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What is a strong person? In "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", the writer Mingyue summarized the experiences of countless heroes and gave it this definition:
Thousands of turns, thousands of tempers, determined not to change, that's all.
Open "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", you will find that from Zhu Yuanzhang to Zhu Di, from Zheng He to Xu Xiake.
Those famous and strong men in history are all such qualities.
In their short but brilliant lives, they also experienced countless failures, setbacks, and pains.
But in the end, they miraculously solved all the problems and changed their fate.
Behind this, what makes them a strong man thinks.
People who have this kind of thinking will never be trapped by a momentary predicament.
Zhu Yuanzhang thinking:
Either don't do it or never do it.
History of the Ming Dynasty once commented on Zhu Yuanzhang:
Gai Mingzu is a person, a sage, a hero, a thief, and a person who has both. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang, he is not only a sage, but also a hero, and a ruffian, in him, arrogance and gangsterism coexist.
He was born in troubled times, started from recklessness, and spent his life fighting horses and experiencing countless hardships.
When he was poor, he was a beggar with no place to stand.
After suffering and nine deaths, he was able to counterattack and become the king of the world.
In these difficult years, what has always supported him is a belief that "either you don't do it, or you don't do it".
When he first participated in the peasant uprising, he defeated his opponents who were several times stronger than him with his outstanding military talents.
But he was not complacent and took a corner of peace, but went all the way to conquer and created the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop.
After sitting on the throne, the people under him were powerful generals like Hu Weiyong and Lan Yu.
Zhu Yuanzhang was not frightened, he first forbears everywhere, plans step by step, and then finds the right time to kill this group of people with one blow, leaving a stable country for future generations.
There is an old saying that there is no turning back when you open a bow.
If you make up your mind to do something, you have to be quiet and do it to the extreme.
If you give up halfway in the event of a setback, you will eventually be unable to escape the fate of achieving nothing.
Really smart people always know what they want and give it their all for it.
Only such a person can embark on the road of success that is unique to him in the vast road ahead.
Zhu Di's thinking: Wind and water rise, all rely on yourself.
Back then, Mingyue once told Zhu Di's life experience in "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty".
Zhu Di, the fourth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, has suffered a lot of unfair treatment since birth due to his mother's humble status.
When Zhu Di repeatedly made military exploits on the battlefield, Zhu Yuanzhang turned a blind eye and favored his eldest son Zhu Biao.
After Zhu Biao died of illness, Zhu Yuanzhang did not look at Zhu Di directly, and instead passed the throne to his grandson Zhu Yunwen.
In this tragic situation where his father is not hurt and his mother is powerless, Zhu Di has known since he was a child that if he wants to get something, he must rely on himself to fight for it.
Therefore, after Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne, Zhu Di no longer held back and began to plan his own plan to change his fate.
He first started from Beiping, and after more than three years of "Jingyan Battle", he fought from Beiping to Nanjing, step by step, and walked to the peak of power.
After successfully seizing the throne, Zhu Di made great efforts to govern the country, repaired the Yongle Grand Ceremony, and sent Zheng He to the West.
With these two major events, he successfully rewrote the evaluation of him by later generations.
Zhu Di's life has made me deeply understand eight words: wind and water, all rely on yourself.
When God doesn't favor you, you can still rely on your own strength to write a story of the Jedi fighting back.
Just like the Zen master Xue Mo said: In the seemingly unbreakable net of fate, there are always fish who are unwilling to be mediocre.
When you try to break free from the shackles of fate, you can become the fish that cannot be trapped in any abyss, and swim freely in your own world.
Zheng He's thinking: Rooted downward, silently growing.
Liang Qichao once said: After Zheng He, there is no Zheng He.
From this sentence, you know Zheng He's prestige and influence in the history of world navigation.
But you must not have imagined that Zheng He, who made such great feats, was once just an ordinary person struggling at the bottom of society.
Those Things in the Ming Dynasty recorded that Zheng He was very yearning for navigation since he was a child. By the time others were reading the words of the sages, he had already learned a great deal of seafaring knowledge.
However, immediately afterward, he was captured for war and castrated into a eunuch. Later, he was incorporated into the army and suffered from the war.
But these tragic encounters did not wipe out the hope and belief in Zheng He's heart.
Not only did he survive tenaciously, but he also continued to learn about sailing, exercise his physique, and wait for his chance.
Finally, in the latter battle, he made great achievements and was appreciated by Zhu Di.
Later, Zhu Di founded the country, and in order to promote the country's prestige overseas, he decided to send a huge fleet for ocean voyages.
As for the commander of the ship, he first thought of Zheng He, who had rich knowledge of navigation and had been tempered by war for a long time.
Zheng He thus fulfilled his long-cherished wish and completed an epoch-making seafaring feat.
Nietzsche once said: Whoever will eventually shake the world will remain silent for a long time; Whoever will light the lightning will wander like a cloud for a long time.
Before anyone can achieve great things, they must go through a long waiting period and accumulating energy.
Perhaps this process is full of suffering and thorns; Maybe a lot of things you go through are not what you want.
But if you have honed your true skills in the process of crawling, your opportunities will follow.
Wang Yangming thinks:
All things grind you, and they will cross you.
Life is unsatisfactory, there are ten **.
For Wang Yangming, this kind of difficult thing is countless.
Being punished by the court staff, being imprisoned, degrading the dragon field, being jealous of high merit, and being falsely accused of rebellion, any of them made him suffer a lot.
But Wang Yangming did not complain about sinking, but regarded them as a baptism of fate, so as to constantly temper himself, and finally he became a saint.
There is a section in "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" that Wang Yangming was demoted to the miasma of Guizhou Longchang because he offended the eunuch Liu Jin.
Those who walked with him died of fear and fear.
Wang Yangming can still comfort himself: when he sees the desolation, his heart is open to tomorrow.
Although there was darkness in front of him, his heart was full of light.
He found a cave to live in, cultivated vegetables during the day, meditated and read the Bible at night, and gradually saw the world more and more clearly.
Three years later, he was finally able to achieve great learning and sanctification.
Wang Yangming once said: The dojo in the world, the mud gives birth to lotus, and the tribulations in the world are all about learning from me.
He came from the suffering, wrapped up in ups and downs, but lived another optimistic and calm life in the predicament.
After a defeat or blow, we will also go through a dark and painful time.
These difficulties and ups and downs are the highest institutions of learning to temper personality.
As the saying goes: every experience is growth.
With a strong heart, overcome all difficulties. This process will also allow us to grow into a better version of ourselves.
Yu Qian thinking: People live for a lifetime, and they want to be clean.
Back then, Mingyue once spoke highly of Yu Qian with a passage:
In this filthy world, people who can spend their lives cleanly are worthy of admiration.
And if he can still do something, then we can say that this is a great man.
Yu Qian is a person who is really strong and clean in the filthy world.
He has set up his ambition to pledge his country with his body since he was a child, and after decades of tempering, he has grown from a student studying hard under a lonely lamp to a pillar of the country.
After being in a high position, he was honest and upright, and he has never been a clean man for decades.
At that time, the officialdom where he was bribing the public bank, and others persuaded him to deal with his superiors, but Yu Qian refused to go along with the dirt and always insisted on his integrity.
Later, when the country was in the most crisis, the most corrupt officials only cared about fleeing, only Yu Qian stepped forward, undertook the rise and fall of the world, and finished his life openly.
Zhuangzi once said: The intention of the supreme person is like a mirror, not to welcome, should not hide, so it can win things without hurting.
In this muddy world, only those who are always clear as a mirror can resist all filth.
No matter how dark the world is, you and I should be like Yu Qian, do things cleanly and be innocent.
Only in this way can we confront this sludge-like world without being hurt by it.
Zhang Juzheng thinks:
Fang Yuan is a man, and he is thick and black.
Historically, Zhang Juzheng has been a controversial person.
Those who pursue him call him a lone minister in the wind and rain and a lonely minister in the world.
Those who oppose him say that he is a great traitor, an out-and-out hypocrite.
And I agree more with Mingyue's evaluation of him back then: he is not a good person, nor a bad person, but a complex person.
Zhang Juzheng grew up in the complicated world, he was bright since he was a child, he was a peerless student, although he was born in a poor family, but he eventually became a great weapon.
He was a great reformer who single-handedly supported the Ming Dynasty at the time of its collapse, delaying the fall of the Ming Dynasty for nearly forty years.
At the same time, he is also an arbitrary person, who is not noble in terms of morality.
But it was also from him that I saw that life is not black and white, and many people and things have gray areas in between.
And the real maturity of a person is to allow the existence of gray.
As the saying goes, it is difficult to establish people without a way, and it is difficult to achieve things without a circle.
If a person stands in the world, if he only talks about black and white, it will be difficult for him to suffer great obstacles in his actions.
Harmonious life, experienced work, in order to meet the source, through the world with ease.
Xu Xiake thinking:
Live your life the way you love.
After talking about the glorious history of many emperors and generals, Mingyue told a person's story at the end of the book.
This person is Xu Xiake.
From a secular point of view, Xu Xiake is not a successful person.
Since he was 20 years old, he has been traveling on the road, and he has never obtained fame or a half-official position.
In the eyes of many people at the time, his life was a failure.
But Xu Xiake's greatness lies in greatness, even if the whole world is telling him that your way of life is wrong.
He did not submit to the world, but insisted on his love and lived from his heart.
During his more than 20 years of travel, he encountered countless hardships and dangers, and even nearly lost his life several times.
But he still didn't stop, climbed all the famous mountains and rivers, and traveled to almost all rivers and lakes.
The thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, he almost all traveled through.
During his travels, he insisted on recording and wrote notes of more than two million words.
This notebook was later hailed as the greatest work of geography of the seventeenth century: "Xu Xiake's Travels".
Xu Xiake has used her life to tell us that the value of life should not be defined only by fame and fortune.
If you like it, you can pursue what you love, you can live your true self, and you can do the thousands of things you want to do.
You must know that the greatest success in a person's life is to spend his life in the way he likes.
If reality is tormenting you, why don't you be brave.
Living numbly, just wasting the years, life can only be called worthy of this life if it blooms enthusiastically.
Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" said a very heart-wrenching sentence:
In history written by the strong, there has never been a place for tears.
Those who only know how to retreat, cry, and complain when encountering problems have long been buried in the dust of history.
And those who went down in history all endured the dark years and experienced extraordinary pain before finally being able to embark on the road to success.
Therefore, the life of no strong person is smooth sailing.
When encountering wind and rain, instead of using tears to win the sympathy of fate, it is better to use blood and sweat to write your own story.
When you have survived all the difficulties, you will find that those bumps and bumps on the road are actually the strength to lift you to the heights of life.
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Author: Insight CC