Clean, a person's best self-cultivation

The writer Yu Hua once said: only clean eyes can see the soul.

Only when the eyes are clean, can you see the beautiful scenery; only when the heart is clean, can you have pure feelings.

Cleanliness is not only the bottom line of being a man, but also the best self-cultivation of a person.

01

The best-looking appearance of a person is cleanliness.

Yishu said that the most important thing to be a person is to look good.

Good-looking people, do not have to wear gold and silver, famous brand plus body, full of jewelry, but the appearance must be clean and tidy.

Guo Wanying, the fourth lady of Shanghai Yong'an Company, was beautiful and rich when she was young, and was known as the last aristocrat in China.

After liberation, Guo Wanying moved from a luxury house to an attic pavilion, from a daughter who hugged her before and after going out to a rundown capitalist faction who ate a bowl of Plain Noodles for 8 cents.

During the Cultural Revolution, because she was the daughter of a capitalist, she was forced to reform through labour and even reduced to cleaning toilets, with ten fingers out of shape.

However, as long as she always wears makeup and changes into clean clothes when she sees everyone.

Others do not understand, she is already poor so, why still have leisure to dress up?

But she replied, "because that's what people look like to live."

In her later years, Guo Wanying rejected the request to live overseas with her children and stayed in Shanghai.

She always wears neatly curled short silver hair and shows people with exquisite make-up. Although she wears cloth clothes and trousers with a single color and ordinary style, she is always decent and clean.

Chen Danyan wrote in the Golden branches and Yuye of Shanghai:

After going through so many terrible things, dangerous things. Sad things, put on the Guo family Huei-fang can not imagine things, in the end, she still smiles straight in front of you, drinking black tea elegantly, snow-white curly hair exudes fragrance, do you think there is anything she can not cross?

Until facing death, Guo Wanying still insisted on washing herself clean, combing her hair neatly, and then lay down on the bed, quietly and calmly bid farewell to the world of floating dust.

Lao she once said: truly beautiful people do not apply too much powder, do not wear clothes indiscriminately.

A real self-cultivation person, will not blindly pursue luxury goods, will not dress himself gorgeous and vulgar, but from makeup to clothes, always keep clean and tidy, make people feel comfortable.

Not sloppy, not scribbled, no matter how bad the external environment, always take care of their appearance, keep their appearance clean and decent, is the respect for the people around them, but also the respect for their own life.

Clean and clean, is the best-looking appearance of a person.

02

A person's noblest heart is clean.

True cleanliness is not only on the surface, but from the inside out. It's easy to clean up your appearance, but it's hard to keep your heart clean.

When each of us first came into the world, we all had a clean heart, and then most of us began to put desire, greed, jealousy, arrogance and so on into our hearts, and eventually became what we hated.

Zhuangzi said: the heart of the most human use is like a mirror, do not meet, should not hide, so can win things without being hurt.

In vernacular terms, people with high moral cultivation, whose hearts are clean like a mirror, can be detached from the realm of things.

Yu Qian of the Ming Dynasty is a clean representative. After Ming Yingzong ascended the throne, Wang Zhen, the eunuch, dominated the imperial government.

At that time, officialdom was corrupt, bribes were made, and when ministers went to Beijing, they had to give huge gifts, otherwise the consequences would be embarrassing.

But every time Yu Qian goes to Beijing, he only takes his luggage with him.

The kind-hearted man was afraid that he would suffer, so he persuaded: if you don't bring gold and silver to Beijing, you should also bring some native products to get one free!

He raised his sleeve and smiled and said, "I have a clean wind on my sleeves!"

Yu Qian official to supervise the imperial history, want to send him a steady stream of gold and silver jewelry, he ordered his family to show a sign, writing Qingfeng two sleeves to the sky.

The briber saw the warning and left knowingly.

After the civil change, Ming Yingzong was captured, the army of Wala oppressed the territory, and the Ming Dynasty was in danger.

Ministers have suggested that the court move south in order to continue to enjoy high-ranking officials and rich food and clothing.

Yu Qian said: those who suggest moving south should be killed!

Yu Qian did not care about personal safety and gain or loss, and was ordered in the face of danger, leading hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians to defend Beijing, which was famous for its history.

Yu Qian was falsely accused and killed. When he took over the family, the family had no spare resources.

When the family plagiarist saw that the main house was closed and locked, he thought that the money must have been hidden inside it. When he opened it, he found that the treasures were all robes and swords given to him by Emperor Jingdi. The seal records were clear and untouched, and all those who saw them burst into tears.

Mr. Liang Shuming, a master of Sinology, said, "you can't try your best to live without a clean heart and no desire."

People who have a clean heart go straight ahead and do things aboveboard. Admiration is worthy of the sky, and does not bow down to others.

The heart of this kind of people is bright and windy, magnanimous, like the wind when it is sunny after rain, like the bright moon after heavy snow.

People with a clean heart, no matter how dark the world is, always stick to their inner beliefs; no matter how honored they are, they are always modest and low-key and not superior to others.

The heart is clean, the heart is transparent, the whole body is upright, and everything is natural and clean.

He who has a clean heart is the noblest.

03

A person's ideal circle is clean.

Studies have shown that the range of people socializing in a lifetime is actually very small, because the number of people whose intelligence will allow humans to have a stable social circle is 150.

And among these 150 people, there are many people who can add icing on the cake to you.

But when you really encounter difficulties and need help, there are very few people who can help you in times of hardship, which is the result of human nature.

Some people say: that's an old idea! There are thousands of people in my Wechat moments.

But if you think about it, how many people do you often contact? How many people do you really know? Not to mention the people who will pour out their pockets to help you in times of disaster.

Two or three bosom friends are better than thousands of casual acquaintances.

So it doesn't make sense to know how many people you know. Remove the unimportant people from the circle and concentrate on maintaining the real good friends. Those who really know how to live.

Confucius said: the gentleman is proud but does not fight, the group but not the party.

Zhou Guoping said: the friend in my mind is neither a casual acquaintance nor a soul-to-heart lover. The degree should be somewhere in between.

The circle formed by taking advantage of each other is easy to knot and disperse.

The real circle accepts you because you are good, not because you are useful.

Dou Wentao, host of Phoenix Satellite TV, once hosted the Qiang Qiang trio for 19 years, and interviewed guests from all kinds of celebrities in the academic, business and performing arts circles.

In theory, he should have a very large circle, let him indulge in it all the time.

However, apart from doing TV programs, Dou Wentao is more often a complete otaku. Unless he is forced to go out, he can not go out for two weeks and suddenly wants to go to a neighbor's house for dinner. He blushes with excitement.

Doesn't Dou Wentao have any friends?

Of course not.

He once said: in addition to friendship, friends are also fastidious, which is very important. The so-called fastidious, you can understand as taste, talent, congenial, conversation, it is fastidious. This feeling is not a substitute for friendship.

Fortunately, almost all of his friends are in the same neighborhood.

Upstairs and downstairs, a mile around, condensed into his private Beijing, although they are not in touch with each other in January, they are also at ease.

When the circle is clean, your life will be easier.

To subtract from your circle and say goodbye to low-quality socialization is to add to your life.

It doesn't matter whether the circle is big or not, but whether it is clean or not.

People with real connotation not only have a clean appearance, but also have a clean heart.

Clean heart, will be inspired to like-minded friends, so there is a clean circle.