Although there must be one or two decisive factors, we often only see the most intuitive and prominent part, while ignoring the hidden and secondary parts.
Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting is the pinnacle of calligraphy.
What is the writing background of Preface to Lanting Collection?
There is a legendary story in calligraphy.
According to legend, Wang Xizhi, then the general of the right army and the literature and history of Huiji, invited forty-one scholars, including Xie An and Sun Chuo, to get together at Yinshan Lanting in Huiji to meditate, bend water and write poems. Between poems, I talked about my feelings. Love has been said, and people are drunk.
When everyone was intoxicated with the aftertaste of the wonderful wine-scented poems, someone suggested that it was better to compile the poems made that day into an anthology, which is the Preface to Lanting Collection. At this time, many scholars urged Wang Xizhi to write Preface to Lanting Collection. Wang Xizhi was full of wine and rice, and began to write freely on the paper in one go. This is the world-famous Preface to Lanting.
The preface narrates the beauty of the landscape around Lanting and the joy of gathering, and expresses the author's feelings of impermanence of life and death. The next day, Wang Xizhi woke up wanting more.
After all, it was done after drinking, and mistakes are inevitable. It was revised many times, so he thought that since he wanted to preface the poetry collection, he had to be formal and copy an error-free edition for his friends.
So Wang Xizhi picked up a pen to copy, but he always felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't write the feeling of last night. He has written several articles, none of which is as good as what he wrote last night. Wang Xizhi liked what he did last night, and finally copied an error-free version carefully and handed it over. Last night's original was kept as personal belongings.
What we see today is a replica of later generations.
This story does not discuss its authenticity, but in this case, I have a similar writing experience. When I write in situations and inspiration, I can often do it in one go, exceeding the usual level. However, when I accidentally forget to save it, and then write it according to the old ideas and memories, it seems that I can't write the charm of the original.
The same person, the same level, but different mood and environment, the result will be very different.
In reality, we often take it for granted that the success of many things is attributed to one or two main factors. For example, diligence and methods are necessary factors for a person's success. But this doesn't mean that if you are diligent and correct, you will succeed. Maybe your mood and attitude are hidden catalysts.
There are a large number of athletes in the world. In every team where the champion is born, many are the same coach. They are doing the same movements, they are equally diligent, and they all adopt the best training methods. But not everyone can be a champion. If you say that the champion is more diligent than others, there are often people who are more diligent than the champion and still can't win the championship for many years in a row.
In the process of students' learning, you will actually find this phenomenon. Those students who study best are not necessarily the most diligent, but most of them are relatively diligent.
The reason I want to explain is that diligence is a prerequisite, but it is not the only condition that determines a person's success. There are many dimensional factors, even some of which are undetectable.
In reality, many advertisements will make people fall into a misunderstanding determined by a single condition. That's because the merchant is more willing to pay for it in order to let you confirm that his product has the only relevance to the result you want.
For example: cosmetics = beauty, whitening toothpaste = teeth whitening, slimming tea = weight loss, drinking a walnut = brain tonic.
In fact, most people fall into this misunderstanding and hypothetical result determined by a single condition.
Do I have to be beautiful after using some cosmetics? Beauty is determined by multiple factors. Imagine if you stay up late and use whitening skin care cosmetics, often eat mala Tang and swear from time to time. Do you think you will be beautiful? On the contrary, you don't use those cosmetics, but you pay attention to health care, sleep and massage your face. You pay attention to cultivation and cultivation. Even if you are plain, you can get extraordinary beauty.
If you drink a walnut, can you drink it to replenish your brain?
Walnuts are good for the brain, but why doesn't he suggest you eat walnuts directly? Isn't it better for the brain? Of course, the merchant won't do this. Otherwise, who will he sell his walnuts to? Not only that, if you think that eating walnuts alone can make people brain-nourishing and smart, it is all wet. Imagine that you just eat walnuts instead of studying. I'm afraid you won't be smarter than others if you eat a few tons of walnuts.
Besides, talk about karma. There is nothing wrong with karma, but people are used to blaming an important karma on one or two things or one thing. And it is often arbitrary and far-fetched, which actually violates the principle of the matter itself. Although we are trying to educate people to be kind, if what you say is unreasonable and far-fetched, people will not believe it. Cause and effect are multidimensional, not determined by a single factor. Of course, there must be a primary cause and a secondary cause, which need to be distinguished.
Nothing in the world exists independently and is isolated from the world. Close to breathing, as small as you lose a hair, is not a dimension, an element.
When traveling, it's not up to you to meet people you know. He doesn't travel, so you can't see him. You walk, she drives, you may not meet. If you are in a bad mood today and don't want to go out, you won't meet it. In fact, several factors meet in one second.
There are many such examples.
If we can't see the law of things correctly, it will be covered up by prominent events, and we can't judge and measure the advantages and disadvantages of a thing more comprehensively.
So remember, everything is composed of multi-dimensional and multi-dimensional factors, and avoid paranoia in wrong cognition.