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. ”