When Yan Hui first came to Manmen, he was the youngest among his disciples, introverted, taciturn and not very clever. Some people think he is a bit stupid. Ma Su quoted the biography of Yi Shi worshiping Bo as saying, "Luz and Yan Hui bathed in my water and saw colorful birds. Yan Hui asked, and Luz said, "The birds are shining." The next day, Yan Hui and Luz took a bath in Surabaya again, and even saw the former birds. They asked again, "Do you know this bird? "Luz Day:' Birds with the same identity. Yan Hui said, "Why kill two birds with one stone?" Lutz said: "For example, silk gauze is cooked as silk and dyed as soap. Is it not appropriate to kill two birds with one stone? " Yan Hui once went to take a bath in our water with Luz. When he saw colorful birds swimming in the river, he asked Luz what bird it was. Luz replied, It's called Inging Bird. A few days later, Yan Hui and Luz went to Surabaya to take a bath. They met a colorful bird in the river. Yan Hui asked Luz again, Do you know this bird? Luz replied, this is the same bird. Yan Hui asked: Why does a bird have two names? Lutz said: Just like the silk we produce here, washing it with water is silk, and dyeing it with color is soap. Isn't it natural to have two names: a bird?
Yan Hui's honesty and introversion masked his intelligence and thoughtfulness, and even Confucius could hardly determine what level Yan Hui's talent belonged to. After a period of in-depth observation and understanding, Confucius pointed out that Yan Hui was not stupid. "The Analects of Confucius is a government" records: "Confucius said:' I talk back all day long, and I don't disobey it, like a fool. Returned and saved their privacy, but also enough to send, returned and not stupid. "Yan Hui is so talented that even the articulate Zi Gong can't be frankly compared with Yan Hui." "The Analects of Confucius Gongye Chang" records: "Confucius said:' Which is better, a woman or a woman? Yes:' How dare you turn back if you give it? I can also smell one thing and know two things. Confucius said:' Buddha is as good as it is; My daughter and I are very much alike. "
Yan Hui was smart and eager to learn, which made him realize the profoundness of Confucius' theory earlier. He has more respect for Confucius than ordinary disciples. He respects Confucius with the attitude of respecting the sages of past dynasties, and his relatives are like father and son. The Analects of Confucius Zi Han said: "Yan Yuan sighed:' The higher you lift, the stronger you drill. Look ahead, suddenly how come back. The master coaxed me and wrote me articles, asking me to be polite and unable to stop. I have exhausted my talents, if I make a difference. Although I wanted to follow, there was no reason in the end. Yan Hui once lamented: The more you look up, the more brilliant you feel. The harder you study, the more profound you feel. It looked like it was in front. When we were looking for it in front, it suddenly appeared in the back. Although the teacher's Tao is so profound and elusive, the teacher is good at inducing us step by step, enriching and improving us with all kinds of literary knowledge, and restraining us with certain courtesy, so that we can't stop learning. I have exhausted my talents and seem to be able to work independently. If you want to take a step forward, you don't know how to start. Therefore, when Shao Zhengmao competed with Confucius for disciples, only Yan Hui did not leave Confucius' door, so later generations commented: "Yan Yuan only knew Confucius saints." ("On Balance, Telling the Ruins")
When Yan Hui was a student, he married Dai, a woman from the Song Dynasty, in the eighth year of Lu (502 BC). The following year, Yan Xin was born.
In the seventh year of Lu (503 BC), Yan Hui traveled westward to Wei and from Wei to Song. "Talking about the God of jing yuan" said: "Yan Hui will travel to the Western Heaven and ask Confucius,' Why is it a body? Confucius said:' Respect and faithfulness can only convince people. Etiquette does not conform to the crowd, respect is loved by others, loyalty is shared by others, and trust is believed by others. What people love, what people own and what people rely on will be freed from suffering. Can be close to the country, not to mention the body? So it is not far from calculation and remonstrance. Can't you fix it outside without fixing it in the middle? If you don't think things over first, it's not too late to get into trouble. ","Confucius Family Language "and" Zhuangzi "also recorded Yan Hui's westward journey, but the words were slightly different.
The purpose of Yan Hui's westward journey is mainly to propose to Dai in Song Dynasty. According to Yan's "Yan Zi Ping", Yan Hui passed through Wei Guo because his family was in Wei Guo. Zou, a descendant of Yan Zi, has a certain social status and influence in Weiguo. He is a good doctor in the country of Wei, and his family is rich. Later, Confucius traveled around the world and lived in his own home just after he arrived in Weiguo. Yan Zi's trip to defend the country is not his final destination. According to Family Talk, you should go to the Song State of Wei. If the swallow receives Song from Lu Zhi, it can't be said that the swallow will travel westward, because Song is in the southwest of Shandong, not in the west. The purpose of Yan Zi's going to Song State is probably related to his marriage. It seems that Zou played the role of Yue Lao at the same time. So, on the grounds of studying, please go to Song State with Zou.
The first stage of Yan Hui's life took about six years. At the age of thirteen, his studies were basically completed. Lang Kai of the Eastern Han Dynasty said: Yan Zi was "eighteen years old, and the world died". /kloc-proposed at the age of 0/9, married Dai at the age of 20, and was born at the age of 2 1.
There are still different opinions about the age of marriage in Yan Hui. Speaking of marrying Dai at 30. However, according to Emperor Li Zhou, "the media is responsible for judging everyone. Both men and women are named after the year, month and day, so that men can marry at the age of 30 and women at the age of 20. " This means that the matchmaker is responsible for the marriage of men and women in people all over the world, and usually registers after the boy or girl reaches three months. If a man is over 30 years old and a woman is over 20 years old and not married, the official media will let him get married and marry someone, and individuals and parents will lose their freedom of choice. During the Spring and Autumn Period, wars were frequent. In order to compete for world hegemony, most vassal states take the highest marriage age stipulated by Zhou Li as the premise to rapidly multiply their population. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period when Yan Hui lived, the State of Yue ordered: "Anyone who is unmarried with 20 men and 17 women will commit the crime of his parents." Confucius/KLOC-married at the age of 0/9, and Yan Hui married at the age of 20, not at the age of 30, one year later.
When Yan Hui traveled around the world with his teacher, his son Yan Xin was only five years old.