The old saying: "Life and death have a destiny, wealth is in the sky," the next sentence is the essence, but unfortunately, nine people do not know that China is an ancient nation, with more than 5,000 years of development history, in a long history

The old saying: "Life and death have a destiny, and wealth is in heaven," the next sentence is the essence, but unfortunately nine out of ten people do not know

China is an ancient nation, with more than 5,000 years of development history, in the long history, condensed many of the wisdom of the ancestors of the crystallization.

In the face of life, people can always encounter bottlenecks and problems, so the ancients used wisdom to summarize some experiences and views, leaving many little-known famous sentences.

However, with the change of the times, people usually only pay attention to the first half of the sentence, thus ignoring the existence of the second half of the sentence, such as: "Life and death have a destiny, and wealth is in the sky." ”

This ancient famous sentence comes from the Analects of Yan Yuan, which used to mean that all encounters such as human life and death are determined by the Mandate of Heaven. It is often used to do things in a situation, and the meaning of irreparable manpower.

In addition, Cao Xueqin wrote in the forty-fifth episode of "Dream of the Red Chamber":

Lin Daiyu's cough deepened, she was sick in bed, Xue Baochao went to visit, but she said lightly: "Life and death have a destiny, wealth is in the sky, and it is not something that manpower can force", full of sadness and helplessness.

It can be seen here that the ancients' thinking about life and death is deeply rooted, but this does not mean that the ancients were negative and pessimistic in the face of life and death, and let it be natural.

Because "life and death have destiny, riches are in heaven" translated into modern texts, it is about everything we have in life, which is given to us by God, and there are some things that we humans cannot control, including life.

Although some people believe in ghosts and gods, and they also believe that a mysterious dawn is in control, "atheist" people believe that these things are all fictitious, and there is no need to call everything experienced in life fate.

It can be said that "life and death have a destiny, and wealth is in heaven," which is exactly the same philosophy contained in the popular "my fate is not up to heaven", after all, the former emphasizes its own helplessness, and the latter highlights the subjective initiative of human beings.

Although "life and death have a destiny, riches in the sky" to a certain extent enlightens us to look down on life, although it has become a famous sentence for thousands of years, but the next sentence is the essence, but now few people know, that is, "within the four seas, all brothers." ”

The meaning of this sentence is that while people obey the destiny of heaven, they must also treat the people and things around them with a peaceful attitude, and integrate into this earthly world through their own efforts.

In fact, this sentence also has an interesting historical allusion, Sima Niu came to Confucius alone, when he saw that the brothers of the same disciple and the master's family had a good relationship, he could not help but sigh his loneliness, and then the same disciple Zi Xia said to him these two classics.

"Analects of Yan Yuan": Sima Niu worried: "Everyone has brothers, and I die alone." Zi Xia Yue: ShangWen Zhi: Death and life have a destiny, and wealth is in the sky. Gentlemen are respectful and undisguised, respectful and courteous, and all over the world are brothers. Why should a gentleman suffer from having no brothers?

Thinking carefully about Zi Xia's words of consolation to Sima Niu, I feel that it is full of correct ways of looking at life, and the "gentleman is respectful and without loss, and respectful and courteous with others" also reveals to him the mystery of success.

If a person wants to succeed and wants to gain friends from all over the world, he must do "respect and no loss," that is, work hard, do things seriously and rigorously, and finally be sincere and polite, which will lay the foundation for your success.

Mozi once put forward the theory of "non-life", he opposed the Confucian saying that "life and death have a destiny, and wealth is in heaven", believing that this statement "everything has a destiny to teach the foolish people" Mozi saw the consumption and damage of human creativity by this kind of thinking, so he proposed non-life.