Millihong's Works: The Weather of a Reader

Hu Shi is the luckiest reader in the world, who became famous in his 20s and has received 36 honorary doctorates from world-class universities in the following 40 years. Perhaps, these are just successes in the eyes of the world. In the eyes of many scholars, Hu Shi's most convincing thing is his personality, gentle temperament and clear opinion. Ye Gongchao said: "There was a period when we often had arguments, but he never got angry, did not ridicule, did not flow into a sneering attitude. He seems to have a natural positive personality. There is something to say on the initiative, to say it to your face, to argue in person, never to put a dark arrow, and not to have a plan... Meanness is the thing that is the furthest away from the right character. He has a very natural mellowness, which is rare among friends. Chen Zhifan praised Hu Shi as an elder in the spring wind, a pity for the help of the teaching of the students' descendants, and did not hesitate to provide the knowledge and personality nutrition of the world, and had a warm atmosphere of its own.

Lin Gufang said: "Meteorology is the vision, the pattern, and the hills and ravines, but compared to this, it has more of a swallow, can be closed around, can retreat to the secret, no matter what is said horizontally or vertically, there is always a degree of temperament and vitality." "Meteorology, that is, a person's temperament and temperament, it emanates from the inside out, so that people around them feel a unique aura.

This vitality contained in the spirit is not a rootless wood, a water without a source, and one of the ways to nourish and prosper is to read. A person's philosophy of life, wisdom and learning, and pattern are often inseparable from his long-term and extensive reading. To read is to read the heavens and the earth, to know the world. Because everything in the world is in the book, everything that is not in the world is also in the book, and there is still a slight surplus of putting the universe in the book. Long-term immersion in books, people will easily remove the floating clouds covering the soul, self-contemplation, self-discovery, self-enlightenment, see the world to see the "big me", and form a broad personality.

Reading this action means opening, dyeing, absorbing, discussing, pondering, generating, criticizing... Open yourself and let the world come into life. When it comes in, you have a chance to go out; when you go out, you can realize it; only when it is conscious can you see yourself, in the middle of the lights, proudly independent.

Su Dongpo said that "there is poetry and bookishness in the belly", and Gorky said that "learning changes temperament". A person who reads for a long time, with Yingzuihua, always has invisible nourishment quietly into the heart; over time, there is always such a power that makes your chaos open and your eyes sudden. Between chants, Tuna ZhuYu; before the eyebrows, curl up the wind and clouds. See through thousands of miles, think for thousands of years; open and close the scroll, swing the chest stratus clouds. This kind of spiritual atmosphere is manifested in temperament, which is calm and indifferent; in the treatment of people and things, it is benevolent, friendly, and amiable.

The person Feng Youlan admired most was Cai Yuanpei, and Cai Yuanpei's personality of spring wind and rain was the fundamental reason for his convincing. Feng Youlan was studying at Peking University at the time, and Mr. Cai was the principal. In the second year of Feng Youlan's enrollment, he went to ask Mr. Cai for a sign for one thing, and when he first entered the principal's office, he felt that the whole room was a kind of atmosphere that made the cold room glow. He said that Zhou Dunyi's meteorology is like light and wind and moon, and Cheng Hao's meteorology is "pure as fine gold, warm as good jade, wide and systematic, and harmonious without flowing", which are completely applicable to Cai Yuanpei. Cai Yuanpei has studied in both China and the West, has a deep foundation in Traditional Chinese studies, and empathizes with the democratic science of the West. This is inseparable from Cai Yuanpei's long-term reading, he said: "I began to read books since I was more than ten years old, and now I will be 60 years old, except for serious illness or other special reasons, there is almost no day that I do not read." "If the mountain has jade, the stone is run, and the yuansheng pearl is not dry." Perennial immersion in books and self-cultivation, Cai Yuan cultivated into a kind of benevolent, kind and sincere "gentleman's atmosphere". Liu Yazi said: "Mr. Cai's life is peaceful and generous, and he makes people feel like sitting in the spring breeze. ”

And that kind of spiritual atmosphere that emanates from the inside out is called "bone phase" in the mouth of Zeng Guofan, a heavy minister at the end of the Qing Dynasty. He, who had been the governor of Liangjiang, did not want his son to be an official, but only wanted his son to be a gentleman who read and was reasonable. He said in his letter: "The temperament of man, because of his innate nature, is difficult to change, but reading can change his temperament, and only reading can change his bone. "The inner spirit is inevitably damaged by the dust in the struggle of fame and fortune in the world, and reading can purify and replenish it. Reading with heart can change narrowness into generosity, let conceit become modest, let the lazy people forge ahead, let the cowards be decisive and resolute, the vulgar learn elegance, the naïve move toward maturity, the ignorant stay away from shallowness, and the tyrannical converge on rudeness... In the silent slow release infiltration, the human soul will be a little richer, more delicate, noble and more beautiful.

For thousands of years, the world has been blossoming and falling, spinning and changing, and the changing world has all floated between the pages. Books give the reader a pluralistic personality, observing the great thousand with his own eyes, and also observing the world with the eyes of countless hearts. The abundant and clear soul appearance and the spiritual character of the weather are inseparable from the nourishment and cultivation of reading.