If you want to move slowly in life, don’t stagger.

"There is also a way to climb a mountain. If you walk slowly, you will not stumble." This sentence was written by Sima Guang on a cliff stone next to the Leshan Giant Buddha. Frankly speaking, I only learned this after reading "The Complete Works of Wang Zengqi: The Plants of the World". As early as 1985, I visited the Leshan Giant Buddha. However, I was young at the time and only focused on looking at the scenery and people, and did not pay attention to the cliff carvings next to it.

The key to this sentence is that the word "踬" is easy to get stuck. It has two meanings. One is tripping over something; the other is that things are not going well. Once you understand the meaning of this word, it is not difficult to understand the whole sentence - even mountaineering requires methods. If you walk slowly, you will not hurt your feet and you will walk more smoothly.

Nowadays, Chinese people like to hike, especially after meals. They like to take walks and walk quickly, but what they are most afraid of is hurting their feet. They are either afraid of sprains or the tendons on the soles of their feet being injured. What I'm afraid of is that my knees will be injured. Therefore, some experts suggest that even if you walk, it is best not to take more than 10,000 steps a day.

Speaking of "Xu Xing" may be a big warning to the Chinese people. This is because the Chinese people are all swarming in everything they do, scrambling for quick success and instant benefits, for fear of falling behind others and having their benefits snatched away by others. Especially in the current reality of information explosion, rapid changes in knowledge and technology, accelerated pace of life, more detailed division of labor, and more intense competition, people are unwilling to lag behind and have to work overtime and overdraft their health to obtain something that can make people " Visible success." The result may be physical and mental exhaustion, or even death from overwork, cardiac arrest, or sudden death, at the cost of health and life. This is called "haste makes waste" and is counterproductive.

In the past few years, the phrase "don't let your children lose at the starting line" made parents feel like they were fighting a war. It put a lot of worries on their children's young shoulders, making them overwhelmed, and parents followed suit. A lot of suffering. Fortunately, all kinds of extracurricular training and classes have been stopped, which has greatly reduced the pressure on the children, and parents can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

I remember that the esthetician Mr. Zhu Guangqian told a story in the article "Talk about Beauty" - there is a large car road in the Alpine valley with extremely beautiful scenery on both sides. There is a placard on the road to advise tourists: " Walk slowly and enjoy it! ”

Everyone who has walked on the highway has this experience. The scenery on both sides of the road is so picturesque that some people will automatically slow down or even stop to take a look at the scenery. Many people are running towards the set goal at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour. No matter how beautiful the scenery on both sides is, they can be ignored by him. They pass by in a flash without any temptation or impression, let alone the slightest memory. In fact, people live in this world, no matter how fast they run, they will still end up in the grave. Why not artificially widen and extend this long process? This broadening and extension means being able to consciously slow down and know how to appreciate. Coming in a hurry and leaving in a hurry, without any experience of life, just like going through the motions, this seems to be a "wasted life".

As the material living standards of Chinese people continue to improve, Chinese people have gradually understood the principle of "slow life". Life must be lived slowly in order to appreciate the deep flavor.

Mr. Zhu Guangqian said that people can be divided into two types. One type is rich in taste. They find many things interesting and seek to enjoy this kind of fun everywhere. One type is one with dry taste. He feels no interest in many things and does not seek out interest. He just fights with flies and maggots all day long for food and clothing. The richer the taste, the happier life will be. The so-called art of life is the taste of life.

We often hear people say in real life that so-and-so is good at living, while more people are just surviving. What I understand as "knowing how to live" means having a taste for life, being able to appreciate it, being interested in and passionate about everything, so that no matter what environment or state you are in, you will never feel lonely or boring. Whether you appreciate the true taste of life depends on whether you can look at the people and things you encounter in real life with an appreciative eye. When we look at people and things with an appreciative eye, we will not be constrained by the pressure and embarrassment of life, depressed, frowning, and become slaves of life, but will be free, free, happy, and happy like gods.