Excerpt from the original text: Ancient scholars must have teachers. Teacher, so preach and teach to solve doubts. People are not born knowing, who can have no doubt? If you are confused and don't follow the teacher, you will be confused and you will never understand. Before I was born, I studied Tao before I was born, so I learned from Tao. After I was born, I studied Taoism first, so I studied Taoism.
People who studied in ancient times must have teachers. Teachers are used to teach Taoism, teach and explain difficult problems. People are not born with knowledge and truth. Who can not doubt it?
With doubts and not learning from teachers, those problems that become confused will never be solved. Born in front of me, he understood the truth earlier than me, so I (should) follow (him) and regard him as a teacher; Born behind me, (if) he knows the truth before me, I (should) follow (him) as a 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.
Literary appreciation
Although the article also positively discusses the role of teachers, the importance of learning from teachers, who will be a teacher and other issues, it focuses on criticizing the bad atmosphere of being ashamed of learning from teachers that was popular among scholar-officials at that time. Judging from the writing intention and main spirit of the article, this is a highly targeted refutation paper.
The last paragraph of the article explains the reason for writing this article. Li Pan's "can do the ancient road" means that he can inherit the long-lost "teacher's way" and is willing to learn from his teachers. Therefore, this ending can be said to be a further criticism of today's people abandoning the teacher's way by praising the "ancient road", which echoes the first paragraph "ancient scholars must have teachers"
In the author's exposition, Shi Shuo belongs to a kind of fluent and fluent writing, which is obviously different from the original road and other bold and magnificent articles. However, there is still momentum in simplicity. There are many factors contributing to this momentum.