With culture, what is culture？

I often hear people say: it’s terrible to have no culture.

But what is "culture"?

-is it a degree? Is it an experience? Is it experience?

The writer Liang Xiaosheng once summed up culture in four sentences:Cultivation rooted in the heart; Consciousness without reminding; Freedom based on constraints; Kindness for others.

Cultivation rooted in the heart

There is a saying in our hometown that praises people: this person is really cultivated! Self-cultivation is the most basic characteristic of culture. Gentle, gentle and gentle, these words are all used to describe scholars and educated people.

Because ancient people, basic education is the classics of the Four Books and Five Classics. After reading these books, the shaping of personality is completely different from the pure knowledge education that emphasizes function rather than self-cultivation in education now.

Although modern education emphasizes the cultivation of practical results and functions, if a person has read a lot of books and studied for many years, he doesn’t even have the minimum manners to be a man, then he can only say that his personality is not perfect.

The essence of good cultivation is that a person’s popularity is peaceful. Harmony is pleasant, and grace is graceful. This is what is behind self-cultivation. If you are harmonious, you will be arrogant and restrained. I don’t even want to invade others.

An uncultured person, on the other hand, has an uneven heart and a disharmony with gas. People who are not in harmony with each other, if they don’t get something out and toss others around, they are uncomfortable all over. Lack of self-cultivation, the whole person’s qi activity, is not only chaotic, but also outward-expanding, arrogant, jumping on others, it will give people a sense of aggression and discomfort, which is domineering and rude.

Consciousness without reminding

Self-awareness is a code of conduct that needs no reminder and will be abided by at any time.

Educated people know how to wait in line when waiting for the bus, know not to waste their meals, take the initiative to avoid others when they lose their passwords, and try their best to bear the trouble themselves. Only by putting yourself in the other’s shoes can one always pay attention to his words and deeds.

The ancients said, "A gentleman fears fate, adults and sages. The villain does not know the destiny and is not afraid. " Life in the world, all in a variety of rules, some expressly provided, some established.

There is no fear in the heart, there is no bottom line in doing things, words and deeds are endless, seemingly unrestrained, but it will leave a bad impression of arrogance. And those who are in awe will stop. Know what to do and what not to do, so you can go far and walk steadily.

Freedom on the premise of restraint

Western culture says that "freedom and equality" are natural human rights, which shows the importance of "freedom" to people.

In history, how many people are willing to throw away their lives in order to gain freedom: "Life is precious, but love is more expensive. If it is freedom, you can throw away both." It can be seen that "freedom" is sometimes more precious than life.

However, freedom here is a kind of relative freedom, not absolute freedom, not what individuals want to do. The premise of a person’s freedom is not to hinder or hurt the freedom of others, so everyone’s freedom should be restricted.

A literate person always restrains himself before enjoying his freedom and enjoys his freedom in a free space. The freedom of cultural people is more manifested as a kind of freedom of mind than freedom of behavior. Only when the mind is not fettered by foreign objects can the real freedom of life be realized.

Kindness for others.

Warm-hearted, sincere, quite the wind of an ancient gentleman, is the kind of person described.

This is not the result of ideological and moral education, nor is it influenced by social morality. Instead, when a person is calm and calm, quiet and introverted, and culture is self-conscious and self-conscious, he will show such care for people, things and society.