In China's traditional culture, the content covered by the five is very rich, and each one is worth discussing. Teacher Jiangyang Gu Wine guest today to talk to friends who like traditional culture about the "five materials".
The five materials are from the "Twenty-seven Years of Zuo Chuan Xianggong": "Born with five materials, the people use them together, and abolish one cannot be abolished"; in the Zhou Li Examination Workers' Record, the General Catalogue says: "Or judge the curved posture, to feed the five materials, to argue the people's instruments." "The two mentions of the 'five materials', the later annotations are actually: gold, wood, water, fire, earth five elements. Zheng Xuan said: These five materials, gold, wood, skin, jade, and earth.
In fact, the five elements, metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, I believe most people will not be unfamiliar. In foreign countries, it is also said that they are five substances or elements. But on the mainland it's not that simple.
"Liutao Longtao on the General": "Taigong Yue: "There will be five materials and ten passes." King Wu said, "Dare to ask his eyes." Tai Gong Yue: "The so-called five materials, courage, wisdom, benevolence, faith, and loyalty." "It's moral again.
In fact, the 'five materials' cannot simply understand what it is, but to understand the way of the five elements of mutual resistance. The original of the Tao is chaos, zero, but zero does not mean nothing. In fact, there is no concept of zero in the thinking of the chinese ancestors. Only it does not change the pattern at the time. That is to say, it exists when it does not touch other substances, but it is difficult to detect.
So the Tao, in the time of chaos, contains everything that we know and don't know today, but before it was born one, you don't know, and then it was born two, two, three, three, and everything, infinity.
However, these are all nurtured and grown in the environment of the Tao, compatible with each other, and may fight each other, and eventually achieve harmonious coexistence. Therefore, the "five materials" spoken of in ancient times are more of a kind of loyal monarchy. But at the same time, it can be understood as the code of conduct of the eldest husband, which is a symbol of national stability.
Leaving aside the need for feudal imperial rule, the five moral standards are still not obsolete.
For example, the first courage, courage is often understood as bravery, what does it have to do with moral standards? Is a person bold enough to be brave? Is it brave for people who drink too much alcohol to do things that they usually dare not do? Of course not. Courage is a kind of righteousness and strength.
It is our courage to stand calmly between heaven and earth, and it is also a kind of essence that is not afraid of unhealthy winds and evil tendencies, and different flows and defilements. It is by no means a promise, never a bow to the knee, it requires that people must have confidence, must have faith, and cannot fall with the wind.
It is also a symbol of a strong force, and it can not bully people, and it will not be bullied by others.
The second is wisdom, of course there is wisdom, but wisdom is not the same as wisdom, let alone cunning. Wisdom is to understand many things, the heart can still maintain the heart of a child, wisdom is that when life reaches forty, it is no longer confused and naturally enlightened, but it is not with the summer worm language ice, not with the well frog language sea, not with the ordinary language, respect for knowledge and culture, but never superstitious authority, lose reason. This is wisdom.
The third is benevolence, the so-called benevolent invincible, killing to become benevolent, sacrificing life for righteousness, in fact, benevolence, is to reconcile their own yin and yang balance, impartial. You see the word Ren is a single next to a two. Two and two in life can cover yin and yang, men and women are yin and yang, a single person is also divided into yin and yang, and the personality will even split, and only when the two are clear, yin and yang are in harmony, can be counted as benevolent, this person is to have compassion, the poor are good at themselves, and the rich are both rich and the world's bosom, which can be described as benevolent.
The fourth is faith, which is not trustworthy, and faith also contains multiple elements, faith, trust, and credit. People will encounter many unpleasant things and difficulties in the world, but people must have confidence, can not give up lightly, in addition, they must be honest and keep their promises, if they want to get the trust and recognition of the public alive, it is quite important to be a person who talks about credit. Although others may not respect your credit.
The last one is loyalty, which used to be the idea of loyalty to the king, which has long become history, but you still have to be loyal to something, saying that the little one is loyal to your family, the husband and wife are loyal to each other, loyal to their duties, loyal, and I don't know why it is a joke in the eyes of some people in the city today.
Of course, evil is invincible, and if you follow these five moral standards, it may not be smooth sailing, but I believe that it is a kind of tempering, and after all, the light of the right path will shine on the earth.