(a)
Today, the word "no toss" suddenly popped up in my mind.
Whose quote was it about, and what was it about? I really can't remember. After all, he is old and young, and his memory is far inferior to that of young people.
So, I searched the internet. When I typed the three words "don't toss" on Baidu, I found that there were articles with opposite views below: "Don't toss is the great wisdom of life" and "Toss is the accelerator of social progress". Obviously, the former praises "not tossing", and the latter praises "tossing". I think there is a need for discussion.
China's ancient sages and sages did advocate not tossing on the issue of governing the country. For example, Lao Tzu once said that "governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh", which contains the meaning of not tossing. Just let him cook it slowly over low heat, don't stir it around, and if it is stirred, it will be inedible.
After the death of Prime Minister Xiao He in the Han Dynasty, Cao Shen took over the position of Prime Minister of Xiao He. He did not introduce new policies, and everything was handled in accordance with the rules and regulations issued by Xiao He when he was in power, and he governed the society. So there is an idiom "Xiao Gui Cao Sui". This is also a typical case of not tossing.
However, there are also many stories of tossing. The change of dynasty is a big toss-up, and the implementation of a reform policy during the period of political stability is a small toss-up. There is no need to give examples of the former, as for the latter, Shang Ying's change is a toss, Sang Hongyang's change is a toss, Wang Anshi's change is also a toss, and Li Hongzhang's Westernization movement is even more a toss.
Generally speaking, human society is switching back and forth between tossing and not tossing. It's hard to say whether it's better to toss or not.
(b)
We ordinary people don't talk about big things, let's talk about small things in daily life.
As far as our family is concerned, my wife likes to toss. After a few years, she wanted to toss and turn, change positions, clean up the dust, and the room seemed to have changed and freshened. Of course, there is a price to be paid for such a toss, that is, we all have to sweat hard, and we have to trouble the children to come back to help.
Last summer, while the heating pipes were being remodeled, she ordered me to do what she wanted to do with the house. I turned over the cabinets, moved the bed and table, and painted the room again. After the painting is finished, rearrange the furniture in the house. The home has a new look.
I blamed her for tossing, and she retorted to me: toss should be tossed. How to remove the old and cloth the new without tossing? How to remove the dust and dirt hidden in the corners without tossing? How to remove those hidden safety hazards without tossing?
You don't see the rat hole in the corner, how can you find it without tossing it and take measures to plug it?
You don't see the broken screen, where the flies and mosquitoes flew in, tear off the old screen and replace it with a new high-quality screen, and the problem is solved. Isn't this tossing necessary?
Isn't it just a toss when you tidy up the house, clean up the garbage, plug the rat holes, and renew the window screens? Besides, tossing is not necessarily a bad thing, you have to toss when you have toss.
(c)
My wife's words made me think. When it's time to toss, you have to toss, and not tossing is not necessarily right.
I think of the short experience of more than two years when I was hired as the principal of a private school in another place just after I retired. When I got there, I found out all aspects of the school, and I discussed with the chairman of the school, and the school's quality was too low, which gave people a very bad feeling.
For example, teachers dress very casually, and many people, including school leaders, like to walk around the campus in their clothes; it is customary for both male and female teachers to wear slippers to class; it is common for male teachers to wear vests to class in summer and female teachers to wear short skirts to class; male teachers are accustomed to smoking on campus, in the corridors, and in classrooms; the hygiene of classrooms and teachers' offices is very poor, and items are placed in a messy manner; On the teaching floor, black patches formed by bubble gum residue on the ground are everywhere; There is a thick layer of dirt on the doors of classrooms and teachers' offices, there is a large garbage dump next to the kitchen, and the whole school is littered with flies, which are often trampled to death when you go up the stairs.
What's even more disgusting is that the meals on the students' stoves are often covered with flies, and when selling food, the masters have to blast away the flies and then serve the students food.
With such an environment for running a school and such an environment for students to grow up, wouldn't it be a complete toss-up? I really can't stand such a low-grade school.
I clearly pointed out to the chairman that if this kind of school quality is not improved, the school will be less and less able to recruit students. Although it is a rural school, it must be run with urban taste in order to ensure the vitality of the school.
Subsequently, with the consent of the chairman, I proposed a series of reform measures for the school, starting from the daily behavior habits of teachers, emphasizing the civilized language, clothing and behavior of teachers. At the same time, the school-wide civilized sanitation creation activities were carried out, and teachers' offices, classrooms, dormitories, and toilets were promoted in an integrated manner. Cancel the campus garbage heap, block the garbage channels on all floors of the teaching building and office building, and bag all the office and classroom garbage and send it downstairs to the trash can and transport it out of the school. The introduction of a catering service organization, the contracting of the school canteen, through a few months of hard work, the whole school has a new look, and the phenomenon of swarming flies has completely disappeared.
After that, the leaders of the county education bureau went to the school to inspect and praised the school's quality for indeed improving a grade. That's the result of the toss.
(iv)
Nothing can be simply recognized and understood, and we must look at the problem from a dialectical point of view. If you don't toss when it's time to toss, you can't solve the problem, which is actually a kind of sticking to the old ways and clinging to the incomplete.
I remember when I was a child, I went to school in a village, slept on the floor, had poor hygiene, and had lice on my body. This critter doesn't know where it came from and lays eggs inside its clothes. This small creature parasitizes the human body, sucks the blood of the person, and also causes itching on the body. At that time, like other classmates, when the weather was warm, I took off my clothes and caught lice through the seams of my clothes. Once found, slam it with two fingernails and squeeze it to death.
When I came home on Sunday, my mother noticed that I was scratching all the time, so she asked me, "Do you have lice?" and I said yes.
The mother said, "Sleep under the quilt early at night, I will remove your padded jacket, and the inside of the jacket will be scalded with boiling water, and there will be no lice." You can never catch it all. ”
I don't want to toss. Because my mother was not in good health, I didn't want my mother to be too tired, so I tried to drag it over. Mom ordered, "Don't be verbose, go to sleep." If you don't want to toss and make a small fuss, can you completely solve the problem?" I saw that my mother was angry, so I had to obediently burrow into the bed.
That night, my mother removed my padded jacket and trousers, scalded the cloth shirt and the lining of the padded jacket and cotton trousers with boiling water, washed them, dried them on a coal fire, and made them for me overnight under a kerosene lamp. After putting it on the next morning, there were no lice biting me again.
I was very impressed by that. I'm afraid of tossing, and just trying to find lice through my clothes really doesn't solve the root problem. Mom is not afraid of tossing, and the correct way to solve the problem is to use boiling water to scald the lining of clothes to kill lice and insect eggs. Since then, I have dimly realized that when it is time to toss, not wanting to toss really can't solve the problem.
The small things in life are like this, and the many major problems of the society and the country should also be like this.