Chapter 37 Interpretation
The so-called meaning of the classics is to interpret the profound or grand meaning of Confucian classics in the form of text and to explain the profound meaning or grand meaning of Confucian classics. The key is not to remember the entire annotation and annotation, but to whether the classics can be understood and interpreted clearly with literary talent.
In addition, it is calligraphy, or additional ability. In other words, an article, you must not only be well-versed in meaning, but also write beautifully. Li Sanjian is very troubled by this. He understands classical principles. Li Sanjian can also use the foundation of Chinese in the past, and Li Sanjian's intelligence and diligence can be barely understood. But calligraphy is not a matter of one day or one night. Without years, it is decades of infringement. How can one write a calligraphy that is full of dragons and phoenixes and is full of insight?
While Li Sanjian was studying, he tried his best to practice calligraphy so that his words would not look so ugly.
A book or sentence can also be understood by reference to the annotations and comments of predecessors. However, there are many annotations and comments of predecessors in Confucian classics, and all kinds of understandings are available. You must judge the correct understanding from them and interpret them.
The key to interpretation is to solve the problem. Solving the problem is to be simple and precise. It should be implicit and not obscure. One sentence or two sentences is the best. The third sentence and the fourth sentence are the first. Only when you write a lot of long-winded words can you solve the problem. That is a useless person. When encountering this situation during the imperial examination, the examiner will throw away your paper directly.
The words used in solving the topic are all the bones of a piece of article. If there is no slightestness, the following should be followed. This is the basic skeleton of an article.
In addition, there are also questions that can be recognized, inherited, established ideas, created language, etc.
"Zi said (colon): (front quotes) "There is a king (comma) of the barbarians, which is not as good as the demise of Xia (period). (last marks)"
Huang Huan, a professor of county studies in Lingshan County, Qinzhou, slowly recited the questions of this public examination.
What made Li Sanjian secretly amused was that Huang Huan's method of reading sentences he presented to Huang Huan, and Huang Huan actually read them in public at this time, as if he was afraid that other students would not understand it.
But it is no wonder that Li Sanjian thought that Huang Huan could quickly master this kind of sentence reading method, but other students have mixed comprehension and learning ability, and it is a good idea to do this.
It also shows that Li Sanjian's method of reading sentences has been recognized by Huang Huan. Compared with the past, such a method of reading sentences not only allows county students to learn from, but also allows them to understand the meaning of the classics more easily and quickly.
This title produced by Huang Huan is excerpted from the Eight-Legends of the Analects of Confucius.
To interpret the meaning of the scriptures, you must first understand the meaning of this sentence. Li Sanjian first translated this sentence in his own language.
The so-called Eight Que is the meaning of 64 people, ranks and ranks. One is eight people, and eight Que is sixty-four people. According to the "Book of Zhou", only the Zhou emperor can use the Eight Que, the princes are six ranks, the nobles are four ranks, and the scholars are two ranks, which is the issue of etiquette.
Li Sanjian understood the meaning of this sentence: Although the barbarians have monarchs, they are not as good as the Central Plains countries without monarchs.
Of course, this is only a literal understanding. To understand the meaning of the classics, one must understand the meaning of the text, and not take the meaning out of context. If one can obtain the meaning out of context, it will be difficult to make the meaning right after all.
To explore the meaning of "the barbarians have a king, it is better to the fall of Xia." We must interpret the entire chapter of the Analects of Confucius, Eight Classics.
The whole chapter of the Analects of Confucius talks about rituals and music, directly pointing to the current situation of rituals and music, Chapter 1 of the Eight-Legends says that Ji Sun's usurpation of the ritual system and enjoys the emperor's emperor's
The Baqi Yiwu said that Meng Sun, Shu Sun and Ji Sun's family played the music of the emperor at the end of the sacrifice, which was to play the song "Yong", which was an extremely usurpant act.
Meng Sun, Shu Sun and Ji Sun were ministers of Lu states and openly overestimated the system of rituals and music. Under this circumstance, Confucius was extremely dissatisfied with this and questioned, what is the use of a person without a benevolent heart? What is the use of a person without a benevolent heart?
What is the etiquette of a person who is not kind? What is the joy of a person who is not kind?
This is the argument made by Confucius’s entire article of the Eight Quns.
Confucius believed that the most fundamental thing that the three slaves in the State of Lu dared to openly overestimate the system of rituals and music was the lack of benevolence.
In the face of the current situation of ritual collapse and music, Confucius advocated restoration of ritual and music culture. To understand Confucius's intention, he also had to contact the situation of the Zhou Dynasty at that time.
The current situation of the collapse of rituals and music was that since the Zhou Shi moved eastward, the authority of the Zhou emperor decreased, and the strength of the emperor and the princes further changed in the Spring and Autumn Period. At this time, there was no way in the world, and the princes were superior to the emperor. The Zhou Shi was in name only and actually died. Confucius advocated restoring the culture of rituals and music, restoring the system of rituals and music, and respecting the king and expelling the barbarians.
"The barbarians still have a king, but China has no king anymore..." Li Sanjian pondered for a long time and understood the key, so he wrote a pen to solve the topic. Generally speaking, the first sentence of the article is to use pairs of sentences to solve the topic, and it must be concise and concise, and quickly enter the topic.
After solving the problem, Li Sanjian began to clarify his views, or his understanding of the sentence Baqi.
Li Sanjian wrote that since the Zhou Dynasty moved south, the royal family gradually diminished, and the princes of all walks of life rose, and the five hegemons rose one after another, fighting each other endlessly, and the rituals and music were broken. However, among the princes, the king's power was weak, and the officials were in charge of national affairs. Therefore, the Ji Sun family of Lu's state usurped and used the eight-legged dance to worship Mount Tai, and did not perform the ceremony with all their hearts. The politics went out of private families and looked down on the king, so the usurpation and chaos followed.
Li Sanjian believed that Confucius's article evidently expressed his ritual optimism, intending to restore the Zhou ritual system and restore the ritual civilization of the three generations, and Ji Sun's actions went against this.
The barbarians are simple and still have the positions of superiors and subordinates, but the Xia people are in a state of usurpation and chaos. Therefore, the barbarians have a king, which is not as good as the fall of Xia people. The meaning of this sentence is that the barbarians still have a division of kings and ministers, but the Xia people are in a state of usurpation and chaos, and they are not as strong as the kings, and the etiquette and music are broken.
"The world is the world of the people in the world. It is not the private gains of the north, south, middle and foreign countries. Shun and Dongyi, King Wen, Westernyi, how can they distinguish between the east and west? Orthodox must have something to do!"
Li Sanjian finally took a sharp turn for the worse, and he satirized Confucius hard at the last sentence of the article.
In the sentence "The Analects of Confucius", Confucius has some "views of barbarians" and some "defense of barbarians and summer".
Although Li Sanjian's father was a Han Chinese, his mother was a Li native. In the eyes of the world, he was a barbarian, and at least half a barbarian was considered.
For this reason, Li Sanjian was deeply displeased. The ancient wise kings could still tolerate barbarians. Why did you Confucius want to "defend the barbarians and the Xia"?
Li Sanjian was suddenly able to write an article, which has a lot to do with the dream he had had some time ago. Li Sanjian had already recalled the past, or had inherited some of the skills of Li Sanjian in the past, his father Li Qing's teachings to him, his mother Fu Erniang's extra care for him, and so on, Li Sanjian and Li Sanjian were already one, but Li Sanjian was a dementia, his memory
The memory is extremely limited, but the "cramming" professor of his father Li Qing made Li Sanjian recognize most of the texts in this world and gain a lot of knowledge from the past.
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"The barbarians still have a king, but China has no king at all..."
After the public examination, you will be evaluated. If the county school is excellent, you will be recommended to enter the state school, and you may enter the Imperial School later.
At this time, after Zeng Gui, the county Xuexueyu of Lingshan County, Qinzhou, read Li Sanjian's article, he couldn't help but praise: "What a wonderful thing! I haven't read such a wonderful article for a long time. The meaning is clear, and it's this... word... too..."
Li Sanjian's calligraphy is indeed too ordinary, and it is so embarrassing that it is impossible to see it in the crowd.
However, Li Sanjian's explanation of the meaning of the scriptures is indeed relatively accurate and unconventional. It is completely different from other students' quoting scriptures, citing predecessors' comments, or even directly copying predecessors' comments.
The most important thing is Li Sanjian’s own opinions, and his literature and science are smooth and reasonable.
"The world is the world of the people in the world. It is not the private gains of the north, south, middle and foreign countries. Shun and Dongyi, King Wen and Westernyi, how can they distinguish between the east and west? Orthodox must have something to do..." Huang Huan read Li Sanjian's last sentence and couldn't help but shake his head and said, "How dare the saints even mock him?"
"Hahahahaha" After hearing this, all the school officials were stunned for a moment and laughed.
Li Sanjian's mother was a Li person. The school officials had already known this matter, and the details had already been stated.
All the officials of the school felt that Li Sanjian was a little impatient and had a little boyish mind. However, it was no wonder that all the officials of the school thought that Li Sanjian was originally a young man under fifteen years old.
At the same time, the academic officials were extremely surprised that this article was written by a boy under fifteen years old.
"Who should be the best person this time?" Huang Huan asked then.
"It's Li Sanjian, a student of Danzhou." Zeng Ju replied.
This public examination mainly included Li Sanjian, Sima Du and Zeng Gong's articles were excellent. Zeng Gong was the nephew of Zeng Jue Yu, county Xuexueyu, Lingshan County. Zeng Jue was a loyal and upright person. He recommended Li Sanjian to avoid relatives, and Zeng Gong's articles were indeed not as good as Li Sanjian.
"Although Li Sanjian's articles are wonderful, his calligraphy is too... ordinary." A school official surnamed Zhang opposed: "Student Simadu's articles are also outstanding, with a clear interpretation, and his calligraphy and literary talent are both excellent. Simadu's every public examination is the best, so I think this public examination is also Simadu."
If Li Sanjian surpassed Simadu and became an outstanding student in this public examination, and would have been a few more times at the same time, Li Sanjian would be likely to replace Simadu and go to the state to study and study, so this academic official was a little anxious.
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"Han Ren, we want to recommend the provincial school to listen to and read. What do you think?" Huang Huan said to Li Sanjian.
Listening to and reading at Jinzhou School? Li Sanjian was a little surprised when he heard this. Don’t you say that the quota for Jinzhou School has been given to Sima Du? Why did Huang Huan say this at this time?
Li Sanjian certainly understood the benefits of entering the state school, that is, it is only one step away from the Imperial Academy. At the same time, the state school is much better than the county school, both in terms of scale, collection of books and students.
Chapter completed!