"Lowland into the sea, inferior. The saint is nameless, but the saint is invisible. What does it mean that an eagle stands like a sleeping tiger walks like a disease, expensive but not obvious?

It means: the earth is not afraid of its inferiority, water can gather in the sea, and people can be kings without fear of its inferiority.

Being a low-key person is a philosophy that will eventually achieve great success. Only those who are familiar with this philosophy can become wise and noble. True saints will eventually cultivate to the realm of no self. The eagle is the hero of the sky, and the tiger is the power of the earth. However, such a majestic animal often pretends to be sick and tired, so as to let its prey relax its vigilance and wait for its prey to approach before making a masterpiece and catching it.

Prosperity is almost everyone's yearning. But expensive but not obvious, flashy and not dazzling, not everyone can do it. Low profile is the philosophy of these successful people.

From the early Ming Taoist Hong Yingming's Caigen Tan.

Hong Yingming, the author of Caigen Tan, was a newcomer and lived in Wanli period of Ming Shenzong. People from Xindu (now Xindu County), Sichuan, went to Nanjing to seek an official position and lived in Nanjing. From his enthusiasm for the world in his early years to his return to Buddhism, we can see that the author has suffered a lot and experienced many setbacks, which is unspeakable. It is enough to talk about life and road. Historians call him a fairy tale.

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Creation background

In the middle and late period of Wanli, Zongshen ruled the country badly, eunuchs were authoritarian, officials were lax, and party struggles were everywhere. At this point, the Jiajing dynasty began to show signs of internal and external troubles, and people of insight were extremely dull and could not be freed from the fierce social contradictions at that time, so some people would express the voice of the times. ?

During the Wanli period of Song Shenzong in Ming Dynasty, Hong Yingming once lived in Qinhuai River and devoted himself to writing.

Where Hong Yingming lives, the soil is poor, the vegetables grown by farmers are not very prosperous, the harvest is poor, and life is very bitter.

Farmers take their own vegetables to the market to sell, and the roots are bitter, so they should be weighed. Buyers usually remove their roots, so farmers' income is even lower.

Hong Yingming's life at that time was also very poor. It was a pity to see many vegetable roots thrown away, so I wanted to take them away, but I didn't want to owe anyone anything, so I paid a little money to buy them.

After a long time, the locals called Hong Yingming "a silly vegetable root".

One day, my friend Yu (party member in Ming Dynasty) visited Hong Yingming's house. Hong Yingming treats kimchi with rice porridge. After Kong tasted it, he patted the table. The pickles pickled with vegetable roots in Hong Yingming are black and bright, salty and crisp, and have no bitter taste of vegetable roots. Compared with ordinary pickles, vegetable roots taste different.

When Yu Kong asked the truth, Hong Yingming said: Vegetable root tastes bitter, so most people just throw it away after tasting it. I feel pity, so I pickled these vegetable roots into pickles. The reason why my vegetable root is delicious is because I know that it is delicious. First of all, I pickled the vegetable root with salt. After a year of fermentation, the bitterness of the vegetable root was removed and the fragrance of the vegetable root was forced out.

Then remove the salt from the vegetable roots with water and dry them in the sun for three days to make them more chewy. Finally, the vegetable root is mixed with spices such as pepper and served after seven days of pickling.

Yu Konghe not only sighed with emotion: "Sex sets the roots of vegetables." Vegetables are simply discarded in this way, and the fragrance of vegetable roots can only be experienced by people with calm heart. Only an indifferent person like Hong Yingming can make the discarded vegetable roots so delicious.

It is because of this special experience that his "Caigen Tan" was finally named after Caigen.