Chairman Mao calls for the study of the Seven Hairs of the Multiplication

On August 16, 1958, Chairman Mao wrote a short article and issued it to the whole party as a central document, calling on all party members and cadres to study the "Seven Hairs" written by the Huaiyin people during the Western Han Dynasty. He said:

I read this article as a teenager and ignored it for more than forty years. Recently, I suddenly felt something, turned it up and looked at it, as if I saw the deceased. Talk about the sincerity of the savages to expose, and give them to comrades. These words will remain true ten thousand years from now. Now under the leadership of the Communist Party, whether it is intellectuals, party, government, and military workers, we must do some labor, swim and climb mountains, and broadcast gymnastics. ..., the first and last two paragraphs are the theme and must read.

In recommending the short article "Seven Hairs", he also specifically quoted a few sentences from the first paragraph of the "Seven Hairs":

And the husband goes out of the public opinion into the sword, and the fate is known as the opportunity of paralysis; the cave house is cleared, and the fate is the medium of cold and heat; the eyebrow of the moth, the axe of the fate of the cutting; the crisp fat pus, the medicine of the rotten intestine. ”

Mei Cheng was the founder of Han Dafu, and his "Seven Hairs" marked the formal formation of Han Dafu and had an important position and extensive and far-reaching influence in the history of Chinese literature. However, people have always appreciated it as an excellent literary work, and Mao Zedong's cleverness is to regard it as a health care thesis, and use administrative means to promote it and study it extensively throughout the country.

"Seven Hairs" pretended that Prince Chu was ill and dying, wu ke went to visit, and borrowed Wu Ke's mouth to analyze the result of prince Chu's illness as the result of "indulging the desire of the eyes and the eyes, and the safety of the body", that is, the cause of the disease was an absurd and luxurious life, excessive comfort and pleasure, this rich disease could not be cured by drugs and acupuncture, and it needed a well-known and well-known gentleman to enlighten and enlighten in order to be cured. The article focuses on Wu Ke inspiring the prince with seven things and treating him in the form of conversation. Wu Ke described the beauty of music, the abundance of food, the grandeur of carriages and horses, the grandeur of the palace garden, the grandeur of the field hunt, and the comfort of the entertainment of Guantao for Prince Wu, but none of them worked. Finally, Wu Ke recommended to the prince great thinkers such as Mozi and Zhuangzi, "on the subtlety of the world, the right and wrong of all things", and talked about the world to talk about the wonderful way, and as a result, the prince, who had been bedridden for a long time, suddenly helped several people up, sweated a lot, and was completely well. The moral of the article is obvious, that is, "Yiyu can die, And Reason can save lives", material life is indispensable, and mental health is particularly important.

The main theme of the work, as Liu Xun said, "the son of the anointing Liang" ("Wenxin Carved Dragon Essay"), is actually enlightening for everyone. "Seven Hairs" advocates eating and drinking vegetables and drinking lightly, eating less high-fat and high-energy meat; advocating outdoor activities, getting close to nature, and persuading people to carry out more physical activities such as mountaineering and long-distance travel to enhance the body and soul, open up the state of mind, and entertain the heart; advocate more participation in social activities and oppose self-isolation; advocate diligence and laziness; advocate moderation and oppose indulgence; advocate an elegant and healthy lifestyle, strengthen their own spiritual cultivation, and cultivate noble sentiments. These claims are completely consistent with modern scientific theories of health care

In addition, "Seven Hairs" uses the method of conversation to conduct psychological counseling for the prince and finally cure the prince's disease, which is in line with the practice of modern psychological doctors, so "Seven Hairs" is not only a famous article that expounds the way of health care, but also the earliest medical case of a psychologist in China.