Nan Huaijin, a contemporary writer, educator and master of Chinese culture in China, in his life, his in-depth research on traditional Chinese culture presents us with a rich and colorful cultural heritage.
Among these cultural heritages, Nan Huaijin has a large number of interpretations of traditional cultural classics, so that we can have a comprehensive and detailed understanding of these classics. These classics are all over Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and Nan Huaijin has interpreted these classics that we are familiar with, which can help me complete the systematic Xi.
Being able to read through Nan Huaijin's corresponding works will definitely bring great benefits to our personal improvement. However, for contemporary people, time and experience are extremely tight, and we can't read all Nan Huaijin's classics, but we want to learn more about the standards of life and work advocated by traditional culture from his interpretation of the classics, and we want to accept the wisdom of the sages through these readings. So what to do?
So now there is such a book "Nan Huaijin Speaks Old Chinese Sayings". This book is a selection of the corresponding interpretations of the old sayings, aphorisms, and proverbs that we are familiar with from more than 40 books, with a total of nearly 200 articles, which help us grasp the common reading of the most essential parts of Nan Huaijin and traditional Chinese culture at one time, and help us to be a person and do things.
This is divided into two articles, the first part is the internal cultivation chapter, including the way of peace of mind, the foundation of virtue, the trick of learning Xi, and the four themes of bowing, and the second volume is for external use, including the treasure of the Qi family, the method of discernment, the way of dealing with the world, and the way of economic development, which involve all aspects of our lives, so that we can follow the wisdom of Nan Huaijin to improve ourselves.
For example, Nan Huaijin believes that don't do good deeds only when others can't see them. This is also a part of our traditional culture, which pays attention to "having the heart for good, although there is a lot of good, and unintentionally for evil, although evil is not punished", why would it be so demanding?
The Chinese pay attention to accumulating yin and virtue, and they must accumulate blessings for their descendants. Many people think that this is a feudal superstition, just for the purpose of persuading goodness, and it doesn't feel accurate, but in fact, we can also have a good understanding of this statement, because it is part of self-cultivation. It's just that the goodness on the surface is what Nan Huaijin said: "Before being a good person, you deliberately show goodness and practice it, which is not right, and you bind yourself with the concept of goodness." This is also the reflection that the author derives from reading the Analects.
There is also an ancient Chinese saying that "good death is better than evil life", how does Nan Huaijin interpret such an old saying that we are often familiar with?This involves our concept of life and death, where Nan Huaijin borrows the cases around her and uses more classical documents to systematically sort out and explore life and death. Life is our inevitable choice, but in fact, death is also a choice. When we are really facing death, we must accept death with peace of mind, and it is the best view of life and death not to live towards death.
Nan Huaijin still has a lot of understanding of the interpretation of the classics, there are a lot of interpretations of traditional culture, and this kind of lecture provides us with a lot of valuable insights, so that we can accept the baptism of traditional ideas here and realize the growth and transformation of our lives.
And each of the essays in this book is extremely short and concise, all dedicated to a single topic, so that we can read it in a minute or two. And this book is designed to be the size of the palm of your hand, so you can easily carry it around. Therefore, this book is also the best choice for us to improve ourselves in fragmented time, when we take it with us, we can read it in real time, and arm ourselves with the concepts in the book from time to time, so that we can gain insight into the world under the interpretation of traditional culture and Nan Huaijin, and practice as a person. Read a book