Scholars and fear of high

Those who are afraid of high,

Various complexity in human society will be more awe

Picture/Xiao Zhenduo

British female writer Virginia Wolf once fantasized himself as a bird, flying overlooking the city of New York from the air. I judged from her text that she might have heights, so she described the feelings of dizziness so finely. Of course, this is not a bad reputation. Many literati have heights. Including myself, every time I see a photo or movie shot taken from a high place, the blood pressure will fall sharply, and the sweat will be talked about it, so I think of Camus's sentence: "I have never felt so deeply I am far away from my soul, but my existence is so real. "

Health is very common, and some experts say that there are about one of about 20 people. Scientists believe that there are three elements of height. First, the visual focus of the person is shifted, and the second is the poor control ability of the body. In addition, the function of the vestibular system is weak, which makes people estimate that the vertical height is too high, and it feels more terrible in intuition. Many of the literati are in line with these elements, which are more sad and have no power to bind chickens. Many times they lack the ability to solve their own dilemma. In the process of boarding and exploring natural scenery, it is easier to feel negative thinking and anxiety. This makes fear upgrades and form a vicious circle.

Han Yu and his friends traveled to Huashan in the Tang Dynasty, and they had a joke because of fear of noise. As the saying goes, "It's easy to go down the mountain." It is because you can find the point in advance when you go up the mountain. Even if the mountain road is dangerous, it will not make people feel fear. Many people wait until the mountain to find that the vertical perspective and the horizontal perspective are different. When Han Yu saw that the surrounding valleys were unpredictable, his legs could not walk, thinking that his life was going to be trapped on the mountain. The willingness to survive with the fear of death caused him to collapse, crying in public, and farewell to his family. Friends and servants who went up the mountain together were useless to comfort him, so he had to inform Huayin County. The county magistrate sent a large number of people to send a large number of people.

However, it is not unpredictable, which can help people jump out of both thinking and enter a higher and wider view of vision to think about problems. French philosopher Sat went to the Billy Mountains on vacation. At a dangerous mountain mouth, he was afraid and was afraid of the urge to "want to jump". This extreme fear reaction inspired him to write "Existence and Nothing" and see the truth of existentialism. Similar to Su Shi in the Northern Song Dynasty. He entered the career and served as the judge of the Fengxiang Mansion in Shaanxi. The two went to Xianyoutan once to play. After a Valley, Zhang Ye asked Su Shi to the inscription on the cliff on the opposite side, leaving the name of the two.

When Su Shi saw only one wood connecting the two ends of Yayu, there was a steep standing wall. At a glance, he couldn't see to the end. His legs trembled and dared not pass. Zhang Yan walked across the wooden bridge very calmly, took a rope to the tree next to it, climbed the rope to the height of the mountain wall, dipped in ink with a brush to write "Zhang Ye Su Shi to swim" on the stone wall, and along the original road return. Like Sartre, Su Shi observed differently, and judging that Zhang Ye is a ruthless character that can kill people -under normal circumstances, people will control the dangerous fear in the safe distance of emotion. People with tendencies are easier to make some devastating actions -the facts later also prove that Su Shi's judgment is accurate.

Those who are afraid of high will be more awe of various complexity in human society. In the Qing Dynasty, Shaanxi governor Bi Yan led the staff to Deng Huashan. Canglong Ridge, which made Han Yuyi ashamed, Bi Yan saw the mountains extending to endlessly. It was impossible for such a steep mountain road to go down, so he was panicked and staged the stage. The same plot as Han Yu was crying, and wrote bid farewell to his family, stating that his life was going to be broken on Huashan.

The staff and subordinates who traveled together soothed him. As long as he went down the mountain, his eyes stared at the ladder, and he could calm down. But no matter how persuasion is invalid, Bi Yan dare not go down the mountain by himself. Seeing that the highest officer of a province was trapped in high, officials at all levels were urgent, and finally came up with an alternative method: sending wine to the top of the mountain to get drunk, lethargic and lost consciousness, and then tied him up with a blanket. Drink down the mountain with a rope all the way.

After Bi Yuan's affairs, the reaction was very decent. He didn't feel embarrassed because of this embarrassment. He also raised a model to broaden the mountain road of Canglongling. It is known that he is not ashamed. After all, in the history of human long evolution, those who were first eliminated were often those who did not know how to fear.

Send 2022.8.29 Total Issue 1058 "China News Weekly" magazine

Magazine title: literati and fear of high disease

Author: green silk

Edit: Wang Xiaoxia

Operation editor: Wang Lin

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