The boundless sky, and the large clouds, are also very beautiful.

Zheng Banqiao coughed slightly, and then continued:

In fact, what we need to know is that since ancient times, the most important thing to develop is culture, and the fundamental purpose of human development is culture, that is, culture is the lifeblood of mankind and the fundamental goal that determines the existence of all people. Anyone who deviates from the direction of cultural development and hinders the development of culture will inevitably be cursed and will eventually die without a place to bury. Since ancient times, any nation, any empire, as long as they are not dedicated to the development of culture, will eventually quickly disappear into the long river of history. The empires that have left the most culture since ancient times are often the ones that have survived the longest, and they are also the empires that have created the most material wealth. That is to say, the more material wealth is created, the more culture can be guaranteed, because culture is the highest level of material goods, just like when people eat, they can eat very little meat instead of a lot of rice, that is, rice is a high-level substitute for meat, and eating a small amount of meat can replace a lot of rice. This means that culture is the essence of human existence, and all human existence is for the service of culture, and only after the material survival is guaranteed, it will inevitably be added to the production of culture. ”

Xiaohe listened, although he agreed with some of the truths that Zheng Banqiao said, but he still felt very doubtful.

The vast blue sky is so beautiful, there are countless birds, shuttling through the sky as they like, and there are many dragonflies flying around in the sky.

The trees were dripping with pine and cypress trees, and many banyan trees growing in front of the villagers' homes.

Most of these banyan trees are the kind of banyan trees that are hundreds of years old, so they have a unique temperament, which comes from that mysterious external image.

Many aerial roots, drooping down from the tree, the countless trees that are like countless hands, often have the aerial roots of the tree, and the aerial roots connect countless branches together, which looks lush, different shapes, and looks strange, and it does seem to have a unique beauty.

"Since ancient times, the production of culture has been the most important. Because since ancient times, the production of culture has often occupied a very important position in people's lives, because it will be related to people's perception of the external world, and it will also be related to the question of which direction people will develop, what areas they will invest their resources in, and what kind of people they will shape their next generation into. So what are the priority areas where we need to put our resources into it? Naturally, in addition to the manufacture of weapons and the construction of a large amount of infrastructure, we also need to do some very important things, which are the production of culture on the basis of ensuring people's clothing, food, shelter and transportation. The production of culture is like that, Chinese medicine is often beyond people's imagination, can dominate people's everything, so as to make the world more organized, so that human beings are more like people, rather than other birds and animals. ”

Zheng Xie lowered his head and thought for a moment, then continued:

"In all areas of cultural production, there are people who tend to write cultural works that seem to be very famous in order to survive. And most of the cultural products that can really be left to future generations and can be passed on for centuries are those cultural works that are beyond people's imagination, can transcend that kind of existence, and can reveal the other side of society. That is to say, the purpose of cultural works is to let us better understand the world around us, so that we can better transform the world around us, and guide us to better understand the laws of our understanding of the world, so as to be more effective and more in line with people's expectations in a more civilized way, to make everything around us more beautiful, more in line with people's expectations. ”

After Xiaohe listened, he asked:

If this is the case, then why has no one since ancient times proposed to do everything possible to tilt all human and material resources towards the cultural aspect? Why are many people still obsessed with the current requirements of food, clothing, housing and transportation, countless people are working hard for their own food, clothing, housing and transportation, and few people are just dedicating their lives to culture, why is this? ”

Zheng Xie laughed when he heard this, and then said:

In fact, the development of culture also needs to have a condition, that is, to achieve the production of material products and fully meet people's needs. This means that there needs to be a very advanced production technology that can allow fewer people to produce a large amount of material in a continuous stream, so as to be able to meet the production needs of the majority of people. On this basis, most of them can be gradually divided into different grades to engage in different types of cultural work according to the needs of cultural development. Since ancient times, there have been very few materials that can really grow a small number of people and the clothing, food, shelter and transportation that most people need, almost never before. Therefore, most people still have to engage in the production of clothing, food, housing and transportation, and continue to provide a steady stream of material aspects to ensure this clothing, food, housing and transportation. In other words, it is because in the past history, it was still difficult to get rid of that dependence on material production, that is, once the majority of people are no longer engaged in material production, then it may be on the verge of extinction, not just the development of culture. ”

Zheng Xie seemed to be unsatisfied, and he could only hear him continue:

In fact, since ancient times, there have been countless people who have worked hard for the development of culture, such as the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, as well as countless literati and artists who have left countless works. Many of them have fully satisfied their own material production needs, and then they will devote all their energy to cultural production, and the more famous ones in this regard are Su Shi, Li Bai and the like, they all represent the prosperity of a dynasty. In ancient times, the only people who could devote most of their energy to cultural production were the large number of officials of the imperial court who were able to fully satisfy their material needs. Because they are often based on their own income, they can fully meet their own needs and those of their families. On this basis, they will naturally be able to fully devote their energy to the production of culture, so as to continuously produce a large number of literary works according to their own preferences, according to their own moods, and according to their own talents. This is because as long as anything is borrowed to a certain extent, some of its own production will occur. For example, when people grow up to a certain age, they can grow the next generation of people. This is also true for culture, when the accumulation of culture has developed to a certain level, then similar cultural works will inevitably grow."

Runzhi listened, of course, he agreed very much, so he only heard him say:

Indeed, you are right, since ancient times, there have indeed been countless people, who have voluntarily devoted themselves to the production of culture, but most of them have engaged in cultural production in their spare time according to their own hobbies. They do not themselves regard cultural production as their most fundamental purpose. According to Confucian feelings, they often lie in a kind of self-cultivation, Qi family, ruling the country and leveling the world. They are proud to stand in this world with a gentleman's mentality, to let their feelings work, so as to continuously transform some of their joys, sorrows and sorrows into cultural works, so as to achieve a kind of purpose of chatting and cherishing. These people who have left countless literary works in the world since ancient times are not necessarily the kind of people who are committed to cultural production. Many of them often use culture as a way to vent their emotions. When they encounter a state of great sorrow and joy, when they feel that there is no one around them to talk to. They then transform their state of mind into literature, so that in their literature we can feel the pain and sorrow, even joy and joy that comes with enlightenment. Naturally, many of them do not produce culture for the sake of producing it. Their purpose is very simple, that is, to use it as a thing that can express their feelings, their feelings, and their aspirations, so as to integrate their inner feelings and dreams and even all their passions and joys into their literary works. ”

Runzhi shook the paper fan, and then continued:

In fact, countless literati and artists like to integrate their inner mood into their own state of mind when they encounter great sorrows and joys, as for the pursuit of ideals and views on life, they have integrated them into their countless works. They have never produced culture for the sake of producing culture, and they naturally do not understand the importance of culture, they just want to show their special state of mind, and even a view and concept of all things to the world without reservation, so that the world can perceive their own inner true thoughts, from their own feelings. These are people of true temperament, and the more they can express their thoughts, the more they will be able to win the sympathy of the world. Therefore, most of the famous works come from when people are in trouble, and Ouyang Xiu is a typical example in this regard, and he is always able to produce countless popular words every time he is belittled. For example, the kind of "The Drunkard Pavilion" that we know, being able to experience setbacks and be able to face the world with an optimistic state of mind is naturally an encouragement to other people in the world who encounter similar difficulties, and as for being able to share their feelings with people in the same situation in history, this has achieved a purpose that transcends time and space. ”

After listening to this, Xiaohe was very curious about what Runzhi said, so he only heard him ask:

If this is the case, then it also means that all those who can leave literary works to the world are actually alive after thousands of years. In other words, in order to truly exist in this world, it is necessary to engage in the production of cultural works. In this way, one's consciousness can transcend the limitations of time and space, so as to provide a steady stream for future generations to taste, so as to continuously embed one's own life in the process of history permanently, so as to achieve eternal life. So does this mean that as long as we engage in cultural production and write some works that we think are very good, we can integrate our lives into the long river of history, so as to achieve immortality? ”

Runzhi listened and stayed for a while, but he didn't expect Xiaohe to ask such a question at this time, so after thinking about it, he said:

"Actually, even if you achieve immortality, what about it? The range of a person's ability to communicate is always limited, if he only relies on walking, then the range of his life's walking, but within a thousand miles, if a person only deals with the people around him, a person will also be in contact for a lifetime, but only 10,000 people or even less. However, our world is incomparably big, it is so big that it is beyond our imagination, and there are countless places in our world, and there are countless things that we can know, appreciate, and tap their value. But in fact, people who can truly experience all the places and all the things and all the valuable things have never been there since ancient times. In fact, even if a person achieves immortality, he cannot experience them all, because the universe is endless. That is to say, what a person really needs is to maximize his own value, and the criterion for evaluating the maximization of this value is the degree to which he engages in cultural production. When a person begins to really devote himself to cultural production, no matter whether he grows up more or less, whether it is of great value or small value, as long as its value does not violate the current mainstream standards, as long as the cultural works he produces can meet the interests of the majority of people, then we say that his life has begun to be integrated into history. ”

Runzhi replied, while feeling that this question was indeed very good, so he continued:

In fact, to evaluate whether those cultural works are good or bad, we need to see whether they are conducive to the interests of the majority of the common people, that is to say, we need to see whether it helps to help the majority of the people to better grow more material products, or better produce more spiritual wealth. In fact, in the long history of mankind, what is truly valuable is those spiritual wealth, and in fact, all the material wealth created by human beings is contained in the spiritual wealth of human beings. We have seen that since ancient times, people have produced countless houses, countless palaces, countless gold, silver and jewelry, countless things and clothes, and even ceramics and silk, but those houses and palaces, gold and silver jewelry that have really been left to future generations are very few, even less than one billionth of the total number of their production. However, we see that with the development of history, the culture accumulated by human beings is becoming more and more brilliant, richer, more and more complex, and more and more worthy of inheritance and development. In other words, in fact, people have already embodied all these material wealth in these spiritual wealth. ”

Zheng Xie listened to this, smiled slightly, then pointed to the carved railings next to him, and then said:

"In fact, what the adults said is naturally very reasonable, and the content answered has basically answered Xiaohe's previous question. If you don't think about it carefully, in fact, the answer you just gave is just saying some of the spiritual cores inside. As far as this issue is concerned, there is actually no superficial solution, and I think it needs to be supplemented in order to make people better understand the implications. In fact, in order to achieve immortality, what we say is immortality, it means that human beings can constantly surpass their own lifespan, so as to continue to live, that is, to maintain physical and spiritual presence. But in fact, the human body, because he cannot withstand the destruction of nature for hundreds of years, that is to say, he himself needs to be constantly metabolized, so how does it metabolize? In fact, it is metabolized in the same way that it produces the next generation. That is to say, people are actually immortal, and everyone is an immortal being. That is to say, human beings, themselves, are constantly relying on their own special mechanism to achieve their own immortality and the immortality of the entire race by constantly producing the next generation. ”

Zheng Xie seemed to feel the need to go into more detail, so he continued:

"This kind of immortality does not perish because of the demise of one person or a group of people, because the mechanism of human beings is so great that it is able to continuously renew its own flesh through certain mechanisms of a race, by giving birth to the next generation. Therefore, we will see that children are always able to work harder to master something newer, and the younger the child, the easier it is for him to grasp more knowledge. This is because among the countless newborns who have been born, they already have their ancestors, the accumulation of all the cultural products. That is to say, all the experiences of their ancestors and all the life experiences of their ancestors already exist in their brains, but they are hidden in some very secret corners. Only when these newborns encounter some special things in the process of growing up and need to use these experiences, they will naturally be called. That is to say, all their memories and the experiences of their predecessors are there, but they are manifested in this latest physical body. It's like a person has amnesia, but it doesn't mean that this person is dead, this person still exists. For an amnesiac person, his memory is nothing more than suppression. This is not the case for newborns, who can be inspired by the memories of their countless ancestors according to the problems they have encountered in their own lives. These ancestors are actually himself, but in order to be able to receive more knowledge, he changed his body, so that his original memories are hidden in a hidden corner. ”

When Xiaohe heard this, he suddenly felt even more ignorant, so he asked:

"All the newborns you are talking about are a new physical representation of all their ancestors, that is to say, through their own children, they can recreate their own lives. Then we know that all children have parents, that is to say, they all need to go through the union of a male and a female in order to produce the next generation. So is it the life of this man or the life of this woman that he inherits? You say that it is a re-creation of their lives, then this new child is a re-creation of their father's life, or a re-creation of their mother's life, because their father has his own body, and his mother has his own body, and the father has his own memory, and all the memories of his ancestors, and their mother's memory of their ancestors, and their experience and even a different body. So is a newborn child a reinvention of the lives of all their father's ancestors, i.e., the realization of their father's immortality, or is it a physical rebirth of the lives of all their mother's ancestors, that is, the realization of their mother's immortality? ”

Zheng Xie then replied:

"You're actually asking a very good question, and it's actually very simple. In fact, the newborn inherits both the father's immortality and the mother's immortality. That is to say, from now on the two flesh bodies become one, and all the experiences of their ancestors and all their experiences are henceforth in a hidden treasure trove. That is to say, the newborn appears to have only one physical body, but because of the experiences he has inherited and all the experiences he has experienced, he has actually realized the union of all the memories of his father and his mother. That is to say, their memories are preserved in the brain of his newborn, and at the same time, in the brain of this newborn, there are two different experiences at the same time, but they are all hidden in a hidden corner, and they all seem to be non-existent when they are not needed. But as long as the newborn needs any memory, that is, when he encounters any problems in his life and needs certain memories, these memories are stimulated by some unconscious means. At this time, whether it is the experience of his father or his mother, all the memories of his father's ancestors, or all the memories of his mother's generation, can actually be called up and used according to the needs of the child's growth, that is, they all exist in the child's body at the same time. ”