Autumn and Winter Check-in Challenge
What's the most sincere and emotional piece of literature you've ever read?
My answer is the Book of Commandments, because it reveals a father's heartfelt exhortation to a son, and every word seems to be full of warmth and affection.
Li Cunxun was a general of the Tang Dynasty in the fifth generation, he was born poor and humble, and he once warned his children: "Your father left his hometown with a sword when he was young, and for forty years, he was a great general. During this period, there were more than one death, and more than 100 times when the bones were cut open and arrows were taken out. He gave the arrowheads he had taken out to the children and asked them to keep them. He said, "You were born into a rich family, and you should know that your father started like this. ”
Dongfang Shuo, a writer in the Western Han Dynasty, was witty, funny and wise. But his "Book of Commandments" has a very different style: "The wise person does things, Mo is still in the middle, you are good, and you ......follow the Tao."In just 96 words, it tells children the golden mean to keep in mind in their future lives.
Zhang Zhidong's "Book of Commandments" of the four famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty has both fatherly love and helplessness and worry about hating iron and steel. However, in the end, his bitter heart was also in vain, and after the 918 Incident, his eleventh son Zhang Renle became a traitor.
Like the renminbi, it is not omnipotent, but it is impossible without it. It is the carrier of family style, family education, and family motto. Zeng Guofan, a politician in the late Qing Dynasty, said in the Book of Commandments: "Today will say goodbye forever, and I will teach you brothers four articles." One is cautious and reassur......ingSecond, the Lord respects the strong ......Third, it is said that if you seek benevolence, people will be happy ......Fourth, it is said that Xi Lao is a god of admiration and ......These four articles are the gains of the world for more than decades, the deeds of your brothers, and passed on to their children and grandchildren, so that the Yu Zeng family can prosper forever and have talents from generation to generation. ”
Of course, the most famous is Zhuge Liang's "Book of Commandments", 86 words, short and concise, full of feelings, recited for future generations, enduring. Among them, the educational philosophy of every word, such as "quiet self-cultivation, thrift to cultivate virtue, non-indifferent and unambitious, non-quiet and far-reaching" has become an unbreakable wisdom and famous saying.
In the final analysis, the reason why this timeless "Book of Commandments" can stand out is inseparable from the "truth" contained in it.