Under the eight big characters, there are also several lines of small characters densely written, Shi has good eyes, and he can see the content of the small characters clearly: "If you don't understand cause and effect, no matter how high your status is, you will fall into bad taste." If you don't know how to practice, no matter how much faith you have, you won't be able to achieve it. If you don't know how to be grateful, no matter how good you are, it will be difficult to succeed. If you don't know how to cherish it, you won't be happy if you give you a mountain of gold. If you don't know tolerance, no matter how many friends you have, you will eventually leave. If you don't know how to act, no matter how smart you are, it will be difficult to realize your dreams. If you don't know how to cooperate, no matter how hard you work, it will be difficult to succeed. If you don't know how to accumulate, it will be difficult to get rich no matter how much money you make. If you don't know how to be satisfied, no matter how rich you are, you can't be happy. If you don't know how to maintain health, it is difficult to live a long life with treatment. ”

A passage that is very Zen and also very Buddhist, Shi De nodded secretly, poetry and words, words and hearts, even if he doesn't know how to face him, only through the details just now and Xiao Zuo's unintentional glance, plus the calligraphy and paintings on the wall, he can probably deduce Xiao Zuo's person.

The secretary served tea, and it was a strong fragrance of Tieguanyin. The tea ware is the best Ru kiln celadon.

"Master Shi, Mr. Xia, Brother You, please drink tea." Xiao Zuo politely and enthusiastically invited a few people to use tea, "This is the best Anxi Tieguanyin, the taste is very good, fragrant and elegant, there is a natural orchid fragrance, the taste is pure, the aroma is rich and lasting, it is said that there is a lingering fragrance after seven bubbles." ”

Seeing Xiao Zuo's elegant style, not only Xia Hua put away her indifferent expression, her expression was much more serious, but even Quan You was no longer the virtue of a hippie smile, she held her breath, picked up a cup of tea and took a sip gently, which was actually quite elegant.

Shi De didn't have to pretend to be elegant, he was originally an elegant person, and he also tasted a mouthful of Tieguanyin, and sure enough, as Xiao Zuo said, it was fragrant and elegant, with a natural orchid fragrance, and couldn't help nodding and praised: "Good tea." ”

"The tea is good, the words are good, and the artistic conception is better." Quan You put down the tea and pointed to the calligraphy and painting on the wall with his hand, "I appreciate this sentence - if you don't know how to be satisfied, no matter how rich you are, you can't be happy...... Xiao Dong, judging from your calligraphy and paintings, your taste is very high. ”

"Where, where, there is a brother who has won the award, I am just a vassal and elegant." Xiao Zuo waved his hand, looking modest, "Compared with my father, I am still much worse, and this calligraphy and painting was also given to me by him." He also gave me a sentence - life is full of variety, and knowledge is the most virtuous...... So, whenever I have free time, I read more. Zeng Guofan said that a person who likes to read will not have a bad character. A person with good character will not have bad luck in his life. ”

Yes, Xiao Zuo is the most cultured and cultivated of the rich second generation that Shi De has ever seen—at least at this stage—he nodded and said, "So, Ling Zun admires Han Yu very much?" ”

There are thousands of types in life, and knowledge is the most virtuous...... It's Han Yu's poem, so Shi has to ask this question.

"Yes, my dad likes Han Yu very much, and thinks that Han Yuwen has fallen from eight generations, and his writing has won my dad's heart with his Taoist theory. At the same time, my dad felt that Han Yu's adherence to Confucianism and the idea of rejecting the Buddha played a huge role in the inheritance of Chinese culture. Xiao Zuo will call him father when he opens his mouth and closes his mouth, and his words reveal his admiration for Xiao You, it is obvious that he has been greatly influenced by Xiao You since he was a child, and it should be that Xiao You's words and deeds have been passed on to him.

"What does Master Shi think of Han Yu?" Xiao Zuo saw that Xia Hua and Quan You didn't talk much, and everything was based on Shi De's horse, so he knew that Master Shi Deshi's name was probably not a wasted name, but a real name, but what kind of master Shi was, he still didn't know anything, and Xia Hua and Quan You didn't give a detailed account of Shi De's origin, so he intended to take a test.

Now in these years, there are too many masters, running the rivers and lakes, setting up stalls, and even bragging, can be transformed into the so-called masters, with the youth of Shide, he also dares to call himself a master, whether he has real skills or swagger, you have to try to know, as the saying goes, real gold is not afraid of fire, and masters are not afraid of tests.

"Han Changli worships Confucianism, which is a good thing, but there is no need to exclude the Buddha. Advocating Confucianism shows that Han Changli has the heart of a gentleman for the country and the people, but the rejection of the Buddha also exposes the limitations of his thinking. Shi De also guessed that Xiao Zuo intended to test him, he and Xiao Zuo met for the first time, and it was normal for them to have tentative thoughts with each other, and it was also the proper meaning of the question to chat and warm up before talking about business.

Han Yu, the word retreats, a native of Heyang, Henan (Mengzhou City, Jiaozuo, Henan), because of his ancestral home in Changli, Hebei, known as Han Changli, one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, and has the name of "Article Jugong" and "Hundred Generations of Wenzong". Shi understands Han Yu very well, one is because of Han Yu's literary brilliance, and the other is because of Han Yu's physiognomy.

"Oh?" Xiao Zuo saw that Shi De had a different opinion of Han Yu, and his spirits immediately perked up, and he asked curiously, "So, Master Shi admires the Buddha?" ”

Since the Han Dynasty established Confucianism as orthodoxy, Confucianism has always been an attitude of rejection and denigration of Buddhism and Taoism, believing that the birth of Buddhism and Taoism's inaction will be unfavorable to the rule of the emperor, and it also vigorously attacks the cause and effect theory and reincarnation theory of Buddhism, and believes that Taoism's theory of inaction and the theory of small countries and widows are negative and escaping thoughts. Therefore, throughout the ages, there are many examples of Confucian descendants vigorously rejecting the Buddha – the Buddha and Lao Tzu.

In fact, the Confucian descendants who rejected the Buddha were only partial or completely ignorant of the ideas of Buddhism and Taoism, and the Taoist theory of inaction and small countries and widows was actually to persuade the emperor to conform to the way of heaven, to win without fighting, and to do good things with the heart of inaction, so that the people in the world can be content and happy. The birth of Buddhism is also based on the things of the world, persuading people to be good, and doing things to enter the world with the heart of birth, so it can benefit all sentient beings with great compassion and compassion.

In fact, whether it is Taoism's inaction or the birth of Buddhism, they are all in common with Confucianism's principle of self-cultivation and governing the country and leveling the world, and it is our responsibility to save the people in the world. It's just that Confucianism pursues the glory and wealth of the world, Taoism pursues the cultivation of immortals, Buddhism pursues Buddhahood, if divided according to the realm, Confucianism is the primary stage, the pursuit of the world's material and fame and fortune, Taoism is the intermediate stage, the pursuit of stability and longevity in the present world, Buddhism is the advanced stage, the pursuit of the next life and eternal happiness.

If from the perspective of Xia Worm being indescribable to ice, Confucianism can neither understand the vastness of Taoism, nor can it understand the profundity of Buddhism. Or it can also be said that Confucianism pursues only the governance of the world for decades in the present world, and its short-sightedness is far less far-reaching than that of Taoism and Buddhism, which has long gone beyond the present world and looked at a more distant and broader time and space.

Shi De did admire the Buddha, but he did not reject Confucianism, from another point of view, Confucianism is the foundation of Buddhism and Taoism, only when Confucianism flourishes in the world, Buddhism and Taoism can flourish.

"Xiao Dong, Ling Zun admires Han Yu, have you studied Han Yu's appearance?" Shi De did not answer Xiao Zuo's question directly, but fell on Han Yu's face, he was very interested in an experience in Han Yu's life, from the perspective of historical research, Han Yu's appearance did not meet the criteria for the selection of officials in the Tang Dynasty, and it was speculated from the starting point of a physiognomic that Han Yu's face was probably not very good.

Seeing that Shi De was talking about him left and right, Xiao Zuo didn't care much about Shi De's deliberate divergence from the topic, anyway, Shi De's discussion about Han Yue's appearance, he was also very interested: "There shouldn't be, Han Yu doesn't seem to have a painting left, so there is no way to judge what his appearance looks like." ”

Shi De saw Xia Hua drinking tea in small sips, sitting upright like a lady, and posing with a posture of listening carefully, thinking that Xia Hua was as quiet as a breeze, and her personality was so contrasting that she was also a rare girl.

Quan You sat upright, with a smile on his face, revealing an expression of humility and teaching.

Could it be that the topic he and Xiao Zuo discussed, Xia Hua and Quan You were really interested? Shi De secretly thought, maybe all of them would know something about Han Yue, Xia Hua was afraid that she had long forgotten who Han Yu was.

Shi De's guess was wrong, not all of them knew something about Han Yue, but it was Xia Hua. He went to a medical university and studied Western medicine, but he was not interested in the things that had been passed down from ancient China, including history, literature, and traditional Chinese medicine. However, Xia Hua University is in the Chinese department, and Xia Hua once had a dream of being a writer, she not only systematically studied Han Yue, but also any one of the eight families of the Tang and Song Dynasties, she can do it like a few treasures.

However, the direction of her research is completely different from the direction that Shi De is talking about, she is only academic and literary research, and Shi De is obviously more interested in Han Yu's personality and appearance. So, she couldn't interject.

"Xiao Dong, in your opinion, or rather, do you think Ling Zun thinks that Han Yu's appearance is very ordinary, or is he dignified?" Shi De asked another tricky and strange question.

"My dad admires Han Yu very much, he has always thought that Han Yuwen is like him, and his appearance will definitely not be bad." Xiao Zuo smiled faintly, and in his smile, there were three points of confidence and seven points of calmness, showing his excellent quality of being well educated, "In my personal opinion, even if Han Yu's appearance is not a beautiful man, he will be a majestic man." ”

"Hehe, I believe Ling Zun has studied Han Yu's life." Shi De also smiled calmly and said, "In the second year of Tang Zhenyuan, Han Yu was nineteen years old, and he entered Beijing to take the Jinshi exam with the ambition of governing the country, and failed three times in a row, and he was not admitted to the Jinshi examination until the fourth Jinshi exam in the eighth year of Zhenyuan. According to Tang Law, after being admitted to the Jinshi, he must also take the examination of the Erudite and Macro Resignation Department of the Ministry of Officials, and Han Yu participated in the official selection three times, but failed. There are four levels in the selection of officials, and they are judged by words and words. The body is to first see whether a person is in good shape, and in layman's terms, it depends on whether he has good facial features. It is said that Han Yu was brushed off at the first level...... Therefore, it can only be inferred from the fact that Han Yu's appearance is good or bad, and as a descendant, he will not be evaluated, at least at that time, it does not meet the standards for being an official."