"Fishing Tree Asks Right", a Strange Text that cannot be overtaken, reveals the ultimate meaning of the whole world for people

In the past few thousand years, the ancestors have created many works full of wisdom and philosophy, such as Lao Tzu's Three Thousand Words "Tao Te Ching", which tells the truth of the cycle of life and death of all things in the universe; Confucius's "Analects", which is regarded by posterity as a classic of "half of the Analects ruling the world" by posterity.

And these are all short and concise works of brilliant pen genius, are the crystallization of the knowledge and practice of the sages, the so-called "wonderful words to the path, the road to simplicity", let us look at the Northern Song Dynasty, in that economic and culturally highly prosperous Song Dynasty, but also produced a "wonderful word" that can let people understand the world and recognize the road, that is, Shao Yong's "Fishing Tree Asks right".

The fifth son of the Northern Song Dynasty, the talent of Shao Yong

Before introducing this book to you, let me introduce you to this impressive "Confucian" and "Taoist" person in the history of Northern Song Dynasty literature. What kind of glory did this Confucian whose name was engraved in history?

Shao Yong, the word Yaofu, Yu KangJie, so posterity also called him Shao Kang Jie, born in the Song Zhenzong period, but through the Song Renzong, Yingzong, Shenzong, Zhezong several dynasties, a total of 67 years old died, in the "life of seventy ancient rarity" in the ancient times, this Mr. Kangjie can really be called a long-lived old man.

When he was young, he was very hardworking and serious, and he loved to read. In modern parlance, he is what his parents call "someone else's child", a good student in the eyes of his teacher. In order to exercise himself, he even did not "heat" in the winter, you know, he lived in the northern region all year round, but he hoped to hone his will and spirit.

When reading books, I often lament that the ancients regarded the sages as their spiritual good friends, not only reading the books they had read, but also visiting the places they had experienced, and I only read their books, but I had not yet walked the road they had traveled. This "Little Shao Yong" is not only a wise man who can "read through ten thousand books", but also a practitioner who is determined to "walk thousands of miles".

When his years were gone, his character infected more people. When he was old, he settled in Luoyang, and once the sons of his neighbors and friends made mistakes, they would say, "These mistakes you have made will be heard by Mr. Shao and Mr. Sima Yong," and Mr. Shao is Shao Yong, and Mr. Sima Guang is another literary historian Sima Guang.

Is there a feeling that when you make a mistake when you are a child, the elders will say, "You are playing greedily, and the bad guys will take you away", but doesn't this just explain Shao Yong's character and influence? And "Fishing Tree Questions" is a strange article that highly reflects Shao Yong's character and behavior

The fisherman asked yes, the fisherman, the way also

There is no doubt that this is a dialogue-like article like the Republic, and he reveals the rules of the world's operation through the woodcutter's questions and the fishermen's answers. In this article, the fisherman is like the embodiment of the Tao, and his answer is full of Taoist thoughts, which is a fisherman who is "born".

In the face of the woodcutter's question about the stakes, his answer is full of views on the cognition of the world by the movement of things, telling the woodcutter that he must not only see where things are static and unchanging, but also see the relationship between the changes and movements of things.

In the face of the woodcutter's question about "knowing what it is" and how to "know why it is so", he answered the "knowing it" after cooking the fish with firewood and cooking it, and told him that "the interests and stakes are seen in the situation, and the body is hidden" of "knowing why it is so".

And when the woodcutter raises "wood" and "fish" to the level of abstract concepts of "fire" and "water" and how to use such feelings to learn this kind of abstract knowledge, the fisherman does not perfunctorily tell him what such knowledge has to do with you and other contemptuous words, but clearly explains to him the dialectical relationship between fire and water and the way of use, and to understand this knowledge needs to learn from life and experience with the heart.

It is precisely this kind of care that makes the woodcutter, who at first has a somewhat contemptuous tone, modestly admit to him that "if you don't reach the door of the son, you will almost perish." Throughout the dialogue, the fisherman has always maintained a wise, humble and careful attitude, as if he were a wise man who exists in the reality of the "Tao", which makes people feel like a spring breeze.

Yu Qiao asked yes, Woodcutter, Ru also

We all know that the level of development of the productive forces in ancient times was very low, they "rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to draft water", can not get rid of the demand for firewood, and there is such an image as a woodcutter, he is what people need. And what is Confucianism? Confucians, the needs of man also. If you take the Confucian characters apart, a single person is accompanied by a need, which is exactly the image of the woodcutter that Shao Yong shows in this "wonderful word", he is a practitioner who has entered the world.

In this "Fish Tree Question", the woodcutter constantly asks questions to the fishermen, just like the scene of Confucius greeting Lao Tzu thousands of years ago, he asked with his own questions and concern for the world.

This process is not only out of his own desire for knowledge, but also with a "Confucian heart" to replace the questioning of the lower classes of the people who are eager for knowledge and cannot get it. What he inherited was the master's benevolence in teaching without class and according to his aptitude.

He asked how the "mindless" understands all things? What is "thing"? Didn't he really know? He learned all things in his daily behavior, and he may not have read ten thousand books, but he walked all over the green mountains and "walked thousands of miles" to see everything in nature as if he had come to see him. His questions are for the world, for the heavens and the earth, for the people! There are also many questions.

It is also this benevolent heart that "establishes a life for the people" that makes the fisherman tell him to go to many worldly laws. The fisherman said, "The heavens are based on use, and the body is the end; the earth is based on the body, and the use is the end" is the pursuit of continuous transcendence and commitment of "Tianxingjian, the gentleman is unremitting in self-improvement; the terrain is kun, and the gentleman is carrying things with great virtue".

Yu qiao asked right, Thousand Ancient Qiwen

This is not just a simple dialogue, but also a fusion of Confucian and Taoist thought, showing how ancient Chinese civilization has understood the world and how it has worked in the past.

For example, regarding the use of moving changes to recognize things with the eyes of movement and change, "the body is useless, only change is used"; how the subject recognizes the object "I am all things, the meaning is self-evident" and so on.

In their lofty discourse, they expounded the truth of the rise and fall of good and evil, and in simple dialogue, explained the universal principles of the operation of the world and the rise and fall of dynasties. This not only requires a profound accumulation of knowledge, but also Shao Yong's profound understanding of everything in the world, repeatedly "pondering", and only now has this ancient and strange article.

epilogue

Shao Yong was one of the five sons of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he was also known as an admirable Confucian, such as Zhou Dunyi, the author of the "AiLian Sayings", and Sima Guang, the editor of the Zizhi Tongjian. We also often have a heart of respect for the ancients, which is the morality and civilization that we have washed over the years but still handed down, but he tells us to respect ourselves and love ourselves, as the text says, "Those who help others, the beauty of all things in heaven and earth." ”

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