What does Liu Bei mean by setting up a stall to sell shoes?

Ouyang Xiu is "the meaning of drunkenness is not in wine, but in landscape", and Liu Xuande is "the meaning of selling shoes is not in shoes, but waiting for an opportunity".

The ancients paid special attention to "determination", even if they could not fill their stomachs, they could not lose their ambitions. If even this last spiritual pillar is abandoned, it will only sink into the world of mortals and be willing to disappear from everyone.

Living environment is one thing, inner world is another. We can't confuse things, as long as the spirit doesn't want material, we can't lose the support of material, and the spirit is a castle in the air. Without spiritual guidance, materials can only be used for luxury enjoyment.

No matter how big a hero is, he should dress and eat, and Liu Bei is no exception. When the spiritual level reaches a certain height, you still have to run around all day for survival and engage in seemingly low-level hawker work. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are similar. One of the three brothers sells straw sandals, one sells dates and one kills pigs.

Like kites, people need to borrow momentum, kites borrow wind momentum, and people borrow trends. Imagine that if it hadn't happened at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu might have been a peddler all his life.

No matter how good a man is, he should bow his head before gaining power. Even if there is no good opportunity for the time being, he can't feel sorry for himself and go with the flow. For Liu Bei, selling straw sandals is not an end, he has a higher pursuit. The purpose of selling shoes is to survive through this business before finding a better way out. Only by ensuring survival first can we wait for better opportunities.

"Today is cruel, tomorrow is even more cruel, and the day after tomorrow is beautiful, but most people die tomorrow night." Many people failed to hold on and fell down on the beautiful eve to come.

Liu Bei set up a stall not only to make a living, but also to hone his mind. In the ordinary monotonous life, he will become more resilient and stronger, which is also the necessary quality for him to fly into the sky in the future. The sentence "You can only be a master if you suffer" is very reasonable.

Pain is a torture. If you understand it from another angle, it is also a test for yourself. After suffering, there will be brilliant flowers. A hero as big as Liu Bei can be a hawker calmly, so why should we ordinary people be anxious?