Starting from "dispelling doubts" (both Tao and industry are a problem), it is inferred that people born without knowledge cannot be without doubts. If they have doubts, they should learn from their teachers. Starting from "preaching", it is inferred that starting out as a teacher means learning Tao. Therefore, no matter how high or low, people of all ages can be teachers. "Where the Tao is, so is the teacher."
Shi Shuo is an argumentative essay written by Han Yu, a writer in the Tang Dynasty. Explain the truth of learning from teachers, satirize the world where teachers are ashamed, educate young people, and play a role in changing the atmosphere.
Through the comparison and repeated demonstration of positive and negative examples, this paper discusses the necessity and principle of learning from teachers, which shows extraordinary courage and fighting spirit, and also shows the spirit of the author to express his opinions regardless of the secular. Although the full text is not long, it has profound implications, distinct arguments, rigorous structure, thorough reasoning and strong persuasiveness and appeal.
Extended data writing background:
In the third year of Dali (768), Han Yu was born. His grandparents are both North Korean or local officials, and his father Han Zhongqing is Lang's secretary. Han Zhongqing died when Han Yu was three years old. He was brought up by his brother Han Hui. In the 12th year of Dali (777), Han Hui was demoted to Shaozhou because of Yuan Zai's involvement, and died in Shaozhou shortly after taking office.
After Han Hui's early death, Han Yu first returned to Heyang to bury his younger brother with his widowed sister-in-law, but he couldn't stay long, so he had to live with his widowed sister-in-law in Xuanzhou, south of the Yangtze River. Han Yu spent this period in hardship and wandering. Han Yu considers himself an orphan. He studied hard since he was a child and didn't need any encouragement.
In July of the 12th year of Zhenyuan (796), Han Yu was recommended by Dong Jin, the secretariat of Xuanwu, and was appointed as the secretariat of Xuanwu.
During the three years of observing and promoting officials, Han Yu took every opportunity to publicize his innovative ideas of prose, and at the same time guided Li Ao, Zhang Ji and other young people to study literature.
Shi Shuo was written by Zhen Yuan when he was a doctor in imperial academy No.4 School in 17-18 years (80 1-802). In the seventeenth year of Zhenyuan (80 1), the author who was dismissed from Xuzhou and lived in Luoyang to preach and teach, was twice transferred to Beijing as a candidate, and was awarded the position of imperial academy's fourth doctor in October of that year.
At this time, the author is determined to use imperial academy as a platform to revive Confucianism and reform the literary world, so as to realize his ambition of serving the country. However, when I came to imperial academy to take office, I found that the imperial examination hall was dark, the government was corrupt, and the bureaucracy was full of drawbacks, which led many students to lose confidence in the imperial examination and relax their studies. At that time, the upper class looked down on teachers.
In the scholar-bureaucrat class, there is a concept of "being ashamed to be a teacher", which directly affects the teaching and management in imperial academy. The author is saddened by this and clarifies people's vague understanding of "seeking a teacher" and "being a teacher" by answering Li Pan's question.