Dong Xiange Ding Mao's Work "August Disease"
[Author] Xin Qiji
[Full text] The difference between virtuous and foolish can be counted. It's a thousand miles away. Think carefully about the distinction between righteousness and benefit, conformity and wisdom, who breeds who, and so on.
Sweet taste is perishable, and a friend who knows a gentleman at the end of the year is as light as water. Floaters gather together and sound like thunder, deeply feeling that yesterday is not today. I admire the Thai soup in my comfort zone. It's more dramatic, but I'm not half drunk.
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What's the difference? Don't underestimate this difference, it can be said: the difference is a thousand miles. Think about it. Righteousness is the difference between obedience and wisdom. They all get up at the cock crow and work tirelessly. Shun's apprentice is a good person, and his apprentice is a good person. We must distinguish between these two kinds of people.
The taste of glutinous rice is sweet, but it will go bad easily in the end; Water has no taste, so it can keep its original color for a long time. When I am old, I also understand a truth: making friends with a gentleman is as light as water. When eating a meal, a large number of floaters gather, and their noise is like thunder. Thinking about it now, I think yesterday was wrong and today is right. I envy Taihe soup in my comfort zone. Even if you drink the drama, you won't get drunk, just plan to get half drunk.
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Education: Diligence and perseverance.
Comfortable nest: refers to residence. Taihe soup: refers to wine.
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The first word is the second year of Jubilee. In Song Dynasty, Xin Qiji was appointed as the magistrate of Shaoxing Prefecture and the peace envoy of East Zhejiang Province. However, Xin Qiji suffered a blow when he was in Zhenjiang, and his scars still exist. He had no intention of going out, so he resigned. /kloc-in October/February, he was appointed as the prefect of, and was ordered to visit the palace before taking office. After the fight, he was promoted to assistant minister of the Ministry of War. Assistant minister is second only to Shangshu, and has certain military power. Xin Qiji has always been committed to reunifying the motherland. According to reason, he is willing to accept the task. However, he had already realized that the Song Dynasty was fatuous and incompetent, the tyranny of the Han Dynasty was rampant, and the Song-Jin War was imminent, which would surely end in Song Jun's failure. Xin Qiji puts the country first and is willing to go to the front. He is old and very ill. In August of the third year of Jubilee, he was seriously ill. In September, the small court in the Southern Song Dynasty ordered him to take on the heavy responsibility for the Privy Council. However, on September 10, before the imperial edict reached the lead mountain, the national hero and great poet of the Southern Song Dynasty "cried out several times to kill the thief" and passed away with a grudge at the age of 68. Xin Qiji made some memories of his life during his illness. He experienced peasant uprising and entered the officialdom when he was young. He experienced ups and downs, both joy and sadness. By observing emperors, powerful ministers and ordinary officials, I got to know quite a few farmers, thus understanding the merits and demerits of people. Generally speaking, he thinks that there are two kinds of people: the virtuous and the foolish, that is, the good and the bad. Among them, "the difference is thousands of miles." Xin Qiji distinguishes between the virtuous and the foolish by taking righteousness and profit as the standard, that is, the person who takes righteousness as the main character is a saint, and the person who takes profit as the main character is a fool, and the standard character is wisdom. The next film summed up my experience and lessons in making friends all my life. "A friendship between gentlemen is as light as water." Only in this way can we have a correct understanding of "floaters" that sound like thunder. He said sadly, "Yesterday was not today." The author finally made up his mind not to go out of the mountain, but to spend his life in the "comfort zone" of "Taihe Tang". I didn't expect this word to become his masterpiece!