"Born in sorrow, died in happiness." -During the Warring States Period, Mencius said to his son: Only in this way can we know that anxiety and disaster can make people (or countries) survive and develop, and that ease and enjoyment can make people (or countries) perish.
It means that people and even the country will make great efforts to survive in times of suffering, but they will relax in a happy state, leading to inability to resist and eventually perish;
"Worry before the world" —— Song Zhongyan's translation of Yueyang Tower: Worry before the world.
It means that the author or great man should worry about the world first, which is a state of mind and reflects people's worries about the world.
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1, "Worry about the world first, then enjoy the world", which originally meant "Worry about the world first, then enjoy the world". It reflects the author's concern for the country, the people and national affairs, which undoubtedly does not reflect Fan Zhongyan's broad mind of embracing everything in the world.
Another extended meaning of "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later" is positive and enterprising. Struggle is the ladder to realize the ideal. In order to develop explosives, chemist Nobel forgot to eat and sleep and did hundreds of experiments in four years. He was even seriously injured in the last experiment, but he succeeded.
It can be seen that even though there are often contradictions between ideal and reality, young people should take the spirit of struggle as a ladder to the ideal realm.
The meaning of "worry about the world first, and enjoy the world later" is far from enough, but keeping this view often can make us understand the essence of things, constantly spur ourselves, warn ourselves and improve ourselves.
2. The author further demonstrates the truth that sorrow is greater than heart death from two different angles: the development of a person and the rise and fall of a country. Finally, let nature take its course and come to the conclusion that "born in sorrow, died in happiness".
The full text adopts the way of enumerating historical cases and reasoning, and deduces them layer by layer, making the article compact and meticulous. In addition, the article uses parallelism and antithesis, even if the tone is patchy, it also creates an unstoppable momentum and effectively enhances the persuasiveness of the argument.
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