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I still remember the shock when I first read The Humble Treasure by Belgian writer maeterlinck. He believes that a person who suddenly finds his first gray hair in front of a mirror contains more tragedies than Shakespeare's duel, poisoning and assassination. Is this a bit alarmist? At first, I was deeply suspicious, but after thinking about it for two days, I finally understood that it was true. Everyone will meet the first gray hair, and no one can avoid it. So this tragedy seems very small and real, and it is simply a long and slow battle. Dueling, poisoning and assassination are just accidental events, which can kill people quickly, but the first gray hair connects the beginning and end of life into a long logical line, and any section of life is connected with it.
-"About Age"
● No one should avoid and cover up some of the simplest and natural life topics, such as age. No matter how high the position, no matter how much wealth, no matter how great the disaster, compared with the passage of youth, the vicissitudes of years, the eyes of young and old, and the interweaving of life and death, it has become superficial. The northern geese were singing, and the old emperor and the old beggar heard it together; Cold mountains sweep graves, but the tears of the elders and the tears of the younger generation are different in weight.
-"About Age"
● The first love that human beings love to praise is the first love, but at that age when they say that they are teenagers or young people, they don't know who they are. How can they complete a lifelong emotional choice? Therefore, that kind of choice is basically incorrect, and human beings knowingly praise without hesitation, and inaccurate praise will inevitably lead to two-phase abuse; In this kind of praise and abuse, people will gradually mature, know all kinds of opposite sex, and finally find the "only" appearance in middle age. But most of these discoveries are meaningless, because they are burdened with heavy burdens that cannot be unloaded, and even accurate discoveries are often impossible to achieve. Since it can't be realized, don't care too much about discovery. Even the "only" can only be indifferent and say goodbye. The scene here, as long as it can be expressed calmly, is already a mockery of human beings.
-"About Age"
I don't approve of over-praising youth, but insist that this is an era full of traps. Life will encounter traps, but the traps in youth are the most, the biggest and the most dangerous.
-"About Age"
● Old people praise youth, mostly focusing on the infinite possibilities of youth. But they forget that this possibility is often a narrow road when it comes to specific individuals. If you choose one possibility by mistake, you will lose other possibilities. Although young people still have a long way to go and can constantly re-choose, a real person is limited by various social relations and objective conditions and does not have much freedom to re-choose. The tragedy of "a slip of the foot makes a lasting regret" happens everywhere, but most slips don't look like a slip.
-"About Age"
● The character of a person's life is basically formed in his youth. Unfortunately, in that crucial era, young people are always encouraged to strive for success, but the so-called success is always branded with exclusion and selfishness. As a result, they have no wrinkles on their cheeks, but they have dug an invisible black hole morally.
-"About Age"
There are also some profound philosophers in history who praise the youth for promoting the vitality of society. But there is an obvious antinomy here: the stronger the object, the more it needs to encourage young people to deal with it, and they are just young and can't mediate with real persistence.
They just put down their history textbooks. Have they ever observed the connotation of historical desolation? They talk about society casually. Have they ever understood the simple needs of the people? They proudly show off their culture. Have you ever thought about the original mission of culture? It is unfair to put the historical mission of students on his shoulders. If we encourage them and put pressure on them at the same time, they will only become a bunch of twisted bodies and shrill voices, which we saw a long time ago at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
-"About Age"
What is the normal state of youth? I think everything starts with sincere modesty. Young people should know that the world has existed for countless years before we were born, and we know nothing about it. We are lucky to be able to build something under Zheng's feet. If you work hard for a few years, you will actually take root and sprout from your feet and connect with the whole blood of the world, which will also connect your thin life with mankind. You should be surprised by this connection. Imagine a mere five feet, connected thousands of years ago and thousands of miles away. It is this connection that makes you appreciate the sublime, care about the magnificent and experience diversity. How can it be worthwhile to suddenly change your face, break these ties and criticize indiscriminately? This modest and safe ecology can also avoid unnecessary waste of youth life and make it possible for young people to live as happy as young people.
-"About Age"
● Middle age is an extension of youth and a farewell to youth. This farewell is not only the variation of a series of ideas, but the self-confidence of a mature person who can finally stand on his own feet and handle various problems at will.
-"About Age"
● The experience of being the master of middle-aged people is the last spiritual weaning. You suddenly feel that you have finally got rid of some dependence on your parents, brothers and teachers, which always haunts your youth; For leaders and organizations, it seems closer, but it shows its own independent existence. You have become an indispensable point in the social structure network; Therefore, you have tasted the real loneliness, unprecedented fragility and unprecedented strength in life. In this way, young people with diverse experiences have a clear orientation and choice.
-"About Age"
Once people have the experience of being masters of their own affairs in middle age, they will understand how ridiculous the textbook-style dogma of life is. In charge of such a big stall, new problems are appearing in every corner all the time. There is no room for talking about and playing with concepts except observing the actual situation keenly and carefully and solving every sticking point realistically. At this time, life has become very ethereal, and I can't remember any rules except a few big principles of life. I think this is an excellent state of life, with a wide range and great flexibility.
-"About Age"
The persistence of middle-aged people has risen from viewpoint to personality, which is beyond words. They seem to have no problem with it. They know that as long as they adhere to their own personality principles, many seemingly opposing views can be inclusive and interdependent, and they can all be transformed into reasonable existence one by one. As a result, in front of middle-aged people, a lot of confrontation disappeared, and the opponents of earlier years could not be found. Yesterday's enemies didn't have much hatred, but more cared for people of all ages. Please don't underestimate the word "care". At least half of the charm of middle-aged people is related to this.
-"About Age"
The most terrible thing for middle-aged people is to lose their hearts. This is more harmful than the gaffes of young people and old people. The main feature of middle-aged people's insanity is forgetting their age. For a while, I hope others care about me like young people, and for a while, I hope others respect me like old people. After middle age, he always lives at both ends and refuses to settle down at his age.
-"About Age"
● In a certain period, in a certain society, even if all young people and old people are possessed and absurd, as long as middle-aged people are not absurd, things will not be bad. I am most afraid of the absurdity of middle-aged people, and the biggest absurdity of middle-aged people is to forget that they are middle-aged.
-"About Age"
Old age is a poetic era. ...
Middle age is too practical and busy, and the whole is not a poem, which is difficult to understand; Youth is often poeticized, but the poems of youth are too passionate and lack artistic conception. According to my standards, poetry without artistic conception is not good.
Only in old age, the heavy mission of life is unloaded, the joys and sorrows of life are understood, the world of mortals has moved away, the quiet environment around and the gradually slowing pace of life constitute a kind of summative and inductive slight harmony, and the artistic conception of poetry appears.
-"About Age"
Generally speaking, in his later years, he is always leisurely, always able to face nature again without utility, and always strolling in Yuan Ye with memories. These are the characteristics of poetry and literature. Old people may not write poetry or have stopped writing poetry, but they live in the form of poetry. Looking at the lively market, watching the younger generation come and go, watching the flowers in the yard wither, watching the spring grass green, my thoughts are intermittent, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, and sometimes really illusory.
-"About Age"
● The age of the elderly also has a positive slow-release function, reducing the burden for the young and middle-aged society. Irresponsible young people, with improper spoil, ruined the age of the old, but after all, there are still calm and wise people among the old, silently clinging to the indifferent dignity given by age.
-"About Age"
● Age should not be used too much, because age is naturally unfair and indisputable. But once used, it will have moldy hegemony of the times, so don't be afraid. I don't know where the silver hair flashed, but suddenly a high god appeared who could subdue them. The smoke dispersed, leaving only the smile of Gao Shen looming in the sky, and the world at this time has long been clear. A pair of hands about to shake hands with the world, let me see a poetic sacredness.
-"About Age"
No matter how difficult the world is for young people, they often need the help of some old hands. It is not easy to see at ordinary times. Once something happens, it will be extended in time, and then disappear immediately after the rescue. Dragons can see the head but not the tail. This is a kind of recessive culture and flexible culture that has already withdrawn from the social subject. The hardness of the years is precipitated in the hidden softness, which can make future generations have an epiphany for a moment, such as meeting with heaven and man. The charm of old age, in such a high position, should also be revealed occasionally. Don't rush, don't force, don't rush, let them become the freehand brushwork of life, as light as thick, as if there is nothing.
-"About Age"
● What scenery to see in what season and what flowers to enjoy in what season are complete and natural. If you disturb it on purpose, you will destroy the conditions and taste at both ends. "Warm Winter" and "Joan Hinton" are not normal astronomical phenomena.
-"About Age"
After rejecting endless moral preaching, people have enthusiastically called for authenticity, believing that the essence of art is truth; When the pictures displayed in reality are too gloomy and grim, people turn to the light of morality, thinking that the purpose of art is to suppress evil and promote good. In fact, the understanding of these two aspects is too limited. Outstanding art must go beyond the pursuit of truth (let science immerse itself there) and the judgment of good and evil (let ethics and law accomplish this task), and reach a height that is enough to have a bird's eye view and contain both. At this height, the central proposition is the taste of life.
-"On Artistic Creation"
China's ancient paintings, whether they are bleak and barren rivers and arduous treks in mountains, or birds in spring and eagles on cliffs, will contain profound life consciousness as long as they are handed down from generation to generation. Beethoven's symphonies are all life symphonies.
-"On Artistic Creation"
● History can also be treated by human biochemistry. At first, it may be just a metaphor to call the early stage of human beings' childhood and the cradle of primitive civilization, but gradually people see more profound significance in it. You can observe the life history of an individual. Therefore, once history is treated biochemically, it will become vibrant and easy for people to observe. Regarding history as life, both outlook on life and history are transcendental and artistic.
-"On Artistic Creation"
● The integration of nature and life can easily bring attractive mystery. The mystery of human primitive art mostly comes from this first encounter between nature and life. The development of the times has greatly diluted this mystery, but as long as nature and life are truly opposed, this mystery will reappear. The mystery of nature is inexhaustible, and so is the complex relationship between life and nature. Therefore, the mystery can't be erased.
-"On Artistic Creation"
If the promotion of every kind of knowledge is at the expense of the decline of life, what is the ultimate goal of secular knowledge? If brilliant knowledge civilization always brings such a heavy burden to people, then in another thousand years, will mankind not be submerged by its own spiritual achievements? If spirit and body are always contradictory, depth and youth are always out of reach, and knowledge and games are always opposite, then when can we care about the self-improvement that human beings have longed for since ancient times?
-Preface to the Cultural Journey
We know too little about the world. Countless unknowns surround us, which keeps life interesting. When one day, everything in the world can be explained clearly, the world will become very boring. Life will become a simple trajectory, dull repetition.
-"A Corner of Dongting"
The process of the Yangtze River is also like a person's life. In the initial stage, it is always full of miracles and dangers. In the old age when life is coming to an end, how can we be stable and realistic?
-"At the Foot of Wolf Mountain"
People have a variety of lifestyles and different levels of life civilization. People who live on the fifth floor need not criticize the low level of the third floor at all, let alone whether you are on the fifth floor or not.
-"Book Sea"
In all kinds of life situations, the most important point is the profound interaction between foreign land experience and hometown consciousness, and the wandering desire and returning consciousness complement each other. This kind of situation, across national boundaries, is becoming more and more ancient and modern. As a life paradox full of charm forever, it is amazing.
-"Where is the township pass?"
● The road of life is to start from the place of birth and go further and further. I was born myself, and the life I started from this is to let myself deal with all kinds of dissidents. The result of the treatment may be to lose yourself, or to return yourself to a higher level.
-"Notes on Mountain Residence, Introduction"
No matter how important you are in the future, one day you will escape from the excitement and ride alone, just wanting to meet the mountains and rivers. If you go far, you may meet someone, like a woodcutter and a passer-by, who appears between you and the mountains and rivers. Just a few words will astonish you and lead you to struggle for life. However, God can't tolerate such perfection. You are doomed to lose him, and at the same time you will lose most of your life.
-"About Friendship"
● Being an ordinary person under normal conditions is the most delicious life.
-"Reply under the Light"
● Don't just add it to your life. In interpersonal communication, we should always lose weight and detoxify, so that we can easily take the road of the future.
-"Reply under the Light"
● Although the process of life will be greatly influenced by society and the times, the basic clues that run through it are always inseparable from one's own individual life. The integrity and coherence of individual life will constitute a great power, so that any little point in life points to the overall value.
-"Yesterday's Collection"
● If one day, we suddenly find that instead of devoting ourselves to a great cause, it is better to regard life as a career, and it is better to regard life as a story and listen to a good story. We will definitely start writing and do something interesting. Might as well call such a story "the game of collecting life". Let today collect yesterday and tomorrow collect today. In a piece of collection, the original pieces are connected into a long line, and the original pool is connected into a big river, so there is no danger that the big river will be sour and dry.
-"Yesterday's Collection"
● I hope that more people in the world will cherish their every step, be diligent in recording, be willing to revisit, dare to laugh at themselves, be good at correcting, and let life irrigate and nourish each other.
-"Yesterday's Collection"
● Excellence is outstanding because it is rare. If we associate ourselves with rarity, won't we take risks? Since everyone is ordinary, don't underestimate the order of secular years and ordinary years. Don't put all your eggs in one basket, don't swear, don't pray for miracles, don't fantasize, just walk slowly and responsibly day by day, walking on the two-way road of memory and yearning. This will have the usual taste and realm. It's too cold at the top of Mount Everest, so it doesn't matter anymore. The first realm in the world is between the plains and mountains. Autumn wind, reed white, fishing boat far away, smoke oblique. Life has a beginning and an end.
-"Yesterday's Collection"
● Some people limit their lives to spying on each other, guessing each other and getting lost, while others release their lives in the vast land.
-"The Original Meaning of Wandering"
● As far as life is concerned, it is necessary to achieve a balance between mountains and rivers. The water's edge gives people joy, while the mountains give people comfort. The waterside lets us feel the impermanence of the world, while the mountains let us know about Heng Chang. The waterside allows us to enjoy the excitement of traveling away from the arms of our elders, and the mountains allow us to experience the long and heavy taste of returning to our ancestral homes. The philosophy at the water's edge is not giving up day and night, while the philosophy in the mountains is not knowing the sun and the moon.
-"the benevolent Leshan"
Average, moderate, * * * poverty and mutual degradation under totalitarianism have cultivated the general public's extraordinary concern and vigilance for excellent images. This psychological habit has become a natural axiom after a long period of "unification" and "big pot rice" in this century, so it will inevitably extend to a new era. Almost every reform explorer has been harassed by jealousy, not to mention the successful one. It is easy for people to distrust everything in front of them and look for the secret of opportunism behind the rapid success of others.
-"About Jealousy"
Civilized human beings are always keen on archaeology, that is, they want to pick out the history compressed in the soil, stretch it out, and spy on the truth of their ancestors. Then, archaeology is to return home, that is, to explore home. Visiting one's hometown on the spot often leads to years of sighing and unspeakable loss, which makes countless wanderers want to retire; There are not so many psychological obstacles in visiting hometown underground, and the whole place is filled with historical poetry and imaginative pleasure.
-"Where is the township pass?"