Cultivate a normal mind and be a free man.

Huang Tingjian once wrote a poem: "The world is a lonely place, and the world has worn away the green temples."

The world is not a paradise, we are all passers-by living in the world, and each has its own hardships.

Only by looking down on everything, when it comes to prosperity, it is indifferent; Take adversity in stride.

Keep an open mind so that you won't be trapped by worldly troubles.

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Looking for Poetry in Frustration

Huang Tingjian's life is a life of frustrated official career.

He became a scholar when he was only 22 years old. When he wanted to make great achievements, he faced the fate of being demoted several times.

Fortunately, his natural disposition is free and easy, and he can always find a way to relieve depression.

When Huang Tingjian was in Ganzhou, he built his own house, bought fields and planted vegetables, raised flowers and planted bamboo, and enjoyed himself with birds. He leads a very happy life.

When I was in Rongzhou, I heard that this place was famous for making wine. Huang Ting insisted on doing as the Romans do and tasting wine everywhere. Since then, wine tasting has been a pleasure.

He saw a wonderful canyon, so he was unique. He imitated Wang Xizhi's artistic conception of meandering water flowing in the preface to the Lanting Pavilion, dug a pool to draw water, built a cup to flow in the pool, invited scholars to meet here, and took running water as a seat to recite poems and splash ink.

Under unsatisfactory circumstances, he built his own spiritual garden with all the beauty at his fingertips.

Life is ups and downs, only by turning setbacks into poetic wisdom can we live a calm attitude when the wind comes and fearless when the rain comes.

Writer Wang Zengqi has experienced countless difficult years in his life. However, even though life is hard, he still leads a comfortable life.

In the book "Interesting Things in the World", he wrote an essay on all kinds of dirty work he had done, such as digging cesspits and spraying pesticides, and wrote it with great interest.

As long as he has a little free time, he will take care of flowers, fruits and vegetables.

He said: "People always stay in something and indulge in it. You can prove your existence if you have income. "

Because old people are happy, Wang Lao still lives a rich life despite ups and downs.

Tagore has a famous saying: "The world kissed me with pain, but I returned it with a song."

People can't refuse suffering, but they can choose their own way of life.

Regardless of the ups and downs in the world, the heart is leisurely and poetic.

If you can keep poetry in your heart, you will find that no matter how hard life is, you will get interesting and wonderful results.

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In the trough, live out the realm.

When Huang Tingjian was demoted to Guizhou, others were worried about him, but he fell asleep and woke up as if nothing had happened, even his face lit up.

Guizhou is located in the wild land of Bashu. How can you laugh after a long time?

Huang Tingjian replied:

"Where the sun, the moon and the stars shine, you can't send this life anywhere. What is there to worry about? "

With such an open mind, he still feels at ease even if he is demoted to Yizhou in his later years.

In Yizhou, he has nowhere to live but in an abandoned garrison building.

The living environment was a mess, but Huang Tingjian enjoyed himself and gave it an elegant name-Xuan Ji Zhai.

He lives in the police building every day, facing the chopping board of his neighbor slaughtering cattle, listening to the noise of the city, still sitting on the couch, burning incense and reading.

One summer, it suddenly rained cats and dogs. Huang Tingjian drank some wine in the police building, sat in a chair, put his feet out of the railing and was soaked to the skin. He was as excited as a child and shouted, "I have never been so fast in my life!" "

The calmness and indifference in this dilemma is his strength against reality and his wisdom to realize himself.

Being at the bottom can best test a person's realm.

Mr Jiang Yang once described the life of being sent to cadre schools in Six Chapters of Cadre Schools.

In those difficult years, nearly 60 years old, she was not only shaved off half of her hair, but also burdened with heavy work, suffering physically and mentally.

But what we see from her words is not sadness, but optimism.

Compared with the cold reality, she only chose to record the warm fragments of her life and insisted on completing the translation of Don Quixote in the same period.

The higher the level, the more people know that the most beautiful scenery in life is inner peace.

As said in "Small Window": Don't be surprised, watch the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court; I have no intention of staying, and I have no intention of staying, looking up at the clouds in the sky.

Ever-changing, the mood remains the same.

If you are not afraid of gains and losses, why are you afraid of the trough?

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Cultivate yourself in setbacks.

Someone once described Huang Tingjian as having a rough life and laughing to death.

In Huang Tingjian's 60-year life, setbacks have indeed been accompanied by his growth.

19 years old, Huang tingjian took the provincial exam and won the first place.

But when he went to Beijing with the title of Xiang Kui, the result was unexpected, and he dropped out of Sun Shan.

When the news was announced, people who failed in the banquet got up and beat their chests, but Huang Tingjian drank himself calmly.

He packed his bags and went back to the mountains to study hard. Three years later, he returned to his scientific research post and went to high school in one fell swoop.

After becoming an official, he treated all the changes and setbacks in his official career with the same attitude.

Deping Deping, in just half a year, he wrote several classic poems such as Farewell to Wang Lang, among which "A glass of wine in the spring breeze of peaches and plums, Yi Deng in the Jianghu for ten years" has become a famous sentence that has been passed down through the ages.

During his six years of relegation to Bashu, he not only wrote more than 100 excellent poems, but also set up private schools to give lectures and won the love of countless students with his poems and books.

In the last three years of his life, he devoted himself to the study of calligraphy in the dilapidated environment of Yizhou, and eventually became a great man, leaving immortal works such as Biography of Fan Pang and Riding by a Friend.

All setbacks have become stepping stones for him to climb up; He regards all sufferings as a kind of practice.

Suffering is not easy. People who can afford it will take it for granted. Those who refuse to accept their fate will always find their own way.

At the age of 56, Lin Zexu was sent to Yili on trumped-up charges.

Just when people thought that Lin Zexu would waste the rest of his life because of relegation, he opened a new chapter in his life.

He studied surveying and mapping knowledge, actively explored wasteland and drew frontier maps for the country.

He took the initiative to understand and actively promote water conservancy projects for the benefit of the people.

A desperate exile, but Lin Zexu turned it into a kind of practice.

A high wind knows the strength of grass, and a crisis sees its true colors.

The muddy the road, the clearer the footprints; The deeper the setback, the more you can forge your life.

People who really make a difference are often indomitable people who know how to cultivate themselves stronger in difficulties.

I like Huang Tingjian's famous sentence very much: "People forget the humble alley and the situation is not as good as the poor."

Although the situation in life is unpredictable, it changes with your heart, and everything depends on how you face it.

There is no satisfactory life, only a cheerful life.

Give me a compliment, cultivate a normal mind and be a free man.