"A season of the Great Heat, rotten grass becomes fireflies"
High Heat
The last solar term of summer, everything seems to be full of joy and prosperity. "The branches and leaves are lush" and "green and dripping" can be recorded vividly with your eyes at this time. In July, fire flows, and the sun flows like magma through the world. Perhaps it was because of the sacrificial autumn in the near future that life premonitioned the scene on the other side of life, and all things burst out with energy through this last yang energy.
The mountains are much noisy than before. Cicadas and crickets are playing one after another, and the crows are also starting to chatter. Although the small lanterns of fireflies have not been found, the lizards, snakes, and even dragonflies that are passing by look stronger than before.
The vitality of summer is at its peak when the Great Heat is at its peak. This splendor of life is not only due to the prosperity of the yang, but also the decline of the yin. As autumn approaches, whether it is collecting life and rest, or reincarnation of life and death, all things at this time are "birth when they see death", so they are strong enough.
, "living towards death", naturally made me feel enough with only a thin stem and a floral that was as big as a rice grain.
I actually hesitated several times whether to give such a "heavy" theme. After all, "Twenty-Four Seasons·Wild" only captures small things in life. The words between the lines are natural luck in daily life, and the slight leisure in daily life, while "life and death" are nothing small things. I have to ask endless questions. It is indeed necessary to correct your attitude and answer them with a straight mind.
Another thought (it is that I am unwilling to give up). Although life and death are nothing small, what can everything in the world be free from life and death? Everything is life and death, so it doesn’t matter how big or small things are. I will do it as I like, so I don’t have to kick my dignified attitude first to welcome the exams of philosophers and later wise men.
Because I met this small branch of "bamboo blossoms" in an empty mountain path. This may become its summer sound after this day. The only thought that surging in my heart at that time was this. Live to death, live to death, whose life is not a journey of reversing life and death? Whose moment has done all the best they can do at this moment? Looking at it, even though the creatures in the valley were still very noisy, I felt silent in my heart and chanting around me.
There are many gentlemen, Ruqiujiu
Bamboo rarely has the word "爱", Xiangfei bamboo is an exception. As one of the "Four Gentlemen" in Chinese culture, Qingzhu has always established a "gentleman" posture with integrity, indifference and humility, and the emphasis is on "no matter how winds you are in the southeast, southwest and northwest".
As early as in the Book of Songs, the green bamboos were blooming, which could be described as "there are no gentlemen, as if they are close and as if they are learning." Even when he was young and ignorant, Zhuzi was still a "children's sweetheart", and the beauty of two young people was unbelievable. Whether living alone in the bamboo, or the joy of silk and bamboo, or the small windows of bamboo, the bamboo is always suddenly and detached. Even if it is related to love, it is a conscientious "why use a knife to make it"! Therefore, the bamboo is less sad.
And bamboo is really the most common plant. With more than 7,000 years of use, China not only collected half of the bamboo varieties (more than 500 species) around the world, but also expanded its planting scope northward to Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, food, clothing, housing, transportation, pen, ink, paper, ink, ink, and musical instruments... Cihai contains 209 bamboo texts, and almost all aspects of life are involved.
Su Shi once said: "The food is the bamboo shoot, the living is the bamboo tiles, the carrying is the bamboo raft, the cooking is the bamboo firewood, the clothes are the bamboo skin, the writing is the bamboo paper, and the walking is the bamboo shoes. It can be said that this is not without a king for a day." This statement has not been used today, but it is actually not outdated.
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1 bamboos are everywhere in Hangzhou City. There are more than a thousand mountains in and outside the city, and there is no mountain without bamboo. Yunqi bamboo path is named "bamboo". Fuyang, Tonglu, Anji, Deqing, Lin'an and other districts and cities, bamboo is even more popular. Su Shi also said, "It is better to eat without meat than live without bamboo." However, living with bamboo, eating bamboo is exactly the daily life of the people of Hangzhou from ancient times to the present.
But even so, there are still very few people who can see the flowers of bamboo, and many people don’t even know that bamboo will bloom, let alone know things like “bamboo solid”.
Bamboo flowers are indeed rare. Guo Pu's notes on "Shan Hai Jing" "Bamboo grows flowers and witheres in the year", which means that the bamboo will wither and die the second year after it blooms. The "Bamboo Tu" written by Dai Kai of the Jin Dynasty said in more detail: "Bamboo grows with flowers, and it will wither and die in the year. The trunk will have sixty years, and it will have six years. Even if the bamboo is 60 years, it will also be easy to root, and it will be strong and die in the sixth year. In fact, it will be reborn after falling into the soil and reborn after falling into the soil, and then it will become a town in the sixth year."
0 flowers grow with flowers and die in the year, and the son falls into the soil and reborn, and becomes a forest after six years. This is the cycle of life and death of bamboo. Most bamboos only bloom once in their life, and they will die if they bloom. Except for extreme weather, it usually takes 50-100 years for bamboo to bloom, so naturally few people will be seen.
Bamboo flowers will generally be born in bamboo forests, which means that the bamboo forests will wither in the near future - bamboo flowers foresee large-scale deaths, and are mostly related to environmental changes. Generally, disasters often occur in the year, so there are also proverbs among the people that "bamboo blooms, there will be major disasters" and "bamboo blooms, move quickly", which is also a rare "unknown" remark for bamboo.
Phoenix is not "bamboo solid" and does not eat
Bamboo flowers are rare, and bamboo solid is even rarer. In ancient times, bamboo essence could be eaten by phoenixes. The book says that phoenixes "cannot live without sycamore trees, and cannot eat without bamboo essence." As the "sun essence", although the phoenix does not have the ability to "reborn in the fire" of the Western immortal birds, the phoenix nirvana only originated from the modern poem "Phoenix Nirvana" by Guo Moruo, the colorful phoenix sings up to the sun, and "sees it will bring peace to the world". This is the rebirth of the people of the world with a more worldly spirit than their own rebirth.
Phoenix is hard to see, but the bamboo fruit of phoenix food is often truly endorsed by the phoenix in the disaster year when grains are difficult to collect, saving lives. "The old food is exhausted by the pueraria root, and the bamboo rice continues to be new." At the moment of life and death, this tiny bamboo rice is the hope for the continuation of life, and isn't it another kind of "living towards death".
Whose life is not about death
Being-towards-death, this is the concept proposed by Heidegger in "Existence and Time", that is, "live towards death". He said that death is the most part of his life, something that he cannot avoid and must experience in person. Therefore, "only when you get infinitely close to the edge of death, you can deeply understand the meaning of life." It has a lot of meaning that China "only live after putting it to death."
In the face of life and death, the Chinese have always paid more attention to the world, unlike the West, with the absolute authority of religion, the living obey the "kingdom of heaven" after death, and we "stay away from the ghosts and gods after death.
Confucius believed that "who knows life is unknown, how can you know death?" In life in heaven and earth, we should "focus on humanity as our teachings." But this is not to avoid talking about death. "Looking into life is the key to saints, and knowing death is the ultimate of saints" ("Lüshi Chunqiu") "People have died since ancient times." People can not talk about strange powers and chaos, but "a gentleman is afraid of the world and is not known to him", so they must "follow the heavens and know their destiny", know benevolence and righteousness and love others:
"Scholars cannot be broad-minded and resolute, and have a long way to go. Isn't it too heavy to be benevolence as their own responsibility? Isn't it too far away?"
In the choice of life and death, you can "kill your body to achieve benevolence" and "sacrifice your life to seek righteousness" so that you can "dead and immortal" in making words, merits and virtues.
"The Book of Rites: Tan Gong 1" says "a gentleman says the end, and a villain says death", which implies Heidegger's view of life and death in later generations: death is a process towards the completeness of life, not death.
Of course, "life and death" is in Zhuangzi, then "each each other" and "nothing is nothing more than", so-called "only one's life and death are death, and only one's life is death. Only one can be done can't be done, only one can be done can't be done."
Death and survival are one, "all things are not accomplished or destroyed, and they are connected to one."All things are just between "qi" and "transformation", so the real person "heaven and man are invincible" and "traveling around where all things begin and end", but in the end they are not rushing to become gods, but "traveling outside the body and body", with great knowledge and true knowledge, and finally "transformed into humans".
The way of life and death is to be a better person. Who said that Zhuangzi does not have the intention to enter the world?
If I look at bamboo flowers from these perspectives, I will soon be relieved after being sad. To apply the popular words now, live the present well and not be afraid of the future.
Just the previous two days ago, I learned the Satya family therapy model. There was a belief that made me cry in an instant: "My parents do their best at all times." At the moment, anyone always wants to present the best to close people. Maybe they are unable to meet their strength, maybe they have limited ability, but they are already "doing their best".
is like a bamboo flower. With the greatest possibility at this moment, we support the future, wait for the future to take root, spring grows in summer, and Hsinchu becomes a forest again.
Because of the bamboo flowers and bamboo fruits, the Longjing tea seeds and fruits I picked are optional, so I will take them back and mark them as the tea mountain thoughts.
Of course, the importance of life and death does not prevent me from leisure time. I will bring home a bunch of purple flowers, wild Chinese cabbage like a small umbrella, and the dragon sunflower and purple beads with broken white flowers. Just put a bottle of "Phoenix" with green flowers and fruits among flowers. There is always infinite hope in life.
