Being confused means that in the current social environment, being smart and doing things has been excluded by others. So Zheng Banqiao said: Let it go, take a step forward, and feel at ease now. The purpose of this is not to have a reward in the future, but to reflect the dark side of society at that time. Zheng Banqiao wrote "Rare Confusion" to satirize the darkness of society in an ironic way.
Smartness refers to calculating and calculating other people's cleverness. Confusion refers to being as wise as foolish. Zheng Banqiao's four words, it is really difficult to turn from a confused and clever person to a wise and foolish person. The improvement of realm is no longer the same level. Extended information
Creative background:
"It is rare to be confused" is a famous saying passed down by Zheng Banqiao during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It is his way of being an official and his life path. Later generations lamented the rich philosophy in these four words "It is rare to be confused", so they hung them in the form of a banner at home as a warning for every life.
Zheng Banqiao, a calligrapher, painter and writer in the Qing Dynasty, inscribed several famous plaques, among which the two most popular ones are "It is rare to be confused" and "Suffering a loss is a blessing".
It is said that the four words "rarely confused" were written in Yunfeng Mountain in Laizhou, Shandong. One year Zheng Banqiao made a special trip here to view the monument of Zheng Wengong. He was so lingering that he had no choice but to stay in a thatched hut in the mountains when it got dark.
The owner of the house is an elegant old man, who calls himself a "confused old man" and speaks well. An inkstone as big as a square table was displayed in his room. Zheng Banqiao admired the fine stone and excellent carvings. The old man asked Zheng Banqiao to inscribe something on the back of the inkstone. Banqiao thought that the old man must have an origin, so he wrote the four characters "rarely confused" and used the square seal of "Kangxi scholar Yongzheng promoted people and Qianlong Jinshi".