In the blink of an eye, 2023 is coming to an end, and in the past year, busy work and trivial life may make you physically and mentally exhausted, like a traveler carrying a heavy load.
Every day is busy, running for life, at the end of 2023, as usual, it is time to promise to make changes, how to travel lightly to live with dignity, dignity, happiness, grace, and understanding, the advice of writer Liang Xiaosheng can help you.
He spent eight years creating "The World", which depicts the life trajectory of an ordinary family in Northeast China after the founding of New China with 1.15 million words, reflects the relationship between the times and the family and country with small views, tells the "feelings" and "hopes" of the Chinese in the sorrows and joys of the little people, and outlines the grand historical changes.
Since "The World" moved China and won numerous awards, Liang Xiaosheng's new masterpiece "People Live" is here, which will accompany you through the long road, through a place of chicken feathers, to poetry and distance, to find a way of life and spiritual comfort.
In a rapidly changing and complex society, I believe that the 12 life advice in Mr. Liang Xiaosheng's book has become a beacon that illuminates the path of countless people, and his profound insights on life and happiness will surely inject wisdom and strength into your life.
1.Cherish the happiness of ordinary people
If a person's life is compared to a circle drawn from a point, then only a very small number of people's lives are drawn close to a standard circle, and some people's lives are only a semicircle, or an arc. Most people's lives are drawn as a circle, but they are like a circle like the moon in eclipses. Being able to draw life into an approximate circle is already a good life.
Family harmony, brotherhood, good health, stable work, income to meet general consumption, monthly surplus, even if it is very little...This is the concept of happiness of ordinary people. He is an ordinary person, but he is not depressed in ordinary life, but he is good at seeking ordinary happiness in ordinary life and cherishing it.
2.The most suitable is the best
Having ideals is a correct attitude towards life, and giving up ideals is also a correct attitude towards life. The latter attitude, as a living art, is wiser.
Having ideals and pursuits is a proactive way of living, not being tormented by an unrealistic ideal or pursuit, and adjusting the direction of choice is a proactive way of living.
A way of living, as long as it is the most suitable for oneself, is the best and most beautiful. Of course, this way of living should first of all be a normal and decent way of living.
3.Learn to live a life of subtraction
A life of subtraction is not necessarily an active life. The so-called subtractive life is to constantly delete certain life programs from one's own mind, and even the residual information is not kept, so as to make one's life program list simple and simple. In a word, make your life simple again.
The things that interfere with our minds are subtracted, subtracted, and subtracted from the "program list" of our lives again and again, so that the content of the "program list" of our lives is concise and clear, and the things that we can do better are highlighted.
4.Walk with desire, but not be burdened by it
A more positive attitude towards life should be like this - go with your desires and not be burdened by them; "Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you"...From a young age, I have strived to be a person with three points of desire and seven points of rationality. "Sanqi Kai" does not mean emphasizing rationality and despising desire, but because desire is more powerful than reason. It's like a war, seven rational corps against three desire corps, almost a draw.
5.Be a man with reverence
We human beings have screened out certain achievements that still need to be preserved and retained that will be beneficial and harmless from the religions, culture Xi s, and customs of the past, supplementing, amending, perfecting, and regulating them into principles, and treating them with another kind of fearful and pious attitude, that is, reverence. There are not many things worthy of human reverence, but they are of greater quality.
6.In addition to awe, we must distinguish between love and hate
Because of the existence of people who have a clear distinction between love and hatred, more people will feel that there is justice in the world, there is a conscience in society, and there is a so-called "moral court" in the world for moral supervision and moral judgment.
Only by daring to fight with hate, defending loveliness with daring to love, suppressing hateful phenomena by competing with hateful, and defending loveliness with the courage to love loveliness can we make life's truth, goodness, and beauty more abundant.
7.Go to the nursery of the soul to "serve".
People's intelligence needs to be developed, and people's inner world also needs to be developed. The difference between humans and animals is probably that people have an inner world. The heart is just an important organ of human beings, and the inner world is a special landscape, which is gradually formed by the continuous action of the external world on the inside.
The inner world of people is the most likely to attract dust and dirt. The cleanliness of the mind can only be relative, just as the cleanliness of the dwelling can only be relative. If you don't "wipe off" at all, or even dislike other people's pertinent criticism, it is very undesirable, just like avoiding medical treatment.
8.Build a "university" for yourself
Build a university for yourself—in your own heart. Students, just by themselves; Teachers are all scholars, writers, or poets, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign; Teaching materials are all the books you like, or historical, or literary, or biographical, or enough to edify your temperament, or even enough for recreation—this is not up to the Education Committee to decide, it is the business of the Lord that he has done it completely; Educational policy - self-study and self-entertaining reading, which is the easiest educational policy to implement for oneself.
9.To be bamboo, to be empty, to be straight
My mother's instruction to me to be a man is to be empty and straight.
In my high school graduation appraisal, I wrote this comment - the student has an honest character and a sense of justice. Be lenient and self-denying...This is the highest evaluation I have received from my alma mater in middle school. The school had not made the same comment about the second student that year.
In the appraisal of my departure from the corps company, there was also such a comment - this comrade has an upright character, a sense of justice, and is strict with himself....
In my appraisal of my graduation from Fudan University, there is also such a comment - the student has an upright personality and a sense of justice, and hopes to join the party as soon as possible...Sixteen classmates collectively evaluated, and even the students who had deep contradictions with me had to nod their heads and acquiesce in such comments.
In the appraisal of my departure from Beiying, there are still such comments - integrity, decency, a sense of justice, sincerity to comrades, and the courage to do self-criticism.
Ink and bamboo spectrum (detail), Wu Zhen of the Yuan Dynasty, now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
10.Reading gives people the ability to resist loneliness
Loneliness is something you do from morning to night, not what you are most interested in; I was always talking about something from morning to night, but few words were what I wanted to say the most; Even if one situation is changed, a new situation is still the same, and I know this better than anyone else.
Knowledgeable people, because the loneliness they feel is often deeper, need to have a stronger ability to resist loneliness. There is no other way to cultivate this ability than to read it.
Talking to himself, even if he just did this thing that seemed to others to do nothing, he was enough to resist a long, long loneliness. If you are lucky enough to have a pen and enough paper, loneliness and terrible loneliness may blossom unexpectedly.
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Man lives
Author: Liang Xiaosheng.
A generation of literary masters has made great efforts to interpret the profound connotation of "people live".