Misfortune often comes from comparison, and happiness often comes from comparison. It can be seen that the words that can be used to compare things in the world, such as good and bad, right and wrong, beautiful and ugly, are all relative. We all want to be a happy person and want to be happy every day. Because the pressure of survival itself is very great, don't worry about it again because of the interaction between people. I used to think that people's attitudes were formed in the early years and would not change later. I am even more convinced that my judgment is correct, and I am as stubborn as a stone, which cannot be pushed or polished. And the result? I became the most unusual one, and that was evident in the eyes of others. Later, I slowly discovered that everyone has their own strengths in a certain field, and this strength may be skills, it may be character, it may be attitude, it may be method, etc., etc. In this way, if you see everyone around you as a teacher, you will gain a lot!

Someone has summarized 10 secrets of a happy life, which are: (1) Praise someone sincerely every day; (2) treat others as you would like them to treat you; (3) Believe that others can become the state you want to see; (4) remember other people's names; (5) Everyone wants to be appreciated; (6) Smile always, even when you're upset; (7) Remember that overnight success takes a long time to hone; (8) Winners simply do things that losers disdain; (9) Don't spoil other people's fun; (10) Don't vent your pain by hurting the people you love. To some extent, happiness is often not about how much you get, but how much you really give.

What stops us from moving forward may not be a hundred stones on the road, but the small pebble in the shoe. From youth to youth, from the prime of life to the twilight of life, we are growing and making progress all the time. To progress is to further improve yourself. When we feel like everyone is targeting us, don't complain and think about what is wrong with us. I am glad that I am not complacent, whether I have been taught, enlightened by others, or under pressure, I have at least corrected the mentality of lifelong learning. I always felt like there was a force urging me to do it; Keep your head down and look up at the stars once in a while.

Chapter 1 "Demu Heaven and Earth, the Road Through the Past and the Present"

The title of the first part is "Linyuan Muyu, it is better to retreat and close the net", this sentence comes from "Hanshu Dong Zhongshu Biography". Dong Zhongshu was a great Confucian of the Han Dynasty, and we will introduce him later. The title of the first part quotes Confucian sayings, in fact, I want to tell you that this part is mainly written about Confucianism. To write about Confucianism, we need to have a holistic understanding of Confucianism. I plan to do so, first of all, I have to have the introduction of the first teacher Confucius; The second is to specifically analyze the thirteen classics of Confucianism, referred to as the "Thirteen Classics of Confucianism", and the philosophical ideas of Confucianism can basically find their sources in the "Thirteen Classics of Confucianism"; Finally, let's analyze how the later generations of Confucianism inherited and developed with the change of dynasties. Then our first chapter, "Demu Heaven and Earth, the Tao through the Past and the Present", focuses on writing about Confucius. Of course, in order to make some of the issues clearer, I will try to add something else.

1. Benevolence is worry-free

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was social turmoil, and Zhou Tianzi basically couldn't control his princes. It's no wonder that the actual military power is in the hands of the princes, the regime under the barrel of a gun, with the military power in its own hands and a fief, who will listen to the orders of a puppet monarch! At the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou, Duke of Zhou, and King Cheng of Zhou ordered the feudal princes in order to reward their own pro-army and to make the vast territory of the Zhou Dynasty peaceful and peaceful. The division of the princes was of great significance to the rule of the nobles of the Zhou Dynasty. At that time, the vast territory of the Zhou Dynasty was full of countless Fang states and tribes, they sometimes surrendered, sometimes rebelled, and the wars continued for many years, the people were miserable, and the ruling group was also exhausted for this.

In order to jointly defend the Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Tianzi divided his surname and relatives into four directions to jointly maintain the rule of the dynasty. These feudal princes throughout the country controlled the local economy, politics, and culture; Moreover, they have their own army. Among the many vassal states, there is no shortage of monarchs who have made achievements, and the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons are the result of their own hands and abundant food and clothing, they are the Duke of Qi Huan, the Duke of Song Xiang, the Duke of Wen of Jin, the Duke of Qin Mu and the Duke of Chu Zhuang. In fact, the Son of Heaven in the early Zhou Dynasty was very accomplished, and the princes were also convinced. Many of the descendants of the Son of Heaven who inherited the throne did not go through the Eastern Expedition and the Western War, but they enjoyed the throne of the Son of Heaven, which made people a little unconvinced. Later, the last son of heaven in the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Zhou You, for the sake of the Pomeranians, played the princes of the beacon fire, and finally ruined his own blessings, and also made the vassal states completely lose their patience. Later, a series of natural disasters such as the earthquake, the invasion of the Dog Rong tribe, and the perverse actions of King You**, the Western Zhou Dynasty, which had been strong for about 300 years, finally perished.

Later, in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the first half of the period was called the Spring and Autumn Period, which was more than two hundred years of competition for hegemony among the princes; The second half of the period is called the Warring States, and it is more than 200 years of conquest between princes. If you want to dominate, you have to enrich the country and strengthen the army; If you want to conquer, you have to enrich the country and strengthen the army. In such eventful years, the vassal states not only had to improve the economic level of their own countries, but also recruited talented people to improve the cultural level of their own countries. At that time, private learning had slowly emerged, forming many schools of thought, coupled with the advocacy of the ruling groups of various countries at that time, in order to make their own ideas and propositions become the orthodoxy of the country, they wrote books and lectures, recruited disciples, talked loudly, and criticized each other, forming a lively scene of "a hundred schools of thought contending".

(The above is the general background of the society at that time, we can understand it first; In this way, it can be carried out better. ）

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In the face of benevolence, even if I am my teacher, I will not be humble to him, this is a sentence of Confucius about morality; The gentleman stresses harmony and does not seek harmony, and the villain only seeks complete uniformity, but does not pay attention to coordination, which is Confucius's view on self-cultivation; Not afraid that others don't understand themselves, but afraid that they don't understand others, Confucius has always been very humble in dealing with people; To know is to know, not to know is not to know, this is wisdom, this is Confucius's attitude towards learning; Since ancient times, people have always had to die, if the common people do not trust the ruler, then the state cannot exist, this is Confucius's exhortation to the ruler; The past is irretrievable, and the future has time to be corrected, and Confucius has never denied the meaning of anyone's existence.

The English name of Confucius is Confucius, which is a transliteration of "Confucius". Confucius's ancestor was Shang Tang, the founding monarch of the Shang Dynasty, and after the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Shang Dynasty, Zhou Tianzi became the nobles of the Song Dynasty in order to appease the nobles and descendants of the Shang Dynasty. In the later turmoil, Confucius's grandfather fled to the state of Lu and took root.

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