Yang Yan: Know yourself, wash yourself, and transform yourself

Although people are small,

But people can learn, and people can improve themselves.

Author: Lodge Yebo

Mr. Yang Yan had an interview in the year when he was 100 years old.

The reporter asked her: "What should we do to get better and achieve self -worth?"

Mr. Yang Yan replied, "Life in life, nothing more than knowing himself, to refining himself, and consciously transforming himself voluntarily."

In this complicated and elastic world, the mediocre people are willing to sink, and the strong is seeking self -crossed.

Only when a person is constantly tempting and precipitated, it becomes a better self, and the life you want will come to you.

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Know yourself

There is such a sentence in "Half Mountain Collection":

Reading a hundred books, it is better to read a book ten times; read a book ten times, it is better to read it inside and outside.

Reading people is worse than reading yourself.

Scholar Wu Xuezhao, telling the story of Mr. Yang Yan's early years.

The first story took place in 1938. Yang Yan returned from studying in the UK and returned to Shanghai.

At that time, the alma mater Zhenhua Middle School had just rebuilt. The old principal Wang Jiyu appreciated her very much, so she opened excellent conditions and hired her to serve as the principal.

Due to human feelings, Yang Yan reluctantly agreed and promised for half a year.

After half a year, the old principal repeatedly retained, and she resolutely resigned from the position of the principal.

Many friends are puzzled: How can you not ask for a position that others can't find?

Yang Yan explained: "I know that I am not a management material. Although the principal's position is good, it can only be mistaken for a long time."

She resigned as the principal, and then embarked on her own literature.

The second story happened decades later, when "Yang Yan's collection" was published.

At that time, the publisher prepared a big fanfare to hold her work conference for her.

When Yang Yan learned, she declined the invitation to attend. She said, "I'm just a drop of water, not soapy water, and I can't blow bubbles."

In her heart, she is not a celebrity, just a pure text worker.

No matter how noisy the outside world is, she sat in a book in a safe way and read and write.

Chen Kuiyuan, the president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, once commented: "Mr. Yang Yan's most admirable is that no matter whether the times are changing and the world is floating, she will always know who she is."

It is this soberness and understanding that allows her to devote himself to literary career and become a generation.

After hearing a word, people's life is the hardest to see themselves clearly.

In this world, everyone has what they are good at and not good at.

Only by knowing yourself enough can you be not ejected by foreign things, choose the most suitable path, and go down.

The greatest awakening of a person is to know his ability and value.

When you can find the right positioning and determine the direction, your life can naturally be able to go up and go higher and higher.

2

Self -cultivation

I have seen such a story:

A farmer prayed for God after planting wheat, hoping that the wind was smooth, and there was no natural disaster pests.

God satisfied him. In the spring of that year, wheat seedlings were better than in previous years.

But when it was harvested in autumn, the farmer found that all the wheat ears were all stunned.

The farmer asked God with tears, and God said, "Because of your wheat ears, avoid all the tests."

Avoiding the suffering of life, naturally missed the full gain.

The maturity of a grain of wheat is still inseparable from the wind, frost, rain and snow; a wonderful life needs to be tempered in difficult and difficult.

"Yang Yan Biography" records that since 1966, Mr. Yang Yan began a long period of life.

At that time, she became a critic, shaved off her half hair, and suffered a lot of malicious personal attacks.

When she was decentralized to the dry school, she was nearly sixty years old, and she was arranged to dry all kinds of rough work all day.

At that time, many people cried that they had encountered misfortunes, but Mr. Yang Yan never complained, but instead sharpened themselves in adversity and continued to improve.

In such an environment, she did not leave her loved career.

When sweeping the toilet, she read a few pages of books in the toilet; she was held in the cow shed and reflected, and she memorized several ancient poems in her heart.

More importantly, she still insisted on translating the previously unfinished "Don Quixote".

Every day she is busy, sitting on the pony, translating Spanish, while translating, and finally completing the classic translation of this eight volumes.

As she said:

After different degrees of exercise, a person obtains different degrees of cultivation and different degrees of benefits. It's like spices, the more smashed, the thinner the grind, the stronger the fragrance.

The more difficult, the more you practice. All experiences that make you pain will eventually cure and become your hardest barriers.

Liu Yuxi has a famous poem: "Although there are thousands of hard work, the yellow sand is exhausted."

Only after the wind and rain, a person can wash the lead and cultivate a better self.

Life is like a river, and it can see the vastness of the sea through the winding and windy storms.

3

Transform yourself

Mr. Lu Xun said: "It is always difficult to transform yourself than to prohibit others from coming."

Many times, when we are in the dark, we can usher in a new life only by changing and adjusting ourselves.

In "We", Yang Yan wrote the experience of his loved ones.

In March 1997, her loved daughter Qian Yuan unfortunately suffered from lung cancer, and it didn't take long for her.

Just a year later, her husband Qian Zhongshu also resigned because of illness.

In the year of 丧, the crackdown of destiny, and the fate of funerals followed. Many relatives and friends are worried that she can't bear the grief and came to visit. When she saw her alone, she couldn't help crying.

Instead, Yang Yan comforted the people softly and softly:

"I have survived, are you still so sad? Thinking deep, I will pick it up, isn't this a good thing?"

Since then, she has lived with the mentality of "staying in the world, cleaning the scene", and lived deeply, and tied into the book.

In the 18 years in the book, she continued to make a day farming and sorted out all the academic drafts of Qian Zhongshu.

In addition, she also translated Plato's "Feido", published the essay collection "We", and compiled the 2.5 million words of "Yang Yan Wen Collection".

In the last journey of life, Mr. Yang Yan was not only defeated by bitterness and loneliness.

Instead, by adjusting yourself, changing your mentality, in a busy and full life, he lives a bright and elegant century -old life.

After hearing a word: "Life is inevitable that the wind rises, and the direction of the wind cannot be changed, so you can find a way to adjust the sail."

There are too many things in life, like Dashan.

Don't always focus on the outside world. When you can't change the reality, the best way is to change yourself.

When you encounter difficult things, you may wish to change your mind; in the face of difficulties, you may wish to change your mindset.

When we change ourselves, you will find that others have changed and the whole world has changed.

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Mr. Yang Yan said:

"Although people are small, their lives are short, but people can learn, people can cultivate, and people can self -improve themselves. The preciousness of people is human themselves."

Life is a process of constant cultivation.

You have to go step by step, and you have to spend one by one.

Only when the mountains are opened in the mountains, can we better improve yourself in the hardship of the water.

Like a praise. When you walk a long and long road, you can see the stars of the sky.

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