Mingren Fu was the Taishou of Changzhou. When he went to work, he did not bring his family, only brought two old bamboo baskets and a child servant, and ate green vegetables every day, which Changzhou people respectfully called "Fu Qingcai". In the twenty-fourth year of Jiajing (1545), that is, the third year of Fu Yan's tenure, there was a great drought in Changzhou, and there was a locust plague. He had a deep compassion for the people. Some local tyrants and shoddy gentry took advantage of the disaster year to hoard and force the opening of warehouses to release grain; Some people are rampant in the township, and even if they escape, Fu Xian will do everything possible to arrest them. In the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing, he was falsely accused by the inferior gentry and demoted to Fu'an Zhi County, Fujian, still regardless of personal gains and losses, devoted himself to political affairs, rectified iron smelting mines, and expelled scoundrels; Create Confucianism to study the field, select talents and appoint talents, and finally the official promotion of Guangxi according to the judge, is the fifth grade.
A person's life needs a lamp to illuminate themselves, some people's lamps are given by others, others do not give them, and the lights they give are not on, which will directly affect their life's walking; Someone's lamp is given by themselves, and no matter what the situation is, they will move in the established direction without the slightest hesitation. Fu Wei clearly falls into the latter category.
A person can think of himself as a lamp in ethics, and the same can be true in temperament and talent. When Zeng Guofan first entered the capital, he was arrogant and hard-spoken, and often quarreled with the people around him, and after some fierce reflection, he became modest, generous, and warm, and he had more and more friends. Later, he pacified the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, mainly relying not on his personal military talent, but on his "peaceful" character. Because of "harmony", a large number of generals with stronger command ability than him gathered around him, so that he was able to turn the wisdom of the crowd into his own wisdom.
In the 20s of the last century, a young man from Hunan who served in the local army decided to go to Beiping to find another way out and resigned to the commander Chen Quzhen. Chen Quzhen said to him understandingly: If you go to a school in another place, you can graduate in three or two years, and you can pay your tuition here; It's not fun outside, but there's still a place for you to eat. Young people did not cherish this kind of life with the care of the "old hen", and only hoped to break into the world with a pen, so they took the 27 oceans given by the chief to the vague future. In Beiping, his creative road was not smooth, many of the manuscripts he submitted did not make a sound at all, he couldn't afford cotton clothes in winter, he couldn't make a stove, and sometimes even eating became a problem. However, he firmly believed in his literary strength and believed that time would eventually live up to those who were willing to work hard, and there was no turning back. Later, he wrote masterpieces such as "Border City", "Xiao Xiao" and "Husband".
Advocating self-righteousness is not to say that the lamps given by others must not work, but to learn from the ancient sages and today's good people and talents, isn't it just to let other people's lamps illuminate themselves? It's just that other people's lamps are external, after all, limited by experience, situation, etc., and are far less convenient than the heart lamps we generate.
People are essentially a bit profit-seeking, and things that are completely worthless will be refused to be done by ordinary people. However, different people have different understandings and judgments of what interests and values are. Some people think that money and beauty are benefits and values, and some people think that it is benefits and values that have an impact on society and gain long-term meaning in life. In my opinion, people who think they are lamps do not know how to do things to ask for benefits and show value, but they are more structured, understand that life must go beyond ordinary sensory enjoyment in order to go long, and are unwilling to let life fall into animal existence.
Of course, there is another situation, some people don't know how to think of themselves as lights at first, but halfway through, they feel that they may fall off the cliff and fall into the abyss if they run around without any opinions. Of course, it is not always wise and brilliant to know that it is not always wise and brilliant to know that it has been lost, but it at least represents the courage of a person to change his ways, and to show his tribute to nobility and wisdom, which can unite as many people's hearts as possible.
A man who has done what he thinks is a lamp, no amount of darkness will make him lost; When everyone can think of themselves as lights, there will be more and more light in our society. (You Yuming).