Read the Confused Sutra, Do the Smart Things

Author: Dong Quanzhong
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Zheng Banqiao's poetry, calligraphy, and painting are renowned as the "Three Colors." The phrase "Rarely Lake and River" is widely known. Later generations summarized Zheng Banqiao's philosophy as the "Lake and River Scriptures," using it as a reference for how to live. "Painting dragons and tigers is hard to paint the bones, knowing people by face is not knowing the heart." What is the hardest to understand in the world? It is the human heart. What is the most unpredictable in the world? It is also the human heart. What is the most frightening in the world? It is still the human heart. As a person in the official world, Zheng Banqiao had a profound understanding of the warmth and cold of human hearts and the fickleness of the world, which is why he could have such insights.