Although it has been improperly ignored because it is too close to Qufu, it has been and is being understood and yearned for by the world because of its profound cultural connotation and strong economic strength. Thinking of Mencius, he can't forget this city, because wealth can't be lewd, poverty can't be moved, and powerful people can't bend. Remember a few lines I wrote when I was reading Mencius:
A gentleman lives in the world/even if there is no room for mountains and rivers in his heart/put on a big "human" word/think about it, a big man/if his heart is as small as a needle nose/he doesn't talk/he is disgusting/he looks at Mencius/he walks alone from the source of history/he is really energetic/he is full of blood/he is full of ideas/he beats the emperor.
In China, this may be unique: more than 3,000 arborvitae trees with different styles and unique postures have lived on more than 900 mu of land in Shan Ye for nearly 10 century. This is Meng Zilin, a key cultural relic protection unit in Shandong Province, located on the western slope of Zoucheng Four Seasons.
I went to visit. Fresh snow, verdant cypress, tender morning sun and primitive Mengzi forest are all sleeping with the snow. Quiet, but lively; Simple, but new-Meng Zilin is like this. Breathing the slightly chilly but absolutely fresh air seems to have a trace of warmth, joy and excitement. So, we entered its depths from a simple forest path.
Although the area of Mengzi Forest is less than one third of that of Kong Lin, and it is not as strict as the historic sites and workshops in Kong Lin, it is full of natural tranquility, simplicity, purity and self-confidence. Kong Lin, close to Qufu, the birthplace of Confucius, has the aristocratic taste of royalty, relatives and friends competing to go; Meng Zilin, far from Zoucheng, the birthplace of Mencius, was more Shan Ye and civilians. This difference may have started as early as Confucius and Mencius. Confucius said, "Jun Jun, minister, father and son", and Mencius said, "The people are the most important, the country is the second, and the monarch is the least".
Although there are no tall cypresses standing across the temples, more than 3,000 ancient arborvitae trees thrive. Even if the root system is half naked, firmly grasp the mountain, and then dig deep into the soil to gain growth strength and nutrition bit by bit. Is it the barren land and wind and rain that make the trunk of this Platycladus orientalis spread its branches and leaves around as soon as possible after leaving the ground, or do they love the land under their feet so much that they just reach out and hug and bow their heads and kiss? I believe in the latter. When life has been saturated with vicissitudes of life, there must be a lot of pain in their hearts, but they hold hands and form a huge blue umbrella to protect the land in their arms. Climbing up the mountain on the snow, you will find some arborvitae stumps one after another. The tour guide told us that this was the stump that Cooper had cut before. Without the head and body, the roots still cling to the rocks and the soil under them that have lived together for nearly 10 century, and the stumps also stubbornly open their eyes, as if to tell the world a truth: it is not easy to know how to cherish a tree, especially a cypress tree that is difficult to grow. These sentient and righteous Cooper, suffering by themselves, only bring joy to the earth they love. Suffering breeds vastness, suffering achieves long-term success, and even true happiness grows in suffering. Isn't that a sea of pain? It is no wonder that after nearly 10 century of wind and rain, Platycladus orientalis, branches and leaves, and even cypress seeds falling underground are full of suffocating fragrance. Looking at these shovels, I suddenly realized that the seemingly tall and straight temples could not compare with the ancient and powerful Shan Ye.
Follow Cooper's figure and climb to the top of the Four Seasons. Looking around, Meng Zilin is like a green dream, romantically and truly embedded in a silvery white world. Remote, how can you not say it is a rare advantage? Because it is remote, it is less disturbed and polluted, and this green dream is more vivid and immortal.
Shi Ming Jie, leaving no name. She was handed down from generation to generation when Mencius' theory touched the world, even after Mencius was sanctified. When it comes to touching the world, the story of Meng Mu's godson is more deeply rooted in people's hearts than Mencius. She interpreted maternal love as a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation by Xian Yi. As long as it doesn't jump out of the cracks in the stone, who hasn't seen mom? Who doesn't have an unforgettable maternal love? Who has no yearning and attachment to maternal love until death? Meng Mu lived for thousands of years and hundreds of millions of times in the harmony of human heart and the voice of * * * *.
Every time I read Mencius, the kindness between the lines and the concern and respect for people, especially ordinary people, can always arouse lasting waves in my heart: sometimes my heart is like a deep valley, full of loud and long responses; Sometimes the heart is like a river, and it meets with it to form a turbulent stream. Even if you encounter a cliff abyss, you will fly into the waterfall and move forward enthusiastically. Meeting and flowing, the flying soul is fresh, full and young because it is full of love. This is the kindness that hangs over the mother's feelings, which is endless because of the source and example of maternal love.
It is really appropriate to use "landing" to refer to the birth of a baby. "Quack" is a child's cry, and "quack and fall to the ground" already contains the fate and nature of human beings-the hardships of life and the call for maternal love. Maternal love is no less than air, sunshine and food for human beings. It is not only gestation and birth, but also upbringing and education. Father and mother can be compared, but not in the same breath, because maternal love is more selfless and deeper. Even if a father's love is as lofty as a mountain, it can always be measured no matter how high or big it is; Motherly love is like the sea and the earth, boundless. We often say "strict father's loving mother" is actually a thorough memory of maternal love. Always strict with kindness, strict with kindness. Motherly love doesn't need to be crowned with greatness, loftiness and glory, but it can be omnipresent, all-encompassing and omnipotent.
There is a strange phenomenon in history that makes people think, that is, orphans and widows who seem to be the weakest and most helpless often show amazing strength and great creativity. Not to mention Temujin and his widowed mother, orphans who have been bullied and despaired repeatedly, Kong Qiu, an orphan who lost his father at the age of three, Yan Zhizhai, an orphan who lost his father since childhood, and Monk and his widowed mother. Because they have all experienced suffering and maternal love.
I began to understand Meng Mu and Mencius deeply, starting from a detail inadvertently left by history-Mencius divorced his wife. Although the divorce between Mencius and his wife has long been lost in the haze of time, I think it may be an important event in the history of Mencius' personality growth, and I can even "see" the scene vividly. It was noon on a hot summer day. Mencius' wife had just knitted a piece of cloth, and under the repeated urging of her mother-in-law, she went back to her room to have a rest. Hot and tired, I couldn't help closing the door, taking off my coat and stretching my limbs, and lying in bed taking a nap. Who knows that Mencius pushed the door and came in, and when he saw his wife's "indecent" posture with bare arms and legs, he suddenly flew into a rage and was about to divorce his wife. Mencius did not expect that his mother not only did not speak for her son, but severely criticized him: When you want to enter the door, ask if there is anyone. Isn't this the teaching in the Book of Rites? It's impolite for you to come into the room without knocking at the door and asking questions. My daughter-in-law has just finished knitting a piece of cloth on a hot day, and she is tired and tired. You don't take care of her, but you still blame her and even put her life in danger. We care about her. Isn't this unreasonable and heartless? Now your wronged daughter-in-law doesn't know what to do. Go and apologize! Who can say that Mencius' benevolence thought of "getting old, being young, being young" originated from this? Who can say that Meng Mu is not one of the sources of humanism?
Meng Mu is a professional woman, but she has trained a master of intellectuals. She is dedicated, painstaking, ambitious and tenacious, which can be seen from her deeds of "choosing neighbors and moving three times" and "breaking the machine to teach children". She not only blazed a great career path for Mencius with a mother's all-out efforts, but also became the reliance, strength and backing for Mencius to stick to his own path with a mother's love and understanding. Mencius' separation from Qi was perhaps the most difficult time for him to make a decision. Qi was a big country at that time, and it had the most power and the world to realize its political ideals. However, Wang Qi's mentality of "dominating the world" is incompatible with Mencius' benevolent policy thought of "benevolent people love others". The Tao is different from the plan, but Meng Zian insists on going. However, when he left Qi, he lost his official position and wealth. His mother is old and wants to take her children to get married, which really makes Mencius hesitant and depressed. Careful Meng Mu found the reason and advised his son without hesitation: "I am an adult now, but I am old. My son's behavior is related to his righteousness, and my behavior is related to my courtesy. What are you worried about? " This is equivalent to saying, follow your righteous path, mom agrees with you, supports you and helps you! As a result, Mencius not only resolutely left the State of Qi, but also resolutely refused the hundred gold presented by the King of Qi.
It is only 582.8 meters above sea level and covers an area of only 6 square kilometers. Compared with the existence of five mountains, Yishan, which guards Zoucheng, Mencius' hometown, can only be regarded as a bonsai between heaven and earth.
But what fascinates me most is a mountain. She is so intriguing that people can never get tired of reading it, and she often reads books and is always new. Although it is sometimes ignored by a dynasty or an era because of its smallness, her own beauty and benevolence, ethereal and clever, all converge into a great existence of beauty. Li Zhuo is located in a famous forest, which makes people attached and fascinated.
Ji Zha, Zhuangzi, Lao Zi and Confucius and Mencius came, Sima Qian, Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Anshi, Su Shi and Lu You came, and Mi Fei and Zhao Meng came.
Dong Qichang was here. They devoted themselves to singing their beauty. Although I can't describe their beauty, Yishan also regards them as bosom friends. Emperors such as Liu Bang, Li Shimin, Zhao Kuangyin, Kublai Khan, Zhu Yuanzhang, etc. all visited, or closed their doors to Zen, or granted it, or sought immortality. One mountain "doesn't like things, but doesn't care about himself" and forgets his humiliation. Inadvertently, I touched them like floating dust. Even when we marveled at the early fame of Yishan and listed the ancient books about Yishan, such as The Book of Songs, The Book of Songs, Zuo Zhuan, Taiping Yulan and Historical Records. As evidence, a mountain that has lived for 2.5 billion years is completely spending its youth.
The rocks and caves in Yishan Mountain are unique in the world. The hands of the waves have been rubbed for billions of years, and the hands of the wind and rain have been carved for billions of years before these giant stone eggs with great wisdom and gorgeous stone pillars filled with years are created? Then in which crust was turned upside down, and nature's hand scattered it into a stone waterfall? Or is it that Nu Wa forged these colorful stones not to fill the sky, but to alleviate the monotony and loneliness in the world? Every stone is an independent life, and this kind of life constitutes a seamless life in various forms. The caves all over the mountains and interconnected with each other are the veins of this life. Cao Xueqin only stole one, and then he thought it into A Dream of Red Mansions.
1985, Professor Chen Chuankang of Peking University visited Yishan, and unexpectedly found an ancient marine erosion landform with great scientific value here, and predicted with joy: "This is probably the farthest ancient marine erosion landform that can still be preserved after vicissitudes of life in China."
Mountain and sea are inextricably linked.
She is the daughter of the sea, born after the sea and the earth fell in love. From her, we can not only feel the tranquility of the sea after the excitement, but also feel the restless life of the sea. Especially in summer, when it rains heavily, you may even feel that a mountain is still in the vast ocean. Close to her, you will see the waves that will never fade; Listening to her, you will feel a never-ending surge.
Perhaps love is too deep, the sea "banished" her daughter and put her on the altar of the universe, so that she can cast a broad heart of love in all kinds of difficulties and hardships to welcome the arrival of mankind. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, etc.
Born in the era of giants, a mountain is doomed to be hurt by dwarfs. Filth, slashing, insult, war, bandits, she was silent. Even for the overbearing and arrogant emperors, she treated them with compassion and warned them not to be insatiable: there were mountains and rivers before human beings came into the world, and even if one day human beings died, they would continue to exist; Jiangshan can't be anyone's private property, it can only be a member of the universe and a friend of mankind.
For thousands of years, with a bright and broad-minded spirit, she has cleansed the narrow pass of human mind.
As a result, there are countless wonderful times that grow into a mountain of life.
There is a 30-meter-high stone pillar in front of Wuhua Peak in Yishan. In memory of Yan Wengong 2600 years ago, people called it a stone on the surface of the sky. It happened in the spring of 6 15 BC, and Yong Wengong moved Guo's capital from Xi 'an (now 5 kilometers south of Jining) to Yang in Yishan. The conclusion of divination before moving the capital is: "it is beneficial to the people, not to the monarch." Yan Wengong said, "If it is good for people, it will also be good for the lonely. Born by the people, the king of trees is also profitable. People are beneficial, and loneliness is inevitable. Life depends on supporting people. The time of death is short, and the people benefit and are moved, so it is like this! " So I moved to Yi. It was Zhu Wen's death in May, 2008, but people thought that "those who make meritorious deeds get the best". "Life depends on supporting the people"-from then on, it has become the people's desire for officials, the self-discipline of good officials, and the permanent torture of official conscience by history.
From this, I think of "Tai backstage" written by Xue Xilian, a minister of punishments in the Ming Dynasty. 1453, in honor of Yishan. When he saw that the people were miserable because of the gloomy weather and too much rain and snow, he braved the rain and snow day and night to check the disaster relief, while releasing food, while starving the people. He wrote "Taibackstage Title Wall": "The mountain calls for a tsunami, and the voice of begging for food is high; A thousand people support an official's life, and an official consumes all the people. How blessed the officials are and how bitter the people are! People fat people cream, heaven forbid greed! Self-deception, self-deception; Five thunderbolts, leaving no body! " When Gong Xue returned to Beijing, Zou Min was crying on the roadside in the rain.
There are two nicknames for Yishan, one is Xi Righteousness, and the other is Taohua Righteousness. They remember two people respectively: Chi Jian and Wang Erjian.
Chi Jian is from Jinxiang, Shandong. He was an official in the Western Jin Dynasty. During the war and famine in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, China's literati felt his kindness in the past and sent Chi Jian a lot of food, and he returned to his hometown. However, he distributed the food to people who lived in a more difficult life than himself, and in 307 AD, he led thousands of neighboring families to escape the war in Yishan, where he lived for seven years. In the meantime, he strictly ordered his men to take care of every grass, tree, stone, spring, bird and beast in the mountains and put them into practice. His youngest son was seriously ill because of hunger. In an emergency, the nanny and servant stole a pheasant to make soup and saved the little boy. Nanny knew that she had committed suicide for disobeying military orders, and Chi Jian beheaded her youngest son in public in grief. If it weren't for the encouragement of "life is at stake, people are at stake" and for the safety of a mountain and tens of thousands of people, he wouldn't kill Aiko. Huang Tingjian, then the magistrate of Zou County, was deeply moved by the public sentiment, and carved the four characters of "Virtuous and Clear" on the parrot stone in Yishan.
Wang Erjian was the magistrate of Zou County during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, and Yi Shan Lu described his "kindness in governing Zou". Most of his political traces are lost in the fog of years, but the matter of "planting trees" is still passed down as a beautiful talk. In ancient times, there were tung trees in Yishan, and the most famous record was The Book of Songs Yugong. Li Bai said that the piano made of paulownia in Yi Yang is like "the autumn wind is gone, and the sound is strange through the ages". Wang Anshi's poem "Lonely Tung" is probably the best understanding of Fuyang Lonely Tung: "Nature is self-contained, and it is lonely and high." Ling Xiao is indomitable, humble and polite. The old roots are strong and the sun leaves are more cloudy. When I think about it tomorrow, I am willing to marry the banjo. " I don't know when and for what reason, the solitary tung in Fuyang actually disappeared. Wang Erjian felt that "grazing wages are vertical, and cattle and sheep trample on it, leaving only an empty mountain", so he planted 10 thousand peaches and apricots around the mountain, forbidding grazing for the poor people near the mountain to cultivate, and supplemented the sparse peaches and apricots with pine, cypress and paulownia. In a few years, it will be "half a day, the peaks will shine, and the lonely tung will make up the peach blossoms when it is old." Lying on the roots without water, red rain and spring breeze reach thousands "(Wang Erjian's poem), so Yishan is called" Peach Blossom Song "by later generations.
Although the peach trees in Yishan are almost extinct now, one or two peach trees can still be seen sticking out from the branches of Gu Zhuo in remote places, which seems to tell people that if you can do one or two practical and good things for the people as an official, you will be remembered by the people. The lifeblood of being an official should not be to be promoted and then promoted, but to do things for the people. This is the ancient and ancient topic of "living for the people". Because immortality and long live are not determined by twenty-four histories or a few monuments, only the mouth and heart of the people are the most authoritative. I wonder if people who come to visit the mountain will stop in front of this lonely peach tree.
The silent Yishan is telling everything.
Greatness, Yishan, this masterpiece of nature harmony; Goodness, righteousness and goodness, the beauty of the world created by 2.5 billion years of suffering and compassion.
Blessed is man, who has the hope of marrying the daughter of the sea, as long as he can evolve better.
A mountain of deep affection is waiting for it.
About the author:
Li Musheng, vice president of Shandong Prose Society, is a member of china confucius foundation Lecturer Group. He wrote 3 million words of prose and more than 300 poems, and more than 100 essays were selected into various anthologies. He has won the Bing Xin Prose Award, the first Guo Moruo Prose Essay Award and the first Taishan Literature and Art Award.