Interpretation: the incumbent is as virtuous as the wind, and the world is as virtuous as grass. When the wind blows on the grass, it will definitely fall off.
Excerpt from the original text: Ji Kangzi asked Confucius about politics: "There is no way to kill, but there is a way. What? " Confucius said to him, "Why did an official kill his son? Children are better and people are better. The virtue of a gentleman, the virtue of a villain, and the wind on the grass will be suppressed. "
Ji Kangzi asked Confucius how to govern political affairs and said, "How about killing those who have no way and making those who have a way?" Confucius said, "Where do politicians need to kill people?" ? As long as you want to do good, people will follow suit. The incumbent is as virtuous as the wind, and the world is as virtuous as grass. When the wind blows on the grass, it will definitely fall off. "
2. "Know more about plants, birds and beasts" comes from The Analects of Confucius and Yang Huo in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Interpretation: You can also know the names of many birds, animals and plants.
Excerpt from the original text: Confucius said: "Poetry can arouse, observe, group and resent. Your father is a thing, and your father is a distant thing; Learn more about the names of birds, animals and plants. "
Vernacular translation: Confucius said: "Poetry can stimulate emotions, observe society, make friends and complain about others. You can serve your parents nearby, you can serve the king far away, and you can know the names of many birds, animals and plants. "
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Confucius initiated the atmosphere of private lectures and advocated benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith. He led some disciples around the world for thirteen years, and revised the six classics of Poetry, Calligraphy, Rites and Music, Book of Changes and Spring and Autumn Annals in his later years.
Confucius once asked Laozi to be polite. There are 3000 disciples, including 72 saints. After the death of Confucius, his disciples and their re-disciples recorded the words and deeds, quotations and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples, and compiled the Confucian classic The Analects.
The Analects of Confucius is one of the classic works of Confucianism and a collection of recorded essays, which mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples in the form of quotations and dialogues, and embodies Confucius' political, aesthetic, moral and utilitarian values.
The Analects of Confucius covers politics, education, literature, philosophy and ways of living. As early as the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, when Confucius set up an altar to give lectures, its main contents were initially established.