"Life and death have a destiny, riches are in heaven", is a word that people often hang on their lips, especially when people are not satisfied, they are often used to comfort others or themselves, so as to alleviate the depressed mood.
But what is unexpected is that the next sentence of this sentence is a completely different meaning, which can be said to subvert the view of the previous sentence, perhaps because of this, it is not mentioned by everyone, and it has caused it to become ten people and nine unknown compared with the previous sentence. Let's see what's going on.
"Life and death have a destiny, and wealth is in heaven" who said it, and where it came from
The phrase "Life and death have a destiny, and wealth is in heaven" comes from the Analects, but it was not said by Confucius, but by a man named Zixia.
Zixia was a disciple of Confucius, and was deeply loved by Confucius because he was diligent and inquisitive and liked to think. But this kind of love made a classmate feel uncomfortable, and this classmate was called Sima Niu, a Song Guoren, and was a son of the family.
But unfortunately, his brother participated in the rebellion, escaped from the Song Kingdom after the defeat, in order to save his life, he had to escape, but unfortunately there was no contact with his brother, he was very worried about this, I don't know if his brother is safe?
In fact, he is not narrow-minded and cannot tolerate the good of others, but because he is in a foreign country, he has no relatives, and his down-and-out situation is in stark contrast with Zixia's spring breeze, and it is inevitable that he will be envious of this.
In the face of Zi Xia's sense of inferiority, coupled with the worry about his brother, he felt even more uncomfortable, so he sighed to Zi Xia and said: "Everyone has brothers, I die alone."
The phrase "I die alone" here does not mean that I died alone, but that only I did not, and the whole sentence translates to: Everyone has a brother, only I do not. It expresses Sima Niu's lonely and frustrated mood.
Zi Xia saw that his classmates were so sad, and immediately comforted him, so the well-known sentence "Life and death have a destiny, and wealth is in heaven" came out. So this sentence is actually comforting, but in the later evolution, it gradually deviated.
Life and death have a destiny, and wealth is in heaven
"Life and death have a destiny, and wealth is in heaven" is certainly said by Zixia, but this view is certainly not only available to Zixia. As early as the time of Confucius, human intelligence was similar to that of now, so human thinking about life and destiny has long begun.
The so-called life and death have a destiny, in fact, people think about life, people can never understand, why am I, where I came from, I believe that many children have asked their parents this question, but in fact, they have not got the answer, because, this question, parents can not answer.
The source of life has been elusive, but the difference in life is always displayed, especially in a class-defined society, many people can not understand why some people can live a long and healthy life, rich and noble, while others are sick and short-lived, poor and poor.
No one will be satisfied with their own bad fate, so they all pursue, but people, there are always many limitations, where they can ask for what to get, often devote themselves to nothing. The so-called fulfillment of the heart is only a word of blessing.
This result is difficult for people to accept, saying that this pursuit is unattainable, but some people just get it, why can't they get it, say that they don't work hard, they have done a lot, even more than those who get it, why not?
After thinking about it, people finally discovered that things are different, after all, everyone's resources are different, whether it is innate endowments or acquired environments, people are different from people, not everything can be obtained through hard work, especially in a hierarchical class society.
Therefore, "life and death have a destiny, and wealth is in heaven" has become a common sigh of people, and in this sentence, the limitations of manpower that people fully emphasize have become the excuse for many people who do not work hard.
Yes, since it is all heaven and fate, what else do I have to work on? What was originally a word of relief turned into helplessness toward fate, which is what we often call mourning culture.
What is the next sentence of "Life and death have a destiny, and wealth is in heaven"
But is it really that negative? Surely not, the Chinese ancients like to use the twisting method the most, let us look at the next sentence, will find that in fact, the next sentence is the essence, but few people know.
And this next sentence is: "A gentleman is respectful and without loss, respectful and courteous with others, and all brothers in the four seas." This sentence is explained in our current language: as long as a gentleman does things seriously, does not make mistakes, and is respectful and polite to people, then there are your brothers everywhere.
In the long river of history, this sentence has been circulated for thousands of years, and gradually the next sentence has been known by fewer and fewer people. Only the one we know best is left. Zi Xia's words of comfort to his classmates were not only said to him, but also told to us, everything will pass, as long as we work hard, everything will be fine.
So why does the second half of this sentence become unsolicited? Maybe half of it is to comfort people, but in fact, the more half is to comfort themselves, not to fail are failed, and they are not willing to take the responsibility of failure, so they put everything into destiny, there is no easier than this.
epilogue
Thinking about the Mandate of Heaven, people have not stopped exploring, the ancients have one life, two luck and three feng shui saying, their fate is pinned on the unknown mysterious force, in order to liberate themselves and settle for the status quo.
But on the contrary, there is also the saying of obeying the mandate of heaven and doing the best of manpower, here, people have got rid of the absolute dependence on the mandate of heaven, I believe that human beings can also be done to a certain extent.
But for the vast majority of people, people believe in their own strength steadily, because people know that no matter how good their fate is, there is no blessing of manpower, it is also a castle in the air, crops are planted, silver is earned, maybe some people have great luck and won the lottery, but how many? Therefore, there are everything you believe in and how to do it, and the key is your own choice.
The picture comes from the network, if there is infringement, contact to delete!