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Rhino effect

Yesterday, I chatted with Brother Zhang about Journey to the West, and the rhinoceros monster in it gave me great inspiration. During the Warring States period, rhinoceros lived in the Yellow River valley, and people endowed it with beautiful meanings of avoiding water, fire and dust.

The rhinoceros cultural relics unearthed at this time look exactly like the rhinoceros now. Later, due to climate change, rhinoceros gradually disappeared in China. By the Ming Dynasty, people only knew rhinoceros, but didn't know what it looked like.

There are many in The Journey to the West. For example, three rhinoceros monsters were chased to the West Sea by Wukong. The horns on their heads broke away from the sea in an instant, and the waves spread to both sides. The sea is like a book opened in the middle. Niu Wangmo's golden-eyed beast is also a rhinoceros. the Monkey King, who can't swim, rides it to the bottom of the sea to drink water, so he doesn't have to recite the water avoidance mantra.

But in Ming and Qing paintings, it seems that what rhinoceros looks like has long been forgotten.

Look at this illustration of The Journey to the West in Ming Dynasty first. The horns of rhinoceros monster are arranged horizontally, and tele baby+ buffalo essence are all visual.

Look at this picture book of the Qing Dynasty. This rhinoceros is particularly cute. Unlike dogs and cows, dogs feel like goats. At that time, people only remembered that there was such a magical animal in the legend, which existed in national songs like a dragon.

With globalization, we live in more than one place all our lives. We can go to any country on earth, we can see any kind of animals through the Internet and TV, and we can see rhinoceros in the zoo not far from home. It has been confirmed by archaeologists and climatologists that rhinos do exist in China.

After something that once existed disappears for a period of time, people will forget what it looks like, so they give a lot of incredible imagination and misinterpret the original intention. It is not until civilization develops to a newer and higher dimension that its true face can be uncovered again.

And this new dimension needs qualitative technology and a grand world.

I call it the rhinoceros effect.

The rhinoceros effect is everywhere in life. For example, Jesus saved 5,000 people with five fish and two cakes, and the rest of the food was filled with 12 basket. These miracles cannot be explained today. Perhaps, like rhinoceros, they do exist, but the present civilization and world outlook have not yet been reached.

From this, perhaps science itself is the limitation of science, and there is more advanced wisdom above science, but it is useless to emerge now.

Perhaps these higher wisdom, Lao Tzu and Plato told us long ago, but we misinterpreted the meaning and didn't understand it.

I remembered Einstein's words: "If you stay at the level of thinking with problems, it is impossible to solve problems."

We often say that we should find a way to solve a problem, but as a result, we solved a problem and caused a bigger problem, resulting in gradual compensation. For example, in order to make the environment better, human beings don't use oil to drive, but advocate electric vehicles and use nuclear energy, but they don't know that batteries can't be degraded. The harm of nuclear energy directly brings about the destruction of the earth.

The key to solving the problem lies not in the problem itself, but in the thinking level.

Li Xiaolai said he was looking for a master key, and now I finally found it.

Through this rhinoceros, I was inspired by the following:

1. Don't report that you don't believe in anything, including religion, art and the world.

2. In the future, people won't be embarrassed. What many people don't like or understand is their own thinking.

3. The solution to the lack of "knowledge" is not the "knowledge" itself that you think is lacking.

4. Many meanings in ancient Chinese are different from those now. Understanding traditional culture is a huge project.

5. The same is true of tea marketing. The fundamental solution is multi-dimensional superposition, not single-dimensional deep ploughing.