On a sunny day in early spring, in the Jiangyin Huzhuang Academy, Mr. Private School was speaking the Analects with emotion.
Suddenly, he was interrupted by a smirk.
It turned out that a student was momentarily oblivious to the "Notes on the Water Classic" and laughed.
He was severely reprimanded by his husband, and the palm of his hand was beaten red by the ring ruler.
The fellow windowmen advised him to bow his head and admit his mistake, but he uttered a wild speech: "The eldest husband should swim towards the blue sea and twilight!" ”
This "unscrupulous disciple" who self-destructed his future is Xu Xiake, who is revered as a "you saint" by later generations.
Qian Qianyi, a literary scholar in the early Qing Dynasty, commented on him this way: "Xu Xiake is a book of ancient qiren, and Xu Xiake's Travels is a book of ancient qi. ”
In the economic era of Shitu, Xu Xiake, because of his love for mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, was determined to "find the origin of poor rivers and rivers and find the meridians of mountains".
He did not set up ordinary aspirations, did not take the ordinary road, and with an eternally young curiosity, found the poetry and distance of life.
Where the heart desires, the past.
People who have a passion always have infinite strength to run to their dreams. The river of life, rushing through the years, flows to the most beautiful sea in the heart.
The writer Ming Yue once said: "There is only one way to succeed, that is, to live your life in the way you like." ”
There is no happiest thing for a person to live in his own love.
Find the direction of life because of love
During the Ming Dynasty, Xu Youmian of Yangqi Village in Jiangyin was old and had children. He and his wife Wang Xiaoren were full of joy and named their children "Hongzu".
The Xu family in Jiangyin is known as "since the fifth century, the literary hero has been in the country", but Xu Youmian and his wife did not put the anxiety of the scholars and clans down to the pressure on Hongzu.
On the contrary, it sheltered him, allowing him to grow freely like a seedling in the field.
Fortunately, Xu Hongzu has been intelligent and studious since childhood, and has read a lot of books.
However, after the age of seven, Hongzu was called "rotten wood cannot be carved" by many masters.
The reason is very simple, the stereotypical Four Books and Five Classics, did not arouse Hongzu's interest at all, he not only read miscellaneous books in class, but also often sneaked out.
Once, Hongzu heard that there were gods and immortals on Mount Hua, which was surrounded by white clouds, and he was curious.
He hid from the elders, slipped away from the library, and went into the mountains to find immortals.
This move naturally angered the old master, and he could not escape with a ring ruler.
However, no matter how turbulent the outside world is, Hongzu's love for mountains and rivers is as good as ever.
Slowly, this love sprinkled a clear glow like a bright moon, illuminating the way forward.
In the twenty-ninth year of the Wanli Calendar, Hongzu County took the exam, and the results were unsurprising, and the name fell to Sun Mountain. But he breathed a sigh of relief, as if relieved, and went straight to the Huangshan Temple to enjoy the scenery.
Outside the temple, the breeze is gentle and the waves are gusting.
Hongzu recited Du Fu's poem: "Ercao's body and name are destroyed, and the rivers and rivers are not wasted."
The mountain wind blew away the dust in his heart, and Hongzu made up his mind: give up the scientific expedition and change his mind to the landscape.
At the beginning of life, everyone is eager to follow the love of the heart and live out of themselves.
However, the real world is a melting pot, and how many people walk and walk, abandon their initial love in the middle of the road, and get lost in the ferry of life.
Only those who have love in their hearts can follow the light and find the direction of the future in the unpredictable world.
After failing the scientific expedition, Xu Hongzu put down the sage book, picked up the hiking pole, walked out of the reading hall, and ran to the heavens and the earth.
While traveling to Sheshan, Hongzu met the hermit Chen Jiru. At dusk, the sky was full of light, and the two of them stood on the top of the mountain facing the wind.
Chen Jiru said, "How about giving Xiandi Yiya number, Xiake?" May you be clothed in the light of the sun wherever you are in the future. ”
Xu Xiake, in this way, walked into historical time, like a bird, flew to his peak.
In his life, he only had a small dream of clouds, and he could climb the mountain in one step.
Compared with worshiping Xiangfenghou, running to the landscape is like a small dream, but because of love, the small dream of the landscape also has a step up to the sky.
Enrich life experience with love
After the scientific expedition, Xu Xiake was once obsessed with the "Great Ming Dynasty Unification Chronicle", and was full of doubts about the statement in the book that "the Great Dragon Waterfall originated from Yan Lake".
When the spring grass first sprouted, Xu Xiake invited the Zen master of the Lotus Boat of Yingfu Temple to go to Yandang with him to find out.
They bypassed Tiantai Mountain, took a boat south, crossed Taizhou Capital, and went up the Panshan Ridge. Finally, on a rainy day, we arrived at Yandang Mountain.
Fold into the mountains, meandering along the stream, surrounded by green peaks, wood and stone.
Looking at the White Dragon Waterfall in the distance, Xu Xiake did not have the heart to appreciate the scenery and locked his brows.
It was getting late, the cold was overwhelming, the fog was rising, and the white clouds filled the peaks.
The guide hurriedly persuaded everyone to go out of the mountain, and the Lotus Boat Zen Master also retreated, only Xu Xiake's heart was hot.
After saying goodbye to the crowd, he took his servants on a lonely journey, walking deep and shallow in the inaccessible mountains and mountains, stepping on the waist-length mountain grass.
Yandang Mountain is steep and colorful, looking upwards is a blade-like ridge, and looking down is a bottomless abyss.
When there was no way out, Xu Xiake tied the cloth belt to the rock and hung it in the air.
He was like a melon hanging from a dead vine, swinging around.
The cloth belt was quickly broken by the rocks, and Xu Xiake could only climb the rocks with his bare hands, firmly grasping the moss-covered mountain stones.
Later, Gu Xing arrived in time to help the master get out of danger.
When the soul was in a state of shock, he heard Xu Xiake laugh and say, "The water source of the Great Dragon Lake is definitely not The Wild Goose Lake." ”
Xun Zi said, "If you don't climb a mountain, you don't know the greatness of the heavens; if you don't come to a deep valley, you don't know the thickness of the earth." ”
Love, which comes from the strength of the heart, makes us have a curious heart and bravely go farther and farther on the road of exploration.
When you walk through thousands of mountains and rivers, walk through the wind, frost, rain and snow, you will eventually understand that infinite scenery and infinite thrills are rare and valuable life experiences.
In the forty-fourth year of the Wanli Calendar, on a winter evening with heavy snow, Xu Xiake accompanied the woodcutter and hiked between the Anhui Mountains.
Staying overnight at Xiangfu Temple, I heard that there was a hot spring behind the mountain and gladly went there.
The spring is facing the stream in front of it, and leaning on the rock wall in the back, and the fog is hazy.
Xu Xiake soaked in the hot spring, his body and mind were relaxed, he looked at the stone wall not far away, and the four words of "a wash of red dust" came into view and also floated into his heart.
The thoughts of the sky are also like snowflakes floating in the sky.
I think back to that year, I stepped out of the house for the first time, and it has been more than ten years.
In ten years, I will reach the top when I climb the peak, cross the shore when I wade, do not take a long way in the short way, and do not take the mountain road on the flat road.
Feel the physical hardship, feel the tempering of the will, feel the subtlety of creation, feel the magic of heaven and earth.
Life can be so beautiful.
Someone said, "Probably the best thing in the world is to have love." ”
Love gives us the desire to test our destiny.
In the continuous exploration, the river of life has a wider basin, and the tree of life has blossomed flowers of different colors.
Because of love, I am not afraid of the years
Wen Tianxiang once said: "Men have a thousand years of history, and I have never had a cliff in my life." ”
People who have a love in their hearts are always full of spirit, old and strong, and do not move the heart of the white head.
In the past, Xu Xiake had twice gone north, touring the Beijing Division and Touring Jinzhong; and then twice going south, touring Huguang and eastern Zhejiang.
The lofty mountains of the central and eastern regions have spread all over his footprints.
However, Xu Xiake, who is more than fifty years old, does not intend to stop, and he has the ultimate dream in his heart - to go to the southwest for a long journey.
The Great Southwest, which is called the "Wild Land" by the history books, has long been remembered by Xu Xiake for many years.
Now, his parents are old, his children are adults, and in the eyes of outsiders, he is slowly aging, shaking his spirits and going out again without worrying.
In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Xu Xiake and the Jingwen monk of Yingfu Temple, bid farewell to their homeland, and walked along the Ganjiang River with a lonely canopy.
On both sides of the cangshan mountains, the sound of apes was gushing, and when the ship reached Merlin Ferry, a group of thieves suddenly sprang out and robbed the house.
Xu Xiake abandoned the boat and jumped into the river, and after landing ashore, he fled to Meilin Village.
Later, with the help of the chief of The Village of Merlin, he set sail and continued to move forward.
"Xunzi • Self-Cultivation" said: "The road is obstructed and long, and the line is coming." The future can be expected. ”
On the road to Dali, there are many dangers and dangers.
Xu Xiake was robbed three times and ran out of grain several times, but he relied on a yearning to get through the difficulties.
He worked tirelessly and with good hands. If you don't say it, it is difficult for you to imagine that this person who trekked wild during the day and worked tirelessly at night has passed the age of knowing his destiny.
Master Nebula once said, "Life is not the body, but the mind; old age, not age, but state of mind." ”
In the face of age, there are always people who hide and refuse to accept.
They ignore that age is just a number, and what really makes people age is the self-abandonment mentality.
The years did not spare people, and Xu Xiake did not spare the years.
Four years later, he finally reached Yunnan.
Looking at the rushing Jinsha River, he stood for a long time, perhaps at this moment, he gave himself a moment of quiet breathing.
The perennial hiking has left Xu Xiake with a serious foot disease.
When I set off to return to my hometown, I could no longer stand, I could only sit in a sedan car, the mountain was a journey, the water was slowly walking towards my hometown, and I was also slowly walking towards the end of my life.
In the first month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, half a year after arriving in Jiangyin, Xu Xiake passed away unexpectedly.
However, for Xu Xiake, his life is endless and cannot be measured by years.
Xu Xiake, who has not grown old and has lived for love all his life, his heart is always young, and his spirit will always remain in our hearts.
In modern times, there is a German named Richthofen, who once said: "Chinese readers sit indoors and refuse to work. To Chinese do your own geological surveys, there is very little hope. ”
When he said this, he must not have known that as early as 280 years before he was born, our Chinese nation had a reader who did geological surveys.
His name is Xu Xiake, who has traveled for more than 30 years and written 600,000 words of "Xu Xiake's Travels", which has opened up a new direction for geographical research and is a major peak of experience and cognition in the field of geology and geomorphology of our motherland.
Looking back on Xu Xiake's life, we can't help but sigh: because of his love, he waded through three thousand rivers and traveled 100,000 miles.
Because of his love, he "reached what no one could reach, and what he didn't know."
It is also because of love that he has fulfilled himself and completed his life.
The happiest life is to live in your own love.
Flowers cannot be without butterflies, mountains must not be without springs, and people cannot be without love.
May your heart be loved, like Xu Xiake, brave and tenacious to fly to your mountain.
Author | Jin Shan Yue
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