Life is only a few dozen spring and autumn . Some people live vigorously, while others live in obscurity. Why? It's about thinking. How big the heart is, how big the stage is; how big the heart is, how big the world is. Thoughts are the shackles of the soul that imprison life. How to find the key to unlock this shackles is a multiple-choice question before everyone.
The road is at your own feet. There are thousands of paths in life. The path you choose determines your life path. There is a saying in ancient times: "A person is not rich until he is born, and the mountains are not fat unless fire burns them." Do you know what it means?
First, people are not rich if they are not born.
People cannot choose where they are born, but they can choose where they live. Where you plan to spend your life depends on your ambitions? What ideals do you have? If you only think about "being a monk and hitting the clock every day", then your life will eventually be like a "frog at the bottom of a well", and all your life trajectories will revolve around you. It is difficult to achieve great results.
In one's life, one should not rest on one's laurels and block oneself in a small county or a small mountain village. One should learn to go out in due course. To see how big the world is outside. There is a lot of advanced knowledge and cultural categories out there. The world is a combination of thousands of small counties. Why draw a prison for yourself and be trapped in one place?
The ancients said that "people are not born without high birth", which means that people should have ideals, goals and ambitions. Don't rest on your laurels like a trapped animal. There are many famous people in history who stepped out at the right time and have flourished ever since. If they were content with the status quo, they might not be able to achieve his great achievements even in their lifetime.
For example, our great thinker, educator, founder of the Confucian school Confucius . When he was 55 years old, he led his students to travel around the world. Because he was marginalized in the country of Lu, his political ideas of Confucianism were not reused. So he had the idea of "going out". Confucius was from the age of 55 to 68. In these 14 years, he visited many countries including Song, Chen, Cai, Chu, Cao and many other countries, traveling thousands of miles around.
The reason why Confucius traveled around the world was also with a purpose.
① is to promote one's own Confucianism. ②It is to create better opportunities for his students and provide them with a better stage to showcase their talents.
③ However, Confucius was marginalized in the State of Lu, and his ideas had no use, so he thought of not destroying or establishing. If he is content with the status quo and still lives an ignoble existence in the State of Lu, his Confucianism will eventually be buried in the long river of history. So he had the idea of going out. Only by going out can he have a better platform to display his knowledge.
Because of Confucius’ move of “going out”, he experienced the history and culture of different countries and regions along the way. He also planted the "seeds of Confucianism" in these places. Finally, his Confucianism came into use, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty promoted "depose hundreds of schools of thought, and only respect Confucianism". At the same time, Confucius traveled around the world, which also laid a solid foundation for his later completion of poems, books, rituals, music, Yi, and Spring and Autumn Period.
If Confucius had not traveled around the world, it might be difficult for him to achieve such brilliant achievements in his life.
Another example is Sima Qian, the author of "Historical Records". At the age of 22, he went out to travel and traveled all over China. This is all the first-hand information of his "Historical Records". If his travels had not provided him with so much experience and such rich knowledge, I am afraid that his "Historical Records" would not have reached such a high level.
Second, the mountains will not be fertilized unless the fire burns them.
Literally understood, this proverb means: If the weeds on the mountains are not burned, the land will not be fertile. If you simply understand it from this aspect, it does make sense.
On the one hand, after the weeds are burned by fire, they become grass ash . The grass ash contains many trace elements , especially potassium fertilizer content is quite high. Can improve soil fertilizer efficiency.At the same time, pests and diseases in the soil, as well as insect eggs, were destroyed by the fire, laying a solid foundation for a good harvest of food. Plant ash also has antibacterial properties. Just like when planting potatoes or sweet potatoes, while providing potassium fertilizer to these underground fruit-bearing crops, it can also better protect these tuberous stems from being eaten by underground pests .
On the other hand, "the mountains will not be fattened if the fire does not burn them", which also means that they will not be destroyed or established. If you only know how to rely on the mountains and live in the mountains, you only want to spend the rest of your life leisurely in the mountains. I'm afraid you've missed too many beautiful things in the world. A fire burns down the barren hills where crops can be grown, and you lose your only source of income. You have to find other ways to survive. Just knowing how to work hard may not be an efficient way to survive. When you have the opportunity to be exposed to new ideas, new subjects, new worlds, your vision, and your experience, your thoughts will grow. The fire burning the mountains not only provides fertilizer for the land, but also provides you with a new level of knowledge.
As the saying goes, "A person is not rich until he is born, and a mountain is not fat until the fire burns it." In fact, it tells future generations not to live without pursuits or goals. You must learn to go out and learn advanced knowledge and ideas from outside, so as to arm your brain and make your life more exciting.
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