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Remember these 110 idioms and understand the Analects

The Analects, an immortal work, has influenced Chinese civilization for two thousand years.

Many of the aphorisms in the book are widely circulated.

And did you know that there are as many as 110 idiomatic allusions from the Analects!

~1~

Mourn without hurt

Explanation: Sadness without sadness, describing feelings as restrained; in addition, it also describes poetry and music as beautiful and elegant, and moderate feelings. It is often used as a metaphor to do things without going too far.

Source: "Analects of the Eight Nobles": "Guan Ju is happy but not obscene, mournful but not hurtful. ”

~2~

Eat all day long, do not care

Explanation: All day: all day.

Eat all day and don't care about anything.

Source: "Analects of Yang Goods": "Full of food all day, no intention, difficult!" ”

~3~

North Star Arch

Explanation: North Star: North Star; Arch: Orbit.

The North Star hangs high and surrounds the stars on all sides. In the old days, when the country was governed by virtue, the whole world would be subordinated. Later, it is also a metaphor for the people who are supported by the audience.

Source: "Analects of the Analects of Government": "For the government to be virtuous, such as the North Star, dwells in its place and the stars are together." (Collectively, with "arch".) )

~4~

than not weekly

Explanation: Gangs, but not united. It refers to the collusion of bad people in order to seek private interests, to do things without principles, and to betray faithfulness.

Source: "Analects for Politics": "Gentlemen are not compared to the week, and villains are not compared to the week." ”

~5~

Hold your breath

Explanation: Hold your breath: Temporarily suppress your breath; Concentrate: Concentrate.

Describes a high degree of concentration.

Source: "Analects of the Township Party": "The one who ascends to the church, bows as if he is also, and holds his breath as if he is restless." ”

~6~

Bosch for the benefit of the public

Explanation: Give grace and relief to the masses.

Source: "Analects of Yongye": "If there is a bo to the people and can help the people, how can it be?" Can it be described as benevolent? ”

~7~

Bowen Courtesy

Explanation: Covenant: Constraints.

Seek a wide range of knowledge and abide by the etiquette.

Source: "Analects of Yongye": "A gentleman is knowledgeable in literature, and he can also be a gentleman!" ”

~8~

Don't be ashamed to ask

Explanation: Do not regard it as a shameful thing to ask for advice from people who are inferior in learning, status, etc. Describe modesty and studiousness.

Source: "Analects of Gongyechang": "Sensitive and studious, not ashamed to ask, is to say that the text is also." ”

~9~

They must not die

Explanation: It means that people must not die well. It also expresses a curse on the wicked.

Source: "Analects advanced": "If it is also by it, it must not be dead." ”

~10~

Day and night

Explanation: Sher: Stop, stay.

Day and night never stop.

Source: "Analects of Zihan": "Zi on Kawakami: 'The deceased is like a sifu, who does not give up day and night.' ”

~11~

Exhilaration

Explanation: The original meaning is "Isn't it also very happy?" It is now used to indicate that the degree is extremely deep and extreme.

Source: "Analects of Learning": "Friends come from afar, are you happy?" ”

~12~

Not in its place, not in its own way

Explanation: If you do not hold a certain position, you will not ask about things within the scope of a certain position.

Source: "Analects of Tabor": "Not in his position, not in his government." ”

~13~

Observe the color

Explanation: Cha: Detailed examination.

Pay attention to other people's words and faces to guess other people's intentions.

Source: "Analects of Yan Yuan": "Fudaye is straight and righteous, observing words and looking at colors, and worrying about the following people." ”

~14~

Heroes and benevolent people

Explanation: Refers to people with lofty ambitions and high morals.

Source: "Analects of Wei Linggong": "A benevolent person, who has no survival to harm benevolence, who kills to become a benevolent." ”

~15~

Adult beauty

Explanation: Cheng: Complete, help people to make him successful.

Fulfill the good deeds of others.

Source: "Analects of Yan Yuan": "The beauty of a gentleman's adulthood is the evil of not being a man." Villains are the opposite. ”

~16~

do as one pleases

Explanation: According to your own meaning, you can do whatever you want. It also refers to seventy years old.

Source: "Analects for Government": "Sixty and obedient, seventy and do what the heart desires, not excessive." ”

~17~

Go a long way

Explanation: Gango: Two weapons of antiquity. Collectively used as a common name for weapons, it refers to force and war.

The use of force to wage war on a large scale. It is also a metaphor for acting with great fanfare.

Source: "The Analects of Ji Shi": "The state is falling apart and cannot be defended; and the plot is in the state." ”

~18~

Sell at the price

Explanation: Sell: Sell.

Wait until you have a good price to sell. The metaphor is of a talented person waiting for an opportunity to be willing to serve.

Source: "Analects of Zihan": "Gu Zhi Zhao, Gu Zhi Zhao! I treat Jia also. ”

~19~

Eat and drink

Explanation: A spoonful of food, a scoop of drink. Describe a high life of contentment in poverty.

Source: "Analects of Yongye": "A small piece of food, a scoop of drink, in the dark alley, people are overwhelmed by their worries, and they will not change their happiness." ”

~20~

Don't give in

Explanation: The original refers to benevolence as a responsibility, without humility. The latter refers to the fact that when encountering what should be done, take the initiative to do it, and do not push it.

Source: "Analects of Wei Linggong": "When Ren ren does not give way to the teacher." ”

~21~

The Tao is different, not conspiratorial

Explanation: People who walk different paths cannot plan together. People with different metaphors or interests cannot work together.

Source: "The Analects of Wei Linggong": "The Tao is different, and it is not conspiratorial." ”

~22~

Hearsay

Explanation: Tao, Dao: Road.

Words heard on the road, and legends on the road. Generally refers to unfounded rumors.

Source: "Analects of Yang Goods": "Listen to the Tao and say it, and the virtue is abandoned." ”

~23~

Evil clothes and bad food

Explanation: Evil: Crude.

Refers to poor clothing and food. Describe life frugality.

Source: "Analects of Li Ren": "A scholar who aspires to the Tao and is ashamed of his evil clothes and bad eaters is not enough to discuss with him." ”

~24~

sixty years old

Explanation: At the age of sixty, you can judge right from wrong by listening to other people's words. Refers to the pronoun of sixty years old.

Source: "The Analects of Wei Zheng": "I have five out of ten and am determined to learn, thirty and standing, forty and not confused, fifty and knowing the Mandate of Heaven, sixty and obedient, seventy and do not exceed the rules of the heart." ”

~25~

Angry and forgetful

Explanation: Studying or working hard, even forgetting to eat. Described as very diligent.

Source: "Analects of the Analects" (言語· Shuer): "Anger and forgetfulness, happy to forget worries, do not know that old age is coming to Yun'er." ”

~26~

Committing a crime

Explanation: Committed: Committed.

Feudal rulers refer to the people's revolts and uprisings.

Source: "Analects of Learning": "It is not easy to commit offenses, but those who are good at making trouble, there are not yet." ”

~27~

Fat horse light fur

Explanation: Joe: Leather coat.

Ride a fat horse and wear a light and warm leather coat. Describe it as generous.

Source: "Analects of Yongye": "Akatsuki Qiye, riding on a fat horse, dressed lightly." ”

~28~

Remarkable

Explanation: Fei, Zhang: Wencai.

Describe the article as rich in literary style and well worth reading.

Source: "Analects of Gongyechang": "The boy of our party is crazy and simple, and he has become a chapter, and he does not know why he is carrying it." ”

~29~

Fall to pieces

Explanation: Collapse: Collapse; Analysis: Separation.

It collapsed and disintegrated, falling apart. Describe the disintegration of a country or group.

Source: "Analects of Ji Shi": "Distant people are disobedient and cannot come, and the state is falling apart and cannot be kept." ”

~30~

The state of parents

Explanation: Refers to the motherland.

Source: "Analects of the Analects of The Little Son": "Why should you go to the country of your parents if you do things in vain?" ”

~31~

Tough Wood

Explanation: Rigid: strong; Resolute: Decisive; Wood: Simple; Ne: Slow speech, in this case refers to caution in speech.

Confucius praised the four qualities of man.

Source: "Analects of Zilu": "Gang, Yi, Mu, Ne, Jinren." ”

~32~

Cut the chicken with a cattle knife

Explanation: Why kill a chicken with a cattle slaughter knife. It doesn't take a lot of effort to do small things.

Source: "Analects of Yang Goods": "Zi no WuCheng, the sound of string songs." Master Wan'er smiled and said, "Cut the chicken with a cattle knife?" ’”

~33~

Each does not conspire

Explanation: Conspiracy: Negotiation, Calculation.

Each does what he wants, and does not consult with each other.

Source: "The Analects of Wei Linggong": "The Tao is different, and it is not conspiratorial." ”

~34~

Respectful and courteous

Explanation: Courtesy: respectful; Etiquette: etiquette.

Respectful and courteous.

Source: "Analects of Yan Yuan": "Gentlemen are respectful and without loss, and respectful and courteous with others." ”

~35~

If a worker desires to do a good thing, he must first use it

Explanation: Instrument: Tool.

To do a good job, first make the tool sharp. Metaphor To do a good job, preparation is very important.

Source: "Analects of Wei Linggong": "If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first use his weapon." Ju is a state, a sage who is a doctor, and a benevolent person who is a friend. ”

~36~

Attack heresy

Explanation: Refers to the study and implementation of ideas outside of Confucianism, but also to rebuke heresy.

Source: "Analects for Politics": "Attacking heresies has also been harmed." ”

~37~

More than enough is too much

Explanation: Excessive: excessive; Jude: Elephant; Not enough: Unattainable.

Overdoing things is as inappropriate as not doing enough.

Source: "Analects of The Advanced": "Zigong asked: 'Who is the master and the merchant?' The son said: "The master has also passed, and the shang has not reached." He said, "But then the master heals?" Zi Yue: "Too late." ’”

~38~

Strange forces chaos

Explanation: Refers to things about weirdness, bravery, rebellion, and ghosts.

Source: "Analects of shuer": "The Son does not speak strangely, force, chaos, and God." ”

~39~

a ragged colt may make a good horse

Explanation: Descendants: Young, Younger; Fear: Reverence.

Young people are awesome. Describe young people as being able to surpass their predecessors.

Source: "Analects of Zihan": "The future life is terrible, and the one who knows the coming is not now." ”

~40~

Gain and loss

Explanation: Suffering: Worry, worry.

Worry about not getting it, get it and worry about losing it. Describe the emphasis on personal gains and losses.

Source: "Analects of Yang Goods": "What is not gained is also gained; what is gained is lost." Nothing can be done! ”

~41~

teach tirelessly

Explanation: Teaching: Teaching.

Teach people to be especially patient and never tire of it.

Source: "Analects of the Analects of Shuer": "Learning without getting tired, teaching people tirelessly, why should I?" ”

~42~

Don't remember the old evil

Explanation: Remember: Remember.

Don't care about past grudges.

Source: "Analects of Gongyechang": "Boyi and Shuqi do not remember the old evil, and the resentment is the use of Xi." ”

~43~

Good samaritan

Explanation: Righteousness: Yes.

Do what you see should be done.

Source: "Analects for Government": "Seeing righteousness does not do, there is no courage." ”

~44~

do unto others as you would have them do to you

Explanation: Desire: Hope; Do Not: Don't; Give: Exert.

If you don't want to, don't impose it on others.

Source: "Analects of Yan Yuan": "Do not do to others what you do not want." ”

~45~

forgive somebody's past misdeeds

Explanation: Blame: Blame.

Originally, if something has been done or done, there is no need to blame it anymore. Now it means that there is no longer blame for past mistakes.

Source: "Analects of the Eight Nobles": "Don't say anything when you are done, don't advise on things one by one, and don't blame the past." ”

~46~

See Sages

Explanation: Xian: A man of both moral integrity and ability; Qi: Equal.

When I saw someone with both moral integrity and ability, I wanted to catch up with him.

Source: "Analects of Li Ren": "See the wise and think together, see the unwise and introspect within." ”

~47~

Perfect

Explanation: Extremely perfect, extremely beautiful. Refers to perfection without a single drawback.

Source: "Analects of the Eight Nobles": "The Son is called "Shao": 'Perfection is perfect, and perfection is also good.'" It is said that "Wu": "Perfect is beautiful, but not perfect." ’”

~48~

Courteously stand

Explanation: Superficially respectful, but actually unwilling to approach. Also used as a sarcastic remark about not wanting to approach someone.

Source: "Analects of Yongye": "Serve the righteousness of the people, worship ghosts and gods and stay away." ”

~49~

One example from another

Explanation: Anti: Analogy.

The parable knows many other things by analogy from one thing.

Source: "Analects of the Analects of Shuer": "If you are not indignant, if you are not angry, if you do not feel sorry for yourself, if you do not take the three corners against you, you will not return." ”

~50~

Talk

Explanation: Describe a pleasant and calm conversation.

Source: "Analects of the Township Party": "Chao, and the lower doctor, Kan Kan Ruye; with the Upper Doctor, Shu Ruye." ”

~51~

empty

Explanation: Emptiness: Sincerity, humility.

The original describes the appearance of sincerity and humility. Now describe nothing.

Source: "Analects of Zihan": "There are contemptible men who ask me, empty as they are, and I knock on both ends of them and exhaust themselves." ”

~52~

Clever words

Explanation: Clever words: rhetoric; Lingse: flattering expressions.

Describe rhetoric, hypocrisy and flattery.

Source: "Analects of Xueer": "Clever words make color, fresh and benevolent." ”

~53~

The benevolent leshan, the wise enjoy the water

Explanation: Le: Love, hobby.

Some people love mountains, some people love water. The metaphor is that each person's hobbies are different.

Source: "Analects of Yongye": "The knower leshan, the benevolent one leshui." ”

~54~

Happy to forget your worries

Explanation: Forget your sorrows because of your happiness. Described as very happy.

Source: "Analects of the Analects of Shuer": "Anger and forgetting food, happy to forget worries." ”

~55~

Enjoy

Explanation: Likes to do something and have fun in it.

Source: "Analects of ShuEr": "Rice and water, bending and pillowing, and happiness in it." ”

~56~

Mentor

Explanation: Good, good; beneficial, helpful.

Good teachers and good friends who make people teach and help.

Source: "The Analects of the Analects" (2017): "The three-person line will have my teacher, choose those who are good and follow them, and change those who are not good." "Three friends of the beneficiary, three friends of the loser." Friendly straight, friendly forgiveness, friendly smell, beneficial; friendly and soft, friendly and gentle, friendly and deficient, damage. ”

~57~

Miao but not show

Explanation: Seedling: refers to the crop out of the seedling; show: the crop spits out the ears and blossoms.

Refers to crops that produce seedlings without ears. The metaphor is that man has good qualifications, but he has no achievements.

Source: "Analects of Zihan": "Miao but not show has a husband!" Show and unreal people have a husband! ”

~58~

Sensitive and studious

Explanation: Min: Smart; Good: Preferences.

Talented and studious.

Source: "Analects of Gongyechang": "Sensitive and studious, not ashamed to ask, is to say that the text is also." ”

~59~

Sensitive to things, cautious in words

Explanation: Min: Strive, be careful: be careful.

Be diligent and speak cautiously.

Source: "Analects of Learning": "A gentleman eats without seeking fullness, dwelling without seeking safety, being sensitive to things and being cautious in his words." ”

~60~

Beat the drum and attack it

Explanation: The parable declares guilt, reprimands, or denounces.

Source: "Analects advanced": "Non-disciples, the boy beats the drum and attacks it." ”

~61~

Justifiably

Explanation: Name: name, name;

The original name is right, and the speech is reasonable. After mostly refers to doing something nominally legitimate, the reason also makes sense.

Source: "Analects of zilu": "If the name is not correct, the speech is not smooth, and if the words are not smooth, things will not be accomplished." ”

~62~

Introspection without guilt

Explanation: Refers to self-reflection, not feeling ashamed and uneasy in the heart, that is, not doing anything that is ashamed of the heart.

Source: "Analects Yan Yuan": "Introspection is not guilty, why worry and fear?" ”

~63~

Can be close to the example

Explanation: You can make an analogy with yourself. Metaphors can push oneself and others, and think for the sake of others.

Source: "Analects of Yongye": "To be able to get close to the example, it can be said that the party of benevolence has also been." ”

~64~

Evan meets friends

Explanation: Refers to making friends through words.

Source: "Analects of Yan Yuan": "Gentlemen meet friends with literature and assist people with friends." ”

~65~

Piff is invincible

Explanation: Even for an ordinary person, the parable cannot change his ambition at will, but also refers to the determination and unshakable will.

Source: "Analects of Zihan": "The three armies can seize the marshal, but the pifu cannot seize the will".

~66~

Shawl on the left side

Explanation: Left: The placket is covered to the left.

The cloak is scattered, and the placket is opened to the left, which refers to the invasion of foreign races.

Source: "Analects of the Constitution": "Microtubule Zhong, I was sent to the left. ”

~67~

Man has no far-sighted worries, but will have near-term worries

Explanation: Worry: Consideration; Worry: Sorrow.

If people do not have long-term considerations, there will certainly be immediate troubles. It means that looking at things and doing things should have a broad vision and careful consideration.

Source: "Analects of Wei Linggong": "People have no far-reaching worries, but will have near-term worries." ”

~68~

Heavy responsibilities

Explanation: Ren: Burden; Tao: Road.

The burden is heavy, the road is long, and the responsibility is described as heavy.

Source: "Analects of Tabor": "A soldier cannot fail to carry out his duties, and the task is heavy and the road is long. ”

~69~

Don't look at the incivility

Explanation: Don't look at things that are not polite.

Source: "Analects yan yuan": "Don't look at incivility, don't listen to incivility, don't talk about incivility, don't move." ”

~70~

Thirty and standing

Explanation: Refers to the achievement of a person around the age of thirty.

Source: "Analects for Government": "I have five out of ten and am determined to learn, and thirty are standing." ”

~71~

March does not know the taste of meat

Explanation: I can't feel the delicious taste of meat for a long time. The parable focuses on one thing and forgets something else. It is also borrowed to describe not eating meat for months.

Source: "Analects of shuer": "Zi is in Qi smelling "Shao", and in March I don't know the taste of meat." ”

~72~

Kill yourself

Explanation: Cheng: Perfection; Ren: Benevolence, the highest standard of Confucian morality.

Refers to the sacrifice of life for justice. The latter refers to giving up one's life in order to maintain the cause of justice.

Source: "Analects of Wei Linggong": "A benevolent person, who has no survival to harm benevolence, who kills to become a benevolent." ”

~73~

An ass in a lion's skin

Explanation: Color: look, look; strong: fierce; 荏: weak.

Tough on the outside, weak on the inside.

Source: "Analects of Yang Goods": "The color is strong and inward, such as the villains, and the thieves who wear the purse are also with." ”

~74~

Look before you leap

Explanation: Three: Repeatedly, means multiple times.

Refers to thinking about it over and over again before doing it.

Source: "Analects of Gongyechang": "Ji Wenzi thought twice before acting. The Son heard: 'Again, Skoyan. ’”

~75~

Life and death

Explanation: Living is respected, and dying makes people mourn. It is used to honor the revered deceased.

Source: "Analects of Zi Zhang": "His life is also glorious, and his death is also mournful." ”

~76~

Life and death have a destiny, and wealth is in heaven

Explanation: In the old days, it meant that all sufferings such as human life and death were determined by the Mandate of Heaven. It is often used to do things in a situation, and the meaning of irreparable manpower.

Source: "Analects of Yan Yuan": "Merchants are known, there is life in the dead, and wealth is in the sky." ”

~77~

Ascend to the house

Explanation: In ancient times, the front was the hall and the back was the room. Figurative knowledge or skill goes from shallow to deep, step by step, and gradually reaches a high level of achievement.

Source: "Analects of the Analects": "From also ascended to the hall, not into the room also." ”

~78~

Helpless

Explanation: Measure: Placement.

I don't know where to put my hands and feet. Describe the move as panicked, or unable to cope.

Source: "Analects of the Analects of zilu": "If the punishment is not neutralized, the people will be caught off guard." ”

~79~

It is tolerable, and it is intolerable

Explanation: Yes: this;

The original meaning was that he could bear to do such a thing, and what else could he do. It must not be tolerated.

Source: "Analects of the Eight Nobles": "Confucius called Ji Shi, 'Eight dances in the court, is tolerable, but not tolerable.' ’”。

~80~

There is no food to eat

Explanation: Diet does not require fullness. It means that the diet should be moderated.

Source: "Analects of Xueer": "A gentleman has nothing to eat and does not seek to be satisfied, and he does not seek security in his residence." ”

~81~

The dead are like this

Explanation: It is used to describe time as if the water never returns.

Source: "Analects of Zihan": "Zi on Kawakami: 'The deceased is like Sifu!' Day and night. ’”

~82~

Say without doing

Explanation: Description: Expounding the doctrine of predecessors;

It refers to only narrating and clarifying the doctrines of predecessors, and not creating oneself.

Source: "Analects of the Analects of Shuer": "To speak but not to do, to believe and to be ancient." ”

~83~

Dead and gone

Explanation: Already: Stopped. Don't give up until you die. Describe a lifelong struggle to accomplish a responsibility.

Source: "Analects of Tabor": "A soldier cannot fail to carry out his duties, and the task is heavy and the road is long. Isn't it important to be benevolent? After death, isn't it far away? ”

~84~

Donkeys can't reach the tongue

Explanation: Donkey: Ancient car by four horses; tongue: refers to the words spoken.

In a word, the four-horse-drawn car could not be recovered. The metaphor is uttered in a single sentence and can never be taken back.

Source: "Analects of Yan Yuan": "The Master's Sayings of a Gentleman are also inferior to the tongue." ”

~85~

Brothers everywhere

Explanation: The peoples of the world are like brothers.

Source: "Analects of Yan Yuan": "Gentlemen are respectful and without loss, respectful and courteous with others, and all brothers in the four seas." ”

~86~

The four bodies are not diligent, and the grain is not divided

Explanation: Four bodies: refers to the two hands and feet of the person; grain: usually refers to rice, millet, wheat, and millet.

Refers to not participating in labor, unable to distinguish grains. Describe detachment from productive labor and lack of practical knowledge of life.

Source: "Analects of the Analects of the Micro-Son": "Zhangren said: 'The four bodies are not diligent, the five grains are not divided, which is the master?' ’”

~87~

Doctrine

Explanation: Refers to an unbiased, eclectic and harmonious attitude towards the world.

Source: "Analects of Yongye": "The middle is the virtue of virtue, and its ultimate." ”

~88~

Wen Yin-shin

Explanation: Wen: Review; therefore: Old.

Review old knowledge and gain new understandings and experiences. It also refers to recalling past experiences and being able to better understand the present.

Source: "Analects for Politics": "Knowing the new from the past can be a teacher." ”

~89~

Gentle

Explanation: Text: Literary style; Quality: substance; Binbin: description appropriate.

The original description of the person is both literary and simple, and later described as humanistic and elegant and polite.

Source: "Analects of Yongye": "Quality wins over Wen Zeye, Wen wins quality over history, Wen is polite, and then gentleman." ”

~90~

Inaction

Explanation: Inaction: Inaction; Governance: Governance.

Do nothing to govern the world. Originally, when Shun was in power, he followed Yao's ideas and did not make any changes. The latter refers to the use of virtue to transform the people.

Source: "Analects of Wei Linggong": "Those who rule without doing anything, qi shun is also related to it." What is a husband? Just south of Gongji. ”

~91~

Little German in and out

Explanation: Xiaode: subsection; In and out: deviation from the standard.

Refers to subsections that do not have to be strictly required.

Source: "Analects of Zi Zhang": "Great virtue is not idle, and small virtue can come and go." ”

~92~

Flesh and blood

Explanation: Flesh: Energy; Square: Positive; Rigid: Strong.

Describe (young) people as energetic.

Source: "Analects of Ji Shi": "and its strong also, flesh and blood Fang Gang, the ring of fighting." ”

~93~

Learn and excel

Explanation: Excellent: There is room for maneuver.

After studying and having more than enough strength, I will become an official. The latter refers to excellent academic performance and then promotion to the position of official.

Source: "Analects of Zi Zhang": "Zi Xia Ri: 'Shi and you are learning, learning and you are shi.' ’”

~94~

Decaying wood cannot be carved

Explanation: Rotten wood cannot be carved. The metaphor is that man cannot be made or that the situation is corrupt and irreversible.

Source: "Analects of GongyeChang": "Zaiyu Day Sleeps." Zi Yue: 'Rotten wood cannot be carved, and the wall of dung cannot be carved!' ’”

~95~

Follow the temptations

Explanation: Follow: Ordered Appearance; Good: Good; Tempted: Guided.

Refers to being good at guiding others to learn step by step.

Source: "Analects of Zihan": "The Master follows the path of goodness and seduction. ”

~96~

Words must be believed, and deeds must be fruitful

Explanation: Faith: keep your word; Fruit: decisive, resolute.

When you say it, you must keep your word, and you must do things.

Source: "Analects of zilu": "Words must be believed, deeds must be fruitful, and the people are like villains." ”

~97~

Words must be in the middle

Explanation: Medium: Facing up.

Fingers can be spoken to the point.

Source: "Analects advanced": "The lady does not speak, and the words must be in the middle." ”

~98~

Words are not righteous

Explanation: and: Involvement; Righteousness: The Truth of the Canon.

Zhijing said something boring, and there was not a single serious sentence.

Source: "Analects of Wei Linggong": "Living in groups all day long, words are not righteous, good deeds are small, it is difficult!" ”

~99~

Believe what you say

Explanation: Speak reliably and have credibility.

Source: "Analects of Learning": "Make friends and believe in your words." ”

~100~

Word

Explanation: Mask: Cover, extension for generalization.

To sum it up in one sentence.

Source: "Analects of The Analects of Government": "Three hundred poems, in a word, are: 'Thinking is innocent. ’”

101

Consistent

Explanation: Through: Through.

Use a fundamental principle to connect the beginning and end of things or the whole truth.

Source: "Analects of Li Ren": "Zi Yue: 'Samhu! My way has always been consistent. Zeng Ziyi: "Only." When the son came out, the doorman asked, 'What is also?' Zeng Zi said: "The way of the Master is only faithful and forgiving." ’”

~102~

To know is to know, not to know is not to know

Explanation: Yes.

To know is to know. Not knowing is not knowing, it's smart. It means that the attitude of doing learning should be correct, and it also means that people should be honest.

Source: "Analects for The Government": "Zi Yue: 'By, the daughter knows!' To know is to know, not to know is not to know, is to know. ’ ”

~103~

Take revenge

Explanation: Straight: Just, upright.

Treat those you resent fairly.

Source: "Analects of the Constitution": "Repay grievances with directness, and repay virtue with virtue." ”

~104~

Because of people's nonsense

Explanation: Because the person is not good or of low status, he is denied the correct statement.

Source: "Analects of Wei Linggong": "Gentlemen do not raise people by words, and do not use people to abolish words." ”

~105~

Hide with a row house

Explanation: If you are appointed, you will come out to do things, and if you cannot be appointed, you will retire. This is the attitude of the early doctors.

Source: "Analects of the Analects": "If you use it, you can do it, and if you give it up, you will hide it, and I am a husband with Er." ”

~106~

There are no classes to teach

Explanation: Class: Category.

Anyone can be educated.

Source: "Analects of Wei Linggong": "There is no class in teaching. ”

~107~

cannot help doing something

Explanation: Desire: Think; Stop: Stop, Rest.

It can't stop either.

Source: "Analects of Zihan": "The Master follows the good and seductive, bo me with the text, asks me to be polite, and can't stop wanting." ”

~108~

very foolish

Explanation: Stupid: stupid, stupid; and: comparable.

The original meaning is to pretend to be stupid, others can not compare. Now describe it as extremely stupid.

Source: "Analects gongyechang": "Ning Wuzi, if the state has the way, it knows, and the state has no way, it is foolish." Its knowledge is reachable, and its stupidity is also unattainable. ”

~109~

Complaining

Explanation: Heaven: Destiny, Destiny; Especially: Resentment, Blame.

Refers to encountering setbacks or problems, blindly complaining about the sky, blaming others.

Source: "Analects of the Constitution": "Do not complain about the heavens, do not distinguish people, go down to school and reach out, and those who know me are natural!" ”

~110~

Choose the good and follow the good

Explanation: From: follow, extend for learning.

Refers to choosing good learning and doing according to good.

Source: "Analects of the Analects": "Threesomes, there will be my teacher." Choose what is good and follow it, and change it from the bad. ”

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