Yang Dai: Everyone has a destiny, and fate is the most unreasonable

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The nature of the gods is equal to everyone. Whether rich or poor, rich or poor, wise and foolish, they all have souls, personalities, and human nature. But everyone's origins and encounters, and their natural qualifications and talents, are far from equal. There are rich, there are poor, there are geniuses, there are incompetent, there are beautiful people, there are ugly monsters. Why? Each person has a "destiny", and "fate" is completely unreasonable.

Confucius once sighed, "Fate! The Slovaks also have the Scythians! The Slovaks also have the Scythians! "It's fate, it's not a destiny." So I had to admit my fate. "I don't know my fate, I can't be a gentleman." Zeng Guofan was said to be practical, and it was said that he did not believe in heaven and believed in fate. Many people have worked hard all their lives, always unhappy, and the old man sighed and said, "Obey your destiny." ”

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I think fate is the most unreasonable. Fools, fools, and hunks enjoy wealth and honor, and those who do not learn and have no skills can deceive the world and steal their names for a lifetime. Talented and virtuous people suffer many disasters and hardships, the wicked are in power, and the good suffer and suffer. Therefore, the priest is called "the child of creation". "Creating children" are wayward children who are foolish and irresponsible.

We often say, "Create and make man." Westerners often speak of the "irony of fate" and often compare the god of destiny to a mindless frivolous woman who is clueless and moody. So there's a proverb: "If you have good luck, grab the hair on her forehead, because there's nothing to grab behind her back." In other words, good luck is missed, which also means the frivolous and willful nature of the God of Destiny.

Strangely, I think that a completely unreasonable life can be calculated in various ways, and the result can be the same. Doesn't this prove that life has a numerology? If there is no reason, how can it be counted? Those who are proficient in numerology can calculate very accurately. Some fortune tellers will only memorize their tricks, and they do not know how to change them, even if they are not accurate.

Generally, astrologers refer to "fate" as "boats" and "fortune" to "rivers". The "boat" only walks in the "river". Ten years of luck, in two steps. Fate is good or bad, and luck is good or bad. Those whose fate is not good and the luck is smooth, that is, the fools and bastards mentioned above enjoy wealth and honor, and they can deceive the world and steal their names without learning and having no skills.

If fate is good and bad luck is bad, that is, people with talent and moral character are excluded, jealous, and trapped in life. If the fate is bad and the luck is bad, then it will be poor for a lifetime. But the "luck" is always tortuous and often turned. One step at a time, one turn. And in addition to the great luck, there is also the fortune of the year, paying attention to a lot. There are not many people who have been lucky for twenty or thirty consecutive years, and even fewer who have good luck in a lifetime. I have no intention of learning fortune telling, the above is just a few superficial studies that I have heard occasionally.

In his later years, Confucius liked "Zhou Yi", and composed "Saying Gua", "Preface", "Series Of Words", "Wen Yan", etc., all of which pay attention to the various principles of yin and yang, surplus and void, and dissipation, similar to fortune telling and divination. Anyway, there are a number to calculate, there is a certain reason to calculate. Otherwise, how can it be counted?

Since life has a destiny, as a human being, I can't help but be autonomous. So, what responsibility does "I" have? Settle with the encounter, get by and get by.

Man cannot make his own decisions, but can speak from his own experience. Looking back on my life, many things are involuntary, but some things are determined by fate, or determined by character, or by free will, and it is worth investigating.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, a senior official of the Kuomintang government once promised Qian Zhongshu a UNESCO post. Chung Shu refused to do so. I think it's ideal to serve in the United Nations, but why do you refuse to do so? Chung explained to me, "That's a carrot. He is not tempted by "carrots" or driven by "sticks."

I think it was his fate to be appreciated by a high-ranking official. But his "don't eat carrots" is his character and his free will. Because during that period, this position was very popular. It is necessary to have his intelligence and his personality to refuse without thinking.

Soon after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the War of Liberation resumed. Many people are panicked and just want to flee abroad. Our minds are not progressive. We have read many reactionary novels describing life after the "Iron Curtain" in the Soviet Union, especially the situation of intellectuals, so we are afraid of the Communist Party. Those who persuaded us to leave the motherland provided all kinds of convenience and arranged very good work for both of us.

There is more than one way to go abroad. Those who advised us to stay for liberation were Mr. Zheng Zhenduo, Wu Han, Yuan Zhen and his wife. They say the Communist Party values intellectuals. We believe that. But we know that we are not useful intellectuals.

We are not scientists, nor are we literati who can take Marxism-Leninism as the norm. We, the free-thinking literati, are useless. We think about it again and again, or we are reluctant to leave the country of our parents, and we expect to be safe and secure, sit on a cold bench, live a life with rough tea and light rice, and be a good and docile citizen. It's our own choice, not a last resort.

Another example is that I was a middle school principal at the age of twenty-eight, which can be said to be fate. I knew that I was not the principal's material, and I only promised Mr. Wang Jiyu, the principal of my alma mater, to help her make the Shanghai branch a success. It was originally said to be half a year, but later extended to one year. Mr. Ji Yu refused to let me resign. This is the fighting spirit of Mr. Ji Yu and me. Doing it is a thousand smooth, resigning is sailing against the current, but also against the wind, step by step is difficult. But I resigned. At that time, I needed a job, I needed a salary, and the principal of a good middle school did not do it, and I became a substitute primary school teacher. It's not a last resort, it's my choice.

Because I think that if I obey Mr. Ji Yu's request, I will obey her expectations and inherit her position for the rest of my life. I want to do it. I didn't dare to say or think about it, but I didn't want to be the principal. My resolute resignation was my choice, it was my will to stand up for myself. It's not fate.

But the script I wrote in my spare time was immediately staged, and it was successful, which should be said to be fate. Although I resigned as principal, I am still nominally the principal, because the incoming principal is only "acting", and on the student diploma, the principal is still my name, my seal. Then the Pearl Harbor incident, the sinking of the "isolated island", the dissolution of the branch, and I had no chance to be the principal. But my resignation, which in any case cannot be said to be fate, is my choice. Maybe I've been in the headmaster's fortune for two years.

If we reflect on the experience of our lives, it is because of the situation at that time, involuntarily. But at the critical moment, it is still up to you. Fortune tellers compare "fortune-making" to boats and "luck" to rivers, and boats can only walk in rivers. But in the "creation of destiny", there is also the "lord of destiny"? If the ship is about to run aground or capsize, there is still a "me" in the boat who is in charge, which can also be said to be the personality of this person. This is the so-called personality that determines destiny.

Can it be said that martyrs killed themselves and loyal subjects sacrificed their lives for the country, but that they were destined? They listen to the call of their spiritual conscience and would rather die than yield. If you are greedy for life and afraid of death, you can't help it. Preferring to die is a resolute choice, not involuntarily. It is man who is in charge, not fate.

At the beginning of the Second World War, the Japanese invaded China. After the fall of Wuxi City, the Qian family once had a male servant living in the countryside of Wuxi, and when they learned that Nanjing had been lost and Wuxi was lost, they built a large pyre that could burn people with soil methods on the grain field of his family, and the whole family of five or six people, young and old, jumped into the fire and burned to death one by one.

After the fall of Nanjing, the massacre of the people and the rape of women by the Japanese Kou soon spread to Wuxi. They did not want to be raped and slaughtered, and their whole families set themselves on fire. The common people may not understand what martyrdom is, but their deeds are martyrdom! Can it be said that their actions are not their own choices, but involuntary? This incident was reported by a native who had fled to Shanghai to qian's house. Qian Zhongshu has gone to Kunming, and I don't know their names.

The fate we see is unjustified, just joking, used to tease people, used to make trouble. Both Chinese and foreign, the view of fate is the same. How can the heavens of the gods allow the child of creation to play with the world and rule over the world? Those who cannot obey their orders have doubts about the gods of heaven.

When we think about problems, we cannot be carelessly affirmed, nor can we be carelessly denied when we are doubtful. In this way, we lose the ability to think, walk into the labyrinth, and in the confusion of doubt, disappointment and despair. We can be confused, but we can imagine that there may be a reason for it. For the gods of heaven are incomprehensible to everyone.

The misdeeds of the child created an irrational human life. But can such a small earth that allows us to live be the home of the world? And do you know that this irrational human world is deliberately arranged by the divine nature? If the gods of heaven were to be divine, they would not allow the creation of children to rule over the human world.

Confucius more than once called it "Mandate of Heaven", not just "Mandate of Heaven", but also said that "a gentleman has three fears". The first is "fear of destiny,...... The villain does not know the destiny of heaven and is not afraid of it" (Analects of Ji Shi XVI). It is with reverence, acknowledging that fate is predestined.