Just after the meal was finished, it happened that Chang Li came to his house to collect the per capita tax. Chang Li felt hungry from a distance, and wanted to have a meal before leaving. The farmer replied that there was no food to eat. (Chang Li) went into the kitchen, saw the rice, and accused them of cheating him. The farmer waved his hand and said, "This is not what you eat." So I cried and told him the reason.
Li Chang quickly emptied his rice, then dug a pit and buried it in the ground, saying, "Why are you in such a hurry?" ! I still have five barrels of millet at home. You can live with it for a few more days. "The farmers were moved by his benevolence and righteousness, followed him (to Li Changjia), got the millet and went home. Take out the millet (prepare to cook it again) and (find) 50 taels of gold in it. The farmer said in horror, "This must be the tax money collected by the village head, which is going to be handed over to the government and put in by mistake. He saved me from death, how could I have the heart to let him die! "(So the farmer) took the gold and gave it back to the commander.
Second, the original text: from Mencius in the Warring States Period.
Yu zhang was a great man. A citizen of Xinjian County is embarrassed in his hometown. He only keeps a bucket at home and sells it for three cents. Without an answer, I will buy rice with 20 cents, buy letters with 10 cents, and die with my wife and children. Cooking is cooked, and meeting is just as long as the door is closed and the tone is fixed. In the long run, I am hungry, and I want to fly away with a meal. Go into the kitchen to have a look at the rice and blame it for bullying people.
Everyone waved their hands and said, "This is not what you eat." Tell one's death by crying. The village chief quickly poured out the rice and buried it, saying, "Why did you stop here? There are still five buckets of grain in my family, so it will be delayed for a few days. " The people feel their justice and then they will return to the valley.
There are fifty gold coins among them. The people were frightened and said, "Anyone who accumulates official compensation here will be wrongly placed in it. The canal saved my life, and I am willing to kill it! " Pay back with money.
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I. Enlightenment
Villagers: Simple and grateful, they would rather starve than hide gold secretly.
Li Chang: Diligent and loving the people, caring about people's sufferings.
Two. Brief introduction of the author
Mencius (about 372 BC-289 BC) was born in Zouguo (now Zoucheng, Jining, Shandong) during the Warring States Period.
A famous philosopher, thinker, politician and educator in the Warring States period, one of the representatives of Confucianism, was second only to Confucius, and was also called "Confucius and Mencius" with Confucius. Advocating "benevolent government", he first put forward the idea that "the people are more expensive than the monarch".
The Original Road by Han Yu listed Mencius as a figure who inherited the Confucian orthodoxy in the pre-Qin period, while the Yuan Dynasty posthumously awarded Mencius as "elegant Gong Sheng Chen Shu" and honored him as "elegant sage". Mencius is a collection of essays compiled by Mencius and his disciples, which advocates "benevolence-oriented".
2. Translate the classical Chinese "Saving People is Important" and related answers Zhuang Zhou lived in poverty and often lacked rice and food at home. Once, he borrowed three liters of millet from his friend Hou Jianhe, but Hou Jianhe said to him, "Of course! However, my family doesn't have much rice now. Wait a minute, wait until I collect some taxes from the people, and then lend you 320 gold. "
Zhuang Zhou listened to the words of the river supervisor and made an analogy with emotion: "On my way to your house, I heard a fish calling for help. I looked back and saw that the water in a pothole on the road was almost dry. The fish hoped that I could pour some glasses of water into the pothole. "
"So I said to the fish,' I'll go to the south to discuss with the King of Wu and the King of Yue to borrow water, and then bring the Xijiang River here to save you and let you return to the East China Sea.' Fish tail said angrily, "I lost my normal life in the water, and now I can only live by drinking the water in the bucket." But you answer me like this. Why don't you go to the fish shop tomorrow morning, when my body has turned into dried fish! "
The so-called "emergency"! He used fish as an allegory. This fish is dying. If the time is too long, even if more water is given to it, it will have no effect and can't save lives!
3. Save people for a rainy day Zhuang Zhou lives in poverty, and his family is often short of rice and food. Once, he borrowed three liters of millet from his friend Hou Jianhe, but Hou Jianhe said to him, "Of course! However, my family doesn't have much rice now. Wait a minute, wait until I collect some taxes from the people, and then lend you 320 gold. "
Zhuang Zhou listened to the words of the river supervisor and made an analogy with emotion: "On my way to your house, I heard a fish calling for help. I looked back and saw that the water in a pothole on the road was almost dry. The fish hoped that I could pour some glasses of water into the pothole. "
"So I said to the fish,' I'll go to the south to discuss with the King of Wu and the King of Yue to borrow water, and then bring the Xijiang River here to save you and let you return to the East China Sea.' Fish tail said angrily, "I lost my normal life in the water, and now I can only live by drinking the water in the bucket." But you answer me like this. Why don't you go to the fish shop tomorrow morning, when my body has turned into dried fish! "
The so-called "emergency"! He used fish as an allegory. This fish is dying. If the time is too long, even if more water is given to it, it will have no effect and can't save lives!
4. Everybody help, save a life. Yan Zhaowang recovered the broken state of Yan and became king, so he worked hard to recruit talents, hoping to use these people to avenge the state of Yan. So he went to Guo Kun and said, "Qi defeated us by the attack of civil strife in our country. I know very well that Yan is weak and seeking revenge from Qi is not an opponent. However, if there are talents who can govern the country with me, it will be my wish to avenge the king. " How can I avenge my country? "
Guo Kun replied: "To be the king of the imperial industry, take talents as teachers and get along with people; The monarch who becomes a king makes friends with talents and gets along well; The monarch who becomes a tyrant regards talents as his ministers and gets along with them; The king of national subjugation regards talents as slaves. If you can be modest and kind to talents and sincerely accept their teaching, then people who are 100 times better than you will come to you; If you can work hard first, rest later, and actively and patiently ask for other people's opinions, then people ten times stronger than yourself will come to your side; If you keep up with others in everything, people like you will come to you; If you lean on your desk, lean on crutches and direct people with your eyes and fingers, then only officers sent to your side will come to you; If you are brutal and rude, kill people at will, or yell at your people in a rage, then the only people who come to you are obedient slaves. This is an ancient way to practice kingcraft and attract talents. If the prince of Yan can sincerely and extensively select domestic talents and visit China, everyone in the world will hear that the prince of Yan has met his own talents, and talents from all walks of life will come to Yan. "
Zhao Haoqi said, "Who am I going to see?"
Mr. Guo Kun replied, "I heard that the ancient monarch used his daughter to buy a maxima, but he didn't buy it for three years." One of his entourage said to him,' Please let me buy it.' The monarch sent this man. It took him three months to find Maxima, but the horse was dead, so he bought the horse's bones with 500 gold and came back to make friends with the monarch. The monarch lost his temper: "I want a live horse." What's the use of a dead horse as a living horse doctor? I wasted 500 gold for nothing. The waiter replied,' A dead horse costs 500 gold, not to mention a live horse? Everyone in the world will think that you will pay a high price for a good horse, and a swift horse will come soon. "So in less than a year, three horses that can run thousands of miles came. Now if you really want talents, let's start with Guo Kun. Even people like Guo can't be reused, let alone those who are better than me? (Those talents) will still think that Yan is thousands of miles away and won't come? "
5. Save people for a rainy day Zhuang Zhou lives in poverty, and his family is often short of rice and food.
Once, he borrowed three liters of millet from his friend Hou Jianhe, but Hou Jianhe said to him, "Of course! However, my family doesn't have much rice now. Wait a minute, wait until I collect some taxes from the people, and then lend you 320 gold. " Zhuang Zhou listened to the words of the river supervisor and made an analogy with emotion: "On my way to your house, I heard a fish calling for help. I looked back and saw that the water in a pothole on the road was almost dry. The fish hoped that I could pour some glasses of water into the pothole. "
"So I said to the fish,' I'll go to the south to discuss with the King of Wu and the King of Yue to borrow water, and then bring the Xijiang River here to save you and let you return to the East China Sea.' Fish tail said angrily, "I lost my normal life in the water, and now I can only live by drinking the water in the bucket." But you answer me like this. Why don't you go to the fish shop tomorrow morning, when my body has turned into dried fish! "The so-called" help "! He used fish as an allegory. This fish is dying. If the time is too long, even if more water is given to it, it will have no effect and can't save lives.
6. "To heal the wounded and rescue the dying" means "to live" in classical Chinese: to make ... live with verbs, or it can be literally translated as saving lives.
"Live" in "I want to fight against rising water": live, live.
Reference translation materials:
Zhuang Zhou lived in poverty, and his family often lacked rice and food. Once, he borrowed three liters of millet from his friend Hou Jianhe, but Hou Jianhe said to him, "Of course! However, my family doesn't have much rice now. Wait a minute, wait until I collect some taxes from the people, and then lend you 320 gold. "
Zhuang Zhou listened to the words of the river supervisor and made an analogy with emotion: "On my way to your house, I heard a fish calling for help. I looked back and saw that the water in a pothole on the road was almost dry. The fish hoped that I could pour some glasses of water into the pothole. "
"So I said to the fish,' I'll go to the south to discuss with the King of Wu and the King of Yue to borrow water, and then bring the Xijiang River here to save you and let you return to the East China Sea.' Fish tail said angrily, "I lost my normal life in the water, and now I can only live by drinking the water in the bucket." But you answer me like this. Why don't you go to the fish shop tomorrow morning, when my body has turned into dried fish! "
The so-called "emergency"! He used fish as an allegory. This fish is dying. If the time is too long, even if more water is given to it, it will have no effect and can't save lives!
7. Who can help me translate the speed of classical Chinese Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period?
It is providence to gain great fame and wealth. For this reason, we should not be cautious. Shun meets Yao, and it is God's will. Shun is farming in Lishan, making pottery by the river and fishing. Everyone likes him, and excellent people follow him and do their best. It is providence that jade meets Shun. Traveling around the world, seeking talents and seeking benefits for the people. He dredged all the rivers and lakes he could, and he did his best. Tang Yujie, Wu Yuzhou, is an act of god. Tang and Wu cultivate one's morality for righteousness, sympathize with people's livelihood and do their best.
Shun's merits and demerits in farming and fishing were the same as those when he later became emperor, except that he had no chance at that time, so he had to farm and fish with his disciples, weave reeds and make fishing nets, and his hands and feet grew calluses without rest, avoiding the experience of freezing and starving. When he met the right time, he became emperor, the wise man joined him, and everyone praised him. Men and women are full of excitement and joy. Shun wrote a poem saying, "Under the world, is it the land of kings?" Is leading the land king? "You can see everything. When he has everything, his wisdom does not increase; When he was penniless, his wisdom did not diminish. This is all caused by timing.
When Prissy didn't give full play to his talents, he escaped from the State of Guo, but was caught by the State of Jin. He sold cattle to the state of Qin and resold them at the price of five sheepskins. Gong Sunzhi found him, valued him very much and recommended him to Miao Gong. Three days later, he asked to hand over state affairs to him. Miao Gong said, "Aren't you afraid of jokes from all over the world when you hand over state affairs to people who bought them with five sheepskins?" Gong replied: "it is wise for the monarch to believe in the wise man and appoint him;" Give way to the wise and be willing to be the next. This is the loyalty of the courtiers. The monarch is a wise monarch, and the minister is a loyal minister. He is really a clever man. He will be completely convinced and feared by the enemy in China. Who has the luxury to laugh at him? "Miao Gong used Priscilla when he took office. There is nothing wrong with his planning, and his actions must have some merits, but they have not increased his wisdom. Prissy, though clever, would have lost her reputation if she hadn't met Miao Gong. How do you know that there is no saint like Priscilla in the world now? Therefore, people mainly demand talents and recruit talents.
Confucius was trapped between Chen and Cai and could not eat for seven days. There is not a grain of rice in the wild vegetables. I'm tired of being praised. Confucius plays the piano and sings indoors, while Yan Hui chooses vegetables outdoors. Zi Gong said to Yan Hui, "Your master was driven to Lu, destroyed by Wei, cut to Song, and trapped by Chen and Cai. He who kills the Lord is innocent, and he who insults the Lord is helpless. The master still plays the piano, sings, drums and dances, and never stops. Is a gentleman so shameless? " Yan Hui had nothing to answer, so he came in and told Confucius. Confucius changed color and pushed the piano, sighing, "giving is a villain." Call in, I have something to say to them. " Lutz and Zigong went in, and Zigong said, "This situation is also poor!" Confucius said, "What is this? A gentleman's mastery of the Tao is called reaching, but being trapped in the Tao is called poverty. It is normal for Qiu to abide by the principle of benevolence and righteousness and encounter troubled times. How can he say that he is poor? Therefore, introspection is worthy of Tao, and it does not lose its virtue in the face of difficulties. The cold has arrived, the frost and snow have fallen, and the pines and cypresses are flourishing. Once upon a time, Huan Gong woke up in Ju, Wen Gong woke up in Cao, and Betty Wong woke up in Huiji. The difficulties of Chen and Cai are the blessings of autumn! " Confucius resolutely went back to touch the piano, and Luz danced with a shield. Zi Gong said, "I don't know the heaven and the earth." People who studied Taoism in ancient times were happy when they were poor, happy when they were prominent, and unhappy when they were poor and prominent. In this state, poverty and prominence don't matter, just the order of hot and cold weather. Therefore, Xu You is happy in Angelababy, and he is complacent at first.