2. "Mingde" is a clear moral character and a natural moral character. "Ming Ming De" means knowing clearly what human nature is and how to be a man.
3. "Being close to the people" includes two meanings: self-improvement and new people. Self-improvement means renewing morality, constantly changing yourself, perfecting yourself, and being a person with innovative spirit and ability; Xinmin is to turn the people into customs, make a living for the people, and let the people set up new ideas and live a new life.
4. "Best" means the highest good, and the highest good means no good. No goodness means deliberately being good for the sake of goodness, but having a real good without an external form of goodness.
5, from Confucius "Book of Rites University".
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1, "Book of Rites University": "The way of a university is to be well-known and close to the people, and stop at perfection." Zheng Xuan's note: "Stop, you are still at home." Kong Ying Da's book: "Stop at the best, then talk about the way of university, stop at the best." Chen Geng said, "If you stop, you will not move." The best is the most natural thing. "
2. "Book of Rites University": "The way of a university is to be well-known and close to the people, and stop at perfection." Zhu Note: "If you say that you are virtuous and close to the people, you should not move in the land of perfection, but have maximum justice and no selfish desires."
3. Song Zhuxi explained in the "University Chapters": "If you stop, you must be correct and not take it; The best is the most natural thing. If you say that you are virtuous and close to the people, don't move to the perfect place. " It means: to cultivate one's morality and educate people, we must reach the perfect realm without wavering.
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Baidu encyclopedia-book of rites university