In our long history of China, there are two half-saints, one is Confucius, one is Wang Yangming, and half of Zeng Guofan.
Speaking of Wang Yangming, I think everyone is very familiar with his four-sentence teaching.
There is no good and no evil body, there is good and malicious movement, knowing good and knowing evil is conscience, and removing evil for good is a special thing.
Wang Yangming's life can be described as full of legends, first of all, Wang Yangming was born full of extraordinary, according to legend, Wang Yangming and his mother were fourteen months pregnant before giving birth to Wang Yangming.
After that, it is even more full of legends, and it is rumored that Wang Yangming could not speak until he was five years old, and he would not speak until a senior monk met The Initiation.
When Wang Yangming was a child in the private school, he once discussed with Mr. Shushu what is the most important thing in the world, and Mr. Wang Yangming believes that the most important thing in the world is to take the examination for the title, and Wang Yangming is different from the world, Wang Yangming said that the examination for the examination is not the first important thing in the world, Wang Yangming believes that the most important thing in the world is to read and be a sage.
After that, Wang Yangming entered the career for the first time in Zhejiang to participate in the township examination, and then Wang Yangming liked to study the military, but at the age of twenty-two, he failed to pass the examination, and at the age of twenty-five, he failed to pass the examination again.
Twenty-eight-year-old Wang Yangming took the examination for the Ceremonial Department, and because of his outstanding performance in the examination, he was given the seventh person to enter the Second Rank Jinshi, and soon afterwards he was appointed as the head of the Punishment Department, and he was sentenced to prison in Jiangbei and other places, and then requested to return to his hometown due to illness.
Later, because he offended a high-ranking official, he was demoted to The Dragon Farm in Guizhou, where Wang Yangming realized the conscience of the unity of mind, knowledge, knowledge and action, and also had the Dragon Field Enlightenment Path, which is well known to everyone in later generations.
After that, Wang Yangming rebelled against the king of Ning, and taught his life to subdue the bandits, it is worth saying that Wang Yangming accepted the bandits in a letter, and the bandits felt deeply guilty and then surrendered.
Until Wang Yangming's death, some people used Wang Yangming's original letters to suppress the bandits, and the bandits directly surrendered to Mr. Yangming's letters.
After Wang Yangming's death, he ordered his students not to cover their faces with a white cloth, confident that they would not be ashamed of anything in their lives, and would dare to face Qingtian after death.