Zi Yue: "If you are a threesome, you will have my teacher." Choose what is good and follow it, and change it from the bad. ”
- "Analects and Narratives"
As a great educator of a generation, Confucius put forward countless ideological concepts in his lifetime, and as the founder of Confucianism, it can be said that he has made great contributions to China's education cause. The reason why Confucius has made so many achievements is inseparable from his spirit of learning without shame.
In the Analects, Confucius has made it clear that three people walk together, there must be a person who can be his teacher, bring their good places to study, see the bad places to encourage themselves, Confucius is so modest and studious allusions, for example, once, Confucius asked a child how many stars are in the sky, listened to the child's answer, the famous Confucius, immediately decided to worship this seven-year-old hairy child as a teacher, let's take a look at it together!
The influence of Confucius
How far-reaching was Confucius's influence? Tang Xuanzong, the founder of the Kaiyuan Shengshi, added the title of "Wenxuan" to Confucius, and since then, Confucius has the title of King of Wenxuan, which was 1388 years after the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period, and Confucius was still admired by thousands of people.
Not only the Han people were deeply influenced by Confucius, but also the ethnic minorities were also influenced by Confucius, the Yuan Dynasty was the regime established by the ethnic minorities in the feudal society of the mainland, and the third emperor, Emperor Yuanwuzong, named Confucius the "Most Holy Teacher", which is also the origin of the later generations to call Confucius the "Most Holy".
During the Ming Dynasty, the Eight Strands of Scholars also examined the Confucian culture of the Four Books and Five Classics, and in the Qing Dynasty, which was also an ethnic minority regime, the Kangxi Emperor also led the ministers to worship the Confucius Temple and expressed his admiration for Confucian culture.
Throughout the entire process of the feudal dynasty, Confucius's thought and the Confucian school pioneered have always been the mainstream ideas, although there was Qin Shi Huang's book burning pit Confucianism, but in the Han Dynasty period, there were deposed hundreds of families, exclusive respect for Confucianism, still showing the unshakable status of Confucian culture in the field of education.
Even in modern society, the enlightenment reading materials of preschool children still have Analects, which shows that in the historical process of Chinese culture, Confucius and Confucianism have a pivotal position in the field of education, no matter how the dynasties change, Confucius's ideas are still passed down from generation to generation in the baptism of wind and rain, and they will endure for a long time.
Xiang Lisheng became a Confucius teacher at the age of seven
Confucius's influence on later generations can be seen, but even in the current world, Confucius was also very famous, during the Spring and Autumn Period, he often went to various countries to give lectures, his life can be described as peach and plum all over the world, when he took his disciples around the world, a lot of interesting things happened.
Legend has it that once, Confucius led his disciples to a city nearby, and was blocked by a group of children who were piling sand in the middle of the road and building something. Confucius's disciples saw the road and asked these children to give way.
The children next to them were scared away, only one child did not hear anything outside the window, still piling up sand, Zilu thought that this child did not hear, raised the volume and drove away again, the child heard the impatience in the sound of Zilu, and then slowly raised his head.
However, he still had no intention of giving way, but asked Zilu in a childish tone: "What am I doing?" ”
Zilu was confused, and when he saw that the children on the ground were piling up a castle and a gate made of sand and mud, he had to cope with it and said, "Isn't this a city here?" ”
The child nodded satisfactorily and replied, "Since you know that this is a castle, you naturally need to let go, there has always been only a reason for carriages and people to walk around the city, where is the reason for tearing down the city wall in order to let people and carriages pass?" ”
Hearing such a fallacy, Zilu was very angry and wanted to reprimand the child, but Confucius felt that although the child was young, he was brilliant and clever. So I stopped the sub-road and prepared to communicate with this child in depth.
Confucius asked, "What is your name, and how old are you?" The child replied unashamedly, "My name is Xiang Qi, I am seven years old this year, what about you?" ”
Confucius smiled and said, "My name is Kong Qiu" When the child heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out that this was the famous Confucius, and before he could relax, he heard Confucius continue: "I ask you three questions, if you can't answer, then tear down your castle and let us pass, if you fight out, then we will take a detour, can we?" ”
Although the other party was Confucius, in order to protect his own city, the child still agreed to him, only to hear Confucius's first question: "How many eyebrows do people have?" As soon as Confucius's voice fell, Xiang Qi immediately replied: "People have a total of two black and white eyebrows!" ”
Hearing this, Confucius could not help but praise the child in his heart, but his face was still not visible, and he continued to throw out the second question: "Then what fire has no smoke, what flower has no branch?" Xiang Qi still didn't think much of it, and blurted out: "There is no smoke in the fireworks, and there are no branches in the snowflakes!" ”
Seeing that the first two questions were easily cracked, Confucius asked, "How many stars are there in the sky?" Xiang Xi did not answer immediately this time, but pondered for a while, in fact, this answer was deliberately asked in order to make it difficult for the child, and they did not know the answer, but seeing that the child could not answer, Confucius's disciples secretly breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to ask the child to demolish the castle.
Who knew that the child's eyes turned, saw the cattle being cultivated in the field, and thought of the answer: "One night of stars, just like the cow hair on this cow!" As soon as this problem arose, Confucius and his party had nothing to say, so they had to prepare to turn the front of the car and walk around the "city".
Who knew that Xiang Qi did not intend to let them go, and stopped Confucius and said, "Coming and going without being rude, the master asked me three questions, and he had to answer me three questions, so it was fair!" Confucius saw the situation and was also curious, what question would this clever little boy ask?
Only to hear Xiang Qiao say, "Why can geese and ducks float on the water?" Why can the geese sing in the air? Why are the pine trees evergreen all year round? ”
All the disciples of Confucius looked at the teacher nervously, afraid that the teacher would fold his face in front of this hairy boy, and Confucius heard the question and couldn't help but smile: "It's very simple, the goose and duck have webs on their feet, so they can float in the water, and the reason why the wild goose can sing is because it has a long neck, and the stem of the pine and cypress tree is very solid, so it can be evergreen all year round!" ”
Who knew that Xiang Qi shook his head and said, "No! The soles of the fish are not webbing, but they can float on the water, the toads can also croak, but they do not have a long neck, and the bamboo is evergreen, it can't be because of the solid heart, right? ”
When Confucius heard Xiang Qi's words, he immediately felt that this child was not ordinary, and in line with the principle of not being ashamed to ask questions, he immediately decided to prostrate himself to Xiang Qi as a teacher, hoping to learn more ideas from Xiang Qi and use them in future learning, so this pile of Xiang Qi's three difficulties Confucius, Confucius's worship of the master, was also recorded in the history books, flowing through the centuries.
epilogue
However, the young Xiang Qi, because he became Confucius's teacher, became famous for a while, and the monarchs of various countries wanted to invite him to serve, but Xiang Qi did not agree to them, and with the idea of destroying it if he did not get it, Xiang Qi, who was only 12 years old, died tragically in the battle for hegemony among the princes, and such an ending was really regrettable.
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