# serious **Published by:** [raindrop](https://paragraph.com/@raindrop-2/) **Published on:** 2022-07-28 **URL:** https://paragraph.com/@raindrop-2/serious ## Content There is a saying that the world is afraid of the word "serious". No matter what is difficult or troublesome, as long as you are serious, don't play with guns, and keep your feet on the ground, there will always be a day when "sincerity and stone are opened", so there is no difficulty in the world, only those who are willing. And some people face the word "serious" and are also "afraid": they are afraid of being troublesome and perfunctory, they are afraid of being held accountable and blamed, and they are afraid of being embarrassed.True and false are the most basic philosophical propositions in life, which cannot be avoided every day. But the truth doesn't seem to be that simple. Life is like the illusory realm in Cao Gong's writings of "falsehood is true and falsehood is false". Many times, "seriousness" doesn't work, so there are always people who refuse to be serious. There is an article in "Afterwords of Ai Zi": Ai Zi and his two disciples (Tong Zi and Zhi Zi) went out for an outing in the city. There was just an old man sitting at the door, reading carefully, and holding his son forward to salute, explaining the purpose of his visit. The old man pointed to a "true" character on the book and asked, "If you know this character, I will give you water to drink." Zhizi said, "This is a "true" character." The old man was very angry and did not give him water. Zhizi had to go back and report to the teacher. Ai Ziyi sent Tongzi to ask for water. The old man asked, and Tongzi rolled his eyes and said, "These are two words: straight and eight." The old man was very happy, and took out the fine wine for Tongzi to bring back to the teacher to drink. The wine was delicious, and after drinking it, Ai Zi said happily: "Tong Zi is really smart! If you are as serious as Zhi Zi, I can't even drink your saliva!"The meaning of this fable is very clear. "Zhizi" represents a serious, persistent person who is not accommodating in matters; "Tongzi" represents a person who is smooth, sophisticated and skilled in all aspects of things. If you speak the truth and tell the truth, you will hit the wall everywhere, and you will not have good fruit to eat, and people will "learn to be good" - they will not be serious, and their interests will dictate. As for the strange phenomena that are common in social life, such as lack of seriousness, inaction, or only acknowledging that people are not serious, we can't entirely blame the people below. Resources are concentrated on the top, and the likes and dislikes of those in power will become the weather vane and affect the social atmosphere.In the past, mirror workers made mirrors, and every time they made nine dim mirrors, they only made one bright mirror. Because bright mirrors cannot hide their ugliness and hide their ugliness, they cannot be popular. The mirror of life is the same. As serious as Du Fu, facing the reality of "the road is frozen to death", he refused to write the darkness into light, and only Du Fu knew the enormous pressure he suffered. Han Yu once said, "Li Du's writings are here, and the brilliance is bright", but that was because people at that time did not pay much attention to the poetry of Li Bai and Du Fu, and Han Yu, who was a younger generation, called for their rectification; and what was the situation of Li Bai and Du Fu at that time? ? There are also two lines in the Korean poem: "Only these two masters have a desolate home." Therefore, there is another type of unwillingness to take it seriously: the seven sages in the bamboo forest are drinking and singing, Tao Yuanming's picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, Yan Ziling's farming and fishing Fuchun Mountain ... Reluctance to be serious, in fact, unwilling to cooperate. Another example is writing history, how many people are as serious as Taishi Gong? Lu Xun has already concluded, "The poem "Ode" has already been shot, and "Spring and Autumn" has been concealed", and there are many cases of lying. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Cui Pei, a doctor of the state of Qi, killed Duke Zhuang of Qi, but he did not want to leave behind the notoriety of murdering the monarch. Tai Shi Bo only recognized the facts and wrote straight letters, but he was killed. If so, three: Tai Shi Bo, Tai Shi Zhong, and Tai Shi Shu. Afterwards, Taishi Ji succeeded his predecessor Xiu Shi, and the record was still recorded, and Cui Hao dared not kill him again. On the way home, Taishiji met Nanshi who came in a hurry. Nanshi saw that he was "in good condition" and suspected that he would not be serious. Taishi Ji took out the written bamboo slips and showed them to him. After reading it carefully, Nanshi said: "The first three Taishis were all executed, and I was afraid that you would not be able to save your life, so I came to replace you. Since you can write directly I'm relieved about it." How did the historian achieve the "single song"? At least, this kind of serious spirit of "better for the orchid to destroy the jade, not for the rubble to survive" is indispensable.Contrary to Zhishu, they refused to write seriously. They called it "curved pen" or "backward protection". They regarded the revision of history as a private tool. In order to cater to the power, they deliberately avoided and distorted the facts. In particular, the official history books are more disturbed. Liang Qichao bluntly said that "the twenty-four histories are not history, but the family tree of the twenty-four surnames." Looking through the history books, it is not difficult to find that the historian Wei Jian was punished for the straight book, and rarely convicted for the curvy pen. Therefore, the price of conscientiousness is high; for this reason, conscientiousness is especially valuable. ## Publication Information - [raindrop](https://paragraph.com/@raindrop-2/): Publication homepage - [All Posts](https://paragraph.com/@raindrop-2/): More posts from this publication - [RSS Feed](https://api.paragraph.com/blogs/rss/@raindrop-2): Subscribe to updates