"This day will be a great task, so people will have to suffer from it first, exercise its bones and muscles, starve its skin, empty its body and do everything it does, so be patient and enjoy the benefits it can't do. ..... Then I know that I was born in sorrow and died in happiness. " ("Mencius Gao Zi Xia")
This means that a person must go through many hardships if he wants to achieve great things. Only when he has gone through hardships and seen the world can he exercise his will, increase his talents and take on heavy responsibilities. Enjoy yourself at ease. Growing up in a greenhouse, you can't develop the ability to overcome difficulties and get rid of adversity. You will be helpless in the face of difficulties, and you will be depressed and desperate when you encounter setbacks and adversity, which often leads to disaster. So he came to the conclusion: "Born in sorrow, died in happiness".
Rusong Zhang Zai also said in his masterpiece Mingxi:
"Wealth and blessings will enrich my life; Poverty is worrying, and the fish is raining. "
Wealth and prosperity can make our life better, which is a common sense that people are familiar with and a desire that people pursue. Poverty and pain are unacceptable. However, Zhang Zai said that poverty and sadness "always bathe in Ye Cheng" is an opportunity to help you succeed. People want smooth sailing and all the best, but Mencius said, "Born in sorrow, died in happiness"; People don't want to be poor, but Zhang Zai says it is "the jade in success" that helps you succeed. Their thoughts are consistent and contain profound philosophy, which embodies the life wisdom of China people. It tells us a truth: life is not a broad road, and there will always be all kinds of difficulties and twists and turns, so we must advance in the struggle of constantly experiencing failures and setbacks and constantly overcoming difficulties. It is this kind of life wisdom that guides people to take difficulties and adversity as the driving force to inspire themselves to forge ahead, consciously temper themselves in difficulties and adversity, strive for victory with perseverance, and cultivate the fearless and self-reliant spirit of the Chinese nation. This spirit runs through the history of China. Sima Qian, who was humiliated in prison, worked hard to write and completed the immortal masterpiece Historical Records. In his letter to his good friend Ren An, Letter to Ren An, he cited many examples of sages who rose in adversity, such as Zhou Wenwang being detained and interpreting the Book of Changes; When Confucius was in trouble, he wrote the Spring and Autumn Period. Qu Yuan was exiled and wrote Li Sao. Zuo Qiuming is blind and writes Mandarin. Sun Tzu was punished for squatting, taking Sun Tzu's art of war, and so on. He said that all this is the achievements of the sages in difficulties. Sima Qian inspired himself by this, inherited this spirit and completed the great cause of writing historical records.