Understanding: Everyone living in the world should have the following three ideas:
First, life should have the concept of professionalism. Respect was originally a basic category of Confucian philosophy. Confucius advocates that people should always be diligent and diligent in keeping their homes and do their best for their careers. He said, "respect for deacons", "respect for things" and "respect for deeds" (The Analects of Confucius, the sage of Luz). Cheng Yi in the Northern Song Dynasty said: "The so-called worshippers are one of the teachers; The so-called one, uncomfortable (not outgoing) is called one. " It can be seen that respect refers to the mental state of being single-minded and single-minded, and dedication is the traditional virtue of China people. Liu Lin's "Yang's Genealogy" inherits and develops this traditional concept, and holds that "what you do is what you entrust"; "Don't practice hard, but specialize in your own specialty", which fully embodies the professionalism concept of people at that time.
Second, we should have the concept of equality. In China's long feudal society, "Three Cardinals and Five Permanents" was its spiritual shackles, and "Scholars, Agriculture, Industry and Commerce" was its hierarchical system of treating people. However, with the development of commodity economy in Ming and Qing Dynasties and the rise and development of Shanxi merchants' gangs, the old feudal ethics and hierarchical system were severely impacted in Shanxi. In the second year of Yongzheng (1724), Liu, the governor of Shanxi Province, said: "There is a long-standing habit on the right side of the mountain, and the idea of attaching importance to profit is more than fame. Children who are handsome are more likely to enter the industry, followed by small officials. Only after middle school can they study and take exams. " Yong Zhengdi Zhu Pi said, "On the right side of the mountain, merchants come first. The second is willing to help farmers, the second is seeking to enter the camp, and the last one is ordered to study. " This concept and ethos continued until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. Liu Dapeng, a juren from Taiyuan in the late Qing Dynasty, said: "Recently, the atmosphere in my hometown is very bad, my studies are light, my business is heavy, and all the talented children have gone out to do business. There are few scholars, even those who abandon Confucianism and go into business. That is to say, scholars are often hungry and cold, and they are eager to become businessmen. " Liu Lin's "Yang Jia Pu" thinks that "heaven and earth give birth to people, and everyone has a business"; No matter you are a scholar, a farmer, a worker or a businessman, "If you strive for self-improvement and steal security, then manpower will win!" Settle down the poor today, and don't be rich for the future! "That is to say, Yang Jiapu believes that" scholars, farmers and businessmen "are equal, but there are different occupations and no grades. As long as they "strive for self-improvement" and steal the column, then human resources will surely win! "This idea and concept of equality is related to the above-mentioned business atmosphere in Shanxi. Moreover, the social foundation of Fu Shan, a Shanxi scholar in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, is also related to the social atmosphere of doing business in Shanxi. It can be seen that it is no accident that the concept and thought of equality came into being in Yang's genealogy.
Third, we must have the spirit of self-improvement and hard work. According to Yang's genealogy, if you strive for self-improvement and don't steal security, you will be rich if you are poor. There will be no pie in the sky. Self-improvement and diligence are the key to changing the fate of life. Shanxi merchants dominated the business circles in Ming and Qing dynasties for more than 500 years, a spirit of self-improvement and diligence. They inherited the Chinese nation's excellent tradition of "Heaven is powerful, and gentlemen strive for self-improvement" (Book of Changes), and opened up a road of international tea merchants in the Qing Dynasty, with Shanxi and Hebei as the hubs and the Great Wall, Gobi Desert in Mongolia, Kulun (Ulaanbaatar), Chaketu, Siberia and Petersburg and Moscow in the hinterland of Europe in the north. At the end of Qing Dynasty, in order to adapt to the development of monetary economy, Shanxi draft bank was established, and it crossed the border to Japan, and the first overseas bank in China was established. It can be seen that what Yang's genealogy describes is the reflection of Shanxi merchants' spirit and Shanxi social atmosphere in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
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The drama "beginning of autumn" is a life-and-death story that reflects the reform of the draft bank faced by the Fengde Majia family in Shanxi in the early years of the Republic of China. Most of the audience who saw the play were shocked and moved by its ideological and artistic quality. Some experts praised beginning of autumn as a milestone of China's drama in the new century. It is noteworthy that from the beginning to the end of this play, the characters in the play repeatedly advocate such a line: "Heaven and earth give birth to people, and one person should have something to do;" When you are alive, do your best every day. " And hang this line as a couplet in the set of the play. The audience feels that the above lines have always played an inspiring, inspiring and inspiring role in the whole play. According to Mr. Yao, the screenwriter of beginning of autumn, this line is taken from Mr. Zhang's History of the Rise and Fall of Shanxi Merchants, which comes from Yang's genealogy in Liulin County, Shanxi Province in the Qing Dynasty.
The original text is as follows:
People are born in heaven and earth, and one person has a career; Live and do your duty one day. Hard work should not be wasted, only diligent. Work hard and practice hard. You specialize in your own business. Our industry, as well as our entrusted industry. Leaning sideways, you learned to be a career; If we trace the land, then agriculture is industry; Being in Quyi, work is the industry; He is a businessman, doing business in the city, selling fish and salt, and taking some small businesses with him, so the businessman is his own business. This is a career, no matter how different it is, but it can't support health, death, marriage and children ... whether it's a scholar, a farmer, a worker or a businessman, striving for self-improvement and stealing security, then human resources will surely win! Be content with being poor today, not for being rich in the future!