The original text is Hong Yingming's Caigen Tan. Caigen Tan is a collection of quotations on self-cultivation, life, social life and birth compiled by Hong Yingming, a Taoist priest in the early Ming Dynasty. It is a rare and precious training for the past. It has an incredible subtle influence on people's self-cultivation and moral cultivation.

"Be yourself and yourself, look at the flowers in bloom before the court; Looking up at the sky with no intention of staying or staying means that you are indifferent to all glory and humiliation, and always enjoy the bloom flowers in the courtyard with a quiet mood. ? Indifferent to all ups and downs, gains and losses, coldly watching the clouds in the sky gather and disperse with the wind. Expressed an open-minded attitude towards things that are indifferent to nature.

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The creative background of Caigen Tan;

Hong Yingming, life story is unknown. It is speculated that he is probably a person from Jintan County and a hermit who has lived in the mountains for a long time. The book may be published in the middle or late period of Wanli period. At this time, the emperor Shenzong had no way to govern the country, the eunuch was autocratic, the government was lax, and the party was in trouble. The domestic and foreign troubles that began to show signs in Jiajing Dynasty became more serious, and the thoughts of people of insight were extremely dull, so they could not be freed from the fierce social contradictions at that time, so someone would express the voice of the times in various forms.

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Caigen Tan-Baidu Encyclopedia