Reading Questions: Sailing against the current, if you don t advance, you will retreat

Q: Why did my mother borrow swimming to tell me the truth that "if you don't go ahead, you will retreat"? Answer; Because my mother wanted me to understand that in order to follow the footsteps of the times, I must face difficulties and move forward on the road of life.

When my mother said this, I learned a lot ......

Learning to keep forging ahead and working hard is like a boat sailing against the current, if you don't work hard to move forward, you can only go backwards. Sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat: it means that the boat is popular against the water.

It is a metaphor for not working hard to move forward, but also a metaphor for doing things that have resistance and must be worked on. From "Zengguang Xianwen".

The content of "Zengguang Xianwen" is roughly as follows: one is to talk about people and interpersonal relationships, the second is to talk about fate, the third is to talk about how to behave in the world, and the fourth is to express views on reading. In the world described in the "Zengguang Xianwen", people are hypocritical, people are fickle for their own selfishness, they hate the poor and love the rich, and tend to be inflammatory, so that the world is full of traps and crises.

There is a lot of emphasis on fate and retribution in the text, believing that everything in people is arranged by fate, and people should do good deeds in order to have good opportunities. There is a lot of space in the book on how to deal with people, and this part of the text is the core of the text. There are many descriptions of forbearance in the text, and it is believed that forbearance is a way to eliminate the scourge of troubles.

While advocating self-protection and prudent forbearance, it also emphasizes people's subjective initiative, believing that this is the principle of doing things. There is also no lack of persuasion in the article to be good: "You can't have the heart of harming people, and you can't have the heart of preventing people." ”

Zengguang Xianwen emphasizes the importance of reading and the value of filial piety, and these views embody the orthodox Confucian spirit. But it is precisely because of this complexity that people of different ideas can see in it the aphorisms that they approve of, making it a broad representation.

The content of the "Zengguang Xianwen" is composed of rhyming proverbs and literary sentences, and its content is very extensive, from etiquette and morality, rules and regulations to customs allusions, astronomy and geography, almost everything, and the sentences are smooth and easy to understand. But the center is to talk about the philosophy of life and the way of life. Some of these proverbs and sayings reflect the fine traditions of industriousness, simplicity, hardship and hard work formed by the Chinese nation over thousands of years, and have become valuable spiritual wealth, such as "the plan of the year lies in the spring, and the plan of the day lies in the morning"; Many contents about society and life have been tempered by the vicissitudes of the world and become aphorisms that warn the world, such as "good medicine is good for disease, and good words are good for deeds", "good is rewarded for good, evil is rewarded for evil", "happiness is extreme, happiness is sorrowful", etc.; Some proverbs and sayings summarize the experience of people in the struggle against nature for thousands of years, and become concise and vivid philosophical scientific knowledge, such as "know the nature of fish near the water, know the sound of birds near the mountain", "get the moon first near the water, and the flowers and trees meet spring early".

1. Learning is like sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat: learning is like a boat going against the water in the water, if you don't work hard to move forward, you will be envious and will be pushed back by the water.

2. "Learning is like sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat." The heart is like a horse running on the plains, easy to put and difficult to collect. From Liang Qichao, a representative of China's modern reform school and brother cave new legalists, "The Doctrine of the Welcome Meeting of Ticket Merchants in Shanxi".

On the 26th day of the first month of the twelfth year of Tongzhi (February 23, 1873), Liang Qichao was born in Chakeng Village, Xinhui, Guangdong, and his grandfather Liang Weiqing and father Liang Baoying had participated in the township politics as gentry, and had a certain influence in the local area and state sales. Liang Qichao has been studying at home since he was four years old and is literate with his grandfather.

Learning is like sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat; The heart is like a horse on the plain, easy to put and difficult to collect. It comes from the Confucian Zhou Xitao re-edited the "Zengguang Xianwen" during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty

From Lu Xun's "Essays on Jieting, Outside the Door".

"Zengguang Xianwen" is a collection of folk proverbs, the content of which can roughly reflect the life psychology of the people in ancient China, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism The content is reflected in it, such as resting things and calming people, more things are better than less things, and there are many negative superstitious thoughts such as people's destiny, which should be distinguished. However, other proverbs about living in the world are philosophical, intriguing, and worthy of modern reference.

Learning is like sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat;

Translation: Learning should keep forging ahead and keep working hard, just like a boat sailing against the current, if you don't work hard to move forward, you can only go backwards.

Even if there is still a bit of a boat against the current, I have to pull the fiber. (Lu Xun's "Essays on Jieting, Outside the Door").