The Analects story is expanded
Since the May Fourth New Culture Movement was shouted the slogan "Down with Confucius", many people have simply and rudely blamed Confucius and Confucian thought and culture for the problems and bad things that have arisen in Chinese history. But to give two examples, it can be seen that from the big to the governance of the country and the small to the self-cultivation, it cannot be simplistic to say that Confucianism is not good. Our neighbor Japan, which went from backwardness and defeat to prosperity through the Reformation and Reformation, and many of the leaders who promoted the Meiji Restoration had a deep grasp of Confucianism, even hardcore fans of Confucianism (especially xinxue). The great Chinese scientist Mr. Yang Zhenning, in his junior high school years, could recite "Mencius" from beginning to end, and the Confucianism in it had a great influence on his personal thinking and became the basic criterion for doing things throughout his life.
Today, in order to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and the Confucian ideology and culture represented by the Analects and so on are important spiritual and cultural resources for us to realize the great cause of rejuvenation. And reading the Analects, there can be a variety of readings, such as historical reading, philosophical reading, literary reading, worship reading, critical reading, leisure reading, learning reading... Readers are free to choose. Here, I sincerely recommend to you this "Analects Story" written by Shimomura Lakeman.
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Lake Shimomura (1884-1955), real name Shimomura Torakuro, also pen name Shimomura Tiger Man, is a famous Japanese writer, educator, and philosopher. Regarded as a genius poet as a teenager, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) in 1909 and served as a teacher and principal at Saga Junior High School and Karatsu Junior High School in Japan. In 1925, he went to Taiwan, where he was a Japanese stolen land, as the principal of Taichung No. 1 Middle School, in 1929 he became the principal of Taipei Higher School (now Taiwan Normal University), and resigned in 1931 to return to Japan, specializing in social education activities, free speech and writing, and continuing to pursue the ideal of social education for young people.
The moral articles of the Shimomura Lakers are all prestigious. He had a strong personality, firm faith, prudence and strictness, combined Bushido and Confucianism, attached importance to law and order, and had liberal and anti-war ideas, and was one of the few scholars who could bravely write articles criticizing Japanese militarism. Yu has made great contributions to the cause of culture and education, and can be described as peach and plum all over the world. The complete works of the Shimomura Lakeman are as many as eighteen volumes, and the Analects of the Analects have been reprinted and reprinted endlessly since their publication in 1938, which has had a great influence on Japan, especially thanks to Japan's reconstruction and revival after World War II, and has become a classic work of Japanese sinology. Since its translation into Chinese, the Analects have also been widely popular on both sides of the Chinese Strait, as well as in Hong Kong and Macao. Today Chinese the publication of simplified characters, so as to pull up the number of words again -
The six-year experience of the Shimomura Lake people in Taiwan has given him a sublimation of Chinese culture from the reception of books to the realization of on-the-ground life. Shimomura lake realizes that the Analects is not only the "Book of Haotian" for exploring the Heavenly Dao and leading the ideal, but also the "Book of the Earth" for walking the earth and practicing life. Therefore, he adhered to the sincere attitude of heart-to-heart, transcended history and traveled through time and space, through the creation of the "Analects Story", entered the world of Confucius, and used dozens of vivid and wonderful stories like sitcoms to shape the group portraits of Confucius and his disciples, showing Confucius's "path of seeking the Tao", and expressing his praise for the glory of Confucius characters and Confucian culture.
Shimomura Lakers
The stories in the Analects can be read as novels, but the sources of stories and ideas are by no means fictional, but the author has studied the Analects carefully, carefully pondered and understood, solidly took the chapters and sentences of the Analects as the backbone, referred to other historical documents, and tried his best to expound the true meaning of the Analects and the immortal thoughts of Confucius. The author's imagination is rich, the language is exquisite and the psychological analysis is meticulous, vividly reproducing the sound, temperament and spirit of Confucius and his disciples 2,500 years ago, making this book highly readable and intimate, quite suitable for modern people's reading taste and comprehension, enlightening and shocking.
Confucius's life was ordinary and very extraordinary. "Confucius, the Holy One." The Confucianism founded by Confucius has always been a precious spiritual wealth of the people of the world, especially in East Asia, which has lasting value and can also be creatively transformed and innovatively developed with the times. Shimomura Lakeman said: "In writing this Analects Story, I think more of Confucius's disciples as ordinary people who can appear around us than as ancient Chinese two thousand years ago. This description is so that the general public who read this collection of stories can follow and practice the ideals of Confucius's Analects in their lives like the disciples of Confucius.
The personality, knowledge, and cultivation of the scholar himself often affect his interpretation of the classics to a greater or lesser extent. In the Analects, Confucius is generally more severe, which of course has the basis for the text of the Analects, for example, "The son is gentle and strong, mighty but not fierce, and respectful and peaceful." "Zi Xia Yue: 'A gentleman has three changes: "The look is like a man, that is, he is also warm, and he listens to his words. The traditional interpretation of the word "li" is "severe" and "solemn." The interpretation of the Shimomura Lakers can be said to be decent. But one of the great things about the analects is that it has enduring value and wisdom, and today when we delve deeper into Confucius's teaching methods, the more accurate explanation is that "li" is the same as "encouragement", meaning encouragement, encouragement, encouragement, encouragement, and exhortation (it is so consistent with today's teaching philosophy!). ）。 "Shuowen Jiezi": "Li, dry stone also." "Jade Chapter": "Li, grinding stone also." "By extension, it is the righteousness of grinding, encouragement, encouragement, etc. In the ancient books before the Analects, twenty-one of the sixty-four gua of the I Ching had the word "li", such as the gradual gua chu liujiao: "Hong gradually dried up, the boy is strong, there is a word, there is no blame." Xiang Ci: "The boy is strong, and there is no blame for righteousness." The word "strong" means encouragement. In the ancient texts after the Analects, there are many such uses, for example, "Strengthen the armor and strengthen the army to prepare for difficulties." (Han Fei, "Han Feizi Wuyin") "Therefore, the Lord ming is incorruptible and shameful, and recruits benevolence and righteousness." ("Han Feizi Employing People") "However, those who have not won the cloud, the soldiers are not strong." (Dong Zhongshu's "Measures for Raising The Virtuous") "Too often he discussed with the transformation of the Chongxiang Party, the son of the doctor, to be able to be virtuous." (Ban Gu, "Book of Han, Chronicle of Emperor Wu") "His pardon of the world began with the scholar Li Jing. (Book of Han, Chronicle of Emperor Xuan) "Tomorrow, (Tian Dan) is a strong spirit to follow the city, standing in the place of Yashi, aiding the drum, and di ren is under." (Liu Xiang,"Warring States Policy, Qi Ce)" "(The country) is rich for those who have won, and those who have lost are poor." The wings are strong and the mind is free to exist. (Yang Xiong's "Interpretation of Ridicule") "Chen (Zhuge Liang)... Pro-Bing, to force the three armies. (Chen Shou's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shushu, Zhuge Liang's Biography") and so on, and the words are Li Yi (rewarding the ministers of the auxiliary), Li Jie (encouraging their integrity), Li Cheng (inspiring loyalty), Li Wu (inspiring wubei), Li Shi (inspiring the world), Li Zhi (inspiring the will), Li Customs (encouraging customs), Li Chong (encouraging and pushing the weight), Li Fu (encouraging comfort), and li li (encouraging and soothing), and li li and so on.
Mr. yù yún (1906-2011), the contemporary Confucian Ai Xinjueluo Yuzhen (1906-2011), has been teaching for more than 60 years through the storms of the times, and firmly advocates that the study of Confucian thought should be applied to what it has learned, that knowledge and action should be integrated, that it should be integrated into one's own life, and that it should play a role in life and society. Elder Yu said that he stood in the world and kept the "First Nine, Hidden Dragon Don't Use" in the "I Ching" all his life. Confucius had an explanation for this, to the effect that people with dragon virtue can adhere to their own principles, are not changed by customs, do not seek vulgar fame and fortune, and do not change their original intentions and will not be depressed when they live in seclusion. May people with insight and lofty ideals, like Mr. Yu Zheng and Mr. Yang Zhenning, cherish and absorb the essence of the essence of the Analects and other excellent Chinese traditional cultural classics, and use the ancient for the present. The humble translation is based on the academic library edition published by kodansha in 1995, and this revision has been compiled and supplemented in accordance with the opinions of the publisher. May humble translation contribute to the promotion of China's excellent traditional culture and the promotion of China's academic prosperity, cultural development, social progress and national rejuvenation!
——This article is excerpted from the Analects story