What exactly is divine thought? There is a sentence in "Zhuangzi • Let the King": "Being above the rivers and seas, the heart is below Wei Que." (Combined with the original text, its general meaning: some people's bodies are like leisurely strolling in rivers, lakes and seas, while their minds are intriguing under the Wei State Palace.) This kind of thinking and imagination that can separate the mind and body is called "divine thought."

Whoever writes a book and speaks needs to be rich and full of thinking and imagination. Therefore, those who devote their lives to writing, that is, the so-called writers, like their minds, must be fighting from the sidelines, and they must be more profound and distant. When they have a pen in their hands, they seem to be silent and silent, and their minds are running vertically and horizontally, and they have galloped through the starry sky for thousands of years; It seems to be silent, but when the eyes look up and down, they have already passed through the sky. As a result, there was the sound of chanting and arias, like the sound of jade beads and gold plates; But the moment he raised his eyebrows and raised his hands, it was just like the wind and clouds. If a writer's attainments can reach such an extraordinary level, there is no other shortcut but careful consideration.

What does it mean to be thoughtful? Generally speaking, once you have a problem with a puzzle about something, you must explore and study it deeply until you understand the fundamental truth. For literary creation, the trick to finding out the truth lies in integrating one's body and mind with the things and scenes to be written. After the writer's body and mind occupy the things he intends to depict, the key to his creation at this moment lies in the height of ambition, which determines the quality, level and direction of the work. At a time when the writer's eyes and ears are full of vivid voices, colors, and horses, the difficulty of creation at this moment lies in how to choose words and sentences, so as to transform ideas and images into words. However, once the difficulties expressed in the above words are completely resolved, there will no longer be unrevealed secrets of privacy in heaven, earth and earth; In the same way, once a fundamental breakthrough is made in the key to the ambition of the Swallowing Man, the writer's mind, body and mind can freely wander between heaven and earth, and even see through all forbidden places, corners and spaces. The so-called cultivation of the literary mind and tempering the mind is that it must go through the gradual cultivation of loneliness and emptiness, and if you want to gain physical and mental mastery and great thoughts, you need to go through the cold tempering like a snow bath. How can this be done? First, it is necessary to reserve personal knowledge through extensive learning, that is, accumulation of learning; In the two, we also need to be good at pondering the truth to enrich the wisdom connotation of the self, that is, reasoning; Third, it is more necessary to expand the life experience to broaden the horizon, so as to gain practical experience and practical ability, that is, study; Fourth, it is also a compulsory course for becoming a writer, that is, to be good at exegesizing the meaning of words and proofreading the texts, so that it is possible to find the self-satisfying and exemplary sentences and rhetoric, that is, tame. Therefore, only after the true literary creators have mastered and mastered the culture of "solving the mystery and resolving doubts" can they be able to dance and write at the right time, and in the ingenuity and ingenuity, they often run through the mountains and rivers, so as to reach the level of the essence of the leopard, and finally reach a sufficient height to make a sound and a group of sounds. Once this level is reached, it is the highest level of mastering literature and art, and it is also the ultimate goal of planning the layout of the article.

Normally, once a writer's mind is activated, everything in his mind is instantly revived, which is like mushrooms after a rain, and it is like a hundred boats competing for the current. However, in the author's mind, one after another seems to be particularly vivid and concrete, the real situation, usually the size of the appearance and the direction of its coming and going, is originally vague, and compared with the past or the real world, as if here and there are all kinds of rules and regulations, in fact, the steps of the constitution and its ideal picture are actually nothing, it is simply a blur. Despite this, the so-called talent of the literati lies in the fact that once the mind climbs the mountain, he can immediately see the mountains and waterfalls, and even can not only be seen from a distance and closely, but also vividly; In addition, once the mind is on the sea, you can immediately feel the waves and black clouds, so that not only the mountains and seas are overturned, but also the bumps and ups and downs, like the sky spinning. Therefore, no matter how virtuous and knowledgeable an individual is, as long as he dares to call himself a writer, who among them has not had such a kind of spiritual scene where mountains and rivers are long, and clouds and waves are overturning? However, needless to say, even if most writers have the ability to think wildly, when they spread their paper and ink, and really wave it, they will often find that those mountains in their hearts and waves in their minds have become floating clouds and waves on the paper! So, why is there such a big difference and gap? Because in general, language always lags behind the imagination. Although thinking and imagination can change rapidly, and even can go over mountains and seas at will, especially literati and ink writers do not lack the courage and ability to speak like a reed and even spit lotus flowers, but once their inner feelings and ambitions are implemented in words, pen and ink, most people will become at a loss and difficult. Therefore, under normal circumstances, human beings only form the logic of ideas through imaginative thinking, and then transform the logical ideas into words that can reach consensus. Therefore, if the connection between language and thinking and imagination is seamless, it will inevitably lead to perfection and blame, or even endless; If you weigh each other, and then grasp the big and let go of the small, it is easy to become a dragonfly and even dull. In the middle of the form transformation of these two states, the most frequent problem of incongruity is that they are far from each other, close to the end of the world, and inconsistent from the outside. In short, if we talk about the fundamental improvement of the level of creation, it is important to have an artistic accomplishment with ambition and mind, rather than blindly meditating and thinking hard; If we talk about the shortcut to literary success, it should lie in the understanding of the classic style, rather than allowing emotional indulgence.

Comparatively speaking, people have different endowments and talents, so the speed of writing articles must vary from person to person. The form and style of the article are originally varied, so the quality of the article must not be judged by the complexity of the content or the length of the article. For example, Sima Xiangru was already wise in his writings, but because he was too slow to write, he was not only blamed by the emperor, but also criticized by calligraphers; In addition, Yang Xiong also distinguished his life because of Liwen's high theory, but he himself once said that after responding to the edict, he was haunted by nightmares because of exhaustion; Moreover, like Huan Tan, who is versatile and thinks highly of himself, when he was young and vigorous, he once wrote poems because of his anger, and he was bedridden due to illness. Others, like Wang Chong, also said frankly that because he had to write "On Balance", when he was nearly seventy years old, his will had been exhausted; Zhang Heng fabricated "Erjing Fu" and honed it for ten years before he was able to shock the world; Zuo Siwei wrote "Sandu Fu", known as "the court of the court, all with paper and pen." (Approximate meaning: the toilet by the wall is placed with paper and pen to facilitate the recording of thoughts at any time), more than ten years later, Luoyang paper is expensive. Just to cite the stories of the above-mentioned literati, like the toil and exhaustion of their gods, let's get a glimpse of the leopard. In terms of literary creation, there have indeed been some people who are quick to think, so that masterpieces seem to be achieved overnight. For example, Liu An, the king of Huainan, is said to have completed "Lisao Fu" in the morning. It is said that the reason why Mei Gao has made a lot of endowments is because he often responds to edicts. As for Cao Zhi's more such stories, such as in order to prove that it is not a Chinese person who catches the knife, the "Bronze Jue Tai" will be completed. There is also Wang Cang, who was ridiculed by the world for his "Su Structure" because of his writings. Moreover, such as Ruan Yu's letters on the saddle and the drafting of the recitals at the banquet of You Heng, although their works are relatively short, they are quick to think and take short time to breathe. The reason why the objective analysis of this kind of characters and their works can be exported into chapters and is immediately desirable is that they already know the style of various themes, and they can make decisions and sway freely when the scene is in love. However, like those literary and artistic masters who have taken a long time, deliberated and brewed for a long time, they must not simply have a lot of thoughts and indecisiveness, but more of them are carved and perfected, and finally accumulate thick and thin. Therefore, in literary creation, whether it is agile or slow, it is not the key to the problem, the key lies only in the quality of the work and its effect at the time, and in this regard, no matter whether the creative time is urgent or slow, the only commonality between them is that they need to be knowledgeable and accumulate over time. From time to time, it is unheard of for anyone who is not a scholar to be able to create high-quality works of art simply by killing time or blindly increasing the speed of writing. Here, there is one more point to emphasize. Even those who already have the ability to "think wonderfully", they often encounter two major problems: one is full of economy, and they often struggle to explain it; The other is that the export is a chapter, often indulging in flashiness. In this regard, the only way to overcome it must be to be able to be well-organized and consistent in order to deal with chaos without panic. Therefore, "Boya Zhongzheng" is the source of power for the creation of divine thoughts.

If we talk about the style characteristics of different people in the creation of articles and books. Despite the diversity of emotions, it is inevitable to be deceitful and quibble, and the change of genre is bound to be simple and complex. But even if the writing is poor, it can still contain whimsy; Even the mundane can give birth to new sound ideas. In this case, just like cotton and linen become cloth, it is not how expensive cotton and linen itself is, but the artificial credit of the loom and the weaving pattern. Therefore, in real life, in some specific literary works, there are indeed subtle philosophies contained in ideas and dazzling colors of rhetorical refraction. Among them, in addition to the fact that some of them are really unable to express their pen power, some of them have to stop abruptly. In the field of literature and art, the so-called excellence can be spiritual, and only by touching the bypass can we understand mathematics, physics and chemistry. The truth contained in some words like this, like the name of Yi Yin, although he has extraordinary cooking skills, he cannot elaborate on the transformation process of Ding Nei's deliciousness; It is also like the famous craftsman who made wooden wheels, although he has an axe in his hand and flies up and down, but he cannot tell the exact angle of the weight of the axe. Similar to the subtle essence in this, it can only be understood but not spoken.

In a word: caused by thoughts, images are born, emotions are surging, and they have been in the breeding for a long time. The clouds are steaming and the clouds are auspicious, and the dragon and snake are flying to see the end of the pen. Cloudy and sunny are full of nature, cool in summer and warm in winter. The rhythm and rhyme rely on scrutiny, and the image is compelling. The rules are in the same circle, and the decisive victory is between thousands of miles.