This sentence comes from Mencius' Fish I Want. Excerpt from the original:
The senior official accepted it without distinguishing whether it was appropriate or not. Call it, and the people in the street will be blessed; Begging for help is too much. Is it for the splendor of the house, the service of my wives and the poor people who know how to appreciate me? For the beauty of the palace, the matter of wives and concubines, the poor have me and you?
Vernacular translation:
A bowl of rice, a bowl of soup, you can live if you eat it, or you will starve if you don't eat it. But the hungry people passing by refused to accept it when they scolded others for eating it; Kicking others to eat, beggars are unwilling to accept it. (But some people) accepted a generous salary without knowing whether it was in line with etiquette. In this case, what good is a good salary for me? Gorgeous residence, the service of wives and concubines, and the familiar poor, are you grateful to me?
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About the author:
Mencius (about 372 BC-about 289 BC), whose real name is Ke, is Zi (to be tested, Zi or Zi Ju). Han nationality, a native of Zouguo (now Zoucheng City, Shandong Province) in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, was a great thinker, educator, politician and writer in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period.
One of the main representatives of Confucianism. Politically, he advocated that the law precedes the king and is benevolent; In theory, Confucius was praised, while Yang Zhu and Mo Zhai were opposed. Known as the sage by the later Buddha, his disciples recorded Mencius' words and deeds and wrote a book, Mencius.
Appreciation of works:
From the literary point of view, prose is magnificent, emotional and lively, which fully embodies Mencius' upright personality and shows Mencius' eloquence. Mencius likes to use metaphors. This article uses concrete fish and bear's paw to compare abstract life and righteousness, and skillfully compares "replacing fish with bear's paw" to "replacing life with righteousness", which is a very famous example.
Secondly, this paper also uses a lot of contrast techniques, such as using bear's paw to compare fish, using life to compare righteousness, using people who value righteousness and neglect righteousness, and using "hometown as" (for the past) and "today as" (for the present) to make the truth more clear and impressive, which strengthens the persuasiveness of the article.
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