《游褒禅山记》

《游褒禅山记》 is the 王安石 prose text used in 164.古文的力量：请收下这份千年未变的深情、洞见和勇气 to discuss ideal, effort, and failure. The episode uses the travel-record frame less as scenic writing than as a way to think about whether a person can still count a failed pursuit as meaningful when they have truly tried.

The source connects the text to Wang Anshi’s later political fate without making a simple verdict on 王安石变法. QinZong’s reading holds two claims together: Wang Anshi may not have resolved the contradiction between imperial power and reform ideals, but his private moral standard of “尽吾志” still gives modern listeners a model of Subjectivity Through Failure / 失败中的主体性.

Connections

• 王安石 - author and reformer whose life colors the episode’s reading.
• 《古文的力量》 and 杜若 - book and author discussing the essay.
• 王安石变法, Good Intentions Political Limits, and 宋代党争 / Song Factional Politics - political background.
• Subjectivity Through Failure / 失败中的主体性, Classical Prose Reading / 古文阅读, and Reading As Frame Training - interpretive frames.