With kindness, hide strength

Today I read a passage from Liu Cixin's "Ball Lightning" and found it very interesting.

This passage is about a character named Jiang Xingchen, who is the captain of an aircraft carrier.

Unlike the urban men who are used to showing their strength in front of potential competitors, he tries to hide his strength every moment. This is a kind of kindness, afraid that this power will hurt people like me. He seems to be saying all the time: I'm really sorry for making you feel inferior in front of her, it's not intentional.

This passage describes two types of men.

There is a type of person who is always looking for and creating opportunities to showcase their success, in order to make others feel inferior for even a second.

Another type of person is someone like Jiang Xingchen, who holds good intentions and carefully hides their strength to avoid making others uncomfortable.

I thought of some scenes in the novel.

For example, in "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber", there was a time when Zhang Wuji was fighting against Yuan soldiers and had to select a group of light skill masters. He ordered everyone to jump over a wall as a test.

Zhang Songxi lined up and jumped onto the wall, gently flipping down from the other side.

Zhang Songxi's light skill is so good, but he doesn't perform much in front of everyone.

Other people are different.

A group of heroes jumped over the wall one after another like butterflies, some showing off their lightness skills, and even performing various tricks in mid-air...

Why doesn't Zhang Songxi want to show off his lightness skills? It's simple. The lightness skills of the Wudang Sect have long been "famous all over the world", and there is really no need to prove it. Showing off his skills in front of other inferior students makes them feel inferior and cannot bring them any happiness.

This is what is called "always pay attention to restraining strength and avoid making others feel inferior".

There are also some more typical ones, such as Li Xunhuan written by Gu Long.

Xiao Li's flying knife is not false as usual.

But he always pays attention to hiding his power, afraid that this power will hurt other ordinary people.

Note that this kind of restraint is not for the so-called less enmity or less exposure, but purely a kind of goodwill towards others.

In Jin Yong's works, heroes Guo Jing and Zhang Sanfeng are also such people. The younger generation's Linghu Chong, Zhang Wuji, and even the later Yang Guo are also moving towards this direction.

Compared to them, we are ordinary people.

It seems that ordinary people live a "tired" life, sometimes not because they are tired of pursuing success, but because they are tired of constantly proving their success.

This is very energy-consuming. Moreover, if a person tries too hard to constantly prove themselves, it will make everyone around them tired.

Some uncles, just met for the first time, can abruptly lead the topic to his Mercedes-Benz, and constantly try to reveal his identity as a "special invited member of the CPPCC" and the label of "300,000 Weibo fan".

A person who is so powerful that they don't need to show off, and then generates a kind of kindness to avoid making others feel inferior, is a very high realm. When young people enter society, they all long to refine themselves into a sword, which is chilling, but only when they are strong enough will they take the initiative to give themselves a scabbard.

Like Zuo Lengchan and others, before a martial arts competition, they have to use their internal strength to make an explosive sound when drawing a sword. With a "clang" sound, it shakes the valley and makes the onlookers applaud desperately.

But if Zhang Sanfeng and Feng Qingyang also draw their swords like this, clanging clanging, you will feel out of place.

I remember in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", a master tested Guo Jing's martial arts skills and accidentally hit too hard, causing Xiao Guo to suffer losses. Guo Jing's face instantly turned red.

Master Yideng noticed and quickly "reached out and gently patted his shoulder, smiling and saying, 'It's not easy to practice like this!'"

The emperor has done it, the "Five Greats" have become it, and even Ouyang Feng is afraid of his fingers. Does he still need the inferiority of Xiao Guo Jing to bless him?