199 1 year 65438+1October 3, Meili Snow Mountain avalanche, leading to the total annihilation of the main players, resulting in the biggest mountain disaster in China's mountaineering history.
Meili Snow Mountain is shrouded in mist all the year round. In Deqin County, Yunnan Province, it is luck and fate to see the whole picture of Meili Snow Mountain. Sometimes it is rare to wait for dozens of days.
On the day of the unveiling ceremony of the Warriors Monument 17, it was snowing all over the sky and the sky was overcast, and Kawagebo could not be seen, which made the family members even more sad.
Weng Caiqiong, the wife of China mountaineer Wang Jianhua, who was buried in the sacred mountain, shouted at the snowy mountain in the clouds: "Wang Jianhua, I see you coming!" Other family members also shouted the names of their loved ones.
Suddenly, a miracle happened, the dark clouds cleared, Kawagebo Mountain was exposed, shining in the sun, and all relatives cried excitedly. After more than ten minutes, the clouds reunited, which surprised everyone present.
"We are ordinary people and materialists, but suddenly the beauty generated that day shocked me and touched me even more." Weng Caiqiong said.
1997, in view of the position of Meili Snow Mountain in the hearts of Tibetans, the state issued a decree prohibiting climbing Meili Snow Mountain.
"When you can't do it, the sages will eventually accomplish nothing. Do it when you can, get twice the result with half the effort, and the days will be fine. "
-Zeng Guofan
Good morning, book lover. Today, we will read the seventh chapter, Zeng Guofan's geomantic omen, physiognomy, divination and destiny. Before we start reading, please think about three questions:
1. What is Zeng Guofan's attitude towards Feng Shui?
2. How did Zeng Guofan change from voluntarism to "Destiny Theory"?
3. What is the ultimate reason for Zeng Guofan's interest in mysterious culture?
Few people in China before modern times were completely superstitious. Zeng Guofan grew up in an environment full of superstitions, and he was used to hearing stories about ghosts and gods' possession and feng shui's wealth.
"Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments, and two instruments give birth to four images" is his cosmic picture.
Neo-Confucianism believes that everything is evolved from Taiji Qi. Because the "gas field" will not be destroyed immediately after death, it must exist somewhere in the air.
Zhu believes that building a house or grave in a place where harmony between heaven and earth can be hidden will have a good influence on the mental state of the living and the soul peace of the dead.
Zeng Guofan's world outlook is basically based on thought, so he accepted Zhu's geomantic theory. He believes in ghosts and gods and pays attention to feng shui. When he was an official in Beijing, the consideration of good and bad luck of Feng Shui was an important reason for his moving several times.
At this stage, Zeng Guofan's attitude towards Feng Shui is pragmatic, far from believing. Until I chose my grandmother's grave, my grandfather, who didn't believe in Feng Shui, chose a place that was not recognized by several brothers, but it was actually the land of the collection. The Zeng family was lucky.
So Zeng Guofan began to believe in Feng Shui, believing that Feng Shui is a gift that human beings can't force.
However, an important event happened shortly after Zeng Guofan came out of the mountain again in Xianfeng eight years, which made him deeply suspicious of Feng Shui theory.
At that time, Xiang had just captured Jiujiang, and the military plane was quite smooth. Zeng Guofan thought that he could go downstream and quickly destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Unexpectedly, Hua Fu got a very unlucky word "defeat", which is related to the overall situation of the world and the family's own fortune.
Later, Xiang was defeated in the battle of the Three Rivers Source, and expert Li Jun was wiped out. Zeng Guofan's younger brother, Ceng Guohua, was also killed in the mutinous army, and Zeng Guofan suddenly realized what the word "defeat" meant.
This incident convinced Zeng Guofan that there is a more mysterious and powerful "destiny" on top of "Feng Shui".
China people are one of the nationalities with the strongest sense of destiny in the world, because the situation is changeable, fortunes are imminent, their fate is impermanent, and they are small.
Zeng Guofan, when he was young, was actually a man who "man can conquer nature" and highly praised the power of will.
He believes that people's fate is mainly in their own hands. Depending on your own will, you can completely transform into a perfect person. They can save their country and rebuild Gankun in the life and death of the Qing Dynasty.
This voluntarism belief supported him to experience many difficulties and obstacles that could not have been crossed, and founded the Xiang Army with a scholar.
Even after the Xiang army won the battle, Zeng Guofan became more wise and conceited about his subjective dynamic energy, thinking that "everything in the world can be persevered and will eventually succeed."
However, the word "mandate of heaven" began to appear in Zeng Guofan's dictionary after the great setback of the emperor's deposing Xianfeng in seven years and Ceng Guohua's funeral in eight years.
He leafed through history, and the fates of the ancients left him countless regrets. Many times, people's efforts and gains are disproportionate, including himself, and there are too many unexpected things in life.
Before he was twenty-eight, he took seven scholar exams and failed twice. After the age of 28, he entered imperial academy as a Jinshi, moved for seven years in ten years, and even jumped ten levels. In his thirties, he became a second-class official.
At that time, there were many students who were smarter and more handsome than him. Is it just their own subjective struggle, without God's arrangement?
Before the Taiping Army invaded Hunan, he never thought that he would lead troops to fight in his life. In the biggest peasant uprising war in China history, he became the first protagonist of the other side. Life and death are life, and wealth is in the sky. These eight words make people feel the deepest in the war.
Zeng Guofan suddenly realized that life is just a stream, and where it flows is completely determined by the terrain.
Zeng Guofan realized that manpower is actually very weak. Enlarging his mind to the level of the universe and the world, the small storms of honor and disgrace in the world are not worth mentioning, so he is no longer obsessed with fame and fortune as before.
Zeng Guofan used "luck" to sum up his achievements in his life. He increasingly agreed that environment and opportunity are far more important than people's efforts, and no matter how tenacious his will is, he can't break some objective restrictions. This sad announcement is actually a reflection of Zeng Guofan's pessimism in his later years.
The "tongzhi zhongxing" he bought for his whole life is nothing but false prosperity. He followed the sage's way to study and practice hard, but he did not reach the ideal of "keeping a heart of heaven and earth, making a way of life, connecting the past with the future, and opening up eternal peace"
He watched China continue to advance to Lu Chen, but there was nothing he could do. As always, the court in the late Qing Dynasty was at a loss, and it was difficult to recover from the vicissitudes of the times.
However, even if he was so convinced of his fate, Zeng Guofan rarely talked about this topic in public all his life. Because he firmly believes that although fate determines everything, saints should also deceive themselves and preach that man can conquer nature. "Where there is a will, there is a way" is what he used to encourage young people in his later years.
"Knowing that you can't do it," Zeng Guofan, who was suffering from illness, still tried his best to save the decline of the Qing Dynasty. He died and worked hard for a period of time, which can be described as "desperately serving the country and practicing sideways."
My friend Feng Shutang once found Zeng Guofan a place with excellent feng shui and was buried here. It is said that families can flourish and last forever.
To people's surprise, Zeng Guofan flatly rejected this choice. Because if buried here, it may ensure the prosperity of the Zeng family, but it may affect the inheritance of other family talents in Xiangxiang County.
"Heaven avoids cleverness, retreats modestly, and does not seek success", which is Zeng Guofan's world outlook in his later years. He believes in feng shui and worships ghosts and gods, but he is no longer persistent. Many things are beyond reproach.
It is natural that there is a direct causal relationship between Zeng Guofan's mastery of physiognomy and his understanding of people. Different people have different opinions. We only look at some simple facts.
Physiognomy has a long history in China. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, famous physiognomy experts have emerged one after another. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, physiognomy spread all over urban and rural areas, and physiognomy became an important menu that influenced the lives of China people.
Among the high-ranking politicians in the late Qing Dynasty, judging people by their appearances became a trend.
In his later years, Zeng Guofan had a special habit when he met strangers: he didn't speak first, but stared at the guests for a few minutes from top to bottom.
Zeng Guofan found that there are so many talents and great influence that no one in history can match them. Zuo, Hu Linyi, Li Hongzhang, Guo Songtao, Shen Baozhen, Yang He were all recommended by Zeng Guofan.
There are more than 30 people from the shogunate to the governor and governor, which is very rare in the history of China.
As a philosopher, Zeng Guofan attached great importance to the Book of Changes all his life and tried to read it through at least five times. From this ancient classic, he not only read dialectics, but also read a lot of truth about being a man and learned to calculate divination.
Zeng Guofan asked someone to calculate the hexagrams. He can also do his own divination. Whenever a soldier is in a dilemma, he often uses divination to speculate on good or bad luck.
The relationship between Zeng Guofan and China's mysterious culture also shows that Zeng Guofan exhausted all spiritual resources he could reach.
Zeng Guofan's task is too heavy. He wants to direct the battle, govern the place, cultivate one's morality, keep the house in good order, and be a saint inside and a king outside. He wants to maintain social order, guide the direction of the country and rebuild the people's hearts in the world. For these, it is not enough to rely only on the traditional theory of "monarch, minister, father, son and son"
Zeng Guofan treated the wisdom left by the ancients with the broadest mind and the most diligent attitude. His life is full of vitality and openness. He reads everything in books. Zeng Guofan collected and analyzed all the information he could receive, extracted useful elements from it, sought truth from facts, and kept his thinking in a mobile, keen and positive state.
On the one hand, mysterious culture tells him that his destiny is determined by the past, on the other hand, it enlightens him that the laws of the universe can be solved, and people's destiny can be controlled by themselves to a certain extent.
At the same time, the theory of "destiny" played a great role in broadening the mind, belittling utility and surpassing in his extremely difficult and painful times.
Without the complicated experience of life, Zeng Guofan would have gained nothing by sitting in his study and reading the Book of Changes all his life.
Zeng Guofan borrowed the classic sentence "news surplus and deficiency theory" in the Book of Changes, and reached the view of "one divides into two", being modest and prudent and constantly striving for self-improvement.
"Life has things to do and things not to do. What you can do, when you do your best, is called exhaustion; If you can't do something, you must do it wholeheartedly. This is called know life. "