Zhu Ziqing: On things

Chinese readers have never cared much about things. The "four walls of the family" are not bad for scholars, and only when they are officials can they be considered good officials; only the laymen and corrupt officials who love to accumulate things are the laymen and corrupt officials, and everyone looks down on them. This kind of uncaring thing can be called Qingde. As for what is written in the "New Language of the World":

Wang Gong returned from the meeting, and Wang Da looked at it and saw that he was sitting on a six-foot mound, because of the words Gong, "Qing Dong came, so there should be this thing." You can take me by the hand. "Congratulations are speechless. After the great departure, it is sent to the person who sits in the seat. When there is no room left, sit down. After hearing this, he was very shocked, "I am said to be a qing, so I ask for an ear." ”

To the point, "The father-in-law does not know the gong, and the gong is a man who has no long things." ”

"Being a man without a long thing" also does not care about things, but this is a grand view. Later people often said, "What is outside the body, what is enough to calculate!" One kind of thing is also a manifestation of this kind of insight, but from another angle. "Qing" is from a moral point of view, "Da" is from a philosophical point of view, Qing is not turbid, Da is not vulgar, is elegant.

Readers also care about things sometimes, and some of them have collecting habits. The collection is only books, calligraphy and paintings, antiques, stamps and the like. These people love to visit bookstores, shops, stalls, and the accumulation of small quantities can be more, but they cannot become big collectors. Big collectors always have to get a little official or business. Big collectors can seriously care about things, and collectors who love beauty of students are more or less with a little game Samadhi. - They will make the collection public at any time, and sometimes give them to the people who know the sound, and they are not strictly sealed, leaving "children and grandchildren forever treasure". None of these things are practical, and these beauty-loving collectors are also elegant. Everyday practical goods, readers have never cared or cared about. In fact, they are not short, generally speaking, there are always food and clothing. With food and clothing, there is nothing else short. These people are always reluctant to buy daily necessities, so they often have trouble with their wives. And when moving or on the road, the wives always have to bring more things, they always have to lose more things, and they will spend a lot of money on their lips and tongues - although in fact, the wives are more victorious.

Now readers can also seriously care about things, and even practical products are treated equally. In the past two years, things have risen too fast, even rabbits can't catch up, and the average reader is gradually unsure of what he eats and wears; although they are still trying to maintain purity, but that kind of Daguan has to be temporarily put aside. So I talked about tobacco, talked about wine, and began to talk about chai rice oil and salt cloth. This is the first time that the gentlemen and wives talk about going all the way. The wine is not drunk, the smoke is getting worse and worse, the less it is smoked, and it is quitting the idea - in the future, I will collect the pipe mouthpiece as an antique. Chai rice oil salt cloth old in the idea of more collection, less consumption. I cherish everything, and I really do "a porridge and a meal when thinking about it is not easy to come.". These people are not only no longer deaf Ajiawong, but also have simply become the Lingzi of the Ke family. That love of beauty, needless to say, must be temporarily put aside. In addition to professional efforts, these people only circle around the chai rice oil and salt cloth, as if they were pitiful. Not really. They have that handful of clear bones, enough to be proud of themselves. Besides, chai rice oil and salt bridle is not uninteresting, especially at this time. For example, today I suddenly learned that oil and salt have a public sale, which is so much cheaper; today I know that the peanut oil of Boss Wang's family is less than five cents per kilogram of Boss Zhang; today I know that chai has risen, fortunately, I bought three hundred pounds of collection yesterday. All this news can teach people to go home with a triumphant smile. It's a struggle, but it's also a pastime isn't it? Blessed are those who can find entertainment in chai rice oil and salt brie. From another point of view, this is also a Daguan or Yayi.

Readers are probably not happy or able to change their professions, and they rarely turn into hoarding and strange traders. Although they also cherish things now, they cherish themselves even more; they cherish things, but in fact they can only cherish themselves. They don't have to say that they cherish the chai rice oil and salt cloth they need, and they just have some old things in their own boxes, books, clothes, and so on. These things have followed them around in their own China for several years, but they themselves may not have cared much about these old things, let alone made love to them for a while. But things are getting more and more expensive, and some are getting less and less, so they open their own cages and look closely, hey! How cute, there are still so many things! So I picked it up and looked at it in detail, the more detailed it was, the more interesting it was, the more energetic it was, like an old friend who had not been seen for many years, and I didn't know how to make love. With these, you have to go to Mozi for a while, as much as you can afford to visit the old goods store, the stalls, and also worth drinking a good wine and smoking a few good cigarettes. Besides, I saw myself as if others looked at me, and I was a poor egg at all; this time, regardless of what others were, I really felt rich. Look, consignment houses, auction houses, some are, some of the buyers of upstarts are, today to sell a little, tomorrow to sell a little, you should always be able to patch up some food and clothing. When it is sold out, the day of victory in the War of Resistance will come, and at that time these readers will be old tempered, and at that time they will think, "Some things outside the body are nothing, and they are all in tatters!" We still wait to visit bookstores, thrift shops, and stalls. ”