Learning Chess is a story selected from Mencius Gaozi. Teaching two people to play chess in Qiu Yi shows that learning should be absorbed and not half-hearted.
Original text:
Qiu Yi is the best athlete in this country. Let Qiu Yi teach two people to play chess, one to concentrate on playing chess, and Qiu Yi listens; Although one person thought it was a swan, he tried to shoot it with his bow. Although I learned chess from the previous one, chess is still not as good as the previous one. Is it because his intelligence is not as good as the former? That's not true.
Interpretation of vernacular:
Qiu Yi is a national chess player. Let Qiu Yi teach two people to play chess. One of them concentrates on his study and only listens to Qiu Yi. While listening to Qiu Yi's instructions, another man was preoccupied with the arrival of a swan and wanted to shoot it down with a bow and arrow. Although they learn chess together, the latter is not as good as the former. Is it because his intelligence is not as good as the last one? Some people say: it's not like this.
Extended information article appreciation:
Learning chess is selected from Mencius Gaozi. Mencius was written by Mencius and his disciples. The content includes Mencius' political activities, political theory, philosophical thoughts and personality cultivation.
The book is divided into seven chapters: Liang Wang, Gong Sunchou, Teng Wengong, Li Lou, Zhang Wan, Gao Zi and Dedication. This ancient prose has five sentences with two meanings.
The first sentence has a meaning, pointing out that Qiu Yi is a person who is good at national chess. This sentence paved the way for the following, because "a good teacher makes a big apprentice", his students must be masters, and they must be masters like a cloud.
However, on the second floor (the second sentence and the third sentence), there is a very disharmonious phenomenon: one of the two students of Qiu Yijiao is absorbed in Qiu Yijiao's things; The other one was listening, but he was thinking that there might be a swan coming. He wanted to pick up a bow and an arrow and shoot it down with a silk rope. As a result, although we studied together, the latter lagged far behind the former.
About the author:
Mencius (about 372 BC ~ 289 BC) was named Yu Zi. Zou Guo (now Zou County, Shandong Province) was born in the Warring States Period. A famous thinker, politician and educator in the Warring States period. He is a disciple of Confucius' grandson Zisi and a representative of Confucianism. His position is second only to that of Confucius, and he is called "Yasheng" by the world and "Confucius and Mencius" by later generations.
He lived in the middle of the Warring States period when the annexation war was fierce, and advocated "benevolent government" to unify the world. He once traveled to Wei, Qi and other vassal states, but it was useless. After he retired, he wrote books with his disciples Zhang Wan and Gong Sunchou.
There is a book "Mencius" (7 existing books) handed down from generation to generation. Mencius was good at reasoning with metaphors. The articles in the book are magnificent, rigorous, infectious and persuasive, which have a great influence on the development of prose later.
Role background:
Qiu Yi is the first professional Weiqi player in history and the first Weiqi celebrity engaged in education. With regard to the name of Qiu Yi, Jiao Xun, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, explained in Mencius Justice that the ancient craftsmen were named by their names, such as the Boxer Rebellion and Butufu. The name is Qiu Yi, so Qiu Zhi is its name. Because all countries call it a good game, it is named after Qiu Yi.