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Chinese know the famous official motto of "Public life is clear, honest life is mighty," and there should be many people. Knowing that its author is Cao Duan, there should not be many. Knowing that Cao Duan is from Shichi, Henan, I am afraid that there are very few.
There is a Caoduan Primary School in the county seat of Shichi County, which was renamed in honor of Caoduan. The locals only heard that there was a man named Cao Duan in the history of Shichi, who served as an official in other places, and the official reputation and reputation were particularly good, and the people there built a temple for him, and it was enshrined at four o'clock. Later, his descendants moved his bones back to Shichi and buried them in his ancestral graves, and the local government built an ancestral hall for him.
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Cao Duan (1376--1434), a famous scholar, theorist, and educator in the early Ming Dynasty, was a model of public integrity. Zi Zhengfu, because of the "Yuechuan Cross-Reflection Map" to explain the Taiji diagram, is known as Mr. Yuechuan, a Caotuo person in Sumen Village, Shichi County, Henan Province. He lived in "the time of Hongwu and Yong (樂) Xuan (De)" (Meng Huali's "Preface to Mr. Yuechuan (Record)").
According to historical records, when Cao Duan was young, he was gifted with different talents, "less negative and strange qualities, and knew how to read". At a young age, Cao Duan showed a weather that was unprecedented among his peers. When he was 3 years old, his father saw that he was different from other young children, sitting up straight, standing up, giving his hands, and not smiling. Knowing filial piety when eating, and respecting when offering sweeps, it seems to have a kind of adult demeanor. Because of his good nature, his father named him Duan.
At the age of five or six, Cao Duan was able to "solve the righteousness of the River Tuluo Book of Gossip, and the cause of the wind, rain, thunder, lightning, and clouds." He had to ask questions about the various knowledge he saw in the book and the natural phenomena that occurred around him, and often asked the adults without a word. When I read the "River Map" and "Luo Shu", which are known as the source of ancient Chinese philosophy, I drew on the ground and asked my father, who was asked to fall.
At the age of 9, Cao Duan began to study the Book of Filial Piety and the Book of Loyalty.
At the age of 15, Cao Duan engaged in farming while studying hard in his spare time. When I read the Song Dynasty Confucian scholar Zhou Dunyi's "Taiji Diagram" and "General Book", I said with emotion: "The world's truths are all in it!" Therefore, it is even more diligent to study.
At the age of 16, he had read through the Six Classics and the Four Books and read a wide range of books. He said: If you don't read books, you won't understand the remarks of the hundreds of sons and hundreds of families, and you won't examine the gains and losses.
In the twenty-fifth year of Ming Hongwu (1392), seeing that Cao Duan liked to read so much, his father built a study for the 17-year-old him to use the Chen Scriptures. Cao Duan himself named the study "Diligent Zhai" and drew up a couplet by himself: diligent and diligent, not diligent and difficult to be a superior person; bitter and bitter, not bitter how to pass through ancient and modern times. In the diligent fast, Cao Duan worked tirelessly every day, did not produce a furnace in winter, and did not move a fan in summer, "Studying with dedication, sitting down on his feet, and wearing both bricks." It is a diligent state of learning, which can be imagined.
At the age of 18, Cao Duan "taught Yang Ma zicai, Taiyuan Peng Zonggu ("Chinese Confucianism General Classic"), "Traveling To the Township School", and became Xiucai, at that time he had laid a deep foundation in Confucianism, "Botong Five Classics".
At the age of 30, Cao Duanxiang failed the first test. He did not blame the Creator's fault, as others did, but introspected himself, saying, "What does it matter if the knowledge is not sufficient?" ”
In the sixth year of Ming Yongle (1408), the 33-year-old Cao Duan participated in the Henan Township Examination and ranked second in the middle.
In 1409, the 34-year-old Cao Duan finally ascended to the first place in the Nangong Huihui Examination presided over by the Ministry of Rites, and was awarded the official position of Xuezheng of Huozhou, Shanxi, in charge of the affairs of the whole state.
Since then, Cao Duan, who was in his inception, has entered the career path and become a member of the Ming Dynasty, studying psychology in addition to politics and teaching.
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Xuezheng, mainly managing a state show talent. The county-level scholar who manages xiucai is called the teaching. When he was in his hometown, Cao Duan acted as a teacher. During this period, the officials sent people to check the documents, and Cao Duan was unjustly imprisoned for violating the French style by the previous officials. Others worried about him, but he was frank and wrote a poem: "Look up to the heavens without shame, and bow down to the ground without shame", indicating that he is bright and upright. The matter was quickly clarified and his innocence was returned.
Having learned from the past, Cao Duan became more and more strict with himself. According to research, Ming Shixue is a positive nine products, five stones and five stones in the month, which is equivalent to two and a half silver. With a meager salary of sixty-six stones per year, it is naturally financially strapped. Cao Duan, however, never forgot to be honest and honest at all times, and everything was out of a public heart. He does not accept gifts from parents and students. Knowing that the student Wang Jian's mother was sick and had no money for medical treatment, Cao Duan immediately rushed to his home to visit and comfort him, and sent him to his 3 months of Feng Lu to give financial support; student Zhang Cheng's parents died, he lived with his grandmother, his family was poor, almost cut off cooking, and Cao Duan generously donated money to help the poor... The governor of the prefecture was unfair, and Cao Duan dared to enter the court to speak bluntly; in the face of famine in the year, he entered the bureau to urge him to open a warehouse and release grain to save the people from water and fire. Over time, Cao Duan's "public honesty" behavior not only educated the students and touched the state officials, but also inspired the villagers and made the people of Huozhou change greatly. The history books record that huozhou was simple and simple for a while, and it was good to preach faith and cultivate harmony. A woodcutter exchanged firewood for rice, opened the rice bag when he returned home, and found that there was a gold noodle inside. He did not take it for himself, but traveled more than ten miles to return the gold noodles to his master. Someone asked: "Chopping wood is so hard, now that you have obtained a gold noodle, why is it easy to return it?" The firewood cutter said, "Cao Fuzi has a Daoist person, and he advocates teaching Wu Huo with a Daoist, but he doesn't know how to transform!" Cao Duan heard about this and said, "There will be faithfulness in the Ten Chambers."
Cao Duan served as Huozhou Xuezheng twice in his lifetime, for a total of 18 years. During this period, he worked hard to study, practiced diligently, and attached importance to teaching by example. Especially while imparting knowledge, he pays attention to convincing people with virtue, unifying knowledge and action, and teaching students how to be human. Therefore, his political achievements are outstanding, he has a reputation, and he has a true insight into science, and he is deeply admired by scholars and scholars from all over the world, and all of them are vying to be taught under his disciples, "hundreds of scholars who have heard the wind." At that time, the students of Huozhou admired his teachings, and the people were also impressed by his knowledge, and they were all ashamed to make trouble and argue ("All beings obey their teachings, and all the people in the county are transformed into lawsuits, and shame is disputed").
When Cao Duan was lecturing in Huozhou, there was a scholar named Li De in Huozhou. After he got to know Cao Duan, he greatly admired Cao Duan's knowledge and morality, and once said to his students: "I am not tired of learning, I am not tired of teaching, and Cao Zi's Sheng De is also." To its knowledge of ancient and modern, up to the events, has not learned fresh or reached. Gu Yun: It is easy to get a teacher, it is difficult to get a teacher, and all beings have a teacher. Therefore, Li De avoided the seat and did not lecture in Huozhou. After Cao Duan knew, he was humble and vain, and also thought that Li De's character was noble, so he asked the students to keep him with great affection and teach and educate people together.
According to the Biography of Ming Shi Cao Duan, in the first month of the sixteenth year of Ming Yongle (1418), Cao Duan's mother died. Cao Duan, who was in Huozhou, was shocked to hear the bad news and was devastated. The next day, he put on his glowing feet and returned home to mourn. Along the way, I was covered with grass mats, the food and the wind were sleeping, and everyone saw it and shed tears. In the winter of the same year, his father also died of illness. When handling funerals, he did not look at feng shui, did not invite fasting, changed customs and customs, and everything was simple. He brought his own mortar and cooked the rice. After 6 years of mourning at the tomb of his parents, he did not eat five tastes, and he was hungry with light grain, day after day. During this period, Huozhou students traveled thousands of miles and followed him to be taught in the hut ("Many students are taught in the tomb"). After the expiration of the period, Cao Duan was reappointed as Puzhou Xuezheng.
In the twenty-second year of Ming Yongle (1424), when Cao Duan's talented disciple Guo Shengsheng (Guo Sheng), who was promoted to Xi'an Province ,Tongzhi (the first vice prefect) was passing through Puzhou, he went to see his mentor and asked Cao Duan for advice on the way of government. Cao Duan sincerely admonished his disciples, "His fairness is incorruptible. The officials are not afraid of my strictness, but of my honesty; the people do not obey my ability, but obey my father. If you are righteous, the people will not dare to deceive; if you are honest, you will not dare to deceive. Gongsheng Ming, Lian Shengwei. After hearing this, Guo Sheng was convinced and rushed to pay tribute to Mr. Xie's earnest teachings. Later, when he was an official in Chang'an, he kept the teachings in mind and regarded it as a motto, "In the past nine years, he has been called public honesty." He deliberately carved this famous saying on the stele, which is now in the Forest of Steles in Xi'an. Since then, "public life is bright, honest life is mighty" has become the "official motto" that rules officials to be honest and honest.
After Cao Duan's Puzhou Xuezheng's term of office expired, the officials evaluated their performance, and scholars from Huozhou and Puzhou all competed for him. Due to the early playing of Huozhou, Cao Duan returned to Huozhou to ren Xuezheng. When the imperial court learned of Cao Duan's name from this incident, he was ordered to go to Shaanxi three times to take the township test.
In the first year of Ming Xuande (1426), the township examination of Shaanxi Province. After meeting with the inspector, Cao Duan said to the people who worked together: "Take the soldiers who care about the public, such as building a house, using a decaying wood, and will abandon the good material." "As soon as the words were said, someone recommended rotten wood to him. The sponsor is a local powerful person, and according to the custom, the examiner cannot but give him this face. After the recommendation, he waited for the good news. I didn't expect to wait for a poem by Cao Duan: "The Heavenly Dao was originally upright and righteous, and was ordered by Tianming to be among the people." If the talents do not follow the Heavenly Dao, the King's Law will not tolerate the heavens. "Officials can only give up, and dare not be bored anymore."
When Cao Duan took the second examination in Shaanxi, it was already midnight after the examination paper was evaluated. He looked up, but saw a bright moon outside the window, as clear as water. The outside is worthy of the Heavenly Dao, and the inside is not ashamed of the conscience. Cao Duan, who had a lot of feelings, wrote 8 big characters in the seal of the examination paper: "Selfless to the public, ghost god inspection". The ministers who participated in the evaluation were all impressed.
Cao Duan is also very kind to people. When he was studying, the two silks he had placed in the study room were lost. A neighbor had already seen the thief of silk and persuaded Cao Duan to go to the official palace to sue him. Cao Duan said: "People lose people's gains, not enough to mind." If the person is self-reliant in his life, the two silks are small and the bad people are stopped, and they cannot be. "Meaning, if two silks take a person to court, the person's reputation will be ruined in his lifetime, and it is not worth it." His own things were stolen, but What Cao Duan thought was that the thieves were exposed to be bad in this life and this life, so he did not investigate and investigate at all, which showed that he was generous in his way of dealing with the world.
When he was in Huozhou, on a midsummer evening, Cao Duan went out of the west of the city without any trouble, and a middle-aged man selling firewood in Fenxi County died of heat stroke on the side of the road. The wife and child were crying on the side of the road, trying to sell the child and bury the husband. When he saw this, he asked him to take a table and bury him, and he took two horses of cloth and gave them to the woman. The woman was very grateful: "If it is not a benevolent person, my mother and son will die." ”
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In addition to politics and teaching, Cao Duan spent his life studying psychology.
The Song Dynasty was the heyday of Chinese theory. Zhou Dunyi and other pioneers of science, they said that "reason" or "heavenly reason" is the source of all things in the universe, so it is called science. Since Zhou Dunyi's descent, later in the field of science, Zhang Zai, Cheng Yi, Cheng Hao, Zhu Xi and other famous artists have emerged, which has promoted the development of scientific research. At that time, confucian scholars in the Heluo area mostly studied science with Cheng Yi and Cheng Hao, and admired Ercheng as the master of science. After the fall of the Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, Han culture was wounded and the science of science declined. The Mongol Empire, which had conquered most of the world, believed only in power and force. In the 97 years from the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty to zhu Yuanzhang's claim to the throne, Confucianism withdrew from the mainstream ideology of society. The inheritors of Chinese civilization, intellectuals, were ranked as the ninth of the ten ranks of the Yuan Empire (seven craftsmen, eight prostitutes, nine confucians and ten beggars), and fell to the lowest level of society with prostitutes.
After the great social turmoil at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Zhu Ming Dynasty in the bloody rain. At this time, China is once again at a crossroads. What doctrine the ruling class chooses as its mainstream ideology will affect the overall trend of the Chinese nation. Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a monk, and it is not necessary to enshrine Buddhism as the state religion; Zhu Yuanzhang's team started with the White Lotus Sect, and it is also a realistic choice to rule the country with the ideology of the White Lotus Sect. Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang chose the Han family system, and the Chinese civilization dominated by Confucianism survived a most dangerous catastrophe and did not repeat the mistakes of the interruption of the cultural traditions of the other three ancient civilizations. However, the crisis of Chinese civilization has not yet passed, and the university scholars who helped Zhu Yuanzhang fight the world, such as Liu Ji, Song Lian, and Li Shanchang, in the face of Zhu Yuanzhang, who was extremely jealous, Taoguang yang was still unable to take care of himself, let alone have the ability to revive civilization and be the spiritual leader of cultural people. After more than 30 years, there has been a "change in the difficulties" since then. In addition to killing, Ming Chengzu urgently needed social stability, and in order to unify his thinking, He ordered Xie Jin and others to compile the Yongle Canon, which was clear to the ming, but Cheng Zhu Lixue gradually disappeared and became a "no-learner".
At the right time, Cao Duan, who was in the Heluoming District and the hometown of Science, came out of nowhere, "the first time he started in the Song Dynasty, he advocated the science of Science" (Ming Shi. Biography of Cao Duanlie). As a school of Confucianism, Rigaku quickly rose between Kunshan and Shichi. Cao Duan took the lead in reviving the science that was on the verge of being lost, not only in-depth study and dissemination himself, but also practiced it, which was recognized and sought after by Chinese readers. Since then, rigaku has become the mainstream ideology of Chinese society until the establishment of the Republic of China. That is to say, due to Cao Duan's advocacy and promotion, Cheng Zhu Lixue, who was not optimistic in the Song Dynasty, ruled China's ideology for 500 years. As a result, he was promoted by scholars engaged in science as the "crown of science in the early Ming Dynasty".
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Cao Duan occupies an important place in the history of ancient Chinese science. His academic achievements mainly include the following:
Xuezong Zhu Xi advocated "warding off evil spirits" and advocating the Tao. Cao Duan was about 20 years old when he obtained the "Discernment Compilation", and after careful study, he said happily: "The Tao is in the end", and resolutely took si Dao as his responsibility. Cao Duan proceeded from the orthodox position of Confucianism and rejected Buddhism and Taoism. He said, "The Buddha's nature is emptiness, not the nature of destiny; the old man takes emptiness as the path, not the way of willfulness." Although he had an enlightenment teacher, he took a unique path, honored Zhu Xi, put forward the theory of "rational control of qi", and advocated doing kung fu in his heart. Inherited and carried forward the idea of science and advocated the orthodoxy of science. Based on this, he opposed feudal superstitious activities such as "all floating slaughter, witchcraft, feng shui, and time". At his initiative, the government destroyed more than a hundred "obscene shrines" that deceived the masses. During the famine years, he also actively advocated disaster relief activities and saved many toiling people, which was rare in feudal society.
Tui Zun Tai Chi, up to Song Ru. In terms of governance, he respected "Tai Chi", believing that this was the source of things, that "reason" was "Tao". He said, "To learn the way of the saints, one must take root in tai chi." He also said, "The Tao is Tai Chi, Tai Chi is the Tao, in terms of passage, it is the Tao, in terms of non-miscellaneous, it is one, and the husband has two." This world monist view is materialistic, and its philosophical ideas are developed. From this, he objected to Zhu Xi's tai chi saying that "it does not move spontaneously", believing that tai chi would automatically be quiet, and recognizing the active use of tai chi in things. From Zhu Xi to Zhou Dunyi, the master of the second journey, he re-annotated Zhou's Taiji Tushu.
Pay attention to "pre-cultivation" kung fu. Cao Duan's moral cultivation method is "the study of the heart", and special attention is paid to the "pre-cultivation" kung fu when the heart is not developed, mainly the words "sincerity" and "respect": "sincerity" is the emptiness and desirelessness, inheriting the philosophy of the second journey; "Respect" Gui self-thinking, self-examination, self-cultivation, and implicitly cooperate with Wang Lu's "heart study". This point was carried forward by Zhang Xinmin (号護初), another theorist of Shichi in the Ming Dynasty. Because of the words "sincerity" and "respect", Cao Duan believes that "the joy of Kong Yan is the happiness of the benevolent, and the 'benevolent' who can cultivate himself is naturally happy." Zhu Xi rejected Lu and Wang's heart to learn kung fu, saying that Cao Duan could be eclectic and eclectic, and the breadth of his heart was beyond Zhu Xi's reach.
Cao Duan regarded the promotion of ming science as the goal of his lifelong struggle, and his writings were abundant. His major works include: "Explanation of the Taiji Diagram Theory", "Explanation of the General Book", "Explanation of the Western Ming", "Detailed Explanation of the Four Books", "Collection of Sexual Theory", "Nocturnal Candle", "Humble Nest Collection", "Record of Doubts", "Explanation of the Book of Filial Piety", "Explanation of the Teachings of The Law of TheOry", "Outline of Family Rules", "Record of Essence", "Quotations of Youwen", "Genealogy of Confucianism", "Poetry of Yuechuan Tu", "Collected Poems of Yuechuan Poems", etc. In the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Jing also collected eight kinds of Cao Duan's testaments, which were jointly published as "The Collected Works of Mr. Cao Yuechuan".
Cao Duan's theoretical thought had a great influence on the Ming Dynasty. The Book of Tongji by the Ming Dynasty scholar Chen Jian said: "The martial arts of this dynasty first promoted Liu Chengyi (i.e., Liu Ji), and the science of science was derived from Cao Jingxiu (Cao Duan). Cao Duan's friend and another theorist xue Xuan in the early Ming Dynasty praised Cao Duan in this way: "Pure in quality and clear in qi, rational and determined." Firmly believe in the good and the ancient, reject the evil and revere the righteous. There are virtues and words, to lady posterity. Beautiful gentleman, glorious day new". It can be seen that the evaluation is very high.
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In September of the ninth year of Ming Xuande (1434), the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh lunar month. In the west wing of the back hall of the Huozhou Xuezheng Mansion in Shanxi, 59-year-old Cao Duan was as angry. Cao Duan, who knew that his time was short, said to Huozhou Zhizhou, who had come to visit, with a heavy heart: "If the doctors can be one point more lenient, the people will receive one point." I have no grudge. After that, Cao Duan straightened his clothes and crown with his trembling hands, and passed away.
Although Cao Duan has been an official for many years, he does not make a living in subliminal psychology and writings, and is naturally good at giving. The son was unable to bury him in his homeland. Cao Duan, who was content with poverty and a clean wind in his sleeves, was buried in Dusugou Village, east of Huozhou City, with the help of friends and students. On the day of the burial, the streets of Huozhou were empty, even the businessmen were closed and closed, the children were also weeping and mourning, and everyone wept and supported the coffin ("Huo people are crying in the alley, and the children are drooling"). After his death, the beings mourned for him for three years and privately called "retreats." It was not until the twelfth year of the Ming Dynasty (1447) that Cao Duan was moved back to Cao Tuotuo Village for burial with the donation of Hanlin scholar Huang Zhi.
Huang Zhi (1403--1465), courtesy name Tingchen, Zhuo'an, also known as Lanpo, was a native of Zhuanglanggong (present-day Yongdeng County) in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, Lanzhou was under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi Province, and Cao Duan was tested in Sandian Township, Shaanxi, and may have been Huang Chen's master. Huang Zhi explored flowers in the seventh year of Ming Yingzong's orthodoxy (1442). On the way back to visit his relatives, he passed through Shichi, and Huang paid homage to Cao Duan Ancestral Hall and inquired about Cao Duan's tomb, only to learn that he was unable to return to the tomb because his family was poor. Huang Zhi sighed, "Doesn't Mr. Cao's soul miss his hometown?" So Huang donated funds and instructed the county commander at that time and Cao Duan's eldest son Cao Xuan to go to Huozhou and move Cao Duan back to Shuichi. In the thirteenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1447), 13 years after Cao Duan's death, his soul finally returned to his hometown, and the leaves fell back to their roots. Because of Cao Duan's profound understanding and great contribution to the science of science, the imperial court gave Cao Duan the title of "Jing Xiu" and ordered the establishment of shrines in Shichi, Huozhou, and Puzhou. The imperial court erected a shrine with more than five pins, so in the past, politicians below the five pins must pay homage to each other, and the county ordered them to worship first.
In the 10th year of the Qing Dynasty (1860), the imperial court decreed that Mr. Yuechuan should be approved from the Temple of Confucius, second to Xu Qian, and every year all students in the country should kneel and pray in the spring and autumn. In other words, 426 years after his death, Cao Duan received the highest honorary title that an ancient Chinese literati could get. This is a long and priceless honor. In the more than 2,000 years from the Spring and Autumn Period to the end of the Qing Dynasty, only 149 sages and confucians were able to enjoy this honor.
There are many altar texts and poems for Cao Duan. Regarding the poems and sacrifices in front of Cao Duan's tomb, part of them are in Huozhou and some of them are in Shichi, which can be regarded as part of the history and culture of Shichi.
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The tomb of Cao Duan is located 50 meters north of the old village of Cao Tuotuo in Sumen Village, Yangshao Town, Present-day Shichi County. Cao Rui's tomb has a circumference of 24 meters and a height of 1.9 meters. The tombstone is composed of a stele cap and a stele body, the stele cap is bluestone, round forehead, relief double dragon, dragon body winding, dragon head drooping, dragon head up, between the double dragon inscription "Huangqing" two words. The inscription is also bluestone, rectangular, and the front of the bardo is inscribed vertically "Tomb of Cao Fuzi of The Ming Li Xue Yue Chuan". The inscription is written vertically, a total of 6 lines, a full line of 53 words, counting 205 words. The end of the "Jiaqing 20th March Auspicious Day Standing Stone" and "Reconstruction of the Monument Building on April 4, 1988 AD". The monument is 3.38 meters high, 1.32 meters wide and 0.7 meters thick.
In order to commemorate Cao Duan's merits and inspire future learning, the ancestral hall dedicated to Cao Duan has also been continuously repaired and restored in recent years. On January 22, 2016, Cao Duan's tomb was announced as the seventh batch of cultural relics protection units in Henan Province.
On the wall in front of the ancestral hall, Cao Duan's 36 characters are written as official proverbs, and the sentences are sonorous and the words are brilliant. The proverbs take the word "publicity and honesty" as the key word, the language loops back and forth layer by layer, the rhetoric is directly expressive and step by step, the content is well versed in the sinister officialdom, and the shortcomings of the officialdom are deeply experienced, and after reading it, people feel awe-struck. This proverb is a shocking wood, a needle in the heart, a sobering agent, and the words are exhaustive and endless, which fully embodies Cao Duan's broad scholarly heart and dazzling spiritual height.
Indeed, the world is complex and there are too many deceitful people. Only by maintaining public integrity and integrity can we go further. Cao Duan is like a mirror, which makes those who read him ashamed. You and I have been busy all our lives, rich in food and clothing, but we are afraid in our hearts, shallow in our knowledge, short-sighted, and even more righteous and weak, and our inferiority is revealed. Only by exhorting yourself, "Lu Man Man Qi's cultivation is far away, and I will seek up and down" is the right way.
Each of us is building a different grave for ourselves with different actions and beliefs. Some people have established a great personality, word of mouth itself is a monument, and the simple tomb buries the same simple and noble character; some people's love of status and privilege accompanies them through the road of life, and greed will send him to the grave. Some people use positive words to make up sentences for themselves all their lives, and some people use a series of derogatory words when others walk through the cemetery. Each of us is reading the epitaphs of our predecessors and writing our own epitaphs, and only by writing our epitaphs can we leave things for future generations to read, reference, imitate, and commemorate.
"Yi Wuxianhao, the shame of the place; some are not prominent, and the responsibility of the guardian of the land is also (Sun Qifeng,"Cao Yuechuan's Collection of Treks"). In the new era, we pay homage to and commemorate Cao Duan, not only to feel the energy and wisdom of his life, but also to learn and pass on the loyalty, righteousness and honesty that have been passed down for hundreds of generations. Cao Duan's thin body has become one with the earth and become one with nature, but his great thoughts quietly flow at the source of the galaxy of time, never withering, like the stars in the dark firmament, dazzling and dazzling, guiding future generations of Confucians to cultivate their families and govern the country and the world. His pure thoughts, noble qualities, profound knowledge and tireless spirit will always remain in the endless time and live in the hearts of all the children of Yangshao.
Source: WeChat public account of the Writers Alliance of Shichi County
Editor-in-Charge: Zhao Lele