Beijing, April 15 (CNBC) -- According to the Voice of China of the Central Radio and Television Corporation, the classics are opened and the sages are talked about. Using modern people's aesthetic methods and expressions, drawing creative power from classics, allowing more people to feel the profundity of China's excellent traditional culture, and spreading cultural self-confidence, is becoming a group phenomenon of today's writers. Writer Xue Mo is one of them.
Xue Mo, formerly known as Chen Kaihong, is a national first-class writer and cultural scholar. "It was Lao Tzu who taught me a lot of calmness. All I want to do is interpret what he wants to say from my point of view, in a way that people in this era can understand, and tell people how to apply his wisdom to use. Talking about the original intention of the creation, Xue Mo said.
Writer Snow Desert
How do we understand Lao Tzu? What are the contemporary values and contemporary significance of Lao Tzu's wisdom? On the CCTV Voice of China program "Chao Hua Xi Shi", the host Su Yang interviewed the writer Xue Mo on this, taking you into the classics and discussing how to use lao tzu's wisdom to poetically live.
Poetry says Lao Tzu
To understand the essence of Lao Tzu's (also known as the Tao Te Ching), you can read the Snow Desert Poems About Lao Tzu. As a senior editor and editor of the People's Literature Publishing House, Chen Yanjin has been tracking Xue mo's creations for a long time. She said that Xue Mo is a powerful writer, in recent years began to turn to the interpretation of the mainland traditional culture classics, plans to publish six books to interpret Lao Tzu, this time published is a concise edition, I hope to be concise, through a book can fully understand Lao Tzu's thoughts and wisdom, convenient for readers to read and learn.
In the preface, Xue Mo sent affectionate messages to the reader saying:
After reading this book, you may be able to touch Lao Tzu's heart.
Of course he had no regrets, and apart from wisdom, he had poetry in his heart.
The lines and lines of this book are actually the intoxication of wisdom and poetry.
May you also be intoxicated by the ancient mysteries and poetry when reading this book, and while you are intoxicated, you can see the small, but firm and bright beam of light in your heart, through it, you have crossed the door of time and space, through the door of the avenue.
You'll meet me outside that door, and of course, you'll meet him.
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According to Chen Yanjin, "Snow Desert Poetry Says LaoZi" follows the eighty-one chapters of Lao Tzu, and each chapter includes four parts: the original text, the paraphrase, the introduction, and the poem. "Xue mo is extremely skilled in the use of language, and this book uses paraphrasing rather than literal translation to explore more of the spiritual aspects behind it, which will make the reader understand more." The introduction part is to guide the reader to think and extend from the original text to the truth, thought, wisdom, etc. contained in it, and use literary techniques to let the reader enter the world of Lao Tzu. "Poetry Speaking" is the highlight of this book, through a long philosophical poem to express Lao Tzu's thought and wisdom, similar to aphorisms, around our daily life, work, feelings and other further elaboration, to enlighten the reader.
"Lao Tzu is currently the most influential Chinese thinker in the world," the writer Xue Mo said in an interview, among the various translations in the world, Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" is the largest and ranks first in the world, "It represents the commanding heights of a kind of human civilization, which is very rare." All over the world, Lao Tzu's simple ideas have been recognized by many people. ”
Chen Yanjin, senior editor and editor of the People's Literature Publishing House
A new interpretation of lao tzu's wisdom
In today's era, even though there are countless translated versions of Lao Tzu, there are still many people who are unaware of the spiritual connotations of Lao Tzu. Xue Mo believes that the wisdom of Lao Tzu should be understood by more people and put into practice, "Therefore, I pay more attention to how Lao Tzu is used, how to integrate this wisdom into our lives, change our lives, and thus make us live better." ”
In Xue Mo's view, lao tzu's wisdom is a kind of metaphysical wisdom, not a content that can be understood simply by language, and the era of production is relatively simple, and modern society is already very complex, so it is necessary to adopt a new way that everyone can understand and accept. "More importantly, we must expound the wisdom of Lao Tzu so that everyone can read it." He believes that cognitive understanding of cultural ideas more than two thousand years ago is not easy for contemporary people, so it is necessary to pass on the wisdom of the ancients in a way that is acceptable to contemporary people, so as to affect our lives.
Xue Mo compares Lao Tzu's wisdom to grapes, and his own work "Xue Mo Poetry Says Lao Tzu" is a glass of wine, which is a new interpretation of Lao Tzu's wisdom. The publication of this book is not to solve related academic or conceptual problems, but to display and disseminate Lao Tzu's ideas. "More often, words are just carriers, and the wisdom behind them is the essence." Snow Desert said.
Touch the pulse behind the text
Xue Mo's dream when he was a child was to be a big writer and a good writer, so he looked at the works of many famous writers, such as Tolstoy, Cao Xueqin, etc., and he found that the most important reason why these writers can write excellent content is that they have a high realm, and only when a person's realm reaches a certain height can they present works of equal realm.
Xue Mo began to recite Lao Tzu at the age of 18, and he believed that one must not appreciate the connotation of Lao Tzu's thought until he was more than 50 years old. Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching was originally intended to cultivate morality, providing an ontological truth with a very high realm, and he not only had to understand the existence of truth, but also practiced it with his own life. That is to say, if there is no experience in life, it is impossible to appreciate this at all. All of this takes time and experience to slowly realize. When we transcend the barriers of words and knowledge, we perceive the existence of truth, and this human wisdom becomes our nourishment, and this high realm is universal whenever and wherever it is. "But when you reach the highest realm, you still have to keep learning, you still have to merge into the sea like a drop of water, into the ocean of wisdom." If you do this in your 50s, you can feel their pulse when you read any Eastern or Western book. ”
Xue Mo also called on teenagers to pay attention to Lao Tzu. He said that the classics set us the height of the goal, and when a person has climbed the mountain of Lao Tzu, he will use it as a reference and no longer care about those chicken and dog things. And teenagers need to have a weather, the initial strength is very small, but while reading the classics, the classics are also slowly integrated into their lives, they will know that there is a greater existence in human life, with a larger pattern, which is the essence of the wisdom of the Chinese nation.
Producer: Bai Zhonghua
Moderator: Su Yang
Editors: Wang Xin, Zhang Yi