Source:
From Mencius's "Mencius, Dedicated Articles, Sentence Reading, Section 20"
Original text:
Mencius said, "A gentleman has three pleasures, but the king of the world does not exist. Parents exist, brothers have no chance, and they are happy. Be worthy of the sky, live up to people, and be happy. It is three pleasures to be educated by talents in the world. A gentleman has three pleasures, but the king of the world does not exist. "
Translation:
Mencius said: "A gentleman has three kinds of happiness, and being king is not one of them. Parents, brothers and sisters are safe, which is a kind of happiness; It is the second kind of happiness not to be ashamed of the world and the people in the world; Getting the best talents in the world and educating them is the third kind of happiness. Gentlemen have these three kinds of music, and the world is not among them. "
Extended data:
Mencius' character evaluation:
Mencius inherited and developed Confucius' thoughts. Confucius is the supreme saint and Mencius is the second saint. Mencius and Confucius are collectively called Confucius and Mencius, and most people call them Confucius and Mencius.
Mencius' article is eloquent, magnificent, good at argumentation, rigorous in logic and sharp in wit, which represents the peak of traditional prose writing. Mencius put forward the theory that human nature is good, that is, human nature is good Mencius only said that human nature is good, and Zhu in the Southern Song Dynasty added that "at the beginning of life, human nature is good", and later scholars put forward "human nature is good".
Allusions to Meng Mu's three movements:
When Mencius was a child, his father died young and his mother didn't remarry. Mencius' mother attached great importance to Mencius' education and strictly controlled it, hoping that one day Mencius would become a useful person.
At first, they lived next to the cemetery. Mencius and his neighbor's children learned to bow down and cry like adults and played a funeral game. Mencius' mother looked at it and frowned: "No! I can't let my children live here! "
Mencius' mother took Mencius to the fair, and when they arrived at the fair, Mencius and the children in the neighborhood began to learn the way businessmen did business and shouted. Mencius' mother said, "This place is not suitable for my children to live in!" "
So, they moved near the school. At this time of the first day of the summer calendar every month, officials go to the Confucian Temple, bow down and treat each other politely. Mencius learned to remember what he saw. Mencius' mother was very satisfied.
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