Those who have committed self-abuse have not been able to be straight
Health has always been one of the topics that Chinese enjoy the most.
There are two schools of thought – "light" and "thick".
The so-called "light" is coarse tea and light rice, indifferent and quiet; the so-called "thick" is big fish and big meat, and the personality is hot.
Is it "light" to raise well, or "thick" to raise well?
Today, we compare Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang.
Zeng Guofan's health is light nourishment.
Coarse tea and light rice, indifferent and quiet.
Zeng Guofan was half a saint, but the saint also ate supper.
Tangtang Qing Dynasty Zhongtang Lord, the first minister of Zhongxing, the governor of Liangjiang.
You think his supper looks like this:
Kebabs, grilled oysters, hand-torn chicken, high-end liquor.........
In fact, it looks like this:
Broth with pickled vegetables.
Later, simply remove the broth, and boil the green vegetables in the white soup!
Lao Zeng was very cruel to his children's dietary requirements, indifferent to the point of eating white rice.
In the tenth year of Tongzhi, that is, in 1870 AD, the sixty-year-old Zeng Guofan wrote to his brothers, proposing the six principles of health that he summarized:
First, a thousand steps after a meal.
Second, will sleep and wash your feet.
Third, there is no anger in the chest.
Fourth, there is a constant time for meditation.
Fifth, there is a constant time for habitual shooting.
Sixth, eat a bowl of white rice at dawn without sticking to the dishes.
Two of the six are about exercise: a thousand steps after a meal and a practice of shooting. There are two habits of life: foot washing and meditation. Cultivated: no anger in the chest.
The sixth is a habit of life, but the most ruthless, do not eat a little dish, eat a large bowl of white rice. Exercise the will and develop the habit of eating lightly.
A light diet is good for health.
However, the following year, Zeng Guofan was gone.
He died on December 31, 2011.
Although it exceeds the average life expectancy of the late Qing Dynasty, for a court official, this life length is really not unusual.
Li Hongzhang, who is twelve years younger than Zeng Guofan, is "thick" and raised.
Mountain treasures and sea flavor can not be less, after lunch does not stop, to come to a bowl of chicken soup, not chicken soup for the soul, but chicken soup boiled in a solid pot.
Next, drink "molten iron", that is, water made from a mixture of ginseng and astragalus.
Li Zhongtang's taste is heavy.
The famous "Li Hongzhang Smorgasbord", that is, the "water bowl" of the Hefei people, is a pot of stew, stew what:
Pork belly, ham, sea cucumber and old hen soup.
It's all hard dishes.
Such a heavy taste of a pot down, it is estimated that the purine content is also enough.
However, Li Hongzhang lived to be 79 years old.
Old Zeng, what did you do wrong?
Zeng Guofan, who had rough tea and light rice, was in a worrying state of health.
In the second year of Tongzhi, that is, in 1863 AD, Zeng Guofan wrote in his family letter that he suddenly vomited in the morning. And this kind of dry vomiting has long existed, occurring every six months or months.
Zeng Guofan himself judged: digestive function is not good.
In the sixth year of Tongzhi, in 1867, in a letter to his wife Ouyang, Zeng Guofan reported his health:
"Yu's body is as good as usual, but his eyes are getting worse and worse, his tongue is sluggish when he speaks, and his left tooth hurts even more."
The vision became increasingly blurred, the tongue was dry when talking, and the left tooth was very painful.
Zeng Guofan judged it himself: spleen deficiency.
Tufangzi: Stir-fried with aged rice for many years, then boiled into a thick porridge and taken.
However, Zeng Guofan's poor physical condition did not change, and it was not known whether he had used this formula.
At this time, Zeng Guofan was fifty-eight years old.
Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty also began to shake his teeth before fifty years ago.
In the ninth year of Tongzhi, in 1870, when Zeng Guofan was fifty-nine years old, Empress Dowager Cixi summoned him and asked about his health.
The old man once replied, "The right eye has no gap in the light, but it cannot see, and the left eye still has light."
Complete blindness in the right eye.
The left eye vision is also OK.
This was the year before Zeng Guofan's death.
Zeng Guofan's dietary standards are very much in line with the standards of contemporary society, why is it still not helpful to the body?
The answer is one, malnutrition.
Coarse tea and light rice are good, but on the other hand, it also means malnutrition.
I am afraid that it is not appropriate for people who are rational to eat like this.
Drinking vegetable soup is not bad, but it should also be comprehensive, and chicken soup should also be drunk.
Break away, you can't cut off the nutrition.
The second answer is that Zeng Guofan loves to sulk, which is particularly lethal to the body.
Zeng Guofan has a famous saying, called "knock out teeth and swallow blood".
Others bully me, I don't care, I endure, I hold back, I want to use actions to prove that I am strong.
Zeng Guofan was angry a lot, and was brutally abused by the green battalion soldiers in Changsha who broke into the office and was scolded by the imperial family in the DPRK. Leading soldiers in Jiangxi was scolded not only for himself, but also for his brothers.
He put up with it.
In doing so, we will succeed in our careers but lose our bodies.
Worthy of the cause, but sorry for the body.
"Knock out your teeth and swallow blood", to say it well is toughness, to say bad is to be sullen.
Zeng Guofan likes to be sulking, which originates from his mother.
The old man often pointed to his belly and said to his children: My belly, like your grandmother, is full of depression.
"Often depressed and uneven".
Impulse is avoided, popularity is good, career success, reputation is established, but the body and mind are wronged.
As Ouyang Xiu's "Autumn Sound Endowment" said: "Prozac feels its heart, and everything works its shape."
Ouyang Xiu also said that the human body is "not the quality of gold and stone", it is not beaten by iron, and it has been tormented by the accumulated bad emotions for a long time, and it must not be carried.
Four years before his death, Zeng Guofan tried the "Tianjin Teaching Case", protected foreigners, harmed the interests of the Chinese nation, was scolded so much that even the inscriptions in the Hunan Guild Hall in Beijing were removed.
At this time, Zeng Guofan himself also admitted that "the outside is ashamed of the discussion, the guilt of the gods", the outside has failed the public opinion, and the inside is sorry for the conscience.
The "Tianjin Teaching Case" is a burden that Zeng Guofan cannot shake off in his life, and it also sent him to the end.
On the contrary, Zuo Zongtang, who had a hot temper and did not pay much attention to cultivation, lived for 73 years.
"Knock out your teeth and swallow blood", in Zuo Zongtang's place, it should be "hit my teeth and spray your face with blood".
At that time, Zuo Zongtang was an aide in Hunan, and to put it bluntly, he was a temporary worker, and he actually said that a sentence was not right, so he kicked the chief soldier Fan Xie and sent a rude sentence.
This matter was stabbed up, and Zuo Zongtang almost cut it.
With the lessons of the past, Zuo Zongtang did not absorb it, and his temper was still as big.
Before each ascension to the court, in the lounge of the group of ministers, zuo Zongtang was the loudest.
Once, when he was discussing with a minister about an elderly prisoner, three sentences did not match, and Zuo Zongtang was about to move his fist.
He never bowed his head in front of the foreigners, and the foreigners also respected him, Zuo Zongtang went to Shanghai, and the foreigners in the concession welcomed him with cannons, and they were very respectful to Old Master Zuo.
In this way, Zuo Zongtang lived 12 years longer than Zeng Guofan.
In addition to heredity, in addition to physique, it is estimated that it is also because Zuo Zongtang is hot and hot, and he never holds his breath in his chest.
Zuo Zongtang was angry with himself and immediately vented it, which was of great benefit to his health.
The country was angry, the territory was occupied, and he immediately carried the coffin out on the expedition to recover Xinjiang and exhale for the country, which was of great benefit to the country's territorial integrity.
Therefore, cultivation cannot be at the cost of sulking and holding your breath.
Break away, let people return to simplicity, no too much materialism, not too much triviality, of course, good.
However, it cannot be at the cost of malnutrition and being too Buddhist.
Only drink green vegetable soup, there is no gas can not be sprinkled, to the death, this is not called breaking away.
It's healthier to eat, to drink, to indulge in skewers once in a while, to get angry.
In life, we must have cultivation and live simply, but we must also have enough scientific basis, and the real decision is to cut it properly, to be willing to be correct, to be away from it, not to blindly want nothing.
What is removed should be cumbersome, not necessary.
Thin nutrition cannot support lofty ideals, and tasteless life cannot support noble personalities.
Mencius said: "Those who have wronged themselves have not been able to straighten out", and those who have wronged themselves may not be able to straighten their careers.
In your career, be tough on yourself.
In life, physically and mentally, be gentle with yourself.
Especially in contemporary society, with a carnivorous heart, but want to retain the body of a herbivorous animal, do the work of carnivores, eat the food of herbivores, the office must be contested, the tea Room calm and comfortable, so divided to live, do not collapse? That's weird!