Qian Wenzhong interpreted the Three Character Classic, the first lecture, the beginning of man, nature is good
First lecture, the beginning of man, nature is good
The beginning of man, nature is good. The first is to be a good person, and the second is to be a good person. The first thing you need to do is to get a good understanding of what is happening in the world. The way to teach is to specialize. The first: the first born, just beginning to have life. Gou: if. Nature: nature. Teach: to instruct, to teach. Ben: originally, originally. Change: transformation, change. Nature: disposition. Dao: here refers to the method. Habits: habitual, cultivated in a certain environment for a long time Gui: to pay attention to, to emphasize. Characteristics.
Section 1: In the Beginning, Nature is Good
An ancient children's primer, a traditional children's literacy textbook, why is it honored as the Three Character Classic? Why was it popularized as soon as it was introduced? What kind of deep meaning is behind the seemingly simple and easy-to-understand words?
Every time the school year begins, we will see a lot of lovely children, carrying a very large heavy schoolbag, filled with a variety of textbooks, textbooks are divided into categories, language, math, foreign languages, beautifully printed, compiled by the state education department, unified distribution. This is the modern child. So we can't help but wonder, in traditional China, what did children use for textbooks? What kind of textbooks were used for enlightenment? Of course there was undoubtedly something, except that there was no kind of government-organized textbook for enlightenment!
As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were a large number of such textbooks, such as the Cangjie Chapters, the Van Will Chapters, and the Hasty Chapters. They have a **** the same characteristics, with very neat statements, such as four words a sentence, read catchy, relatively easy to memorize, so as to teach children literacy, to convey some of the most basic truths. But none of these books, like the ones I just mentioned, have survived to this day. Today, some people, even if they become university professors, may not be able to read and understand the books in their whole life, but at that time, they were the children's enlightenment books.
After the Song Dynasty in China, there suddenly appeared a Three Character Classic of unknown origin, and we don't even know who its author was. And this Three Character Classic, which began in the Song Dynasty, has been passed down until today. This book has its own characteristics from content to form. In terms of form, it is a catchy book with three characters, very easy to memorize and in ancient times it was chanted. In many areas today, such as the Hakka people, who we know live mainly in Meizhou, Guangdong, or the Fujian area, they can still sing the Three Character Classic like a ballad. From the point of view of its content, it uses the simplest phrases and the most condensed way to bring together the most important morals and knowledge gathered from the long tradition of Chinese society. It is for this reason that the Three Character Classic has been passed down. After the Song Dynasty in China, the popularity of this traditional enlightenment book is mainly what we usually call "Three Hundred Thousand", that is, "Three Character Classic", "One Hundred Surnames", "One Thousand Character Classic", which are the children's enlightenment reading materials. When we hear about the "Three Hundred Thousand", we will immediately have a feeling that why only the Three Character Classic is called "Jing"? Why is the Hundred Surnames not called the Hundred Surnames Classic? Why is the Thousand Character Classic not called the Thousand Character Classic? This highlights the importance of the Three Character Classic.
Section 2: In the Beginning of Man, Nature is Good
In traditional culture, a book is called a "scripture", which is a supreme status and honor. Throughout the ages, in the long thousands of years of history, countless Chinese children are relying on the "Three Character Classic" enlightenment, began their school career, and more people, may not be literate, may not have the opportunity to receive an education, but they grew up listening to recite the "Three Character Classic", "three characters" to the "Three Character Classic", but not necessarily learn by ear, but also to learn from the essence of traditional Chinese culture. The Three Character Classic is such an important traditional classic of enlightenment.
Perhaps people will say, since it is a book for children, it must be very simple, what is worth talking about? This view is wrong! The Three Character Classic is indeed very simple and concise, but because of this, it unites the deepest cultural traditions in the most concise and lucid way. Therefore, we must read it with all our heart and soul in order to truly understand the cultural message that the Three Character Classic conveys to us, to understand why the Three Character Classic has been passed down to this day, and to understand the irreplaceable significance of the Three Character Classic to the Chinese people, especially to the children who are still in the process of learning it today.
Why is a children's book honored as the Three Character Classic? What is the meaning behind the seemingly simple words?
What are the six words at the beginning of the "Three Character Classic," I think the Chinese know." The beginning of man, nature is good." The literal meaning of these six words is that when people are born, their nature is originally good. Behind these six seemingly simple words, there is a very rich and deep cultural connotation, which is a philosophical question about the nature of human nature. In other words, what is human nature like? Is human nature good or evil? All cultural traditions, both ancient and modern, cannot get around the question of human nature, because no matter what, we must first know ourselves and human beings. In traditional Chinese culture, there are rich and colorful discussions about humanism. In the pre-Qin era, there were three schools of thought in the Confucian tradition.
Section 3: In the Beginning of Man, Nature is Good
One school of thought is that of Confucius. What is the saying of Confucius, the founder of Confucianism? It is to follow up on the last six words of the Three Character Classic, "Nature is close, and habits are far apart." According to Confucius, the difference in human nature is not too great, but due to the influence of the acquired culture and environment, the difference will become bigger and bigger. This is what Confucius said. In other words, Confucius did not tell us whether human nature is good or evil; Confucius left it in suspense. One school of thought, Xunzi's argument. Xunzi was also a very important thinker in Confucianism, and Xunzi was even y related to the Legalists. Xunzi's view is that "in the beginning of man, nature is evil". This is Xunzi's view, which is easier for us to understand. This is Xunzi's view, which is easier for us to understand. When a child is born and croaks on the ground, he needs milk when he is hungry, does he care if his mother is tired? Does he care if the mother has milk? Does he care if the mother is sick? No, he has to be fed. And if there are several children, there may be several children clamoring for milk. The nature of man is not good from this point of view.
So whose idea was it that "man is good in the beginning"? It is the thought of Mencius, the "Sage" school of thought. But it is not accurate. Mencius did not say "the beginning of man, nature is good". His exact opinion was that human nature is good. Regarding the distinction between good and evil in human nature, in fact, it is here that the Chinese and Western cultures began to embark on different tracks of development. Let us illustrate this issue in the simplest way. In the Western cultural tradition, it is believed that every human being is sinful, that all human beings have original sin, and that only God is sinless, that is to say, "In the beginning, man was born evil". It is precisely because everyone is sinful that no one can be trusted. In terms of the operation of social management, we cannot give all the power to a certain number of people, because everyone is sinful. So, what to do? The power of management and operation should be decentralized, supervised by each other, independent of each other, and a strict system should be created to restrict each other, and this is how the Western cultural tradition has developed. And the mainstream of Chinese cultural tradition is to follow the "Three Character Classic" to start the six words, that is, to follow the suspected thought of Mencius went down, "the beginning of man, nature is good." We believe that everyone is good by nature, and everyone is conscious, and the so-called streets are full of saints, and everyone can be Yao and Shun, so what need is there for a system? Everyone is self-aware. Everyone knows not to cross the road at a red light, everyone knows not to spit, everyone should know not to harm the interests of others, the main thing should be to educate him, to guide him, to train him, not to regulate him with a system. So don't underestimate these six words, the essence of these six words is very deep.
Section 4: In the Beginning of Man, Nature is Good
Even within Chinese Confucianism, there is no uniformity in the view of whether human nature is good or evil; there are three kinds of statements: nature is good, nature is evil, and nature is good and evil, and the debates have never ceased, which fully explains the complexity of the issue of human nature. Mencius used a large number of reasons to prove his view of "goodness of nature", the most important of which is the "four hearts", then, how did Mencius actually say it? Why did Mencius say, "In the beginning, man is good by nature"? Or why do people think that Mencius had such an opinion? What are the reasons for Mencius to say so? As a great thinker, Mencius certainly did not believe in nonsense, and he naturally had his reasons for believing that "the nature of man is good in the beginning". In Mencius, there is an article called Gongsun Chou (公孙丑-上), in which he said, "Without compassion, a person is not a human being. Without compassion, one is not a human being. Without the heart of resignation, it is not human. Without the heart of right and wrong, one is not a human being." According to Mencius, one must have these four kinds of hearts. The heart of compassion, a kind of sympathy; the heart of shame and evil, a kind of feeling embarrassed, knowing shyness, introspection; the heart of resignation, one should know to be humble with each other, to be humble with each other; and also the heart of right and wrong, to know what is right and what is wrong. He believed that people must have these four kinds of heart, without these four kinds of heart that can not be called a person, this is the view of Mencius. We can give so many examples to illustrate this view of Mencius.
"Without compassion, one is not human." We can illustrate this with an example from Mencius himself. An example is given in the Mencius, and also in a very famous story in Gongsun Chou - Shang of the Mencius. The original story is like this: "Nowadays, when people first see a child going into a well, they are all scared and sympathetic, not because they want to make friends with the child's parents, not because they want to honor the child's friends, not because they hate the sound of the child's voice." What does it mean? Ancient settlements are centered on wells, generally wells have a well bar, the well bar is to prevent small children and some small livestock fall in. If we see a small child near the well bar about to fall into the well, what will happen, everyone will be compassionate. What did Mencius think? Mencius felt that everyone would worry and sympathize, and that a small child would drown if he fell in. Why is that? It's not because you are friends with the parents of this child, maybe you don't even know them. Nor is it because you think that saving the child and giving him a hand will earn you a reputation among your friends and townspeople as a self-sacrificer. Nor was it because the child fell and had to scream out of fear, and you thought the child's voice was really harsh and unpleasant. What Mencius meant was that it was precisely because everyone was compassionate that everyone was anxious when they saw a child about to fall into a well. This is an example given by Mencius himself.
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"Without shame or evil, a man is not a man." This we understand better. All human beings have a kind of shyness. For example, the United States has a very famous movie star Marilyn Monroe, she has a photo, this photo spread all over the world: she was wearing a skirt on the road to walk through an underground outlet, the underground outlet suddenly came up a very large wave of air, the Monroe's skirt blew up, Monroe's a subconscious action is to hurry to cover the skirt, this is what, shyness and evil heart! She felt shy and quickly covered the corner of her skirt. Shame is common to all people, but of course, it is not necessarily the same for different peoples. Some people think this thing I am very shy can not do, some people may not; some people think this thing is very important, I have to protect, some people think not necessarily.
For example, there is a story about three girls, all wearing very pretty hats and very pretty dresses, standing together. Suddenly there comes a gust of wind, and one girl covers her hat, regardless of her dress. And the other girl? Covered her dress and left her hat on. Another girl covered her hat with one hand and her dress with the other. Which three countries are these girls from? The answer is, just cover the hat is American, because the hat blew away she had to spend money to buy, she did not do, she is on this aspect of the shame of evil, and on the skirt blowing up, the spring light leakage of the shame of evil is relatively light. It is the Japanese who cover their skirts and don't care about their hats. The Japanese say, "If I blow off my hat, I can buy another hat, but I can't blow up my skirt". The other is of course the Chinese. They don't want to lose their hats, and their skirts can't be blown up. This shows that people's sense of shame and evil is different for each nation.
"No resignation", "no sense of right and wrong", it is much easier to understand, will be covered later, here for the time being.
According to Mencius, one has to have these four kinds of heart to be considered a human being. If one does not have the heart of compassion, the heart of shame and evil, the heart of resignation, and the heart of right and wrong, then one cannot be considered a human being. This is the doctrine of Mencius. But how can it be proved that all men in the world have these four kinds of hearts? Mencius comes back to make an illustration himself. In the article of "Mengzi -告子", he told an example, "Therefore, it is said that the mouth of the taste, there is the same taste; the ear of the sound, there is the same hearing; the eye of the color, there is the same beauty. As for the heart, there is no such thing as the same? What is the heart of the same? It is the same as reason and righteousness."" The mouth is the same as the taste." Each of our mouths has the same love for things that taste good, and we all know that we should eat well. As for the "ear in the sound also, have the same hearing", that is to say that all like to listen to good, for example, I take a piece of iron, in the glass plate rattling back and forth scratches, no one likes, but beautiful music like to hear." The eye of the color is also the same as the beauty," that is, the eyes all like to see what is good to look at. We don't want to look at the horrible, the dirty, the nasty. Mouth, ears, and eyes are all the same, so don't people have the same in the human heart? Actually, there is a problem within this argument. What you think tastes good I really don't think tastes good, who says people have the same tastes? We can give counter-examples. Who says that people appreciate music the same way? For example, a lot of young people nowadays like to listen to rock and roll, but I don't like to listen to it, I'd rather listen to classical music. Who says it's the same?
Verse 6: Human nature is inherently good
There are so many examples we can give from history to prove that human nature is complex.
Let me tell you a story about Cao Cao's sons.
As you know, it is said that Cao Cao had four sons.
Cao Zhi, who was brilliant and literate, was loyal and very gentle. How high was Cao Zhi's talent? Hundreds of years after Cao Zhi's death, there was a man named Xie Lingyun, who was also a great talent, and he said that if the talent of poets in the world had a weight of one stone, Cao Zhi alone accounted for eight buckets. Whose is the remaining two buckets? Xie Ling Yun was not polite, he himself took one bucket. Whose share is the other one? The rest of China. Xie Lingyun so arrogant, talented people, are willing to think that Cao Zhi alone accounted for eight buckets. This is the origin of the idiom of "eight buckets of talent". Cao Zhi's nature makes him feel that the position is determined by heaven, and he does not have to fight hard to succeed his father, Cao Cao.
Cao Pi, also famous, and Cao Zhi is a brother, are Cao Cao's son, but the nature of these two brothers, the difference can be too far. Cao Pi also has literary talent, and there are poems that have been passed down, but I'm afraid that compared to Cao Zhi, it's not even close. He could only share the dipper with others, for his brother alone took up eight dippers. He was also a good swordsman, and was very good at swordplay. Cao Pi has a place in the history of Chinese martial arts. At the same time, he was very possessive. For example, when Cao's army captured Yecheng, what did Cao Pi do when he rushed in? Instead of commanding the generals to pacify the people, or checking the treasury to see what loot was there, he rushed to Yuan Xi's house and snatched Yuan Xi's wife, Zhen, to be his wife, because she was very beautiful, which showed that he was very possessive. At the same time, he was very acerbic and very good with money. Cao Cao had a brother named Cao Hong, Cao Pi's uncle. Cao Cao had a brother named Cao Hong, Cao Pi's uncle, who was also extremely wealthy and stingy, never willing to share his money with others. How possessive was Cao Pi? He was so possessive that he tried to pull the hairs out of his uncle, who was an iron rooster. How? He went to the door to borrow money from his uncle, but he didn't want to lend him any. You do not borrow I toss you. He did everything he could to make his uncle Cao Hong suffer, and finally lent him the money. As for how he succeeded Cao Cao, we all know. He and Cao Zhi don't get along, but they are blood brothers.
Verse 7: In the Beginning, People Are Good
"Boiling beanstalks and burning beanstalks, the beans cry in the cauldron. They are born from the same root, why are they so anxious to fry each other?" Legend has it that this is a seven-step poem made by the talented Cao Zhi, a question to his elder brother Cao Pi, who was eager to persecute him, and a portrayal of the real relationship between them. Why was there such a big gap between the brothers? And what were their 'other two brothers like?
Cao Cao also had a son named Cao Chang, nicknamed Yellow Beard, whose hair and beard were probably yellow and very formidable. History has not left a record that he was good at writing poems, but only left a record that he had great strength, excellent martial arts, and was able to shoot arrows a hundred paces, and he was able to shoot a hair strand a hundred meters away. And how great was the strength? Once Cao Chang fought with a tiger, he wrapped the tiger's tail around his arm, and the tiger couldn't move, the tiger wasn't as strong as he was, and he held it back. It is also said that once Cao Chang looked for an elephant to fight with, I guess he was not really enjoying fighting with people, no one else could beat him, he went over and pressed the elephant to the ground, and the elephant couldn't move either. Later, when Cao Cao saw Ma Chao galloping across the country in the war, Cao Cao lamented, "If my son, Cao Chang, were here, there would be nothing for you, Ma Chao! This shows that Cao Zhang's character is brave and tough, with great strength and little heart.
Cao Cao also had a son named Cao Chong, who was a famous Chinese prodigy. Cao Chong weighed an elephant" is a very famous story. According to historical records, Sun Quan sent an elephant to Cao Cao in order to curry favor with him. At that time, elephants were rare in the Central Plains, so when he saw such a huge thing, Cao Cao took his ministers and generals to figure out how much it weighed and how to weigh it. How to weigh it? No one had any idea. Cao Chong, who was not even ten years old at the time, said, "What's so difficult about this? Let's take a boat and put the elephant on it, and then the boat will sink, won't it? I'll draw a line around the boat, and then I'll bring the elephant out, and then I'll have a way to know how much the elephant weighs." How did he do it? There are two ways to say, one is to move the stone to the boat, a piece of stone to move up, see this boat carved this line and arrived, then weigh the stone how much, do not know how much this elephant?
Section 8: The beginning of man, nature is good
This is the use of the principle of displacement. There is also a statement more clever, Cao Chong called a bucket of water to the ship, but also poured to the carved line, that poured in a few buckets of water, each bucket of water a few pounds can be known, the weight of the elephant is not known? Through these stories, I want to illustrate that the same is Cao Cao's son, four sons, the nature of the gap is very big, completely unlike brothers. Therefore, we can not put a small question mark on the six words "the nature of man is inherently good". But the original nature of goodness is the beautiful belief and expectation of Chinese culture for human beings. I think that the six words "human nature is inherently good" are the first good beliefs and expectations of Chinese culture for human beings. I think it's safer to understand it this way.
The same parents, the same family environment, even if they are brothers, there is a huge gap in nature, which is also a social reality. If nature is determined by innate and cannot be changed, then what kind of thought is conveyed next by the Three Character Classic?" In the beginning of man, nature is inherently good" is followed by six words, "Nature is similar to nature, but habits are far apart". These six words are from the Analects of Confucius. It is said that "In the beginning of man, nature is inherently good" is the thought of Mencius, and the next six words, "Sexes are similar, habits are far apart" is more in line with the thought of Confucius. But with the first six words is a bit contradictory, since "the beginning of man, nature is inherently good", then how to later become "nature is close to each other, learning is far away" it?" Nature is similar", human nature was not far from the gap, "Xi" here is not the meaning of learning, is the meaning of "influence", affected, being influenced, being contaminated by the meaning of pollution. Originally, the gap between the nature is not far, but because of the influence of the environment, by a variety of external environment, the gap is getting bigger and bigger. The story I told earlier can be interpreted in this way. Perhaps Cao Zhi, Cao Pi, Cao Chang, and Cao Chong were about the same size when they were three months old, but because of their different experiences and environments, the gap grew wider and wider, which can also be explained. In this regard, we must pay attention to the fact that the ancients attached great importance to the acquired environment, to a person's growth, a person's educational environment, the ancients attached great importance. This can be illustrated by a very simple and also ancient saying, "Those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black." This is about the problem of inculcation. There are countless examples of this throughout history.
Verse 9: In the beginning, man is good
My hometown is Wuxi, and there is a county under Wuxi called Yixing, which is now a city, and it's a very famous city for pottery, and it produces alabaster. There are a lot of very famous people in the area, and I'm afraid one of them is the most famous, called Zhou Chu, from the Jin Dynasty. This person is good natured, nature is not bad, is quite a good person. However, since his parents died when he was a child, there was no one to educate him, no one to guide him, no one to teach him rules. Slowly fooled around, by the bad culture, influence, grew up into a very rude, violent, barbaric people, not move to fight with others, beat people's heads, looking for teeth. As a result, the people around see Zhou Chu to avoid, can not afford to mess with him. Zhou Chu himself did not know, because he had no sense of shame and evil, no sense of right and wrong, this heart was covered up. One day, he suddenly realized, "How come everyone who sees me avoids me? He then went to ask an elder. This shows that his nature is not bad; he still has respect for the elderly. He asked, "Why do folks and neighbors avoid me when they see me?" The old man said, "You don't know, Zhou Chu, there are three evils on our side." Zhou Chu asked, "Which three evils, tell me?" The old man said, "First, there is a tiger in the mountains in front of us, which often comes down to eat people and livestock. Secondly, you see, there is a dragon in the river in front of the village, and no one dares to swim, dares not go down to the river to fish, dares not swim across the river." Zhou Chu said, "Isn't that only two? There is another evil?" The old man said, "It's you Zhou Chu!" Zhou Chu, who was good by nature, thought all of a sudden, "I've been so bad that the townspeople regard me as a great evil too! He suddenly came to his senses. In the legend, Zhou Chu went up the mountain to kill the tiger, for the people to get rid of the harm; down to the water, dive into the river to kill the dragon, for the people to get rid of the harm; and their own conscience, the good nature of the nature of the manifested, from then on all the way up, and then also when a great official, for the people to do a lot of good things, leaving a very good reputation in history. Now Zhou Chu's tomb is still there.
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What does this story tell us?" Sex is close, habit is far away." If the acquired environment is not good, no one to educate, even the good nature will be polluted.
For any child, if there is no good environment, the good nature will be contaminated. That's what this story tells us. So what can be done to ensure that people are moving towards goodness? What kind of methods will the Three Character Classic tell us?
How can we solve the problem of environmental contamination? The next thing the Three Character Classic says is that "if you don't teach, you're going to change". If you don't go to school, or if you don't get educated, then you're not going to be able to change your nature," he says. The word "teach" can be interpreted in two ways: if one does not educate or if one does not receive education, the bad things in one's nature will be born. The story of Zhou Chu can also illustrate this point. And "the way of teaching is to be specialized" means that the most important and precious thing in the fundamental way of education is to be specialized. The education referred to in the Three Character Classic must be experienced with the heart. This education is not simple, but has several layers of meaning: First, I teach you what you teach, the teaching of education. The second layer is the teaching of being taught, the teaching of receiving education." The "way of teaching", this "teaching" also includes two very important layers of education, one is moral education and the other is knowledge education. Today, we tend to emphasize knowledge education, for example, we let our children learn piano, violin, English, French, and perhaps ice skating from an early age. The child is expected to become an intellectual superhero from an early age and to be proficient in all kinds of martial arts. He is expected to become a Lang Lang in music, and he is expected to be proficient in a few foreign languages, and to learn calligraphy, as well as Auqi. But we tend to neglect the moral education most emphasized in the Three Character Classic, that is, how to become a good person and how to have the morals that one must have as a good person. In the Three Character Classic, moral education always comes first, but of course it never neglects intellectual education." The way of teaching is to specialize", and this "specialization" has two meanings. One layer of meaning is lifelong, that is, I learn the same thing, to learn the same love the same, learn the same like the same, learn the same into the same, do not give up halfway, do not be superficial, this is vertical. Another layer of meaning is horizontal, that is, I have to be unremitting all my life, I have to take my life as a life of learning, I have to have a lifelong learning attitude to pursue moral perfection and knowledge acquisition.
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In the Three Character Classic, learning is a life-long process, which must be experienced single-mindedly, and this is the essence of these six words in the Three Character Classic.
In history, we can also find many stories to illustrate this idea of the Three Character Classic. In the Ming Dynasty, the famous painter and calligrapher Tang Yin Tang Pak Fu, he and Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Qiu Ying and listed as the "Wu family four", is a great talent, great painters. Tang Bohu grew up in a well-off family, and had a genius for painting since he was a child, and his talent was very good. His paintings became famous very early, and the local rich and powerful families often invited Tong Pak Fu to paint. At that time, of course, Tong Pak Fu was a bit complacent, the young man became famous, suave. However, Tong Pak Fu's mother was a very remarkable woman, she felt that such a shallow, a little bit of achievement on the satisfaction is not good, you must concentrate on learning a few years of painting, the art of painting to drill through. So, his mother told Tang Bohu this reasoning, let him go to study painting with Shen Zhou. Shen Zhou was already a famous painter at that time, and lived not far from his house. His mother packed Tang Pak Fu's luggage and told him to learn painting from Shen Zhou. Tang Pak Fu is also very happy, anyway, not far from home, on the back of his mother to prepare his luggage happily go to worship Shen Zhou as a master. To Shen Zhou there to learn just a year or two, Tang Pak Fu found himself painting very good, and then look at the teacher's paintings, do not see better than their own where to go, so the practice of painting is not too focused, want to go home. Shen Zhou saw the psychological activities of Tong Pak Fu, did not think much about it, he informed his wife, that is, Tong Pak Fu's teacher's mother, to prepare a table of food, send Tong Pak Fu: "let him out of the teacher, do not need to learn again." After making the table, the meal was sent to a separate house in the yard, which Tang Pak Fu had never been to.
What kind of house is this? Why did the teacher never let Tong Pak Fu come here? And what does this experience of Tong Pak Fu tell us?
Section 12: In the Beginning of Man, Nature is Good
Tong Pak Fu walked into the house and looked at it, oops, found the house strange, how under the sky there is such a house! How strange? This house actually has four doors. He went in from a door, the other three sides also have a door, and each door is a different landscape: this door outside the beautiful flowers, that door outside the warbler singing and dancing, another door outside the gurgling water. Tang Bohu think fun, said: "this master can be really bad ah, the original home has so much fun to go also do not tell me, today full of division, he told me, I first do not eat, first go out to see." Toward the east door want to go to see the beautiful flowers, "thud" a hit a bag; toward the south door want to go to see the warbler singing and dancing, "thud" another hit a bag; toward the west door want to go to see the brook babbling, "thud" a hit another bag. Head up three bags. He realized that the original three windows and the scenery outside are all Shen Zhou painting on the wall. Tang Bohu realized that the original painting endless, his level is far from this. At this time Shen Zhou came in and said: "Tang Pak Fu ah, after dinner you can go, do not learn." Tang Pak Fu kneeled down, "Teacher, you still let me learn from you for a few more years." From then on, Tang Pak Fu concentrated and studied for many more years. Then one day, Shen Zhou told him, "You can really go now, you have already accomplished something, you don't have to follow me anymore." Tang Pak Fu's character had also changed, so he cooked for himself and went to make a table to thank his teacher for his training. He put the dishes done into the room, these dishes inside the fish. Jiangnan, fish and shrimp more. At this time, a greedy cat jumped over to eat the fish. Tong Pak Fu of course, we must drive the cat away, can not let it eat. The cat scampered towards the east wall of the window jump, want to escape, "pop" sound, the cat hit a bag fell; the cat climbed up and ran to the south wall and the west wall, where there is a window, "pop", and fell, the cat also hit three bags. Tang Bohu forgot, he was practicing painting, painting three windows on the wall, even the cat could not distinguish.
This story is nothing more than to illustrate that, to learn any one thing, you must be dedicated, you must persevere, and only then you will achieve something." The way to teach is to specialize" means that the whole process of learning must be treated as a life journey, and that one must spend one's life on earth with an attitude of lifelong learning, which is a matter of learning attitude. The Three Character Classic goes on to tell us a great deal about the learning environment. Because we know that if we compare a child to a flower, then the environment in which he grows and is educated is the soil on which the flower grows and blossoms, what kind of soil conditions should we prepare for the child who is learning? What kind of external environment should we create for him? Please listen to the next lecture.
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