Who doesn't want everything to go well and enjoy time?
However, "plum blossoms don't freeze bones, so why are they fragrant?"
Throughout the life of Bai Juyi, a great poet, Zeng Guofan's "three realms of life" is just confirmed.
First, youth cannot flourish.
When Bai Juyi was born, he was catching up with the separatist rebellion in the buffer region after the Anshi Rebellion. The family was displaced from place to place, living in poverty for a long time.
However, he was not defeated by suffering. Since he was a child, he has set the ambition of "saving the world" and studied hard.
Later, he wrote a letter to his good friend Yuan Zhen, in which he recalled in detail his experience of studying hard when he was young: I wrote fu during the day, read classics at night, and studied poetry in the middle, without any slack; And I often look at my mouth and tongue with sores; When I write on my elbow, calluses grow on my hands; Young, my hair is white; So that the body is weaker than peers in adulthood.
As the old saying goes, "When you are in trouble, you are successful."
It is in this growing environment that Bai Juyi, like a rough piece of jade, has been honed more and more brilliantly.
He could read at the age of three, studied poetry at the age of five, and was already brilliant in his teens. The song "Farewell to Ancient Grass" that we can recite since childhood was written by him when he was 16 years old.
The long grass is so lush that the withered grass will thicken the color of the grass every autumn and winter.
Wildfire can't burn it out, but the spring breeze can revive it.
Weeds and wild flowers are all over the ancient road, and the end of the grass in the sun is your journey.
I once again sent my bosom friend, and the thick grass represented my deep affection.
Gu Long said: "It is not necessarily a blessing for a person to be proud of his youth, but the torture of youth can often achieve greater career in the future." A piece of beautiful jade can't be done without thinking. Isn't that what life is all about? "
Second, middle-aged people must not be idle.
In the coming year of 20 18, there was a keyword called "greasy", and the person who matched it was called "middle age".
There is also a very popular saying that "people are not as good as dogs when they reach middle age."
In fact, these are all misunderstandings about "people reach middle age".
Bai Juyi was demoted to Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi) at the age of 43. It stands to reason that he suffered a heavy blow from his life at this age, and I am afraid he has long been depressed. And Jiangzhou Sima is still a sinecure. In the words of some systems, it is "just eat to death".
However, Bai Juyi's officialdom idlers were not idle, and that well-known "Pipa Trip" came out at this time.
Three years later, he was transferred to Zhongzhou Secretariat, and later served as Hangzhou Secretariat and Suzhou Secretariat.
From the central government to the local government, even if suppressed, Bai Juyi did not feel depressed. On the contrary, he was more diligent and handled government affairs vividly.
The "Bai Causeway" in Hangzhou and the "Baigong Dike" in Suzhou are the best testimony that he served as an official and benefited one party. Since then, "Suzhou-Hangzhou-Bai Causeway" has become an eternal story in the history of China, and Bai Juyi has been admired by people for generations.
Isn't this the result of a middle-aged person's "restless"?
Rousseau said: "Youth is the time to learn wisdom, and middle age is the time to put it into practice."
Throughout the history of China, middle-aged people like Bai Juyi abound. They write the next chapter of society, even an era, with busy figures.
Zeng Guofan was 40 years old when he formed the Xiang army. In the following decades, I fought in the south and fought in the north. At the age of 54, he also presided over westernization. Even he himself later had to sigh that people can't be idle in middle age.
And what is the result of his "not idle"? As far as he is concerned, he has made great contributions to the world and is a very important person; As far as the country is concerned, he forced a dynasty to continue its life. He is regarded as "the first perfect man in ancient and modern times" by later generations.
In Wang Guozhen's "Man to Middle Age", there is such a description of middle-aged people: "When people reach middle age, life flows through the valley of rapid youth and comes to a relatively open place, becoming calm and clear. Don't be embarrassed to thank flowers, there are fruits. "
Middle-aged people are in their prime, but if they are not idle, they can do something under any circumstances.
Third, you can't stand adversity in your later years.
Chen Jiru wrote in "Small Window": "Young people should be busy, and when they are busy, they will be overwhelmed; Old people should be idle, and idleness will make them happy for a lifetime. "
Life is short. When you are old, you know your destiny. As the saying goes, "the sunset is infinitely beautiful and is buried by the coming night."
At this time, if it is not necessary, you will still struggle in adversity, which will not only damage your physical and mental health, but even endanger your life.
In his later years, Bai Juyi was appreciated by the new emperor and transferred to the capital three times and five times, but he finally chose to stay away from the court.
Years of ups and downs in his official career have made him soberly realize that the peak of the imperial court is treacherous and treacherous, and he has no intention of being in power. It is better to be a local official and do something practical for the people.
Later things also proved the correctness of his choice:
When Bai Juyi was 63 years old, the worst court bloodshed broke out in the history of China, killing more than 600 courtiers in one day, many of whom were his old colleagues who were officials in the same dynasty, but he successfully escaped the disaster.
"I can't stand adversity in my later years" is vividly displayed in Bai Juyi, but it doesn't mean to live quietly and do nothing.
Confucius said, "Sixty is agreeable, and seventy is agreeable."
When people get old, they should learn to follow their own hearts and choose the life posture that suits them best.
Bai Juyi wrote a large number of satirical poems and leisure poems in his later years, and as many as 3,000 poems have been handed down so far, ranking first among poets in the Tang Dynasty.
These poems later spread to all directions, and Luoyang paper was once expensive.
Bai Juyi was also called "Poet Magic" by later Buddhas. The Japanese even admire it and regard it as a "poetic god".
Life is seventy years old. Although Bai Juyi was weak and sick, he lived a free life in his later years. Like his font size, Bai Letian is happy and satisfied, but he lives more colorful and longer than ordinary people. He is 75 years old.
Author: insight Neo