Fourth, run away from home
When Wang Yangming was young, he most admired Yu Qian, a prodigy of the Ming Dynasty, and often ran to Yu Qian's ancestral hall to pay respects. Wang Yangming especially liked to study the art of war for a while. Later, he wrote a legendary elegy for Yu Qian:
Holding the galaxy with bare hands, the male self-proclaimed universe;
Aoyama buried loyal bones, where I came to hang Yingxian.
Out of idol worship, fifteen-year-old Wang Yangming decided to leave home and go to Juyongguan alone to investigate. This one went out and went for a month. I have traveled all over the great rivers and mountains, participated in horseback riding and archery competitions in Mongolian tribes, and made many friends.
This time, Wang Yangming also got a lot of experience.
Juyongguan
5. Consummated marriage
Wang Yangming experienced running away from home privately, and his father was very annoyed, but he was also helpless for his son's adolescent rebellion and could not control it.
When Wang Yangming was seventeen years old, his father thought of letting him become a relative, hoping that after becoming a relative, Wang Yangming would not be so wild and could be more peaceful. When Wang Yangming was a child, his father's good friend Zhu Yanghe came to visit the Wang family, looked at Wang Yangming so smart and lovely, and after drinking a few glasses of wine, he said that he would give his precious daughter to the Wang family. Although it was a bit of a joke at the time, this time Wang Hua offered to send Wang Yangming to Nanchang, Jiangxi to complete the marriage.
The wedding was very grand, there were many people, Wang Yangming faced a group of strangers, there was no topic, it was boring, so he went out on the street to wander and breathe. Unconsciously, I came to the Iron Pillar Palace, the Iron Pillar Palace is very famous, the incense is very strong, now called "Wanshou Palace", Song Ningzong gave the name "Iron Pillar Yanzhen Palace", referred to as the Iron Pillar Palace.
Wanshou Palace
At that time, there was an old Taoist priest in the Tiezhu Palace, Wang Yangming was a Taoist, and Taoism was quite researched, so he chatted with the old Daoist. The more they talked about the old Daoist, the more they admired Wang Yangming, and the two people really hated each other and hated each other, and they actually talked until it was almost dawn in the middle of the night. The old Taoist priest asked Wang Yangming, "Listening to your accent is not a local, what noble work did you have to come to Nanchang?" This question, Wang Yangming remembered today's marriage, haha, so he hurried back. The night of the cave flower candle, the groom is gone, the husband and the bride must be angry, haha.
From this incident, we can see that marriage, which is the most important thing in the hearts of ordinary people, should not be very important in Wang Yangming's heart. It felt like he wasn't very concerned about material life and worldly affairs, and was single-mindedly pursuing the most important thing in his mind, which was to be a saint.
Saints are really not ordinary people!