Thinking about time
Between heaven and earth, there is only one thing that can never be stopped, and it is time.
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Time is coming, silently. It passes you by without letting you sigh, and the present you hope to seize has become the past. Even if you have iron walls, thousands of troops, dams higher than Mount Everest, and oceans and abyss more vast than the Pacific Ocean, you can't stop it even one step, let alone delay it even half a step in the air.
In an instant, the reality you are experiencing becomes history and the footprints left by time on the world.
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The ongoing time, that is, the time that keeps passing us by, seems to be the most precious and charming. It can turn dreams into reality and reality into dreams.
Around me, I hear the orderly footsteps of time every moment. From the roads and bridges being built, from the buildings being raised layer by layer, from the lively figures of boys and girls on the road, from the smiling expressions of the old people doing Tai Chi in the garden in the middle of the street, and even from the flowers and plants on the roadside. Among the branches and leaves stretching under the sun, I witnessed time implementing its plan to change the world.
The cry of babies, the laughter of children, the kiss of lovers, the white hair on the temples of middle-aged people, and the wrinkles on the foreheads of old people are all the melody of time. The germination of young buds, the blooming of flower buds, the fluttering of fallen leaves; the brilliant clouds in the morning and the drowsy sunset are all the breath of time.
Cherishing time means loving life, loving life, and loving people.
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As I welcome the New Year, I think about the future.
The most magical and elusive thing should be the time in the future. No one can accurately describe its shape, but one can feel its approaching momentum. Perhaps, only the future time can be designed and planned. Because we can make a little preparation for the opportunities that time will give us, that is, make a little preparation for the future life, prepare to deal with the tests that may come, prepare to meet the challenges that may come, prepare to pave the way, build bridges, and light the lights for the new journey...
I want to say to the future: Come on, we will wait!
Four
I feel that time is like the wind, blowing the breath of spring. The whistling of the wind is a celebration, an urging, and a reminder.
Time is passing and the world is moving forward with it. Each of us is moving forward in time. Humans can never live forever because time does not stand still. But I think life can be extended, as long as we don’t waste every year, every month, every day, every minute that passes by us...
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Aria of Time
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No matter what you believe in or worship, such as: money, fame, beauty, idols, stars, emperors, saints, saviors... these seemingly eternal things, in front of a master, all of them will It has become a passing cloud. So, who is this master of the universe and mankind? It's time. This is a celestial horse that soars across the universe and is never tamed. Human beings can only control it by respecting it. The crux of the relationship between man and heaven is time.
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According to statistics from the Oxford English Corpus (established in 2000 and containing more than 1 billion entries), among the top 100 nouns most commonly used by humans today, "人" ranks In the second place, "year" ranks third, "heaven" ranks fifth, "man" ranks seventh, "woman" ranks fourteenth, "war" ranks forty-ninth... "Peace", I'm sorry. , not shortlisted. So, who ranks first? time!
This is a great discovery that is both amazing and wonderful. Time is indeed above all else!
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"Time is money"? No, money can be saved, can you save time? Money can be borrowed, but can you borrow time? "Oh, my friend, time is money!" This metaphor first came from Bulwer Lytton, a prolific British novelist in the 19th century. When people in Shenzhen adopted this slogan, they encountered fierce opposition from some people, who believed that it was surnamed "capital"; only after Deng Xiaoping affirmed it was allowed to enter the country and settle down. In fact, time is more precious than money. Money - if you lose, you can make more; if you make money, you may still lose.
Time is like a bird of youth. Once it flies away, it will never come back. But it will make the spiritual products of science, philosophy, literature, art, and history stay forever like the Great Wall and the Pyramids. It can also quietly evaporate from the gaps between your fingers and become nothing. Of all wastes of resources, it is the most inexcusable waste.
Four
There is such a popular riddle:
What is the longest and shortest thing in the world? The fastest and the slowest (such as squatting in the bullpen or being hung during the "Cultural Revolution")? The most divisible yet vast and indivisible? The most ruthless one makes the most popular people become short-lived, and the most honest one makes great men immortal?
The value of human death: How to differentiate between Mount Tai and Hongmao? Who is the highest and just judge? Who is driving the train of the times? Who holds the objective truth beyond human beings? who is he? You've guessed the answer.
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In "A Brief History of Time", Hawking raised the question from the very beginning: "Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going?" These three aspects of human beings This is a basic question. As early as 1897-1898, the symbolist art master Gao Geng used a large-scale painting and the form of dream memory to ask people sternly in the title. Scientists, philosophers, and writers and artists have different ways of exploring truth and beauty, but in terms of the goals they pursue, image thinking and logical thinking, abstraction and concreteness, sensibility and rationality are not only opposites, but also contradictory. They are complementary, unified, and complementary to each other. Einstein said: "Learning and the continuous pursuit of truth and beauty are the scope of activities that can keep us young forever." ("Selected Letters of Einstein", page 62) Why can't truth be distorted or concealed? Because time will eventually reveal the truth. The day when the truth is revealed is when the dawn of truth shines.
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Should truth be realized through human beings? Einstein and Tagore had a debate on this issue in 1931. Tion believed that truth must be realized through human beings; but Einstein insisted that scientific truth has an objectivity beyond human beings. In 1939, when he learned that Hitler had discovered that nuclear fission could lead to the development of nuclear weapons, he resolutely wrote to President Roosevelt, suggesting that the United States speed up the development of atomic bombs, which contributed to the completion of the Manhattan Project and reduced the number of casualties suffered by American soldiers in attacking Japan. One hundred thousand, innocent Japanese people were also saved from destruction. Einstein made immortal contributions to the early end of World War II. He helped humanity win a time of peace. Einstein has a famous saying: "God is elusive, but he is in no way malicious." I think this God is time. Einstein's new concepts of space, time and gravity caused a great revolution in physics and philosophy. The theory that particles of matter can be converted into huge amounts of energy has been confirmed by the power of atomic and hydrogen bombs. When the atomic bomb was successfully tested, Einstein warned the government: "You can't really use it! Just scare the Japanese! If you really want to use it, don't hurt women and children." Rather than saying that Einstein looked cute, he said: He was a great humanitarian.
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Human daily life, scientific research, navigation systems and surveying and mapping methods are all inseparable from time. Time cannot be measured; yet it must be measured. The ancient Chinese timekeeping unit divides a day and night into twelve hours, and each hour combines with the current two hours. Named after the twelve earthly branches, counting from eleven o'clock at night, from eleven o'clock to one o'clock at night is Zi hour, so zero o'clock is called Midnight, one to three o'clock is Chou time, three to five o'clock is Yin time...and so on. In modern times, the earth's surface was divided into 24 time zones based on longitude, which was established by the International Longitude Conference in 1884. The time on the central meridian in each zone is called the "standard time" of that zone. Every time a zone boundary is crossed, the time will differ by one hour. Passengers take long flights, and people need to get jet lag. If there were only day and night and no clocks, humans would return to primitive society.
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Calculating time involves two quantities: 1. Epoch, 2. Time interval - the previous paragraph talks about the interval. As for the calendar method, every nation in ancient times had their own creations when they entered the civilization period. Calendars are divided into three categories: Years and days are called lunar calendars based on celestial phenomena. The Greek calendar and the Hijri calendar use the lunar calendar. The Chinese invented the year, month and day to be based on celestial phenomena. Astronomy calls it the lunisolar calendar (lunar calendar). In 46 BC, the Romans created the solar calendar. The length of the year is equal to the Tropic of Tropic, and the month is artificially determined and has nothing to do with the profit and loss of the moon phase.
In ancient China, the stems and branches were used to record the year: year, month, and day, which means that the ten heavenly stems (A, B, Bing, Ding...) and the twelve earthly branches (Zichou, Yinmao...) are repeated every sixty years - commonly known as the Sixty Years. 2006 is the year of Bingxu; the 2008 Beijing Olympics is the year of Wuzi in China.
Nine
In 140 BC, the feudal society was on the rise. From the beginning of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty by Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, to Puyi, the last emperor of the feudal period in 1911, the third year of Xuantong. It was named after the emperor's reign. For example, Xuan Ye was named Kangxi in the 61st year of his reign, and Hongli was named Qianlong in his 60th year. It was not until 1912, when Sun Yat-sen established the Republic of China, that the internationally accepted Gregorian calendar was adopted (using the first year of the legendary birth year of Jesus). The collapse of the Qing Dynasty coincided with the year of Xinhai in China, so it was also called the "Revolution of Xinhai". Sunday was originally a worship service adopted by the Babylonian Patriarchate of the Chaldean Catholic Church. Later, because Jesus Christ was resurrected on Sunday (also known as "Lord's Day"), Protestant Christianity held services on this day, so Sunday was also called Sunday - but it Nothing to do with astronomy. Geological years are divided according to the order in which living things appeared and evolved on Earth. For example, the Cambrian lasted for 80 million years and the Jurassic lasted for 30 million years; Father Time is much older than the Cambrian and the Jurassic. The twenty-four solar terms of the Chinese lunar calendar, I think, mark the maturity of agricultural society on earth. This is a great contribution of the Chinese to world astronomy and agronomy.
Ten.
Chinese people’s experience of time not only has the truth of discovery and invention, but also is full of vivid imagery and beauty. Confucius only used two sentences to describe time vividly, simply and with profound truth: "The Master said on the river: The passing is like a man, who does not give up day and night." ("Zihan") The word "passing" can be learned as: It has six meanings: go, go, flow, fly, speed, and die. It mainly means that time is irreversible, indivisible and moving forward rapidly! To use a simple analogy, only a beautiful girl can turn into an old woman, but the old woman can never turn back into a beautiful girl. This characteristic of forward flow and irreversible great changes coincides with the Greek Heraclitus's playful speculation about time: "One cannot step into the same river twice." ("Fragments of Works" No. 93)< /p>
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Zhuangzi said even better: "In life, if a white horse passes through the gap between heaven and earth, it will happen suddenly." ("Zhibei Journey") About Quin Adams in "The Hourglass" It sings: "Before the song ends, the white horse has passed a thousand miles. Childhood, youth and adulthood have passed, and the years have plowed deep grooves on the forehead; the past time has passed, and the future time will come. Drink this drink Right! But where is the time now? "Yes, when we say "present tense", the present has become the past. The Polish poet Joe Herbert has a concise and concise metaphor to describe the slowness and toughness of time. He said, "Time is a silent file." Woohoo - reality is always imperfect, so Pushkin once wrote a poem for a little girl's memorial album: "The heart is always looking forward to the future; the present is often gloomy; everything is fleeting! Everything will pass! And what has passed will become a fond memory." ("If Life Deceived You") Zhou Xi, what a hurry! Yuxi, how long you are! The ancients called the universe of heaven and earth Yu, and it has been called Cosmos throughout the ages. Chen Zi'ang ascended the Youzhou Terrace and couldn't help but utter a generous and heroic lament: "I will never see the ancients before me, and I will never see the coming ones after me! Thinking of the long journey of heaven and earth, I shed tears with sadness!" Just four sentences, a masterpiece for the ages! I don’t know how many Illuminati I have touched.
Twelve
I have long asked myself: Why is Li Bai the favorite Chinese poet among poetry lovers in the world? From his genius sense of time, I seem to have found a clue to the answer. He said: "Heaven and earth are the reverse journey of all things; time is the passerby of hundreds of generations." ("Spring Night Banquet in the Peach and Plum Garden? Preface") "The appearance is like flying lightning, and the scenery is like the drifting wind." ("To Wang Hanyang") " If you abandon me, you will not be able to keep the days of yesterday..."If you cut off the water, the water will flow again"..."If you don't see it, the water of the Yellow River comes up from the sky, rushes to the sea and never returns." "Twilight becomes snow." ("The Wine Will Come in") is thorough and optimistic, magical and lovely, the image is so vivid, rich, fresh, profound and full of vitality! Facing the speeding time, embarrassing situations, and melancholy moods, among the poets at home and abroad, who among the ancient and modern poets lived so freely, magnificently, confidently, and romantically like Li Bai!
Thirteen
The craze for Chinese language in today’s world cannot be caused by any force’s hype. The Chinese culture has a long history, both ancient and young, and has never been interrupted for more than five thousand years.
From the perspective of time alone, China has become one of the most diligent and self-improving nations in the world, which is directly related to the Chinese people’s wisdom in recognizing time and cherishing their grasp of time. "The movement of heaven is vigorous, and a gentleman strives to constantly strive for self-improvement." ("Book of Changes and Qian") integrates the movement of celestial bodies with human life. (Shu's note: Dong Zhongshu of the Western Han Dynasty concocted the theory of "response between heaven and man" for the need of creating gods, and it is not enough for teaching)
Fourteen
About the time of Yao, China The lunisolar calendar was produced to replace the backward fire calendar, completing the great transformation from a sky dominated by God to a sky dominated by nature. In the 21st century BC, the Chinese explored the dialectical relationship between heaven and man. From then on, they continued to deepen and enrich the scientific, practical and visual nature of time. The brilliance of this splendid treasure house of Chinese culture has made foreign people of insight go from envy and admiration to learning, digesting, and then applying and developing it, so that the Chinese people have no time to be proud.
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Association of time: (Lov - "Snow Tower Sketch" "Taiwan Literature Selections")
I recently read something about time in an article, Quite insightful: “Time is the best witness. Sometimes it eliminates people like a net, and sometimes it helps people get fairness in the future like a scale. Time is generous with opportunities, but if its generosity is not reciprocated as expected, it will withdraw its generosity. What time hates most is that its kindness is betrayed in betrayal. "In fact, rather than saying that the author is talking about time, it is better to say that he is talking about people, people's opportunities and self-cultivation, and the relationship between cause and effect.
What is time? Time is survival, from birth to death. A distance. To put it more complicatedly, time is the mystery, mystery, thrill, helplessness, short-term joy, long-term sorrow, and eternal pursuit that exist between birth and death. Treat things with reservations, take a step back and think about everything, and advocate the so-called "half" philosophy of life. When dealing with people, you must never seek perfection. It is said that there is a school of Japanese calligraphy with Zen as its purpose. The characteristic of calligraphy is that there are always a few words left in each word. Failed writing, such as deliberately bloated ink and dry pen, may imply that life is not 100% perfect.
Li Mijie wrote an article called "Half and Half Song": "Seeing through half of life is useful." Boundless, half a lifetime is spent leisurely, half a mile of heaven and earth unfolds," and it is said that "the clothes are half plain and half fresh, the food is half rich and half simple, the servants are half capable and half clumsy, the wife and children are half simple and half virtuous, the mood is half Buddha and half immortal, the surname is half hidden and half revealed. .." To achieve this "half" standard, not everyone can achieve it. At least people from the middle class and above are qualified to halve the enjoyment of life. Of course, it is good to drink half full, but you cannot eat half full. Hungry; a surname can be half-hidden and half-displayed, but one thing cannot be half-truthed and half-false in life. One thing in particular cannot be treated in a dichotomy, and that is that time cannot flow half-way and half-stop.
The most helpless thing in life is not being able to resemble someone. Dams regulate time just like water. Many emperors pursue eternity in life but cannot get it. Little do they know that eternity has been slipping in our palms. When we first realize its existence, it has already slipped through our fingers. Go away. Do you still need to explain what eternity is? As long as you hear the sound of water dripping from the faucet at midnight, you can get the answer: eternity is between ticks.