This chapter is the third chapter of The Book of Rites, which is selected from China Confucian classics. It mainly tells that "keeping fresh, keeping fresh and keeping fresh" is the key to timely reflection, continuous innovation and strengthening ideological revolution from the diligent and dynamic perspective.
First, the original:
Pan Ming in Tang Dynasty said: Gou Rixin, day after day, day after day.
Gao Kang said: Be a new citizen.
The poem reads: "Although Zhou is an old country, his life has changed." Therefore, a gentleman does his best.
Two. notes
1, Tang: It is the soup of the founding monarch of Shang Dynasty. Pan Ming: Write a rumor on the boat to remind yourself. The appliances here refer to Shang Tang's bathtub.
2. Gou: even, assuming; If.
3. Work: Cheer up and encourage. Xinmin: In other words, people-oriented in Beijing should be Xinmin. It means to create a new person, to create a new person, that is, to make people abandon old plans and new things and become evil and kind.
4. "Poetry" sentence: The poems here refer 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.
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.
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."
Extended data:
"A new day, a new day, a new day" is engraved on the bath of King Shang Tang. It was originally about taking a bath: if you wash all the dirty things today, it will be a day later.
The dirt is washed clean in the sky, so we must stick to it. Extension, spiritual baptism, moral cultivation.
"Innovation, innovation and re-innovation" comes from The Book of Rites University, which is the third chapter of University.
"University" is a book about Confucian national ideological cultivation. Originally the 42nd chapter of Li Ji from generation to generation. It is said that it is made in Ceng Zi. In fact, it is a Confucian work in the Qin and Han Dynasties. This is China's ancient theory on education. Important work.
After the Northern Song Dynasty, Hao Cheng and Hao Cheng tried to respect it. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu wrote "University Chapters and Sentences", which eventually formed "Middle School", "Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius", and were also called "Four Books". After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, "Da Xue" became the official textbook of the school and the required reading for the imperial examination, which had a great influence on the ancient education in China.
The "three programs" and "eight items" put forward emphasize that self-cultivation is the premise of governing people, and the purpose of self-cultivation is to govern the country and level the world, which shows the consistency between governing the country and level the world and personal moral cultivation.
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