Mencius' three pleasures

Mencius said in On Zhang Wan: A gentleman has three pleasures, and the king of the world does not exist. When parents are here, brothers are happy for no reason. Be worthy of the sky, live up to people, and be happy. It is three pleasures to be educated by talents in the world. A gentleman has three pleasures, and the king of the world does not exist. ?

With all due respect, not many people have obtained these three kinds of music in ancient and modern times. The second music belongs to self-cultivation and can be achieved through subjective efforts. Sanle has its own efforts, and there is also the question of whether there is such an opportunity. If you want to get the best talents in the world, you must first make yourself at least the best talents in the world. It's really not easy to do this step. Even if it is completed, it is an act of god whether the talented people in the world can bow down under the pointer. The hardest thing to do is to be happy, which is not something you can decide or do alone. ? Parents are here? And brothers will end for no reason, and vice versa. Dude, for no reason? Parents may not be here. Life is impermanent, what can I do! Su Dongpo has a deep understanding of the paradise lost in life, and once compared it with the bright moon vividly. People have joys and sorrows, and the moon is full of yin eyes. It was difficult to accomplish in ancient times. ? Even Su Like Dongpo, a generation of historical writers, has only two or three kinds of fun. So, what about the sage Confucius? He didn't have the pleasure of this first time either. He is still in his mother's womb, and his father has passed away. Mencius, an Asian sage, lost his father in his childhood and was brought up by Meng Mu. Therefore, the father's love has become a pain point in Mencius' life, and the joy of parents' presence has also become an unexpected joy in Mencius' life. Therefore, it gives us the greatest enlightenment in life: true happiness and happiness are sometimes not realized, but only realized after they are lost.

This gives us a question, how to grasp happiness and happiness? The reason is simple, and the hardest thing to do is to start now.

? Parents are here, and brothers are here for no reason. Undoubtedly, it is the greatest pleasure and blessing in life. China people have always regarded the loss of a young man's father, a middle-aged man's wife and an old man's son as the three major misfortunes in life, which is the only reason and also proves Mencius' happiness from the opposite side. However, being born in happiness without knowing it is a common problem in life. Most people, especially today's people, don't care much about and fully enjoy this pleasure and happiness. They are dull or insensitive to their parents, and even more indifferent to their brothers. Once the mountain is high and the water is low, it is too late to regret. More sadly, social filial piety has been completely lost, which is unprecedented! Abuse of parents has become commonplace. The world is getting worse, and lonely old people are crying on the road; The breeze has gone, and the six parents deny the supercilious look in the downtown area. Abiding by filial piety is the bottom line of being a man. Nothing will happen if you don't take it seriously!

Look at the world wind coldly, why is it the joy of the world? Money, power, and color!

Extended reading

Mencius' three pleasures, one is that parents are there and brothers have no reason, which is also a family happiness; Second, pitching the innocent world, this life is a pleasure for people; Third, it is the joy of enlightenment to be educated by talents in the world. It is easy for teachers to feel this way. This article was written by my father in the autumn of 2008. Now reading it, I feel that his feelings for his hometown are full of paper, and there are stone carvings depicting Mencius' articles at the entrance of the third middle school in his hometown. There is no poem when you smell the water, only the mountains and rivers are beautiful. Thousands of years have passed, and the river in my hometown is still quiet and quiet. It is there.

The source of three pleasures (prose)

Zhang Minsheng

It is a very happy thing if a person has been touched by a person or an event. What would it feel like if the same person and the same thing touched you for 22 years? That is not a kind of happiness, but a kind of painful torture! This kind of torture sometimes makes you overly sad, overly sensitive, emotional, or drown your sorrows in alcohol. Sadly, you can't explain such feelings and sadness to anyone.

On the last noon in late autumn, I couldn't sleep anyway and got up on pins and needles. I used to be able to calm down and turn over a few pages in the office, but I showed rare irritability that day. I thought I was ill, but my mind was still clear, and a voice kept ringing in my ear: you should go there. ?

What is that place? I know. In the past twenty-two years, I sometimes suddenly think of those old houses, those bluestone roads, and those long stone steps that extend to the river. There are several village women washing vegetables and clothes by the dock. Sunlight leaking from the treetops of ancient camphor trees made the flowers bloom a little.

After working in Leping for 22 years, I have been to almost every township in Leping for professional reasons. I don't know when I formed the habit. Maybe I'm not from Leping. Sometimes, I always ask the origin and meaning of the village name, and who are the celebrities and famous products. I want to get to know it as soon as possible and get familiar with it, for fear of making any jokes in the future.

Now, search a village on the Internet at will, and you may find a very strange phenomenon. Regardless of the size of the village, regardless of geographical bias, there are always several celebrities who are proud of it, or proud of a certain area.

In Leping, a place like this and a village like this are called Maokoudai Village.

Twenty-two years ago, I transferred from Jingdezhen to Leping Newspaper as a small reporter. 1988 One day in autumn, a colleague working in Jingdezhen received an assignment to write an entry by Dai Liangmo for the Dictionary of Great Scientists in China. He entrusted me with the task.

I first learned about Dai Liangmo's main resume from Leping County Records. Out of curiosity, I think I'd better go to Daicun.

Sitting in a broken jeep, I bumped all the way to Mingkou Town. Town * * * enthusiastically sent a comrade to accompany me to Daicun. The autumn sun is still shining, the Le 'an River is sparkling and golden, and boats cast nets on the river for fishing?

Along the Qingshiban Road, through the winding alleys, the ancient camphor trees poked their heads out from the side, and the ancient houses were patchwork, simple and elegant. Villagers greet town cadres from time to time. When they heard that we were going to Dai Liangmo's house, they all gave directions enthusiastically.

Finally, I arrived at Mr. Dai Liangmo's house. This is a small one-bedroom bungalow. In fact, this is the home of Mr. Dai's eldest son, Dai Tiecheng. His former residence is elsewhere and has been sold to others to build a house.

In my memory, Dai Tiecheng is tall, intelligent and talkative. Because he is the eldest son, Mr. Dai insists on going back to his hometown, and other siblings are in other places. He also said that after his father died, he insisted on being buried in his hometown, and the grave was on the hillside across the river.

He sent me a photo of his father and Mr. Dai's life story, and I sent it to my colleagues in Jingdezhen.

How many years later, every time I think of it, there is always an unspeakable taste in my heart. But what it smells like, I always can't tell a clue.

Daicun should be a famous place. In AD 195 (the second year of Xingping), Yuekou was ruled by the county (Daicun), and Leping County was established as Le 'an County. In 62 1 year (in the fourth year of Tang Wude), Leping County was relocated, and Kuaikou (Daicun) in Le 'an Township was still governed. It is a miracle that Daicun set up county governance and abolished county governance. In previous dynasties, in the same place, except Xi 'an, Kaifeng, Nanjing and other places, the ancient capital of the dynasty was established. In a small mountain village near the river, the county has been ruled for 402 years, which is probably unique in the country.

At that time, Daicun was the dock for ships coming and going in the three counties of Le, De and Wu, and the center of material distribution center. Is there a city god temple, a drum tower pavilion and shops here? I can't measure the prosperity of Dai village at that time. Besides its developed waterways, are there other advantages? Why can Daicun take the lead in a very long history and last for hundreds of years?

I can't explore the mystery!

In that glorious and proud era, every tile in Daicun can tell a beautiful story, every shop will hear different dialects, and every camphor tree will have a touching legend. In the Qing Dynasty alone, there were four or five academies in nearby Maokou village. How many Daicun villages were there before the Qing Dynasty or even earlier? Teaching hall? 、? Break up the museum? 、? Yi Xue? 、? College? And then what? I don't know, but it shouldn't be under your mouth. Coupled with businessmen and politicians from the north and south, the dialects of the East and the West are mixed and exchanged here, naturally forming a cultural center among political and transportation centers. Therefore, Daicun is the birthplace of Leping folk customs and civilized etiquette.

There are bound to be celebrities here!

Dai Liangmo came into being.

I can't delve into Dai Liangmo's scene in those days. When he was a child, he walked up and down the alleys of the green flag every day, and sometimes he was full of curiosity about the businessman's conversation. He listened and seemed to understand. When I grow up, I sometimes stand by on the dock and look at the little white sail, imagining what? How did he go down the Yangtze River and study in Nanjing, and how did he cross the ocean and fall in love with Jin Gege of the former Qing Dynasty in Japan? Back in China, how to run for the county magistrate and resign from the county magistrate? Dragging the children, rolling around in other places, going to Le 'an River, finally decided to run a Confucian middle school in Leping.

This year, he was 27 years old.

From then on, this person, this matter began to touch me. For twenty-two years, it has been affecting and tormenting me.

Dai Liangmo should be an excellent talent. After graduating from Southeast University, he studied in Japan and fell in love with royal descendants. After returning to China, he became a county magistrate through election, which has quite a political name. Abandoning politics to teach, he became a professor in Tsinghua, The National SouthWest Associated University and other universities.

Dai Liangmo is a very traditional intellectual. At that time, the country was in crisis and the people were poor. He chose to run a middle school in his hometown, which required much courage and perseverance. Especially after seeing the world and drinking foreign ink, he resolutely took his eldest son back to his hometown Dai village to settle down, and he and his wife were buried on the water bank later. The eldest son is like a father, and the eldest son is his incarnation. He asked his son to stay in Daicun instead of him and stay in his hometown. Rest in peace by the water, he can hear the rushing river in his hometown every day, and pour out endless thoughts and eternal blessings for his hometown!

It is incredible that a person has done something for his hometown in such a difficult time and benefited future generations! Dai Liangmo was founded in 1928? Leping County Middle School? . According to "Leping County Records",? By 1956, there is no other middle school in this county except Leping Middle School? ,? 1954 in autumn, Shangrao institutions designated Wuyuan, Dexing, Wannian and yujiang county counties as the enrollment areas of Lezhong High School? . Although times have changed, Leping Middle School was the highest institution in Leping and its surrounding areas at that time. I think if Dai Liangmo's contribution to education and enlightenment in Leping and surrounding areas is slightly enlarged, it should be equivalent to Confucius in Qufu, Shandong. Because, our descendants' students in Northeast Jiangxi and our teachers' teachers should all be Mr. Dai's disciples. Do you want to call Dai Liangmo? Daizi? .

After dinner, I was taken to Daizi's home by the principal of Daicun Primary School, Yuan Hua. Little Square put on a few small lights, and two or three women twisted their waists and waved their hands, dancing with the accompaniment of dance music. The breath of modern civilization is spreading and infiltrating in densely populated areas at an alarming rate. We found Dai Zi's house with the small flashlight of the lighter. I came to this home twenty-two years ago. Dai Tiecheng, Dai Zi's eldest son, has been dead for many years, and his sons Dai Changlin and his wife warmly received us. His little daughter is studying in the city. Looking around the objects in the room, I feel sad. A descendant of a celebrity, life is so embarrassing and hard!

We quit silently. Back in Daicun Primary School, I had a long talk with Zhan Yuanhua and others. Although Dai Tiecheng can't read, he has been a village mediation director for many years, and the villagers respect him very much. However, when I learned that Zhan Yuanhua and Tan were assigned to be teachers here at 199 1, and they never moved, and their lovers were from Daicun, my heart was filled with infinite emotion!

The next morning, I accompanied President Zhan to the vegetable market to buy food, because he was responsible for the food of five female teachers in the city. He said they might be transferred in the future. But it is not easy for a girl to work in such a remote place for several years. We have become a post station here, receiving many teachers and sending many teachers away. This is Miss Dai's hometown, so I can only stay here.

When I was shopping, I met Lao Dai, whom I had known for years. I haven't seen you for years. I'm much older. He is very tall. He was definitely a handsome boy when he was young. He fished yesterday, and the five small carp and crucian carp in the big basket added up to less than half a catty. Lao Dai is over seventy years old, childless. He has been fishing for a living all the year round and has fallen into a whole set of problems. Every knuckle is swollen. I went to his house a few years ago. At that time, he said there were few fish in the river. When the water on it came down, even the screws died!

It's not very cold in the autumn morning. He is wearing thick cotton-padded clothes and shoes. I asked him how he was doing. He said, good! All right! Sometimes several fish can be caught in the pit dug for gold. You can't go fishing anywhere else now. A broken boat makes an old man. It's hard to get

After breakfast, I asked President Zhan to take me across the river by motorcycle. I want to see the grave of the idiot. Along the way, the flat land on both sides dried up and cracked, overgrown with weeds and reeds flourished. I suddenly don't want to go. What can I say in front of Dai Zi? We diverted to Wuyi Bridge Primary School. This primary school is built in a mountain nest. There are 52 students from seven or eight small villages, all in Grade One to Grade Five, three compound classes and three teachers. Seeing me taking pictures of them, the children really smiled brightly!

When we came back, we waited for the ferry by the river. Principal Dai pointed to a nearby river and told me that it was water. The place where we stand is the mouth.

In autumn, the river is golden, and Daicun on the other side is like a Chinese painting, and the scenery is beautiful. The sand loading boat beside me is unloading sand, and the high sand suction pipe swoops down. There are all water and sand below, and the fine sand is layered on top of each other, with beautiful patterns.

Buckle! The intersection of dancing water and baking water is here, in Dai village. The ancestors gave the most beautiful and auspicious names in the world to the river below the mouth of the river? Le An River? ! Since then, our mother river? Le 'an River flows from here to the west, straight down Poyang Lake, connecting the Yangtze River and heading for the sea.

Water keeps flowing, and people get old. We seem to have forgotten here. If we really forget Le 'an River, forget our mouths and clothes, then who are we?

This is a holy place!

?

This is not only the source of Leping's mother river (music water), but also the source of Leping's civilized etiquette (music ceremony) and the source of Leping's education (music education)! Here, is what we * * * should have together, which is always worth cherishing, loving and being proud of? The source of three pleasures? !