It means "Wang Gu talks about him from left to right"

The king looked around.

Qi Xuanwang didn't want to answer this question, so he turned to look at the people around him and turned to other things.

Gu, turn your head. Left, right, left, right people talk about him and talk about other topics.

Mencius called Qi Xuanwang the monarch of Qi during the Warring States Period. You have a courtier who entrusts his wife and children to a friend and visits Chu by himself. Go against [against] until he comes back. Than, and, and so on. Reverse, pass "back" Then his wife (then his wife (něi)) was hungry and cold. What should I do (to such a friend)? ? "

The king said, "Throw it away [throw it away], throw it away. . "

Judges cannot rule judges [judges cannot rule judges]. Judges are ancient judicial officials and subordinate officials such as local scholars and Sui scholars. So what? "

The king said, "I spared him." . "

He said: "There is no medicine to cure within the four borders, and the world is in chaos. So what? "

Wang Gu talked about him.

On a busy day, chicken ① is selected from Mencius? Xia (Integration of Scholars, Zhonghua Book Company, 1986). The title was added by the editor. Ráng a chicken every day, stealing a chicken every day. Busy, here means stealing.

Mencius Dai Yingzhi [Dai Yingzhi] Song Dafu. Yue: "Eleven [eleven] refers to the tax rate, that is, one tenth. City tax [city tax] Cancel the checkpoint and market tax. Go, give up, cancel Levy refers to the tax levied. Today we can't [today we can't] not this year. Year after year. Please wait for the next year, and then stop collecting taxes. So what? "

Mencius said, "Today, some people are busy with their neighbors' chickens every day. "..., or [or] someone. Tell them:' It's not a gentleman's way. Yes, here it is. Road, line, line. . You said,' Please destroy it, please destroy it, and then reduce it. This sentence was said by a chicken thief. A chicken is busy this month of next year and has been busy ever since. If you know it is wrong, it will be too early. If you know it's wrong, stop it quickly. Refers to stealing chickens. Yes, conjunctions, just. Why wait until next year? "

Begging neighbors is selected from Mencius? Xia (Zhu Le Integration, Zhonghua Book Company, 1986 Edition). The title was added by the editor. Beggar your neighbor, treat your neighbor as a big puddle, and drain your flood there. Gulls (hè), ravines, puddles.

"Mencius" Bai Gui [Bai Gui (guρ)] Dan, a native of Zigui, was a famous water conservancy expert in the Warring States period, and was good at building dikes. Yue: "Dan controls water better than danger." I am better at controlling water than Dayu. This is Bai Gui bragging about himself. Dan, Bai Gui calls himself. In addition, the pause in the sentence is meaningless. The more, the better. . "

Mencius said, "Too much is not enough. . In water control, the way of water also refers to dredging according to the nature of water flowing downwards. Therefore, to treat the four seas as beggars and the four seas as big puddles is to let the flood flow into the sea. . Today, my son is a beggar in the neighborhood. Retrograde water is called "Jiang" flood. Water. Drowning people, floods, and benevolent people are evil. My son has passed. "

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Mencius is famous for his eloquence. Zhao Qi said in Mencius with all his heart that he was "good at metaphor, slow in speaking and unique in meaning", which is true. These three short essays can illustrate this point.

For example, Guo Song set up a "city-closing sign", which affected the circulation of goods. Mencius asked for immediate cancellation, but Dr. Song waited until the next year to answer, which shows that he also realized that this measure is incorrect. Mencius saw through his "delaying tactics" and changed him from "a chicken in the sun" to "a chicken in the moon" as a metaphor, indicating that once he knew his mistake, he should correct it immediately. Another example is Bai Gui, which uses dikes to control water. On a small scale, it can prevent floods, but if the flood does not flow into this place, it will inevitably flow to other places, causing disasters to people there. On this basis, Mencius revealed the essence of this beggar-thy-neighbor metaphor. The above two metaphors are based on human behavior. The former focuses on revealing behavior patterns, while the latter focuses on revealing behavior results, but the purpose is to stop wrong behavior.

Mencius' way of speaking in "Wang Gu" is different from the above two situations, because the relationship between the two sides is monarch and minister, and there is no tit-for-tat atmosphere in the dialogue, so it seems to be leisurely. In fact, the conclusion as early as Mencius' heart was to make Qi Xuanwang realize his responsibility to the people and manage the country well, but he spoke slowly, asking his friends what to do if they didn't do their duty, and then asking the judges what to do if they didn't do their duty. To this, Qi Xuanwang answered one by one, but he didn't know that it happened to enter Mencius' "victory", and he had nothing to answer before asking about "no governance within the four borders". In this dialogue, Mencius used analogy.

Mencius' art of conversation can be seen everywhere in Mencius. If you are interested, you may wish to look at the original work, which will have a lot of inspiration.