In the pen of the Southern Song Dynasty writer Zhou Bida, the short two lines of the poem "The stars are bright and the clouds are in the clouds, and the beads are floating in the turbid water."
When he was a year, he made up miscellaneous songs, and attached this family style", vividly outlining a warm picture of relatives sharing a happy reunion around the fireplace during the Lantern Festival, and pearl-like rice balls tumbling in boiling water.
People's love for tangyuan not only stems from its unique charm of round and lovely appearance and sweet and soft taste, but also carries people's deep yearning and expectation for a complete life and family harmony.
The seemingly insignificant glutinous rice balls have transformed from the original glutinous rice flour into a delicious delicacy on the table, but behind it is a complex and solemn process: grinding, mixing, filling, shaping, cooking, and each process embodies ingenuity.
The same is true of our journey in life.
When he was born, he was like uncarved glutinous rice flour, ignorant and unable to foresee the future.
However, only after experiencing the passion of youth, the exploration and confusion of middle age, and the sudden enlightenment of old age, can we cultivate like that full and mellow rice ball, have a rich and diverse inner world, and finally taste the sweetness and beauty of life, and realize the completeness and harmony of life.
Young people are kind and touch the sun
In a high-profile news report, we witnessed a bright new star in China's swimming world stand out with an amazing result at the World Swimming Championships held in Doha, Qatar on February 14 this year.
Tang Qianting, who is only 20 years old, the new force of the Chinese swimming team, successfully won the championship of the women's 100-meter breaststroke event with an outstanding performance of 1:05.27.
As we all know, in the world of swimming, the challenge of winning a gold medal in breaststroke is extraordinary. It has been a long 21 years since China's Luo Xuejuan won the World Championships in the women's breaststroke. Now, Tang Qianting's victory not only rekindled the expectations of the Chinese people for the Chinese women's breaststroke to create another glory, but also made her quickly become a heroic model in the eyes of countless people.
However, behind this gold medal is Tang Qianting's hard work and perseverance. Every millisecond of progress is a valuable result of her relentless training day in and day out.
Tracing back to her upbringing, Tang Qianting was born in Shanghai in 2004. Visionary parents saw swimming as a compulsory part of their children's development, so when she was five years old, she was sent to Shanghai Changning District Swimming School for professional training.
Unexpectedly, after only a week of underwater training, Xiao Tang Qianting expressed her deep love for the underwater world to her mother, and the seeds of a "swimming champion dream" were quietly sown in her young heart.
In order to improve their daughter's physical fitness, Tang Qianting's parents even installed horizontal bar facilities at home. Although she was still in the second grade of primary school at the time, she was not able to grasp the horizontal bar on her own, but she still insisted that her father pick her up and perform pull-up exercises, showing perseverance and determination beyond her years.
While children of the same age were still playing carefree, Tang Qianting had already started a harsh training life six days a week, and in order to focus on the development of her swimming career, she resolutely gave up her piano lessons and devoted herself to this journey of chasing her dreams.
After each hard training, Tang Qianting always returned home exhausted, and her parents felt pain in their eyes, but despite this, they deeply understood and respected their daughter's unswerving persistence and ardent love for swimming.
In order to give her a good rest during the precious weekend, they thoughtfully installed soundproof cotton on the door panel of their daughter's room, hoping that she can enjoy a lazy and sweet sleep.
Whenever swimming is mentioned, Tang Qianting's face will always bloom with a bright smile, and her eyes are like stars twinkling and shining. Because she knows that every drop of sweat in the pool is a solid bridge to the other side of her dreams, and every moment of dedication is silently accumulating strength to realize the grand blueprint in her heart.
With dreams and tenacity, she finally touched the bright sunshine and created her own brilliant chapter of life.
The famous writer Zweig once affectionately said: "There is no greater happiness a person can experience than to find and confirm his life's mission in the middle of life, in the prime of life, in the energetic prime of life." ”
There is a unique "heroic dream" in everyone's heart, which is like a bright star, illuminating our way forward.
If you hesitate and stop in the face of your dreams, then your dreams will be like meteors, fleeting, leaving only endless sighs and deep regrets.
When you've tried to touch that expectation on tiptoe countless times, only to feel tired, don't be discouraged and try again. Because, maybe the next effort will bring you closer to the other side of the ideal and let the dream shine into reality.
Middle-aged round, positive reconciliation
Psychological research has revealed that the period between the ages of 35 and 50 is the critical period when life responsibilities are the heaviest and the psychological endurance is particularly fragile. Although the word "vulnerable" is rarely found in the dictionary of middle-aged people, who are the mainstay of the family and the main breadwinner, the reality often reveals the pressures and challenges they carry.
There was such a touching story, the protagonist of which was Chi Zijian, a famous writer in my country. When she was 34 years old, she met her soulmate Huang Shijun and entered the marriage hall hand in hand. Huang Shijun has always given firm support and encouragement to Chi Zijian's writing career, especially when Chi Zijian devoted himself to the creation of the masterpiece "Puppet Manchukuo", his encouragement and affirmation became a powerful driving force for Chi Zijian to move forward.
After two years of hard work, "Puppet Manchukuo" was finally completed, and Chi Zijian affectionately wrote to Huang Shijun on the title page: "I present to you the most satisfactory work so far, it not only belongs to me, but also deeply imprints your dedication and support." ”
However, fate is unpredictable, and a sudden car accident accidentally took Huang Shijun's life in May 2002, causing Chi Zijian to encounter a snowstorm in his life when he was middle-aged.
The death of his beloved became an important turning point in Chi Zijian's creative career. With deep thoughts as ink, she turned ordinary days into fertile soil for pen cultivation, and successively created a series of works such as "The Right Bank of the Ergun River", "Rolling Fireworks", and "Snow Crow". These works are all filled with a touch of sorrow and a deep reflection on the impermanence of life.
Until after the age of 50, Chi Zijian chose to bravely face the departure of his lover and reconcile with the pain of the past. In the work "The Courage of Migratory Birds", she recorded the past events one by one, and at the end of the book, she deliberately left a trace of "regret", so as to highlight the complexity and truth of life.
In an elaborate operation, I weaved a story of "Turnback" for one of the storks, a struggle to save love, and it resolutely returned to save its mate.
Although in the end, the pair of white storks could not resist the merciless devouring of the blizzard, however, it was precisely because of that affectionate "return" that their natural tenderness and tragedy touched people's heartstrings even more.
Entering the middle-aged life journey, ups and downs, thorns, and even the occasional experience of straying into danger, these have become the normal drama of life.
The stress of reality will not be alleviated by our confusion and anxiety, and if we are immersed in a state of self-consumption for a long time, we will gradually lose the source of energy to pursue a better life.
As a warning circulating on the Internet reveals:
It is not the blade of the knife that is inserted in us that causes us the deepest damage, but the fact that we often pull out the knife and examine it again and again, and then stab it back into our hearts with resentment. This cycle of suffering is the greatest harm to us. ”
Therefore, only by exploring inward and achieving self-reconciliation can we truly break free from the troubles and injuries of the outside world and devote ourselves to our own lives.
The old age is mellow and impermanent
I saw such a picture on the Internet.
*:Internet. This picture does not depict Su Shi's footprints, but a portrayal of his life full of ups and downs and vicissitudes. Su Shi should have been as dazzling as a star in the officialdom with his outstanding talent, but his fate was ill-fated, and he spent 33 years in his more than 40-year career in derogatory exile, and experienced three ups and downs in his life.
Especially in the second half of his life, Su Shi was like a flat boat, tossing and moving in the wind and rain, with nowhere to live.
In 1097 AD, Su Shi, who was already sixty-two years old, was ruthlessly attacked by his former classmate and best friend Zhang Dan, and was relegated to Danzhou, Hainan, a place of exile that was regarded as a felony second only to the beheading of the whole family.
At that time, Su Shi had not yet set foot on the land of Danzhou, and he was suffering from illness due to old diseases**; After arriving in Danzhou, he was forced to leave the official post residence because of jealousy, and his life fell into a difficult and helpless situation.
Penniless, he once lived on the streets, and his life was extremely miserable. However, in the face of such a harsh test of life, Su Shi did not bow to fate, but smiled at adversity with an open-minded and free attitude towards life, showing a tenacious and unyielding spirit.
Even when faced with the dilemma of not having enough to eat, he can calmly satisfy his hunger with fruits and vegetables; When there was no tile to cover his head, he built a mud house with his own hands and was self-reliant. In his spare time, he drank and chatted with a few close friends, and although he was in the cold of life, he was also leisurely and happy.
What is particularly valuable is that during his stay in Danzhou, Su Shi not only actively adapted to the difficult environment, but also founded a school, established a style of study, and greatly promoted the development of local education by himself, and won the admiration and love of the Li people.
When he was sixty-three years old, the imperial court finally issued an edict to recall the Beijing Division, and both the government and the opposition believed that Su Shi was expected to be a great minister and worship the prime minister. At this time, out of fear of Su Shi's possible revenge, Zhang Dian sent his son Zhang Yuan to Su Shi along the way, begging for forgiveness for the sake of past friendship.
After Su Shi finished reading Zhang Yuan's letterhead, instead of feeling guilty, he comforted the other party with an open-minded feeling, although there had been many misunderstandings between him and Zhang Yuan's father, he firmly believed that the deep friendship had not been reduced because of this, and advised him not to worry. In his reply, he was even more considerate, and carefully formulated a prescription for Zhang, expressing his ardent hope for the health of his old friend.
In the face of difficult living circumstances, Su Shi can take suffering as happiness and leisurely taste every subtle beauty of life. Even in the face of all kinds of difficulties from political opponents, he can smile indifferently, turn grievances into invisible, and show his detached attitude towards life.
Su Shi once sighed in a poem: "Life is like a reverse journey, and I am also one of the hurriers." ”
Life is long, frustration and ups and downs are inevitable, however, he has always maintained a calm and light mentality, and is determined to pursue inner peace and abundance, which is the highest state of his harmonious life.
The so-called "lost east, harvested mulberry", only by learning to shake hands with life and share joy with the world, can we clear the fog in the thorny journey of life, move forward bravely, and meet a better self.
Our life is just like the rice ball that has been carefully sharpened and gone through ups and downs, and finally comes to a conclusion. In youth, you should be like the full and warm glutinous rice balls, full of goodwill and vitality, positive and enterprising, embrace the sunshine of life with an optimistic and high-spirited attitude, and lay a solid foundation for your future career;
Entering the middle-aged stage, when the round and transparent rice balls contain wisdom, self-consistency, in the process of focusing on self-improvement, achieve positive reconciliation, and bravely welcome every new chapter of life;
When you reach old age, you should follow the example of the harmonious, open-minded and cheerful glutinous rice balls, learn to face the changes of the world calmly, smile calmly at the impermanence of life, and enjoy the benefits brought by longevity.
With the "circle" as a mirror, learn from its inclusive and mellow way of dealing with the world, in order to sway a wonderful picture of life.
On the occasion of the Lantern Festival, we sincerely invite you to light up and pay attention, and wish that the cold of this harsh winter will be dissipated, the lights of thousands of homes will be endless, and the night of Shangyuan will share the reunion of health and well-being.