Daily Idioms - Wei Compilation of Three Absolutes

[Idioms]: Wei compiled three absolutes

【Pinyin】:wéi biān sān jué

[Explanation]: Wei weaving: using cooked cowhide rope to connect the bamboo compendium; three: approximate number, indicating multiple times; absolute: broken. The leather rope of the weaving bamboo was broken three times. The metaphor is reading diligently.

[Source]: "History of confucius's family": "Read "Yi", Wei compiled the three absolutes. ”

【Synonyms】:Hanging beam thorn strand three absolute Wei weave bull horn hanging book

[Antonym]: Occasionally

[Example Sentence]: For reading, he has a very high interest, unless Wei compiles the three best, completely understands, and is willing to give up.

【Idiom Story】:

Confucius's name was Kong Qiu (孔丘), and he was a native of the Lu kingdom of Chuyi (present-day southeastern Qufu, Shandong). Confucius's father was a military attaché of low status. When Confucius died when he was three years old, his mother had to take him to Qufu to live and raise him. It is said that he loved to learn etiquette since he was a child, and when he had nothing to do, he put on a small pot or something to learn the way adults worship their ancestors.

When Confucius was young, he studied very hard. He greatly admired the Zhou Gong who made ceremonies and music in the early years of the Zhou Dynasty, and was particularly familiar with ancient ceremonies. At that time, the "six arts" that readers should learn, that is, etiquette, music, archery, driving, writing, and calculation, were all relatively proficient. He's serious. In the beginning, he was a small official in charge of the warehouse, and there was never a shortage of materials; later, when he became a small official in charge of animal husbandry, cattle and sheep multiplied a lot. Before the age of thirty, his reputation gradually grew.

Confucius held the post of Sikou in the State of Lu, but he was not accustomed to Lu Dinggong ignoring state affairs all day long, so he resigned his post and left the State of Lu and traveled around the country with a group of students, who had successively visited weiguo, caoguo, Songguo, Zhengguo, Chenguo, Caiguo, and Chuguo. He spent seven or eight years in the nations, and pushed the political ideas of benevolence to the nations all the way. At that time, however, the big powers were busy fighting for hegemony, the small countries were in danger of being annexed, and the whole society was undergoing change. None of the monarchs of these countries adopted the political ideas propagated by Confucius.

Finally, Confucius returned to lu and devoted all his energy to sorting out ancient cultural classics and education. In his later years, Confucius also sorted out several important ancient cultural classics, such as the Book of Poetry, the Book of Shang, and so on, and deleted and revised the Spring and Autumn Chronicle recorded by the Historian of the State of Lu, becoming the first chronicle of history in China. In terms of epistemology and education, it pays attention to the combination of "learning" and "thinking", and puts forward propositions such as "learning without thinking is reckless, thinking without learning is ruined" and "learning from the past and knowing the new". He pioneered the atmosphere of private lectures, and there were thousands of disciples under his disciples. Since the Han Dynasty, Confucius's teachings have become the orthodoxy of two thousand years of feudal culture, and their influence has been extremely great.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the books were mainly made of bamboo as a material, and the bamboo was broken into bamboo sticks, called bamboo "Jane", which was dried with fire and written on it. Bamboo Jane has a certain length and width, a bamboo Jane can only write one line, as many as dozens, as few as eight or nine. A book uses many bamboo strips, which must be woven together with something like a strong rope to read. Books like Yi, of course, are made up of many bamboo compendiums, so they have considerable weight.

Confucius spent a lot of energy to read the Yi in its entirety and basically understood its contents. Soon after reading it a second time, I grasped the basic points of it. Then, he read it a third time, and he had a thorough understanding of the spirit and essence of it. After that, in order to study this book in depth and to explain it to his disciples, he did not know how many times he had read it. In this way, the cowhide belt of the bamboo strip was also ground off several times, and it had to be replaced with a new one many times and reused.

According to the story of Confucius's painstaking reading of "Zhou Yi", later generations derived the idiom "Wei bian three absolutes". Describe diligent reading.