There are unevennesses in the world, but there are two things that are equal to all people.
One is time. No one can stay young forever, and the red face will eventually turn white hair. How many emperors in history have delusional dreams of immortality, and as a result, they are either forced to die by their own infatuation or poisoned by the immortal Jindan.
The second is death, and no one can escape the net of death. Everyone can see the truth that they must die, but not everyone can face death calmly.
The attitude before death reflects a person's realm.
When Zhuangzi was dying, he asked his disciples to throw themselves into the wilderness at will, because in his opinion, being eaten by birds and beasts in the wilderness and being buried in the ground by insects in gold and jade would end up with the same ending, born in nature and finally enlarged, and there was no difference between life and death and honor and disgrace in the world.
Before his death, Wang Yangming said, "My heart is bright, and my husband is full of words," representing the realm of a philosopher.
Ji Kang, the leader of the Wei and Jin dynasties, leisurely played a song of Guangling Scattered on the execution ground, calmly and gracefully greeting the butcher knife, which was the Taoist attitude of "in the midst of the great waves, neither joy nor fear".
But the last words of li si and Lu Ji, who were also cattle people, were so desperate.
Li Si, the founder of the feudal system of the Qin State, when he was beheaded with his son, could not help but sigh: "I want to lead the yellow dog with Ruofu, but when I go out to Cai Dongmen to chase the cunning rabbit, he can get it." He said to his son, "The days when you and I were hunting outside the East Gate with your yellow dog are gone anymore."
At this time, in Li Si's eyes, the glory and wealth were like a wisp of smoke and clouds, and life was meaningless from then on, and the most meaningful thing was to lead a yellow dog outside the East Gate to live freely. Lisi wanted to go back to the old days, but he couldn't go back.
Lu Ji, a great talent of the Western Jin Dynasty, also sighed when he was killed, and he could no longer hear the cranes in his hometown.
Li Si's "Yellow Dog Sigh" and Lu Ji's "Huating Crane" both show a bloody fact, career is a bloody road, either you let other people's heads move, or others let you be in a different place;
Li Si's "Sigh of the Yellow Dog" and Lu Ji's "Huating Crane" also reveal a truth, that is, the philosopher Lao Tzu said, "Success is achieved and retreat, and the way of heaven is also.".
Li Siben became the founder of the culture and canon system of the Qin State, became an outstanding practitioner of legal thought, and a person under ten thousand people above the extremely popular subjects, which may have exceeded Li Si's imagination.
The rise of Lis began with the "Rat Sigh". When he was a warehousekeeper, he found that the rats in the grain storehouse were fat and fat, and some people were not afraid when they came; the rats in the toilet were smelly and thin, and when someone came, they fled in a hurry. The same is the rat, and the status gap is huge. Li Si realized that people are like rats, and the key to living well or badly depends on what kind of environment they are in. After that, Li Si rose up from Xunzi to learn the rule of etiquette, and eventually became Qin Xiang and realized his ideal of life.
On the day of his achievement, Li Si had also thought about Fan Li's boating in the Five Lakes, thought about the rabbit dead dog cooking of wen, and he had also thought about closing it, but he couldn't do it.
After a beautiful night feast, Li Si said, I was originally a commoner in Shangcai, and now I am an extremely popular subject, which can be described as extremely rich. Things are decaying, but I really can't stop.
Of course, the sober-minded Li Si knew the truth that "if things are strong, they will prosper and decline", but he cannot turn back under the impetus of the rolling red dust and the entanglement of infinite desires. In the end, just as Li Si said, the power and wealth of the smoked heaven collapsed in one moment and died.
The tragedy of Lis is that he did not close when it was time to close, and he never moved forward and eventually had no way out.
The poets of the Tang Dynasty resonated with Li Si's tragedy, and even Li Bai, who longed for fame and fame, dreamed of "Dapeng rising with the same wind in one day", and was confident that he could make the Haiyan River clear, also had deep feelings about this. Li Bai wrote in "Difficult to Walk":
I have been a sage since ancient times, and I have died without retreating.
Zi Xu abandoned the Wu River, and Qu Yuan finally threw himself into the Xiang River.
Will Lu Jixiong protect himself? It's not too early for Lees to be taxed.
Huating cranes can be heard? Shangcai Goshawk Ho Foot Road?
Jun did not see Wuzhong Zhang Han called Dasheng, and the autumn wind suddenly recalled the eastward journey of the river.
And a glass of wine before le is born, why should he be famous for a thousand years behind him?
After three years of incomparably brilliant life, Li Bai was driven out of Chang'an by Tang Xuanzong's "return of gold to the mountains". Li Bai comforted himself with the story that the land plane was difficult to protect himself and Li Si could not stop, and it was really helpless. Li Bai realized that Zhang Han, who remembered the delicious perch in Jiangnan when the autumn wind rose, and resolutely resigned to return to his hometown, was the wise man who could see openly and let go, so the meaning of life was that a glass of wine at birth was better than the ancient name.
In fact, Li Bai was not a man of heavenly opportunity, and after all kinds of efforts failed, he lived in seclusion in Lushan, and could not resist the temptation of the ideal of merit, joined the Yongwang shogunate, and wrote a series of "Yongwang East Tour Song" that could prove to be anti-poetry. However, yongwang was defeated and killed, and Li Bai naturally became a rebel. Fortunately, someone ran to the rescue, Li Bai changed to exile Night Lang, otherwise Li Bai would probably have the sigh of a yellow dog like Li Si.
Everyone understands the truth, but how to do it is another matter, which is the paradox of man.
The ill-fated poet Liu Yuxi, because of his character of participating in Wang Shuwen's reforms and never accepting defeat with a big mouth, was "abandoned for twenty-three years" in the "desolate land of Bashan Shushui", and the sinister nature of the official field made him particularly emotional about Li Si's fate, and he wrote in the "Inscription Instrument Diagram":
The Qin state has achieved success in thinking about taxation, and the name of the Jin dynasty has lamented the crisis.
There is no reason for The Yellow Dog to lead the Cai, and is willing to be a cloth cloth for Dantu.
Liu Yuxi finally understood in the years of officialdom that life is like a vessel, when the water is injected halfway, the vessel does not fall, and once the water is full, it overturns.
Such is the tragedy of Liz.
Life is like this, the full moon is lacking, and the flowers are falling.
A full life is to retreat when the rapids are rushing, and to end when the peak is over, not to repeat the mistakes of Li Si's "Yellow Dog Sigh" and Lu Ji's "Huating Crane".
Or Cao Xueqin said thoroughly, "There is a lot of forgetting to shrink behind you, and there is no way to turn back."
When it is extremely hot, it cools down;
At its height, retreat.
Giving up is also a kind of wisdom.