surpass ten years of reading(shèng dú shí nián shū)

surpass ten years of reading

Win: over. More than ten years of hard work. It's a huge ideological gain.

According to Yichuan's quotations in the 22nd part of Ercheng's complete works, the ancients said, "a speech by the emperor is better than a ten-year book." If you get something in one day, it's better than ten years of study. Describe each other's erudition, insight, from the conversation to make their own benefit.

The full text is as follows: "the so-called" Gongjun's speech is better than ten years' reading. If you talk about it thoroughly, it's more than ten years' work. "

Word analysis

"Listening to your words is better than reading for ten years" consists of two parts. 1： Jun (here is a pronoun, not specifically refers to the emperor) said a sentence; 2: people who hear this sentence feel that listening to this sentence is more useful than reading for ten years.

allusion

A long time ago, a poor scholar came to Beijing to take the exam. He just went on his way and missed the end of the bed. Seeing that it was late, he was very worried. Just then a butcher came up and invited him to his house. The butcher and the scholar had a good talk. So the butcher casually asked the scholar, "Sir, all things have male and female. Then, which is female and which is male in the water of the sea? Which is the male and which is the female of the trees on the high mountains? " The scholar was stunned and had to ask the butcher for advice. The butcher said, "there are waves in the sea. The waves are female and the waves are male, because the male is always stronger." The scholar nodded and asked, "what about the male tree and the female tree?" The butcher said, "the male tree is the pine tree. Isn't there a male character in the word" pine "? The plum tree is the mother tree, because there is a "mother" in the word "plum." When the scholar heard the words, he suddenly realized. When the scholar arrived in the capital, he went into the examination room and opened the paper. It was a coincidence that the emperor's question was exactly what the butcher told him about the female water, the male water and the female tree. Many of the scholars looked at the question and were dazed. Only this scholar did it without thinking. Soon, the scholar was named number one. He specially went back to the butcher's house and presented a big gift. He also wrote a plaque to the butcher, which said, "listening to your words is better than reading for ten years."

Discrimination

Don't abuse "listening to your words is better than reading ten years of books": you (here is a pronoun, not specifically referring to the emperor) said a sentence; people who hear this sentence feel that listening to this sentence is more useful than reading ten years of books. Now, do you think it is possible? Some people will say that the second part is obviously an exaggeration and a rhetorical device. It's more useful to describe this person than the book he read. Is that so? Let's take a look at the source of the previous section? It is also an exaggeration. Is that the truth? There is an old saying: "in a book there is a beauty, and in a book there is a house of gold.". In ancient society, in such a deep-rooted Confucian society, would there be such an explanation as "listening to your words is better than reading for ten years"? Is that possible? In a society that advocated Confucius and reading and regarded reading as the only way out at that time, to say such a word was no less than to say that "Chairman Mao mistakenly launched the Cultural Revolution" in the era of the cultural revolution. Since the above source is impossible, is this a reflection of the real situation? Is that true? Is a word really better than ten years' book? After a few years of doubt and experience, I think it's very possible that this sentence is true. It's not only possible, but also more than 20 years in a word! the two characters in this sentence are not ordinary people. One person, that is, the king, is a sage like Confucius and Mencius. The listener is also a scholar who has been immersed in this sentence for many years, but he has not yet reached the level of perfection, mastery and application. The highest level of learning is to understand and draw inferences from one instance, rather than how many years of reading and how much concrete knowledge and dogma you have mastered. For example, in Jinyong's martial arts, the most powerful ones will never be those who dance swords and play guns, but those who can use anything as weapons. Leaves and branches are sharp weapons, and Xiao Feng, who can use the simplest Taizu long fist to achieve extraordinary power, and so on. This is the highest level of martial arts. Mastery is also the highest level of learning. Then the situation should be that a master is guiding the disciples who have been studying hard for more than ten years or someone else. This person is only one step away from the highest level, and this step is often the most difficult, which requires high talent and great efforts. The master's words will be the listener's knowledge, insight, enlightenment. This is a process from quantitative change to qualitative change, which is two-sided. Without the accumulation of quantitative change, no more words can promote or catalyze qualitative change. More specifically, there is no way to verify what kind of situation, here also hope that some scholars can give more accurate research. Therefore, the saying "listening to your words is better than reading for ten years" should not be abused. If you want to be better than ten years of reading, you must first have the foundation and accumulation of ten years of reading. A person who has no knowledge and no skill will not be better than one sentence even if he is read by sages for ten years. "understanding" and "listening to your words is better than reading ten years of books" I divide understanding into two kinds, one is called "Epiphany", and the other is called "Enlightenment". As the name suggests, one is the "Tao" realized by the accumulation of one's own knowledge, and the other is the "Tao" obtained by others' enlightenment. let's elaborate on it in a clear statement: savvy. "Listening to your words" is the representative of Dianwu. In certain specific conditions, let others enlighten you, make you suddenly open up, realize a "Tao", make yourself earthshaking changes. "Reading for ten years" is the representative of Epiphany, which means that through hard reading, I have realized a "Tao" and changed myself. however, the results of these two kinds of understanding are absolutely different. Superficially speaking, "Enlightenment" comes faster. If you were instructed by an expert ten years ago, you can realize this "Tao", which is absolutely different from the effect after ten years. Because the starting points of the two kinds of savvy are different, "ten years" is a golden time for life and career, which will create a lot of "wealth"; however, it is too late to realize it after "ten years". but "Enlightenment" can only let you understand a "Dao", but this "Dao" is no doubt not a very classic "Dao". So there is a systematic knowledge around this "Dao". We need to supplement it, so that we can really grasp this "Dao" and control it, so that it can become our own thing and be used by us. "Enlightenment" and "Epiphany" have their own limitations, so there will be the classic maxim of "not laughing is not enough for Tao". At the same time, there will also be the so-called "two eight law". Why is this so? it is because there are too many words of "Enlightenment" that you will understand at that time, but you do not master the systematic knowledge, do not have enough knowledge reserve and complete planning scheme, and act accurately, which will lead to the situation that everyone only "hears" and can not "use" the Tao. Finally, there are too few people who succeed and too many people who fail. no matter which society, people need to have a certain understanding, no matter what society is engaged in, people also need to have a certain understanding, but the truly successful people are the owners and beneficiaries of "Tao", and "Tao" will enjoy life. When we are young, we will find that we have realized and mastered a lot of "Tao". However, with the increase of age and experience, you will find that there are fewer and fewer. In the end, you will only master three or two points. You will enjoy your whole life and benefit immensely. The reason why there is a subjective feeling or objective effect of "better than ten years of reading" is that the speaker is subjective and active, while the book is objective and passive. Therefore, the interlocutor can immediately find that the interlocutor's lack of knowledge, so as to make up for the shortcomings of others with his own strengths, so that the other party's knowledge structure can be changed immediately, so that he has such a strong feeling.

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