China Confucian classic The Book of Rites University is the third chapter of The University, which mainly talks about the key points of "keeping fresh, keeping fresh and keeping fresh", that is, emphasizing timely reflection and constant innovation, and strengthening ideological revolution from the perspective of diligence and dynamics.

Pan Ming in the Tang Dynasty said,' The new is the new, and the new is the new.

Being a new citizen is the motto of Cheng Tang, the ancient emperor of China. Advocating the spirit of representing the continuous development and positive progress of mankind is an inevitable trend and the result of accumulated changes, a philosophy of quantitative change to qualitative change, and a philosophy of human ideological progress and material innovation.

Name of the work

New day, new day, new day.

Year of creation

Shang Tang times

Source of works

Pan Ming, Tang Zhi

Literary genre

classical Chinese

original work

If you can improve yourself in one day, do it every day, always on the basis of improvement.

Pan Ming of Tang Zhi (1) said, "If you are new, you will be new, and you will be new again." (2) Gao Kang said, "Be a new citizen." (3) "Poetry" says: "Although Zhou is an old country, he is destined for reform." (4) Therefore, a gentleman does his best.

Annotation of works

(1) Tang: namely Tang, the founding monarch of Shang Dynasty. Inscription: a motto engraved on the ship to warn yourself. The utensils here refer to Shang Tang's bathtub.

(2) Gou: hypothesis; If.

(3) Work: Cheer up and boost morale. Xinmin: that is, "being close to the people" mentioned in the Classic should actually be "Xinmin". It means to make the people new, that is, to make the people abandon the old and establish the new, and to do evil and good.

(4) Poem-like sentence: Poetry here refers to The Book of Songs, Elegance and King of Literature. Zhou, Zhou dynasty. Old country, old country. Its fate refers to the fate entrusted to it by the Zhou Dynasty. V: auxiliary words are meaningless.

(5) Therefore, what a gentleman does is not done: Therefore, people with noble moral character pursue perfection everywhere. So, so. Gentleman, sometimes refers to nobility, sometimes refers to a person with noble moral character, which has different meanings according to different language environments.

Translation of works

King Shang Tang's motto engraved on the bathtub is: "Every day is new, and every day is new. When it is new, it will be updated." Gao Kang said: "Encourage people to abandon the old and absorb new ideas." The Book of Songs said: "Although the Zhou Dynasty was an old country, it was endowed with a new destiny." Therefore, people with high moral character pursue perfection everywhere.

classics reading

If "virtue" is still a relatively static requirement to carry forward the aboveboard moral character in human nature, then "innovation, innovation and innovation" is a dynamic viewpoint that emphasizes continuous innovation and strengthens ideological revolution. "Fresh, fresh, fresh again" is engraved on the bathtub of King Shang Tang. Originally, it was about bathing: I washed all the dirty things today, so I washed them every day, and everyone insisted on it day by day. By extension, spiritual baptism, moral cultivation and ideological transformation are all different. This reminds people of the daily confession of Christianity, and also reminds people that Jiang Yang, a woman writer, named her book about the life of "ultra-leftwing" as Bathing.

Spiritual bathing is the spirit of bathing in the snow in Zhuangzi's Journey to the North and the virtue of bathing in the Book of Rites Confucianism. In any case, it shows an innovative attitude and drives people to abandon the old and establish the new. So you can engrave it not only on the bath like King Shang Tang, but also on the bedside and desk, making it your motto.

Source of works

A new day, a new day, a new day is selected from Book of Rites University. [1] University was originally Article 42 of the Book of Rites. In the Song Dynasty, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi brothers took them out of the Book of Rites and compiled chapters and sentences. Zhu called Daxue, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius as four books, and Daxue became a Confucian classic. As for the author of Da Xue, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi thought it was "Kong's last words". Zhu rearranged The University, which was divided into one chapter of Jing and ten chapters of Biography. That "the words of Confucius, cover a chapter, Ceng Zi said; The tenth chapter is the meaning of Ceng Zi, and the master remembers it. " In other words, "Jing" is the words of Confucius and recorded by Ceng Zi; "Biography" is the interpretation of "Jing", which is recorded by students. [2]

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