master found out today and asked me to call you to teach you a lesson. "
"What's the disaster. Isn't everything written by children true? I'm going to see him with my father. "
Wang Zhu went to the Confucius Temple with his father and met the county magistrate. The magistrate asked, "Did you write this poem on this wall?"
Wang Zhu answered unhurriedly: "Exactly, please ask your master?"
"Why did you write such a poem?"
Wang Zhu said: "As long as you look at this temple, can you still not know the purpose of writing this poem?"
The magistrate exulted at his answer, but he still had doubts. Then he said, "So you wrote this poem. What a prodigy!" When the magistrate saw that Wang Zhu was wearing short clothes, he smiled and said, "It's just that the clothes of prodigies are short, sir." . Never seen a child prodigy wear such short clothes! "
Wang Zhu recognized the county magistrate, but he still didn't believe that this poem was written by him. As soon as his eyes turned, he became smart, bowed to the county magistrate in front of everyone, and blurted out:
The prodigy's shirt is very short, and the sleeves are spring breeze.
I didn't go to the emperor's, so I came to pay homage to "xianggong" first.
The county magistrate listened, very talented. He was overjoyed and said, "Good poetry is a child prodigy! It will be a great success in the future! There is a reward! There is a reward!
Since then, the name of Wang Zhu prodigy has spread all over Ningbo. He was buried in the third year of the Song Dynasty (A.D. 1 100) and was awarded? Professor Mingzhou, who is the author of the Spring and Autumn Exegesis, is a great scholar from the official to the Guan Wendian, preaching Taizhou's worship of Taoism, building a house in Xishan, and calling all Confucianism lectures. The villagers called his room "Confucian House".
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