Ancient inspirational figures
Ancient inspirational figures (1) Song Lian
Song Lian, a famous essayist and scholar in the Ming Dynasty, was eager to learn since childhood. He was not only knowledgeable, but also good at writing articles. He was praised by Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. "The first of the founding civil servants." Song Lian loves reading very much, and always asks for details when encountering something she doesn’t understand. This time, in order to figure out a problem, Song Lian walked dozens of miles in the snow to consult Teacher Mengji, who no longer accepted students, but the teacher was not at home. Song Lian was not discouraged and visited the teacher again a few days later, but the teacher did not receive him. Because of the cold weather, Song Lian and his companions were severely frozen, and Song Lian's toes were frostbitten. When Song Lian visited alone for the third time, he fell into a snow pit and was fortunately rescued. When Song Lian almost fainted at the door of the teacher's house, the teacher was moved by his sincerity and patiently answered Song Lian's questions. Later, in order to gain more knowledge, Song Lian was not afraid of hardships and hardships, and visited many teachers, and finally became a famous essayist!
Ancient Inspiring Figures (2) Lu Mengzheng
Man is a tiny living being between heaven and earth. The Russian writer Turgenev once said: "Although our lives are short and small, everything great is created by human hands."
Although fate is determined by God, everything depends on man.
Since ancient times, successful people have always had the right time, location and people. When I was in Henan, I went with the cross-strait feng shui inspection team and walked into the east of Dianzhuang Town, Yanshi City, Luoyang City. There is an ancient small village, formerly known as Wuliu Village. According to legend, this is the hometown of Lu Mengzheng, the famous Prime Minister of the Northern Song Dynasty. The place name "Xianggongzhuang" It also comes from this.
Perhaps we modern people have forgotten about Lu Mengzheng, but those who have studied ancient Chinese literature will never forget an ancient inspirational article, which is "Han Kiln Fu" written by Lu Mengzheng, the legendary prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty. I remember that when I just graduated from high school, I was faced with the two possibilities of being delegated to a higher position or being promoted to a higher position. I was walking at a crossroads in my life, and I saw that some of my classmates had the power to work easily because their parents worked in government agencies. I thought about my own background. Ordinary people had no help from noble people in their homes, so they spent a lot of time sitting by the Gongjiang River and watching the water rise and recede in boredom. However, while reading ancient books, I accidentally read Lv Mengzheng's "Han Kiln Ode":
The sky has unforeseen circumstances, and people have misfortune and fortune.
A centipede has hundreds of legs and cannot fly as fast as a snake;
A rooster cannot fly as fast as a crow.
A horse has a journey of a thousand miles, and it cannot go there without a rider;
A man has aspiration to reach the sky, but he cannot reach it without luck.
I believe in the theory of destiny, and destiny cannot be violated, but I also think about the legendary story of Lu Mengzheng who changed his destiny through studying, and I understand that destiny cannot be feared, and a gentleman can take magical powers and change destiny. Therefore, when I was in a difficult situation, I was calm as water, devoted myself to reading, and fully stocked up on knowledge in order to be ready for success.
It is said that "Han Kiln Fu" was written by Lu Mengzheng to educate and admonish the prince (later Zhenzong of Song Dynasty). The author uses his own experience from poverty to wealth and lists the ups and downs of many celebrities in history to illustrate the idea of a natural cycle of life.
There is also a saying that Lu Mengzheng was born in poverty and deeply understood the suffering of the poor, so he studied hard, worked hard, and loved the people hard. When he was young, he once studied in Poyao with Kou Zhun, and experienced the warmth and warmth of the world. Later, when he became prime minister, he even experienced the harshness of the world and the favor and disgrace of people. So he wrote "Han Kiln Fu".
A group of us walked into Xianggong Village noisily. There were two tall stone monuments standing on the roadside at the entrance of the village. One of them read "Lü Mengzheng's Hometown", inscribed by General Lu Zhengcao in 1995; the other said "Lü Mengzheng's Hometown of the Northern Song Dynasty". His Five Phases Monument" was erected in 1998. In addition to Lu Mengzheng, the Lu family has produced five prime ministers and several senior officials: Lu Mengzheng, Lu Yijian, Lu Duan, Lu Gongzhu, and Lu Dafang. The most famous of them is Lu Mengzheng.
What I saw in front of me was a broken kiln. The wall fell off in the wind and rain. The original pond in front of the monument has been accumulated by waste soil, and garbage is scattered everywhere.
This is the Hanyao where Lu Mengzheng, a famous prime minister in the Northern Song Dynasty and known as "the most upright official in the world", studied in Hanyao. It seems that the "Hanyao Fu" written by Lu Mengzheng is not a fiction about his former residence, but rather tells the truth without covering up his ugliness.
Adversity tempers people’s will and character.
According to reports, Lu Mengzheng’s father, Lu Guitu, was a high official in the Northern Song Dynasty. The family moved from Luoyang to the capital Bianliang. When Lu Mengzheng was a child, his father listened to his concubine's slander and drove Lu Mengzheng and his son out of the house. Later, the mother and son lived on the banks of the Yi River in the east of Luoyang, their hometown, and lived in an abandoned brick kiln. From then on, the mother spun threads and the son begged for food, and the two lived a hard life.
One day at noon, a bell sounded from the north. Lu Meng was thinking that there was a class in the school. When he got there, he saw that the bells were ringing from a temple near the school. At this time, the monks were eating. He was so hungry that he stepped forward and bowed. The monks saw that he was very polite and were willing to give him food. From then on, when the temple bell rang, Lu Mengzheng went to eat. Taking advantage of the opportunity to go to the temple, Lu Mengzheng was still "eavesdropping" on his teacher's lecture at the school gate. His diligent study spirit moved his husband very much, so he let him in to listen to the lecture. While others write on paper with pens, he draws on the ground with his fingers.
As time passed, the monks became a little tired of him coming to beg for food every day, so they started ringing the bell after meals. Lü Mengzheng hurriedly came out of the school when he heard the bell and went to beg for food, but the monks had finished eating, and Lv Mengzheng was very angry at being teased. "Lü Mengzheng, who has bad luck, rings the bell after eating." This popular saying in the local area is said to have been written on the wall of the temple by Lü Mengzheng in anger.
Lu Mengzheng's mother had previously studied the "Four Books" and "Five Classics" at her parents' home, and she also taught her son how to read some words. Lu Mengzheng, who was smart and studious, had already set his ambitions in adversity and studied hard day and night.
In the second year of Taiping and Xingguo's reign (977 AD), Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, Lu Meng won the first prize in the imperial examination at the age of 31. Lu Mengzheng, who walked out of the cold kiln, embarked on a distinguished official career.
Some Feng Shui masters used a compass to determine that the sitting direction of Lumeng Zhenghan Kiln is the Mao direction of Youshan Mountain, where the two waters meet. I think that after a thousand or hundreds of years, the things measured are not the original ones and have no meaning.
Lu Mengzheng’s developed Feng Shui is attributed to his ancestral land.
It is said that one day he met two people in Luoyang City. One of them was a fortune teller and the other was a feng shui master. The fortune teller saw that Lü Meng was a rich man, but he was very poor, and he felt puzzled. Wanting to know his life experience, he stopped Lu Mengzheng on the road and asked him whose child he was, but Lu Mengzheng did not answer. At this time, Mr. Feng Shui also noticed that Lu Mengzheng's good appearance was protected by the feng shui of his ancestral tomb. The fortune-teller saw that Lu Meng was from a well-known family and his parents were present, but he was puzzled as to why he was so poor. I looked up Lu Mengzheng's father and found out that Lu Mengzheng's father favored the side wife and drove them out of the house. The two gentlemen persuaded their father to take back Meng Zheng's mother and son, but his father refused.
The two gentlemen went to check out the Lu family's ancestral tomb, which is in Xindian, Luoyang. Mengzheng's great-great-grandfather and grandfather were buried there. The land is a plain terrain, but the tomb is surrounded by two small rivers. It is a "two dragons surrounded" structure. If the water flow in front and back is deep and long, it will lead to an emperor. However, the water in front of this place flows straight, and only one product can be produced. The two gentlemen combined the facial geomantic omen and determined that Meng Zheng would become the prime minister in the future, and the fortune was generous and tolerant, so the blessings were profound. It was just that the geomancy master of this place had two sons. However, Lu Mengzheng's parents only had one son, so what about the other two sons? Where does a high official come from?
At the age of eighteen, Lu Mengzheng was awarded the first place in the imperial examinations. As a result, he rose through the ranks step by step. He did not take into account those who ridiculed and ridiculed him. When Lu Mengzheng later became prime minister, his father had passed away. The two gentlemen saw that the feng shui was still in its heyday and had not been damaged, but they were still puzzled as to why there were two prime ministers here. So I went to Lu Mengzheng's ancestral home, Yangzhai, and found that the Lu family's ancestral house was in decline. Many people who lived in it were sick and separated. Several children of the Lu family are mediocre. Later, they continued to find out that Lu Mengzheng's grandfather had a younger brother who ran away from home. It was thought that the descendants of this younger brother would become prime ministers, but they failed to achieve success, and the doubts about Feng Shui still remained unexplained.
Lu Mengzheng paid homage to the prime minister three times, and later retired to his hometown and retired to Luoyang. Later, Zhenzong paid homage to the Yongxi Mausoleum and was enshrined in Mount Tai. He visited Luoyang twice and asked Lu Mengzheng who among his sons could be an official. Meng Zhengdao: "All the disciples are of no use. I have a nephew, Lu Yijian, who is really a prime minister's weapon! Lu Yijian, also known as Tanfu, was also a Jinshi and was very wise. During the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty, he served as prime minister twice and made many achievements. But in politics It turns out that Lu Yijian is a descendant of his grandfather's brother.
Lu Mengzheng's spirit of changing his destiny through reading is worth promoting.
The Hanyao where I saw Lu Mengzheng studying may have long since disappeared, but the "Hanyao Fu" he wrote is still famous. The words of Lu Gong will always echo in my heart: "A centipede can't move as fast as a snake;
A rooster flaps its wings but cannot fly away from a crow... When encounters are difficult to come by, it is better to live in poverty and keep things in check; if you are not deceived, you will surely have a proud day..."
Lu Mengzheng's bitter life in his early years urged others to do so. He established the concept of working hard, the sky opened his eyes and supported him, and God rewarded his hard work. Lu Menglong studied and became an official, and he rose through the ranks. He served as prime minister three times through the two dynasties of Taizong and Zhenzong. This record could only be matched by Zhao Pu, the founding father of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Therefore, Lu Mengzheng set an example for future generations to think about changes when they are poor, and to change their destiny through reading. Ideas determine the way out, and life is about struggle. People in modern times who come from poor families may wish to read "Han Kiln Fu". If you understand this truth, you will not be pessimistic and disappointed. There is a stage in life and opportunities are everywhere. It depends on your ability to seize them.