"Double subtraction" thinking: or revitalization of poetry

Editor's Note:

This article is submitted by a practitioner in the field of culture and art. The author believes that clarifying why education is needed, what is a good education, and which ultimate problems of mankind are solved by Chinese poetry and who I am will help to remove redundancies on the road of education and go light.

Wen | the owner of the Shuangyan Building

Why we need education; what is good education; Chinese poetry solves the ultimate problem of human beings; who am I?

Clarifying the above four problems will help us to remove redundancies on the road of education and lighten up. It helps us to give "double subtraction" and reap "multiplication".

Why do we need education?

Suppose that life is worry-free, the big houses in the city center, the beauty of fragrant cars, the golden clothes and jade food, etc.; suppose that people can live forever, do we still need education, do we need ten years of cold window, to fight for a ticket to a famous school?

No, you don't.

It can be seen that education is based on two foundations: First, human needs are unlimited, and the supply of resources is limited. People need to be educated, learn knowledge and skills, gain a competitive advantage, and thus prioritize access to the resources they need. Second, human life is limited, and it is necessary to raise children and grandchildren and realize ideals in a limited life. A good education can make people better realize themselves in a limited life.

In short, human society needs education because human society is full of competition. On the one hand, due to the extreme imbalance between supply and demand of resources, people need to be promoted through education and race against the same kind, first come first, live first and live well. On the other hand, because life has an end and there is no end to learning, and dreams have no end, people need to race against time, even if they come to the king's landing, they are eager to borrow another five hundred years from heaven.

Why do people need education? Because people have to meet the competition they face in walking in the world through education. People need to gain a competitive advantage through education.

So, what is a good education?

Eagles teach chicks to glide, adult cheetahs teach their youngsters to hunt, and mother penguins drive young penguins to the deep sea to fish, and so on. The author calls this kind of necessary, direct, and immediate education based on immediate interests basic education.

Basic education is ubiquitous in the human world. Peasants learning to cultivate land, craftsmen learning crafts, entering prestigious schools to obtain certain professional abilities, and so on, all belong to the category of basic education.

However, in the human world, relying solely on basic education inherited from the animal world and constantly evolving is not a good way to meet the competition and cannot help people gain a sustainable competitive advantage.

The so-called basic ability appears fragile and weak in the face of life, old age, illness and death, and in the face of natural disasters and man-made disasters. As a high-level animal with the ability to think and the wisdom of thought, man also needs to forge a hundred steels into a spiritual force that is soft around the fingers.

Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fought a decisive battle, on the physical confrontation, Xiang Yu can reach ten thousand, Liu Bang can not win. However, Liu Bang was good at employing people, and there was a strategist named Zhang Liang in his team. Zhang Liang played a sad whistle, and the Han army sang Chu songs in unison, arousing the nostalgia of the Chu army and completely scattering the Chu army.

In the dispute between Chu and Han, the battle was for the spirit of spirit. Liu Bang won, and the victory was in the attack on the heart.

Competition makes humans realize the importance of spiritual power in addition to basic skills. The competition of useless and useless spiritual forces has given human beings network thinking.

What is Networking? It is through the connection and union of many individuals to resist the risks that a single individual cannot control. One drop of water, the next second fate is unpredictable. However, when a drop is gathered together to form a vast ocean, it can be eternal.

The power of the Internet is the spiritual force that inspires everyone to gather, such as language, writing, art, philosophy, faith, and so on. Whether a network is strong or not depends on two factors. One is whether there are enough users, and the other is whether the viscosity is high enough. The Jewish people, ill-fated and displaced for more than two thousand years, are still strong today, relying on the ultra-high stickiness of their network of faiths.

The Chinese nation has been alive and well for thousands of years, relying on the powerful charm of its poetry and its open ambition to attract new users to join. The Manchus, who ruled the Central Plains for hundreds of years, were later assimilated by the Han Chinese, is the best example.

Throughout history, those groups that have perished have not died at the individual biological level, but the collapse of their group spiritual networks. Individuals who survive at the biological level tend to join more competitive ethnic networks.

Having network thinking is a huge leap forward that distinguishes the human world from the animal world. The power of the network based on spiritual beliefs even surpasses that of regions, nationalities, and countries. For example, many countries believe in Islam and are known as the Islamic world. China's poetic civilization, or Confucian culture, influenced the entire Southeast Asia, represented by Japan and South Korea, and called it the Confucian cultural circle.

Thus, an organization, because it is economically strong, thinks that it is competitive, which may be a misjudgment. In the current business field, the leader who has gained glory and wealth because of Internet technology, he is happy to stand at the peak of the civilization of the times, and it is inevitable that he is too conceited.

At this point, what is a good education? It can be summarized in the following three sentences:

First, a good education includes basic education for earning a living.

Second, good education needs to take into account intangible spiritual education, which Confucius called politeness.

Third, good education requires "network" thinking and top-level design. Good education is to let the educated belong to the spirit of the network more users, more sticky.

A good education is not a mass production of exquisite egoists who only want to rise to the top and get rich. Nor is it a cultivated person, after some clever acquisition, the head does not return to the ground to run away.

Next, we answer the third question at the beginning of this article: which ultimate human problems chinese poetry solves.

First, life. That is, the most basic physical and mental health problems of people. All the psychological problems Chinese can be found and cured in the poems of the past generations.

The heart is like a gray wood, and the body is like a boat that is not tied.

Ask Ru Pingsheng Gongye, Huangzhou Huizhou Danzhou.

In the heart of every Chinese, there lives a Su Dongpo. His role is to do psychological counseling for us, so that we can face the difficulties of life and the helplessness of life.

Everyone in the world is conceited and will feel that they are not in the right place. However, think of Su Dongpo, who is already famous in his twenties and is the emperor's guest. Such a high starting point, such a great talent, but a lifetime of ambition. Either in the term of office that was degraded, or on the way to being degraded, the so-called "Ask RuPing life and deeds, Huangzhou Huizhou Danzhou."

But he will open his eyes all night long, and repay his life for not showing his eyebrows.

This joint is a famous sentence of Yuan Shu, which he made to mourn his dead wife.

Before you can live a few days of comfort, you hurry away, separated from me forever. I felt so guilty that I missed you so much that I couldn't sleep all night.

Parting from life and death is a great thing on earth. Those who have not opened their eyebrows to the long eyes, dissolved and settled down, are not only Yuan Shu, who has lost his beloved wife, but also countless Chinese who have experienced life and death.

Confucius commented on the Book of Poetry as follows: Three hundred poems, in a word, innocent thoughts. To think innocently means that poetry is naturally the expression of deep love in the world. Chinese good blessings, and the unsatisfactory feelings in the real world can be comforted in the infinite poetry of the predecessors.

Poetry teaches, and how to solve the health problems of the human body? Take the most essential meridian massage in Chinese medicine as an example. Organize different Chinese characters together to form words, sentences, links, and chapters to provide content for poetry. In Traditional Chinese medicine, different acupuncture points are strung together to form meridian dialectics, and then through techniques, the miraculous effect of treating diseases is realized.

The brush writing of Chinese characters also corresponds to the tuina technique of acupuncture points. Calligraphy emphasizes the strength to penetrate the back of the paper, and tuina requires strength to penetrate into the deep layers of muscles and bones; calligraphy emphasizes pressing and pressing, and there are "drawing circles" with places and places, and the law of tuina requires the use of vitality, but also to "draw circles".

The sunset and the lone bird fly together, and the autumn water is long and colorful. Fourteen unrelated Chinese characters arranged together can deceive and create and write the great beauty of the world. In the same way, the fourteen disparate acupuncture points are combed smoothly, and they can also have miraculous health benefits, bringing the dead back to life and prolonging life.

Second, home country. That is, people's faith and responsibility.

The world is worried and worried, and the world is happy and happy.

Through these fourteen words, Fan Zhongyun was immortal. Because he spoke out the voice of the people who have always read books. The same meaning, countless generations of cultural elites have said, hao ru star han. The Analects have "the three armies can seize the marshal, but the puppeteer cannot seize the will"; the "Guan Zi" has "take the home as the home, the township as the township, the country as the country, and the world as the world"; Qu Yuan's "long breath to cover up the sniffles, mourn the many hardships of the people's livelihood", and so on. Looking closer, Guo Moruo has "forty million people working together in unison, with one heart and one mind and one suit"; Qiu Jin has "a heart of blood and diligence, sprinkling away the Energy of Bitao"; Lin Zexu has "profiting from the life and death of the country, and avoiding it because of misfortune and happiness", and so on.

In the early twentieth century, Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing and others led many uprisings and revolutions, when countless young talents joined the revolutionary ranks without hesitation, charging at the forefront of the gunfire and bullets, at the expense of their lives.

Among the young martyrs who sacrificed their lives, the vast majority of them were either rich or noble, received good higher education, and even had experience in staying abroad.

In the cognition of Chinese readers, the country is the largest home, the home is the smallest country, in order to defend the great righteousness of the country, China's readers, especially the cultural elite, would rather rise up and sacrifice than shrink back.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in the Southwest United Congress, where material resources were extremely scarce, a large number of masters with faith in their homeland were trained to cultivate another large number of masters with global influence and outstanding contributions to the construction of new China, all over the fields of science and technology and humanities.

In those days, there were no cram schools, no homework that had to be done early and dark, no books full of trolley boxes, but a good education.

Third, the celestial beings. That is, the cosmology of the unity of heaven and man. The code of Chinese poetry is a square Chinese character. The square Chinese characters are also a refined summary of everything in the universe, including people themselves, which naturally have life, temperature, posture, and color. Such a gift of words has formed a cosmology in which Chinese interacts with the spirit of heaven and earth and unites heaven and man.

The unity of heaven and man, with the Buddhist idea, is to eliminate the "discriminating mind." Me and all that goes beyond me is me. Such a view of the universe, or natural view, makes "me" full of awe and gratitude for "outside of me."

This kind of reverence and gratitude corresponds to the daily life of Chinese, that is, to take carefully and cherish infinitely. Sublimate daily life into art. For example, Chinese cherished every piece of kaolin and purple sand clay, creating a world-renowned ceramic art; Chinese cherished every rosewood, yellow pear, nan wood, beech wood, etc. gifted by nature, creating unparalleled Ming-style furniture. As well as food culture, wine culture, tea culture and so on.

When life and art form a closed loop, the spiritual world Chinese, and add a steady stream of living water.

In summary, Chinese poetry comprehensively solves the ultimate problems of human life, homeland, and heaven and man. It is indispensable to have one, not two, to help the Chinese nation create an incomparably powerful spiritual belief network.

Finally, who am I? What makes me proud? Where did I come from and where am I going? What kind of education should I choose? These questions are left to more readers to answer.

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