Some people say that Chinese of human wisdom only need to find a copper coin that the ancients had to touch every day.
The copper coin is round, and the inside is a square hole - a person should be like a copper coin, with an inner square and an outer circle.
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Ji Xiaolan during the Qianlong period believed that "living in the world is smooth, the heart is right, and people are humble because of different flows", which is the best understanding of the inner and outer circles.
"Inner square" refers to the principle of being a person, "outer circle" refers to the skill of getting along with people, and the combination of the two is the way to deal with the world Chinese.
If a person is too upright, he will be more humble when he encounters people, and he will be hit by a broken head and bleeding, and he will be hindered everywhere.
If a person is exquisite in all aspects and sleek to the top, he always wants to harm others and benefit himself, and he will inevitably make others wary everywhere, and eventually everyone will rebel.
There is a story in the Zizhi Tongjian that the King of Wei attacked a city, feasted on his courtiers, and drank three times, and the King of Wei asked the hundred officials, "Do you say that I am a Ming Jun, or a Duan Jun?" ”
Of course, most of the officials tended to be inflamed, knowing that the King of Wei had just made meritorious achievements and needed to be praised, so they said one after another: "Of course, the Great King is a generation of Ming Emperors."
However, there was a minister named Renza, who was known for his integrity, but he said, "The great king is the emperor."
King Wei was not convinced, and asked Ren Za with anger, "Why do you say that?" ”
RenZa replied, "Great King, you won this battle and captured the enemy city, but you did not record the military merits you deserved on the head of your brother who was born and died, but gave it to your son, which shows that you are the Emperor of Darkness."
The King of Wei was furious and immediately ordered Ren to be driven out of the house and waited for the fall.
Then he asked the next courtier, who said, "The Great King is mingjun." ”
King Wei was overjoyed and asked, "Why do you say that?" ”
The minister then said, "Only a Ming Emperor can attract direct ministers, and now that there are ministers like Ren Za under the Great King, he sincerely considers the Great King, so it can be seen that the Great King is the Ming King!" ”
After hearing this, King Wei felt that it was very reasonable, and immediately invited Ren Za back in to the banquet.
Most of the officials who simply attached themselves were "only round and not square", with no principles and no ethics.
Ren Za is a person who is "only square and not round", who does not look at the occasion when he speaks, so that the other party cannot get off the stage, such a person is difficult to be liked by people, and even easy to kill himself.
The last minister was the "inner and outer circle", who not only adhered to the correct principle, did not contradict the other party, but also resolved the contradiction and gave the other party a step down.
There are too many people like The Hundred Officials in the world, and there are many people like Ren Za, but the wisdom of the last adult is lacking.
In his early years, Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty was also eager to do some practical things for the imperial court, but he was degraded many times in his life and did limited.
When Wang Anshi was the prime minister to lead the reformists to carry out reforms, he was an opposition, writing poems to satirize the problems in the reform, so he was beaten and demoted.
A few years later, Sima Guang became chancellor and completely denied Wang Anshi.
Su Dongpo, however, stood up and said that Wang Anshi's policies were not useless, and some were desirable, and turned to attack Sima Guang, so he was attacked again and relegated to Hainan.
The world knows that Su Dongpo is a fat man, and once Su Dongpo patted his belly and asked his family: "You say, what is in my belly?" The little lady said it was poetry, the little scribe said it was a learning, and Su Dongpo shook his head.
At this time, the concubine Chaoyun smiled and said, "I see that the old man is anachronistic!" ”
Su Dongpo is indeed an anachronistic person.
He thinks independently, has a strong personality, is emotional, naïve, straightforward, worried about the country and the people, sick and evil, and unhappy in the face of unfair things, although he is not a bad person in essence, and even a good talent for the sake of the country, but this character is doomed to leave him in history only with literary rather than political talents.
In real life, can not be the inner square outside the circle, just like the angular, static "mouth" word, there is no possibility of movement, good at doing things, will turn the outer part of the "mouth" word into a circle, so that it rolls up, while the inner essence remains unchanged, this is the inner square and outer circle.
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