What is practice? Practice is a social objective material activity of people exploring the world and transforming the world. Practice is indispensable for us to understand and transform the world, and it has never stopped practicing since the birth of mankind. Practice is the foundation of knowledge, and it offers us objective possibilities for understanding and transforming the world. In our continuous practice, we have produced a new understanding of society and the world. Practice takes place in all aspects of our lives, and societies that leave it will stop moving forward.
Something like this has happened before:
War and Peace is a long work by the famous writer Leo Tolstoy. The description of the war scene in the book is very vivid and vivid, and there is an immersive feeling after reading it. All this is thanks to Tolstoy's personal inspection.
Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, and when he wrote about a passage between Russia and France at the Battle of Borokino, he always felt that the description was very abstract and not concrete, and he decided to go to the battlefield himself to investigate. When he arrived at Borokino, he carefully inspected all the ruins of this historical battlefield, kept its topography in mind, and specially drew a map, marking a horizon and woods, indicating the names of villages and rivers, and the direction in which the sun moved during the battle. Back at home, he compared the impressions he observed with the materials recorded in the historical documents, analyzed and studied, until everything was clearly understood, and then he sat down at the table and rewrote this text, which was not only vivid, but also bright and spectacular.
Coincidentally, Sima Qian, the author of the first general history of the ancient mainland, also attached great importance to field investigation. Before writing, Sima Qian traveled to the north and south of the great river, all over the country, in search of the relics of his ancestors. He passed through the hometowns of Liu Bang and Xiao He and inspected the situation of the Qin army diverting river water to irrigate the girder... He also crossed Zhuolu in the north, climbed the Great Wall, traveled to Yuanxiang in the south, and reached Kuntong in the west. The grand tour broadened his horizons, increased his knowledge, and laid a solid foundation for writing the Chronicle of History.
Practice makes it possible for the development of knowledge. In the final analysis, the problems arising from all the practical activities of mankind can only be solved through practice. The knowledge and creation of things produced through practical activities from ancient times to the present also directly or indirectly promote the further emergence and development of knowledge. Awareness is a gradual process, a process from shallow to deep. Practice makes it possible to know. In the 18th century, out of the need for technology and work efficiency, the steam engine was produced through continuous practice, and after the steam engine was produced, with the deepening of practice, the steam engine was used in transportation, and it developed into trains and the like.
It is a process of understanding from shallow to deep. First there were steam engines and then there were trains and so on. Who would have thought of inventing the train before the invention of the steam engine? This is obviously not possible. Similarly, if it were not for the generation of electronic computers, space detectors, etc. as a result of previous practices, it would obviously be impossible to engage in modern scientific research today. Without the compass produced by previous practices, it would be more difficult to open up new routes than to ascend to the heavens.
It can be seen from this that the understanding generated in practice will promote the emergence of new understanding. This is an endless process, and it is precisely because of this endless process that human society is constantly moving forward. Therefore, practice provides the possibility of understanding, and practice also promotes the continuous development of knowledge.
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