Mr Tao Xingzhi, an educator, especially likes this pair of couplets. He had planned to name his study "Out of Cao Tingzhai". Look at what Mr. Tao said:

A few years ago, I saw a couplet written by Zeng Guofan. First, I read the couplets, which read: "I love to raise pots of fish", and I was very dissatisfied. Because the free world of fish is rivers, lakes and seas; Where is it impossible to know their chemical machines? Why do you want to catch the fish alive in the basin? A basin is a prison for fish, and a basin of fish is a prisoner in chains. Nowadays, in a small prison basin rather than the size of rivers, lakes and seas, it is not only against nature, but also a narrow measure to pursue the opportunity of nature. I have always been opposed to keeping birds in cages, so I unconsciously have a deep dissatisfaction with raising fish in pots.

It was with this dissatisfied attitude that I went to see the first film. When I saw the first part of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles read: "Don't mow the grass, leave the business", I couldn't help but say hello, and I was so happy that I forgot all my dissatisfaction. From then on, I wanted to build a nest with this meaning, called "no weeding" But how can people who eat breakfast and worry about dinner afford to build a house? Take a step back and think, although a vegetarian can't do it, why not be a vegetarian? Well, let's just say, I'm sorry for my self-styled title of "not weeding in court" People who need to be vegetarian, please see this name clearly and come to me; Otherwise, you're going to weed, and I'm not going to weed. It's hard. What should I do?

Following Mr. Tao's train of thought, let's first look at the next couplet "Love to raise fish in pots and villages".

Mr. Tao thinks that "pots" restrict the freedom of fish, but Mr. Zeng Guofan, who wrote this couplet, may not think so. "A flower is the world and a leaf is the Buddha", and the universe can be hidden in a fruit shell. How did Mr. Tao know that a pot of fish was unhappy?

On further consideration, Mr. Tao's dissatisfaction may be exactly what Mr. Zeng wants to express. In this world, unless you are a lonely Robinson, you always have to form a family and join a group. This family and group is your "basin". If you want to pursue happiness and happiness, you have to tolerate shackles and restrictions.

Discipline and freedom are always a pair of contradictions. There is no discipline without freedom, and there is no freedom without discipline. In life, everyone has to dance in chains. Freedom is always realized at the expense of non-freedom. This may be the "chemical machine" that Ceng Laoshi wanted to talk about.

On the relationship between freedom and family, French writer Mo Luoa said in "On Family" and "Five Questions of Life":

If I have to talk about family problems, I will definitely quote paolo valeri's famous sentence: "Every family has an innate special trouble, and every enthusiastic family member wants to escape. But the reunion at dinner, the freedom and freedom at home, and my initial feeling do have a charm that I can't give up.

On the price of freedom and freedom, the author himself once wrote a poem:

Petofi said.

Life is precious.

Love is more expensive.

If you are free.

You can throw them both.

God said,

Oh, my God.

Don't be too arrogant.

If I set you free,

You want to exchange rice with me.

Next, let's take a look at the link on the Internet that made Mr. Tao "say hello several times"-"Don't leave the grass in the yard for business". The main idea of this sentence is: "Don't pull up the weeds in the yard, let us enjoy its vibrant and free-growing' business' at any time".

In the eyes of future generations, Zeng Guofan, who wrote this couplet, was a sage who was virtuous, made meritorious deeds and made the statement of "Three Immortals", a man worshipped by ordinary people, a gentleman who cultivated his morality and put his family in order, an influential provincial official in the southeast, a commander-in-chief of the Xiang army who was strategizing, a big official winner of a vassal minister and a pioneer of the Westernization Movement.

These labels are all derived from his role. What supports these various roles is a life full of "business".

And look at Zeng Guofan's letters to his son Ceng Jize and Zeng, how to explain "business is business" tirelessly:

? "Always keep your chest wide and lively, and then you will make greater progress."

? "The juvenile word is always expensive, and Dongpo's so-called bitter fleabane is as lively as a kettle."

"When you are young, you should start from the word" perseverance ". However, you must have emotional interest and be full of energy to last long. No matter how tired you are, you can't really have perseverance. "

"In more than eight plaques, it is said that' less anger is the best way to keep fit'. I tasted it, too. Don't be too bitter in your heart. Be lively and splash the ground, and raise a period of vitality. Also take the road of anger. I have done my best to avoid getting angry and know how to save money and keep fit. "

? "Zhang Wenduan (that is, Zhang Ying, the father of a famous minister in Yongzheng) wrote" Cong Xun Zhai Yu ",which was all his adopted son's words. Among them, keeping in good health, choosing friends, watching landscapes and flowers and bamboos are all pure vitality, so we should always look at them. Honger is also weak, so you should read this book often. "

"In his later years, Wu Bo, who knew the sage's lesson, asked the real filial piety. Although I am weak and sick, I should only do a good job of cleaning and recuperating, and should not rashly attack and treat. Zhuang said, "If you smell it in the world, you won't know how to rule it. "Dongpo regards these two languages as a method of keeping in good health. When I was in Erre Primary School, I tried to appreciate the exegesis of the word "zai", and I knew that both Zhuang and Su had the intention of letting nature take its course. " ("future" can be understood as "let nature take its course" and "let nature take its course"-author's note).

Ceng Laoshi also wrote a pair of "Support Two Poor Bones, Feed a Spring", which is also very fresh and lovely.

You see, whether it's grass in the court, fish in the basin, plants or animals, these natural life are growing freely and happily in a limited space under certain constraints. People also need to live happily and vigorously under rules and pressures. This is probably the profound meaning of this couplet.

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