Life is a hard journey, and at the same time it is constantly faced with various choices and choices. Choose others to show your confidence and ability; Being selected by others also shows that you have a bright spot and excellent quality. But under the same environmental conditions and internal quality, the results are quite different. It can be seen that the value of things is related to many factors, and a writer in the Ming Dynasty also made in-depth thinking. Let's share a classic work by Liu Bowen, which is thought-provoking and memorable.
Workers and overseas Chinese presented pianos.
Author: Liu Ji (Ming Dynasty)
Overseas Chinese who work are good at playing the piano, strings, drums and golden sounds. I think the beauty of this world is too ordinary. Let the national workers look at it and say, "Fugu." Give it back. Overseas Chinese workers returned to China, asking painters to disconnect them; He also sought seal carvers to end the past. The box is buried in the soil and will be released within the year, so it will be suitable for listing. It is easy for a noble person to see it with a hundred gold and offer it to the DPRK. When the music officer handed out the notice, they all said, "Rare treasure." When the overseas Chinese workers heard this, they sighed, "What a pity the world is! Is it unique? Otherwise! If you don't figure it out early, it will die. " Then I went to the mountain of death. I don't know where it will end.
Liu Ji, whose real name is Bowen, is from Qingtian, Zhejiang. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang invited him to Nanjing as a counselor, and he became an official in imperial history. Hong Wu resigned and retired in four years, and wrote Collected Works of Sincerity and Yu Ion. This article is selected from Li Yu Ion written by Liu Ji when he lived in seclusion in Qingtian, which criticized the tyranny in the late Yuan Dynasty in the form of fable. This fable concentrates on revealing the foolish and ridiculous behavior of the rulers who confuse the real with the fake and despise the present.
The main idea of this fable is that a pianist named Gong made a piano out of good paulownia wood, connected the strings and played the sound of gold and jade. He thought it was the best piano in the world, so he gave it to the director of the band, but Teacher Coke said it was not an clavichord, so he returned it.
Overseas Chinese workers went home to discuss with the painter, drew the broken lines on the piano body, asked someone to carve the ancient style, and then put it in a box and buried it in the soil. A year later, it was dug up and sold in the market. A dignitary passed by the market and saw the piano, so he spent a lot of money to buy it and presented it to the court. The music official conveyed his appreciation, saying that it was really a rare treasure.
The pianist then lamented that this society is really sad! But it's not just a piano. If you don't make plans early, you will die together! So he went to live in seclusion in the mountains near Dang Ming, and finally he didn't know where he went.
The author wrote the piano first and was not appreciated, and then wrote the piano and was praised by the music official in disguise. In contrast, although the quality of Qin has not changed, its value has changed from obscurity to being regarded as a rare treasure, whipping the stupidity and sorrow of worshiping the ancient and restraining the present. Finally, the author points out the theme, not just talking about the experience of a piano, but lamenting the world and all kinds of bad styles at that time.
The pianist left angrily, which showed his noble quality of unwilling to go with the flow, and at the same time sublimated the thought of the article to a certain height. At the end of the article, it is also like collecting baskets. Not slow, but exhausted.
After reading it, readers can't help hiding their books and thinking deeply. The quality and authenticity of an article cannot be observed only from the surface. Just like this piano, its value has doubled in one year without any internal changes. The material and production technology remain the same, but the decoration of the appearance has changed. Similarly, we should also pay attention to the quality of talents, instead of just looking at their clothes and conversation, just like following the map and joking.
But to say the least, people and things need to pay attention to packaging. As the saying goes, "a man depends on his clothes to make a horse lean on his saddle, and a dog runs happily by his bell." Appearance and interior are also dialectical unity. Without good internal qualities, they are all superficial and will eventually be eliminated. If you don't pay attention to your own image-building, excellent quality is not easy to be discovered and excavated. Just like Heshibi, although it was finally cherished by the world, it experienced twists and turns, even a tragedy that was buried for a long time.