Those who want to be obviously superior to the world in ancient times should rule their country first, and those who want to rule their country should rule their home first; If you want to reunite with your family, you should first repair your body; If you want to cultivate yourself, you should be upright first; If you want to be correct, be sincere first; To be sincere, you must know first, and you must know the style. Everyone knows everything, everyone knows it and is sincere, sincere and upright, upright and upright, well-trained and well-groomed, well-groomed and well-governed, well-groomed and well-governed. From Tian Zi to Shu Ren, one is based on self-cultivation. If the end of the treatment is messed up, it won't work. Thick is thin, thin is thick, and there is nothing. This is called knowing it, and this is called knowing it. ?
The so-called sincere person is not deceiving himself. If it stinks, if it's lewd, it's called modesty. Therefore, a gentleman must be cautious and independent. Little people are not good at fooling around and do everything they can. When he meets a gentleman, he will resent it, fight for his incompetence and concentrate on his kindness. It is impossible for a man to treat himself as a liver and lung. This is called sincerity in the middle and tangible outside. Therefore, a gentleman must be cautious and independent. Zeng Zi said, "What you see with ten eyes and what you point to with ten hands is strict!" Rich, virtuous, broad-minded and obese, so a gentleman must be sincere. As the poem says, "If you support yourself in Australia, you will find yourself in green bamboo, and you will find yourself in Fiji. If you are incisive, if you are grinding, if you are sad, if you are noisy, you will find yourself in Fiji. " As eager as you are, Taoism is also; If you are as sharp as a mill, you will learn from yourself; Those who feel sorry for others are embarrassed; He Xi Xi Xi, Wei Yi also; If you have a gentleman, you can't be embarrassed. Morality is the best, and the people can't forget it. A poem says, "Yu Xi! The former king did not forget. " A gentleman is virtuous, close to his relatives, and a villain is happy and profitable, so that he will not forget the world. Chen Kang said, "Ke Mingde." Dajia said, "Ancient times are destiny." Emperor Dian said, "Mingde is also." It goes without saying. The dish of soup said, "New is new, new is new." Chen Kang said, "Be a new citizen." A poem says, "Although Zhou was an old country, his life changed." Therefore, a gentleman does his best. As the poem says, "the country is thousands of miles away, and only the people can stop it." As the poem says, "The yellow bird stops at the corner of the mountain." Confucius said, "When you stop, you know what you have stopped. Can people be worse than birds? " There is a poem that says, "King Mumuwen stops at Ji Xi." Stop at benevolence for the monarch, stop at respect for the minister, stop at filial piety for the son, stop at kindness for the father, and stop at faith in making friends with the Chinese people. Confucius said, "If I hear a lawsuit, I am still a human being, and I will make it litigious!" Ruthless people can't do it, and they are afraid of people's ambitions. This is called knowing it. ?
The so-called self-cultivation lies in mindfulness, and it is wrong to be angry, afraid, happy and worried. Absent-minded, blind, listening but not smelling, eating without knowing its taste, this is called cultivating one's morality with the right heart. ?
There are few people in the world who are in physical repair, loved, looked down upon, feared, worried and lazy. Therefore, there is a saying: "Man is the evil of his son, and he doesn't know the size of his young son." This means that if you don't repair your body, you can't be at home. "University" is an essay on the Confucian thought of self-cultivation and governing the country. Originally the 42nd article of The Book of Rites of Little Dai, it is said that it was written. In fact, it is a Confucian work in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and it is an important work for China to discuss educational theory in ancient times. After being highly praised by Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi in the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhu in the Southern Song Dynasty wrote "University Chapters and Sentences", which was finally called "Four Books" together with The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, "Da Xue" became the official textbook of the school and the required reading of the imperial examination, which had a great influence on the ancient education in China.
The "Three Outlines" and "Eight Items" put forward in "University" emphasize that self-cultivation is the premise of governing people, and the purpose of self-cultivation is to govern the country and the world, which shows the consistency between governing the country and the world and personal moral cultivation.