Then, the author further demonstrates the truth that sorrow is greater than heart death from two different angles: the development of a person and the rise and fall of a country. Finally, let nature take its course and come to the conclusion that "born in sorrow, died in happiness".
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The proposition of "born in sorrow and died in happiness" was clearly put forward in Mencius, perhaps just to give people political and moral enlightenment. But as a philosophy of life with universal significance, its influence is not only manifested in political morality.
In particular, "trapped in the heart, balanced in consideration, and then made; The phrase "from color, from sound, and then from metaphor" directly led to the formation of an extremely important aesthetic principle in China's classical literary creation, which is the aesthetic creation principle of "expressing one's qi and expressing one's feelings". This is also the reason why Mencius' articles have been so popular for thousands of years.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Born in sorrow, died in happiness.