: Lv Mengzheng
Man is a tiny life between heaven and earth. Russian writer Turgenev once said: "Although our life is short and small, all greatness is caused by human hands."
Although fate is determined by heaven, it depends on human efforts.
Since ancient times, most successful people have always lived in harmony with others. I went to the east of Dianzhuang Town, yanshi city, Luoyang with the Feng Shui delegation from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. There is an ancient village, formerly known as Wuliu Village. Legend has it that it was the hometown of Lv Mengzheng, a famous figure in the Northern Song Dynasty, from which the place name of Xianggong Village came.
Perhaps we modern people have forgotten Lv Mengzheng, but those who have studied ancient Chinese will never forget an ancient inspirational article, that is, Cold Kiln Fu written by legendary Prime Minister Lv Mengzheng of the Northern Song Dynasty. I remember when I just graduated from high school, I was faced with two possibilities: decentralization or top editing. Walking at the crossroads of life, I saw some powerful classmates. Because their parents are organizing work in * * *, it is easy to take part in the work. Think about their origins in ordinary people's homes. Without the help of nobles, they used to sit by the Gongjiang River and watch the river rise and fall. But reading ancient books inadvertently read Lv Mengzheng's "Cold Kiln Fu":
Accidents will happen.
Scolopes has a hundred feet and can't walk like a snake;
The cock flapped its wings, but he couldn't fly over the crow.
A horse has a journey of a thousand miles, and it can't be done without riding it;
A man with ambition can't be famous if he is unlucky.
I believe that fate is inviolable, but I also think of the legendary story of Lv Mengzheng changing his study and fate, and understand that fate is not terrible, and a gentleman can change his fate with magical powers. Therefore, in the environment, I am as calm as water, concentrate on reading, and keep my knowledge full in order to get ready.
According to legend, "Cold Kiln Fu" was written by Lv Mengzheng to educate and exhort Song Zhenzong, the late prince. According to his own experience from poverty to wealth, the author lists the ups and downs of many famous people in history to illustrate a natural cycle of life thought.
There is another saying that Lv Mengzheng was born in poverty and knew the sufferings of the poor, so he studied hard, worked hard and loved the people. When he was young, he studied in a broken kiln with Kou Zhun and experienced human changes. Later, when I became prime minister, I realized the humiliation that the world was cold and the people were miserable. So he wrote "Cold Kiln Fu".
A group of us walked noisily into Xianggong Village. At the entrance to the village, there are two tall stone tablets standing on the roadside. One of them is entitled "Lv Mengzheng's Hometown", which was inscribed by General Lv Zhengcao 1995. The other one reads "Northern Song Dynasty Five-phase Monument" and stands at 1998. In addition to Lv Mengzheng, the Lushi family has also produced five prime ministers and several senior officials, including Lv Mengzheng, Lv Yijian, Lv Duan, Lv Gongzhu and Lu Dafang, the most famous of which is Lv Mengzheng.
I saw a broken kiln in front, and the wall fell off in the storm. The original pond in front of the monument has been piled up with waste soil and garbage is scattered all over the floor. This is Lv Mengzheng's cold kiln for reading, which is famous in the Northern Song Dynasty and has the reputation of "the first honest official in the world". It seems that Lv Mengzheng's "Cold Kiln Fu" is not a fiction of his former residence, but it does not cover up his ugliness, so to tell the truth.
Bad luck sharpens a person's will and character.
It is reported that Lv Mengzheng's father, Lu Guitu, was a senior official in the Northern Song Dynasty, and his family moved from Luoyang to the capital city of Bianliang. When Lv Mengzheng was a child, his father listened to the rumors of concubines and drove Lv Mengzheng and her son out of the house. Later, the mother and son drifted to the Yi River in the east of Luoyang, their hometown, and lived in an abandoned brick kiln. From then on, the mother spun wool and the children begged for food, and their lives were difficult.
At noon one day, there was a bell in the north. Lv Mengzheng thinks this is a school course. When he got there, he found that the bell was coming from a temple near the school. At this time, the monks were eating. He was so hungry that he bowed his head. The monk saw that he was very polite and was willing to give him food. From then on, whenever the temple bell rang, Lv Mengzheng went to have a meal. Taking advantage of the opportunity to go to the temple, Lv Mengzheng also "eavesdropped" on the teacher's lecture at the school gate. His diligence deeply touched Mr. Wang, so that he was allowed to attend the lecture. Others write on paper with a pen, and he draws on the ground with his fingers.
After a long time, the monks got tired of him begging for food every day, so they rang the bell after dinner. When he heard the bell, Lv Mengzheng was busy coming out of school to beg for food, but the monks had finished eating, and Lv Mengzheng, who was teased, was very angry. "Lv Mengzheng, I can't get through. After eating, I will ring the bell. " This proverb, which is widely circulated in the local area, is said to have been written on the temple wall by Lv Mengzheng in a rage.
Lv Mengzheng's mother had learned the Four Books and the Five Classics at home and taught her son to read. Lv Mengzheng, who is smart and eager to learn, has long been aiming high in adversity and studying hard day and night.
In 977 AD, in the second year of Song Taizong's Taiping and Xingguo, Lv Mengzheng won the first prize at the age of 3 1. Lv Mengzheng, who walked out of the cold kiln, embarked on a prominent official career.
Some feng shui masters use compasses to determine that the sitting direction of the cold kiln is the direction of hair, and the two waters intersect. In my opinion, after 1000 years, what is measured is not what it used to be, and it doesn't make any sense.
Lv Mengzheng's developed geomantic omen is attributed to the land of its ancestors.
It is said that one day he met two people in Luoyang city. One of them is a fortune teller, and the other is a feng shui master. Fortune teller Lv Mengzheng is rich and expensive, but he is down and out, so he is confused. I wanted to know his life, so I stopped Lv Mengzheng on the road and asked him whose child he was, but Lv Mengzheng didn't answer. At this time, Mr. Feng Shui also noticed that Lv Mengzheng's beauty was protected by the ancestral grave Feng Shui. The fortune teller saw that Lv Mengzheng should be famous and his parents were there, but he didn't understand why he was poor. As long as the query Lv Mengzheng's father, just know Lv Mengzheng's father dotes on PianShi, driving their mother and son out of the house. The two gentlemen persuaded their father to take Meng Zheng and his mother back, but his father refused.
Two gentlemen went to inspect Lu's ancestral grave, which was in Xindian, Luoyang, where Meng Zheng's great-great grandfather and grandfather were buried. Its land belongs to plain terrain, but the tomb is surrounded by two small rivers, which is an example of "Shuanglongwei". If the water flow before and after is deep and long, then the emperor will be the main one, but the water in front of this place is DC, which can only produce one product. The two gentlemen decided to be prime ministers after Meng Zheng's comprehensive geomantic omen. The blessings are generous and tolerant, so the blessings are profound. But the geomantic omen here is as expensive as two sons, and Lv Mengzheng's parents only have one son. So where did the other official come from?
Lv Mengzheng won the first place in the Jinshi at the age of eighteen, and then he really rose to the top. He can't remember who laughed at him. When Lv Mengzheng later visited the Prime Minister, his father had died. The two gentlemen saw that his geomantic omen was still in its heyday and was not destroyed, but the question of two prime ministers here was still puzzling. So I went to my ancestral home, Yangzhai, and found that Lu's ancestral home was a decaying house, and many people living in it would get sick and scattered. Several children of the Lushi family are very mediocre. Later, I continued to inquire that Lv Mengzheng's grandfather had a younger brother who ran away from home. I thought my younger brother's descendants would become prime ministers, but they all achieved nothing. The doubt of feng shui has never been explained.
Lv Mengzheng visited the cottage and retired from Luoyang. Later, Zhenzong made a pilgrimage to the Yongxi Mausoleum in Luoyang, visited Mount Tai and visited Lv Mengzheng twice. He once asked which of his sons could be an official. Meng Zheng said, "All the philosophers are useless. There is a nephew, Lv Yijian, who is really a prime minister! Lv Yijian Tanfu is also a scholar with great wisdom. During Song Renzong's administration, he served as Prime Minister twice and made many achievements. But politically conservative. It turns out that Lv Yijian is the descendant of his grandfather and brother. This should be Feng Shui theory.
Lv Mengzheng's spirit of changing his destiny by reading is worth advocating.
The cold kiln where Lv Mengzheng studied may have disappeared long ago, but his "Cold Kiln Fu" is immortal. My heart will always echo Lv Gong's words: "A centipede with one hundred feet can't walk a snake;"
The cock flapped his wings, but he couldn't fly over the crow ... When he was unlucky, he should only be poor and keep his score; If you don't cheat, you will have eyebrows ... "。
Lv Mengzheng's hard life in his early years prompted others to establish the concept of self-improvement. Heaven opened his eyes to support him and rewarded him for his diligence. Lu studied hard, became an official and rose to the top. After two generations of Taizong and Zhenzong and three prime ministers, this record can only be matched by Zhao Pu, the founding father of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Therefore, Lv Mengzheng set an example for future generations, that is, poverty changes one's mind and reading changes one's destiny. Thinking determines the way out, and life lies in struggle. Modern people from poor families might as well read Cold Kiln Fu. If they understand this truth, they will not be pessimistic and disappointed. There are stages and opportunities everywhere in life, depending on your ability to grasp them.
: Song Lian
Song Lian, a famous essayist and scholar in Ming Dynasty, was fond of learning since childhood. He was not only knowledgeable, but also wrote excellent articles, and was praised by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, as the "head of the founding civil servants". Song Lian loves reading very much, and those who don't understand always get to the bottom of it. This time, in order to find out a problem, Song Lian walked dozens of miles in the snow to consult Ji Meng, a teacher who had stopped accepting students, but the teacher was not at home. Undaunted, Song Lian visited the teacher again a few days later, but the teacher didn't see him. Because of the cold weather, Song Lian and her companions were freezing, and Song Lian's toes were frostbitten. Song Lian was rescued when he fell into a snow pit during his third solo visit. When Song Lian almost fainted in front of the teacher's house, the teacher was moved by his sincerity and patiently answered Song Lian's questions. Later, in order to gain more knowledge, Song Lian visited many teachers and became a famous essayist.
: Xuanzang studied Buddhism hard.
Xuanzang was a monk in the Tang Dynasty. In order to obtain the original Buddhist scriptures, Xuanzang left Chang 'an in August of the third year of Zhenguan, trudged to Wan Li and finally arrived in India. It lasted 17 years, and he wrote The Tale of the Western Regions of Datang, which made great contributions to Buddhism, human progress and world civilization.
Yue Fei studies art.
Yue Fei, a national hero, was born in troubled times and was born in a poor family since childhood. With the support of his neighbors, he learned martial arts from Zhou Tong, a famous Shaanxi teacher. During this period, he witnessed the broken mountains and rivers, displaced people, sprouted the ambition of learning to serve the country and overcame complacency. Under the careful instruction of the famous teacher Zhou Tong, he eventually became a Yue family thief, and led Wang Gui, Tang Xian and other partners to join the patriotic torrent of resisting gold and saving the country.
Shen Kuo went up the mountain to see peach blossoms.
"In April, the flowers in the world are exhausted, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are open." When reading this poem, Shen Kuo's eyebrows condensed into a knot. "Why are the flowers here defeated and the peach blossoms on the mountain open?" In order to solve this mystery, Shen Kuo and some friends made a field trip in the mountains. On the mountain in April, it was warm and cold at first sight, and the cool wind came, making people tremble with cold, and Shen Kuo was in full bloom. It turns out that the temperature on the mountain is much lower than that under the mountain, so the flower season comes later than that under the mountain. With this spirit of searching and empirical method, Shen Kuo wrote Meng Qian's Pen Talk when he grew up.
: Lu Youshu Qin Chaoxue
Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, was diligent, sensitive and studious since childhood. In his family, there are books on the desk, books in the cupboard and books on the bed. This is called a book nest. He is diligent in writing, leaving more than 9000 poems in his life and becoming an outstanding great writer in the history of our country.
: Li Guizhen learns to draw tigers.
Li Guizhen, a famous tiger painter in the Five Dynasties, liked painting since childhood, especially tigers. However, because he has never seen a real tiger, he always paints it as a sick cat. So he decided to go deep into the forest to see the real tiger. With the help of Uncle Orion, he finally saw the real tiger. Through a lot of sketching and copying, his tiger painting skills have advanced by leaps and bounds, and the tigers in his works are vivid and confusing. Since then, he has traveled many famous mountains and rivers for most of his life, met many birds and animals, and finally became a generation of painting masters.