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What does the secular concept mean?

Refers to the social customs at that time. "Wen Zi Daoyuan": "Praise falsehood confuses the world, pervert confuses the public, and saints don't think about the secular." Historical Records Biography of Officials: "Scholars teach the people, harmony from top to bottom, secular beauty, slow government, no evil officials, and thieves can't afford it." Ming Shaocan's "The Story of the Sack: The Resignation of Marriage": "It's just that this person is a bit old-fashioned and unsophisticated."

2. earthly life; This world. Zhuangzi Heaven and Earth: "If you know that you are a vegetarian, do nothing but return to nature and hold God in your body, will you be shocked by evil?" Han Jiayi's Xi Poetry: "The secular world is faint, dazzling the beauty and evil of white and black." Li Mingzhi's Book with Delightfulness: "Common sayings also have some merits: being poor and cheap is easy, but being rich is difficult; It is easy to work hard, but difficult to be idle; It's easier to endure pain than to endure itching. "Wang Xiyan's The Old House, Part IV, Part VII:" I have seen all worldly pleasures and all the so-called splendor. "

3. refers to laity, ordinary people. "Under Zhuangzi": "Don't blame right and wrong, get along with the secular." "Nanjun Gengfa Book": "What Zi said is also secular." One of Su Song Shunqin's "He Yan Banquet Mingyue Building": "The waves rely on the railing to ask the secular, who will get themoon?" Zhu Xi's Miscellaneous Knowledge of Qing Dynasty, Volume II: "Secular snobbery is right and wrong, so it is."

4. Vulgar; Vulgar. Tang Hanyu's Epitaph of Governors: "CCBA is an article without secular spirit." Ye Shengtao's "Ni Huanzhi" I: "When Bai Shu said the last sentence, Huanzhi felt that he was suddenly middle-aged, sophisticated, smart and secular, and completely portrayed in his brow."

At the mention of the word "secular", even the illiterate rural old lady got the message in an instant.

When you think about problems, do things, and deal with the details of life, you think about problems like others, and you become secular.

People of any status and occupation can choose secular or otherworldly. This is the freedom and right of human beings.

Qu Yuan died and became independent. This kind of unconventional behavior is a kind of public outrage. So, people at that time said he was crazy. But Qu Yuan is still Qu Yuan after all, and others call him crazy. Instead, he plausibly said "the whole world was drunk, and I woke up alone". It is really admirable to be able to do this, because it is far from the secular world.