These views are all right and good, but there is one limitation, that is, the concept of "life" is limited to "body", and I don't know that there is human life besides physical life. Or we can call material life "small life", and what transcends small life is "big life".
Let's look at many phenomena in life. In spring and March, everything revives. The park is full of green grass, birds and flowers, and tourists feel full of spring. But every grass in the grass and every flower in the flower is not last year's grass or last year's flower. Although the flowers and plants of last year, the flowers and plants of the year before and the flowers and plants of previous years no longer exist, everyone can still feel the vitality of flowers and plants. This year's flowers and plants will eventually wither, but next year and the year after, people will still feel the vitality of this grass and flower. Although the life of every grass and flower is limited, the life of this grass and flower can last for years. This is called the great life of grassland flowers.
Life is a matter of life, isn't it Each of us will eventually die physically. In other words, everyone's little life will die if he lives. However, since the emergence of human beings, the culture accumulated by human beings for millions of years cannot disappear with the disappearance of individual bodies, it will exist forever and have a great impact on the lives of everyone in future generations. Culture is the great life of mankind. Everyone's little life, if it can be integrated into this big life, can last forever.
Each of us has studied in different schools and classes, and we all feel that the learning atmosphere and living atmosphere in different schools and classes are very different. A good school class has a high-spirited atmosphere, which benefits every teacher and student. Every teacher and student suffers unconsciously from poor school classes, lazy and boring atmosphere and lack of progress. We call this phenomenon school spirit and class spirit. Although there is no specific material entity to refer to, everyone can really feel its existence. Iron camp, mobile soldiers. Although students leave school after graduation, the school spirit can be preserved forever. Students' campus life is short, but the great life outside of each student's campus life-school spirit and class spirit can last forever.
People are social. No one can live without people. Robinson lived alone on a desert island for twenty years, but he actually brought many production tools when he went ashore. More importantly, his mind is full of 37 years of rich life experiences. These production tools and life experiences are the wisdom of human social life. Without this wisdom, how can he live? Therefore, each of us is talking about life, and we must also talk about life in this big group of human beings. This large group of people is full of vitality, and each of us can have a colorful life.
People come from nature. After millions of years of slow evolution and the bleak management of countless ancients, human culture has gradually emerged. With culture, it can be said that human beings have gradually separated from the animal kingdom. Mencius said: People are different from animals. That's the truth! Mencius said it really well. If we think that life is about eating and dressing well, having power and influence, how different is this life from animals? Therefore, people should be eager to learn and have knowledge in order to have culture. With culture, we can say that we are different from animals. This person has life, not animal life. As the poem says, "The mouse looks like a corpse, but the man is rude." . A mouse's body is its life. When the mouse dies, its life is over. But humans are different. Man's body dies, but his lifelong contribution to human culture does not die with him. Small life dies, but big life can last forever. Confucius has been dead for two thousand years, but his influence on the people of China still exists. For two thousand years, China people regarded Confucius as a saint, and almost everyone in China's life was influenced by him to varying degrees. Confucius is immortal. It can be predicted that after 2000, human beings, whether China people or foreigners, will still have to read Confucius' books and have a dialogue with him in order to learn the wisdom of life from him. Isn't Confucius still so lively and amiable all his life? Confucius' contribution to China culture is second to none, so his life can be long. Culture is the great life of human beings, so it is not justified.
Cultural life, its performance is "ceremony". Rats have bodies, but people are rude. Ceremony is the noumenon of life, and human life is reflected in ceremony. Rites are not only external etiquette norms, but also their internal filial piety and faithful attitude and behavior towards life. Modern people have many misunderstandings about etiquette. Opening is "ethical cannibalism". In fact, the original intention of courtesy is benevolence, which is the indispensable love and respect between people when people get along in large groups. So Confucius said, "Where is the unkind ceremony?" With this kind of benevolence, all kinds of norms in life are rituals. If everyone follows this norm, a large group will naturally be stable and everyone's life will be happy for a long time. Li, what's wrong? Ethics only teaches people how to love and respect others and how to eat others.
China culture is characterized by benevolence inside and righteousness outside. Everyone in China knows that the essence of human life lies in culture, benevolence, morality, filial piety, loyalty, faith and fraternity, and mutual respect and friendship between people regardless of race, country or region. Therefore, China people can give up their little lives and seek to preserve this great life of human culture. China people call it "sacrifice one's life for righteousness". Giving up a small life and saving a big life is precisely the profound wisdom that China people cherish life the most and know how to cherish life the most.
Xiang Yu was defeated and Wujiang committed suicide. Today, some people in China criticize Xiang Yu for being ignorant and scheming. He could have crossed the river to recruit soldiers and made a comeback. It is a failed hero to ridicule China people for worshipping Xiang Yu. As we all know, in Xiang Yu's mind, he was defeated, and his children in Jiangdong were not spared. He was ashamed to meet his elders in Jiangdong. Only when you die can you thank your hometown elders, fulfill your integrity and feel at ease. Xiang Yu didn't know that he would make a comeback, but he knew that life could not be without faith. It is a great shame to drag out an ignoble existence without faith, even if you are still alive. Although Xiang Yu is dead, his aboveboard image of a gentleman will remain in the hearts of China people forever. The people of China revere Xiang Yu precisely because of his integrity and the great cultural life of mankind. Guan Yu, Zhang Xun, Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang, Shi Kefa and Guan Tianpei all failed in their careers, but their personalities achieved great success. Sacrificing a small life, a big life will always be respected and immortal by future generations. Westerners don't know this truth, but just wander around here as a little life. Napoleon, for example, was defeated twice as head of state and led the army to surrender. In the eyes of China people, there is no shame. China people only have beheaded generals, but not surrendered generals. And this person is highly respected by westerners. This is a good example that westerners only know about the small material life, but they don't know about the big cultural life. Now that people in China are westernized, it is no wonder that they only worship Napoleon and don't know how to worship Guan Yu and Xiang Yu.
A small life must die when it lives, but a filial and faithful life can last forever. Although there is no specific material to refer to, everyone feels its existence and is deeply influenced by it. Knowing this, we can better arrange our lives. The ancients in China said: keeping in good health is not demanding. Cherish life, of course, cherish this physical life and strive to stay healthy, but this body is only a carrier of life. Food, clothing, housing and transportation are only the means to maintain this kind of life, not life itself. The real life noumenon lies in culture.
If you know this, then you can ignore life and death and ignore life and death; Then you can be selfless, just give, don't take, but ask for hard work, and Mo Wen will reap. At this point in life, there can be unlimited freedom, unlimited equality, unlimited independence and unlimited happiness. At this stage of life, what else can a husband ask for?