Chapter 123: One Yin and One Yang is the Tao
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Li Jinjie, chief of the cadre section of the Organization Department, read out the appointment document, followed by Fang Guoqiang, head of the Organization Department, Fang Guoqiang, Fang Guoqiang, and Luo Yi, Minister of the Propaganda Department, and finally, Wu Youde, secretary of the township party committee, summarized the speech, Wu Youde finished speaking, and the meeting ended, and the whole meeting lasted about an hour.
After the meeting, Lin Ping called Yue Haohan to his office, Yue Haohan entered Lin Ping's office, Luo Yi, the propaganda minister, and Ma Yufei, the newly arrived propaganda commissioner, were sitting in Lin Ping's office roasting charcoals.
Yue Haohan sat down opposite Luo Yi, Lin Ping poured a cup of tea for Yue Haohan and put it on the coffee table, Yue Haohan looked at Lin Ping with a smile and said, Commissioner Lin, congratulations! No, Secretary Lin should be called.
Lin Ping smiled and said, you are vast, you are really, what secretary, committee member, it is good for you to call me Sister Lin, and in the future, you will call me Sister in private, and call people out of the office.
Seeing Yue Haohan sit down, Luo Yi smiled and said, Haohan, it was late when I came over in the morning, and I didn't take time to meet you, are you okay recently, how about working in the headquarters, it's busier than the management area, right?
Yue Haohan said, Minister Luo, it is better to be in the management area, and it is boring to be idle every day in the headquarters, and the bridge construction headquarters has been established until now, since the groundbreaking ceremony was held, there has been no movement, and I don't know whether the bridge is still erected, like this, I am afraid that this bridge will not be erected in a year.
Luo Yi said that Chen Guoyun, secretary of the county party committee, is also very anxious, and has been urging Wu Youde, secretary of the party committee of your township, to let him build as soon as possible, but your secretary Wu said that the weather was cold and the temperature was low, the construction was inconvenient, and the cement mark could not be reached.
Yue Haohan said that the construction of the bridge is to seize the time of the dry season before the flood season, and once the flood season arrives, the construction of several bridge piers will be affected.
Luo Yi said, the next time the county party committee holds a standing committee, I will also mention this matter at the meeting, and the construction of the Longwang River bridge is also a key project in our county, and it is not a way to drag it out like this.
Luo Yi paused, took a sip of tea, and then said, Haohan, in addition, I have something to tell you, you think about it first, Secretary Chen of the county party committee once talked to me, he wanted to transfer you to the county party committee office, are you willing? I guess Secretary Chen will be looking for you to talk about this matter recently, if you want, I'll tell him when I go back.
Yue Haohan said, Minister Luo, I still want to work in the township for a longer period of time, have more contact with the grassroots, and understand more about the lives of the masses, which will be beneficial to my future work.
Luo Yi picked up the teacup in front of him, looked at Yue Haohan with great appreciation, and said, I think it's okay for you to plan like this, and it will be beneficial for you to have more contact with and understand the sufferings, needs, and thoughts of the grassroots people.
Luo Yi took two sips of tea, put down the cup, looked at Lin Ping and Ma Yufei again, and then said that after Lin Ping became the deputy secretary, the burden on his body was heavier, and Yufei had been working in the Propaganda Department before, and had no contact with the grassroots.
Ma Yufei said, Minister Luo, I remember what you said, I will ask Secretary Lin for advice in the future, Secretary Lin has also done grassroots propaganda work for many years, and he must have rich experience.
Lin Ping smiled and said, Yufei, don't be modest, learn together and improve together in the future.
Luo Yi chatted with Yue Haohan in Lin Ping's office for a while, then got up to say goodbye and returned to the county with Ma Yufei.
After Yue Haohan sent Luo Yi away, he went directly back to the headquarters office, entered the office, and saw Miao Xiaoqin sitting by the brazier with Huang Shengjie from the organization office chatting about something.
Yue Haohan pulled over a stool, sat down next to the two of them with a smile, and said, Shengjie is here, what are you two talking about, talking so mysteriously, so speculatively?
Miao Xiaoqin said, Xiao Yue, Xiao Huang was saying just now that at today's meeting, it was officially announced that Lin Pinglin was the deputy secretary, and Wu Tao and Master Wu seemed to be a little unhappy.
Yue Haohan said, no, Director Wu is still the director, what's upset?
Huang Shengjie smiled and said, Xiaoyue, you don't know this, I heard my old man say that Director Wu Tao and Wu would have been promoted to deputy secretary if he was nine out of ten, who knows, Secretary Chen Guoyun and Secretary Chen inserted a lever from it and recommended Commissioner Lin, as a result, let Director Wu Tao's dream come to naught, can he not be angry? It is estimated that Director Wu now hates Chen Guoyun and Secretary Chen.
Miao Xiaoqin glanced at the door of the office, lowered her voice, and said, you two don't know yet, I said that you must not tell anyone else; Director Wu was promoted to deputy secretary for the sake of the event, and borrowed 20,000 yuan from the headquarters account to give gifts to the county.
Yue Haohan glanced at Miao Xiaoqin and asked, Director Wu borrowed the money to build the bridge? Will Secretary Wu agree?
Miao Xiaoqin said, it was Secretary Wu who agreed, and Director Wu borrowed it, you two don't go out and talk nonsense, if you let Township Chief He know, there will be problems.
The three of them were chatting around the brazier, Wu Tao, director of the party and government office, came over, stood at the door and knocked on the door, saying, Xiao Huang is also here, Xiao Yue, Xiao Qin, you will be on duty for a while, and then leave the office after work, and listen to the phone of the party and government office next to me, I will go to the county with Secretary Wu to do some business, and I will come back tomorrow morning.
After speaking, Wu Tao turned around and left. After Wu Tao left, Huang Shengjie also got up and left, Huang Shengjie had just left, and Zhu Xiaoshan, the driver of the township government, came over, stood in the corridor, leaned against the door, stuck his head into the headquarters office, looked at it, and said, Accountant Miao, Secretary Wu asked you to go to Jiangyang too.
Miao Xiaoqin got up, grabbed the Kun bag on the desk, put it on her shoulder, and said to Yue Haohan, Xiaoyue, then you will work hard. As he spoke, he walked out of the office and left with Zhu Xiaoshan.
After Miao Xiaoqin left, Yue Haohan got up, closed the office door, turned on the light, put a few more pieces of charcoal in the brazier, took out the book "The Wisdom of the Book of Changes" in the desk drawer and began to look through it.
Every time Yue Haohan reads a book, he has a habit, that is, he first reads the preface of the book, turns to the preface of the book "The Wisdom of the Book of Changes", and looks at it carefully, only to see that the preface says that the oldest classic work of the Chinese nation - "I Ching" is the origin of Chinese philosophical thought, whether it is the Tao in Lao Tzu's "Tao can be very Tao", or the Tao in Confucius's "My Tao is consistent", it comes from the most basic idea in the "Book of Changes", that is: one yin and one yang is the Tao. So how does yin and yang come about? What is the relationship between them? What is the important influence of the idea of yin and yang on the Chinese nation?
We only have one earth, and this sentence is now familiar to everyone, because we have heard too much, but what exactly does this sentence mean? If you have seen the culture of Babylon and Greece, if these cultures are obviously different, but they seem to be very similar, but if they are the same, but they seem to be very far apart, then are they close or far, are they the same or different?
We have only one earth, and there is nothing wrong with that, but after all, Westerners look at the earth from the Western perspective, while the Easterners, especially the Chinese, look at the same earth from the Eastern perspective, and see that the results are different.
All civilizations on earth started with myths, but can myths meet the needs of mankind? Definitely not, for myths, people will always be skeptical, so myths have no way to satisfy human knowledge, so philosophy was born. Every nation has a different philosophy, and each nation's philosophy is actually elevated from mythology.
Mythology has only one purpose, that is, to answer the questions of life in the universe, and philosophy has only one purpose, which is also to answer the questions of life in the universe. But we always feel that it is the words of philosophers that make us understand the problems of life in the universe. But we also feel that philosophers do not seem to understand what we ordinary people say, as if they are always in an ivory tower, and this creates a big problem: we think that philosophy cannot meet human needs at all. But Chinese philosophy was not born in an ivory tower, you look at Confucius, how close he is to the common people, you look at Lao Tzu, how deeply rooted he is in the hearts of the people! Because we are together, we bring the ideal together with the reality, and we pull the high and the low together. So mythology slowly forms philosophy, and philosophy becomes wisdom for exploring the universe.
What is the wisdom of our Chinese nation? It's a Book of Changes. Our understanding of the I Ching should be very clear, and we must understand that the I Ching does not teach us knowledge. The I Ching teaches us wisdom.
The Book of Changes tells us that everything is thought of by man. We don't use the virtual, we only use the imagination. And imagination starts from vagueness, from ambiguity, and slowly becomes concrete.
The Book of Changes tells us that everything is thought of by man. In fact, it is precisely because of the imagination of human beings that there are all kinds of inventions and creations in the world, and various ideologies and schools of thought have emerged. So, who came up with the Book of Changes?
The Book of Changes is the highest wisdom of the Chinese nation, and it was conceived by Fu Xi. Who is Fu Xi, we don't actually need to spend too much time looking for answers, we can imagine that he is a person who likes to use his brain.
We Chinese people often say that those who have deep desires are shallow, and those who are shallow are deep, that is, if a person blindly indulges in sensual enjoyment, this kind of person's wisdom must be very shallow. Only those who are detached from the prosperity of sound and color and meditate quietly can have the great wisdom to grasp the complexity of life and the infinite universe. And shallowness or wisdom lies entirely in oneself.
If a person is full of food and plays mahjong when he has nothing to do, this person cannot become Fuxi. Fu Xi thinks about the most important human being, and the highest secret of the universe: where all things come from.
When Fu Xi saw the sun rising in the east and then setting in the west, he knew that there was a force under the sky that pulled the sun up from the east and down to the west, and this force made everything affected by it, as if it were the root of the universe.
Fu Xi wanted to show his train of thought and let everyone know, but at that time there was no text, so he represented this power with a continuous line, which was a great practice, without words, he couldn't say it clearly, just draw an image, draw a simple symbol. At that time, there was no concept of symbols, and it can be seen that symbols were also thought up by people. Fu Xi drew such a line, maybe he didn't even have a pen to draw at the beginning, so he broke a branch to represent that power, so the true meaning of a painting to open the sky is to open the world with a painting.
Seeing this, we already know very clearly that at the beginning, Fu Xi used his eyes to observe all things in the universe, and then relied on his imagination to create a system for us, and the total root of this system is a painting, called Tai Chi. It all started here.
If Fu Xi only thinks about this, we will feel that this person is too virtual and too unrealistic. How can you conclude that it is unrealistic? It's too simple, one sun comes out today, another sun comes out tomorrow, how can there be so many suns? One a day, more than 300 a year, that's okay. Even if there were so many suns, would there be such a large solar reservoir in the east that could be stored? The west side also needs a large sun bank to be able to receive one a day. So Fu Xi denied himself. This has a great influence on the Chinese people, and we are the most introspective nation.
We now know that this is not true, the sun is always there, but the earth rotates on its own, so sometimes we can see the sun, sometimes we can't see the sun. Although Fu Xi didn't know these things at that time, sometimes we could see the sun, and sometimes we couldn't see the sun. Although Hou Fuxi didn't know this at that time, it didn't affect our thinking. At the very least, Fuxi tells us: there are visible parts, there are invisible parts, and if there is a force to pull up, there is a force to pull down. He gave rise to the idea that there are two kinds of interactive forces, one positive and one negative, one up and one down, and the cycle repeats itself. Therefore, he believes that where there is yin, there is yang, and where there is yang, there is yin.
Fu Xi looked at astronomy, looked down at geography, thought for a long time, and finally opened the world with a painting, this painting is Taiji, everything in the universe is born from Taiji. Confucius wrote in his "Ten Wings", also known as "Yi Chuan": "Yi has Taiji, which is to give birth to two instruments." This is what people often say "Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments", which means that Tai Chi contains two forces, one positive and one negative, and these two forces are yin and yang. So, what is the relationship between yin and yang?
Tai Chi gives birth to two yi, and two yi are yin and yang, if Fu Xi is very satisfied when he thinks of this, then we are also very unlucky. Because this means that the concept of division has come out, there is yin and yang, that is, two, and "two" is divided.
"I Ching" believes that yin and yang are born from Tai Chi, and there is yang in yin, yin in yang, yin into yang, yin into yang, and yang into yin. So, what kind of influence does this concept of yin and yang have on the way of thinking of Chinese people?
Is it possible to explain all the knowledge in the world in one sentence? I'm sure many people will shake their heads. In fact, it can really be summarized and encompassed in one sentence, that is, one yin and one yang.
Today, biological scientists have made it very clear that the reason why the world can continue to thrive is because of the diversity of species, and different factors stimulate and interact with each other. If the species are unified, all species will be gone, only human beings will remain, and human beings will also die. After one sentence is finished, there is no contradiction, there will be no change, one yin and one yang is the Tao, not that one yin and one yang, together it is called the Tao, but that it is a natural change. Everything in the world is nothing more than four words, which are naturally conceived. But there is a truth behind natural conception, and this truth is eternal. If this truth will change, then there will be different tricks every day, and what order will there be in society? Can we still have faith in nature? One yin and one yang is the Tao, telling us that natural changes are the way of yin and yang.
After reading the preface, Yue Haohan felt that the entire building of the township government was quiet, turned his head to look out of the window, and saw that it was already dark, Yue Haohan closed the book, put it in the drawer, got up and sealed the charcoal fire in the brazier with ashes, and then locked the office door, walked out of the compound of the township government, and walked towards his room in the agricultural technology station. (The novel "Official Yi Tongdao" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner "Add Friends", search for the official account "ddxiaoshuo" and follow, hurry up! )