Under what background was Caigen Tan created? What is the impact on future generations?

Caigen Tan was written by Hong Yingming in the middle and late Wanli period. At the end of Wanli, the emperor ruled the country without rules, the eunuch monopolized the power, the regime was abolished, and the party was in trouble. Since the Jiajing Dynasty, there have been signs of internal troubles and foreign invasion, which are more serious. People of insight are extremely stupid and unable to extricate themselves from the fierce social contradictions at that time, so some people wrote books and expressed the voice of the times.

Caigen Tan is a popular work of Confucianism, which integrates Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, takes Zen of mind as the core, and has the way of self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world. At the same time, with its philosophy of life, art of life and aesthetic taste, it has become an inspiring China literary work.

Caigen Tan absorbs the essence of China traditional culture and pays special attention to adjusting people's mentality from the perspective of social culture. It is a unique poetic work. There are countless schools in the history of China. In these schools, the norms of social and cultural mentality are more or less involved. However, almost all of them ignore social ethics, and they act in their own way. They are endless, and they are getting worse. The high taste of traditional culture and the low level of social customs are worlds apart.

In Caigen Tan, the starting point of social and cultural mentality reconstruction is the self-cultivation of every member of society. He asked people to "leave yesterday behind". Once they persist in these mistakes and do not completely correct them, they will revive one day and hinder their pursuit of reason and justice. Therefore, when they have nothing to do in their leisure time, they should seriously reflect on whether they have impure distractions. Once a reader has "indomitable sincerity", he can gain infinite wisdom and wonderful use. If someone can "stay awake for a long time, they will avoid bows and arrows" to avoid injury; If you can be "spotless", you can untie the net and get real freedom. "Because" the dust in the world is clear, there is no fire and no ice in the chest ",the secular feelings that are sometimes fanatical and sometimes depressed will also be removed.