Mark, from wood, refers to the part of a tree that can be clearly seen from a distance, and originally means the treetop or canopy.

Treetop Yan refers to superficiality, according to Chinese medicine

"Treating the symptoms but not the root cause" is to take this layer of content. The canopy leads to targets, logos, and targets.

If it is conspicuous, it is an example, but if it is too conspicuous, it will become the target of public criticism. Accordingly, a bunch of words have evolved, such as road signs, trademarks, slogans, titles, pacesetters, prices, bids, and winning bids.

Self-recognition is called flaunting, and what is not a friendly match is called a tournament.

"凖" is the quasi-old way of writing. The falcon is a falcon and is the leader of the birds.

"冫" means frozen and condensed. The original meaning of 凖 is target locking. This is how the "Sayings" paraphrase,

"凖,平也"

"The level is accurate". It's a saying

The origin of "a bowl of water is flat". 凖 is dynamic. The eagle locks onto its prey, but the prey is alive;

There are two meanings: completed and to be completed. The previous emperor was satisfied with the minister's performance, and approved a quasi-word at the corner of the eyebrow of the excerpt, which is the origin of the word quasi-music.

Birth permit, brigadier general, always ready, these are unsuccessful words, and important things are in the process of being brewed.

Standards are compatible, but standardized. If you compare the standard to a clothing store, it is full of uniforms and workwear.

There, individuality is eliminated. Within the standard, in addition to the system, regulations, principles, regulations and norms, there are also leaders.

This leader also has no personality and is called a role model. The power of example is endless, but the side effects are not to be underestimated.

"The king of Chu loves a thin waist, and many people in the palace starve to death"

"It is the drink of the long night, and the people of the whole country are lost"

There is no need to say much about the three old topics of "Dong Shi Xiaofeng". Another example is the matter of learning from models, some learn well, some don't learn well, and some pretend to learn.

Once the standard is out of the cage or has been introduced, it becomes a guideline, but it can also become an excuse and a tool.

Russell looked at the problem from a different perspective: "In fact, we have two kinds of morality in parallel, one that we advocate but do not practice. The other is what we practice on a daily basis but seldom advocate. Lao Tzu opposes setting standards for people's behavior, and he has two famous sayings: "If you are not virtuous, the people will not fight; if you are not expensive and rare, the people will not be stolen; if you don't see what you want, so that the people's hearts will not be disturbed." ”

"The road is wasted, there is benevolence and righteousness, wisdom comes out, there is great hypocrisy, there is discord between the six relatives, there is filial piety, the country is chaotic, and there are loyal ministers. "Loyal ministers and filial sons are towering role models, but they also contain another layer of subtext.

When a person becomes a filial son, the health of his parents is abnormal, and if this person is not an only child, then the behavior of other siblings should be checked.

Seeing loyal ministers in troubled times is an old saying. Loyal ministers surfaced, either the state situation was in chaos, or the emperor was personally in trouble.

Lao Tzu lived in the transition period from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, which belonged to the era of transition. In the period of social transformation, people's hearts are impetuous and complex, and they are also short-sighted.

"In the two hundred and forty years of the Spring and Autumn Period, thirty-six kings were killed and fifty-two countries were destroyed. (Dong Zhongshu, "Spring and Autumn Dew").

"Small evil" is not a big evil, but a small evil. The little evils are the fault of short-sightedness.

"Fine evils" continue to accumulate, and drips pierce the stones. Lao Tzu's values were formed in such a social atmosphere.

He also has a passage, which is both vivid and lofty: "Whether there is or not is born together, difficulty and ease are compatible, the length is comparative, the high and the low are inclined to each other, the sound knows each other, and the front and back follow each other." If standards and examples are understood in this way, many rigid things come alive.