What do you mean, climate is not as good as geography, and peace is not as good as harmony?

"The weather is not as good as the geographical position, and the geographical position is not as good as the harmony between people" means that the weather and season that are conducive to combat are not as good as the geographical situation that is conducive to combat; The geographical situation conducive to fighting is not as good as the people's will and internal unity in the battle.

Excerpt from Virtue Helps Many, Loss of Virtue Helps Few —— Mencius and His Disciples in the Pre-Qin Period

Opportunities vouchsafed by Heaven are outmatched by terrestrial advantages, which in turn are outmatched by the harmony among people.

The city of three miles, the country of seven miles, is invincible when attacked by the Lord of the Rings. If the husband attacks it, he will have the right time; However, if you don't win, you'd better be in the right place at the right time.

Vernacular translation of weather and seasons is not as good as geographical situation. The geographical situation conducive to fighting is not as good as the people's will and internal unity in the battle.

A small town in Lisan, Fiona Fang, has an outer city in Qili, Fiona Fang. It is surrounded on all sides, but it can't win. Surrounding the city on all sides, we must get weather and seasons that are conducive to combat, but we can't win, because the weather and seasons that are conducive to combat are not as good as the geographical situation that is conducive to combat.

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Selected from Mencius under the Ugly Sun, Mencius was born in the noble state of Lu, and his ancestor was Sun Meng in the late state of Lu. But when Mencius was born, his family had declined. The chaos at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period gradually declined their family and forced them to move from Shandong to Zou. After that, when things were difficult, Mencius had to "rent a house" when he was young.

What has been handed down is that Mencius lost his father in his childhood and lived alone with his mother. For the study of Mencius, Meng Mu chose his neighbor to stay for three times, but he was very angry and broke the machine. From the age of 40, Mencius began to get in touch with politicians from all over the world and traveled between vassal States to publicize his thoughts and political views. Mencius inherited Confucius' thought of "benevolence" and advocated "people-oriented". "The people are the most important, the country is the second, and the monarch is the light."

Mencius opposed the annexation war. He believes that war is too cruel and advocates "benevolent government" to unify the world. The theoretical basis of Mencius' theory of "benevolent governance" is the theory of "good nature". Mencius said: "Everyone has a hidden heart." He believes that kindness is the unique nature of human beings and the fundamental symbol that distinguishes human beings from animals.

2. Appreciation of "getting more help from the Tao, but getting less help from the Tao"

The central argument is the first two sentences of the article. Mencius put forward three concepts: favorable weather, favorable geographical position and human harmony, and compared these three concepts in order to promote them step by step.

In the first paragraph, the author puts forward that the central argument consists of time, place, people and the comparison of the three. It emphasizes the importance of "human harmony" with two "inequalities", and at the same time embodies Mencius' "benevolent politics". The comparison between the three is essentially the comparison between the former and the latter, emphasizing that various objective and many factors are not as good as people's subjective conditions and the "harmony between people" factor in the war, and it is people rather than things that determine the outcome of the war.

The second paragraph demonstrates "the right time, the right place and the harmony between people". The author thinks that the reason why both sides dare to conquer the territory is that they have an advantage in "time", but the defenders can resist by virtue of "geographical position"; If the attacker can't attack for a long time, the army will be distracted and will inevitably fail. This convincingly proves the correctness of the assertion that "the weather is not as good as the geographical position".

The third syllogism proves that "geographical location is not as good as human harmony". For example, if you have good geographical conditions, you can't stay. The reason is that you have no "harmony" inside. If you are qualified, you can't play a role. On the contrary, you were defeated by those attackers who were "kind to others", although you didn't have "geographical advantage", which strongly explained the truth that "geographical advantage is not as good as being kind to others".

The above syllogism proves the view that "the weather is not as good as the geographical position, and the geographical position is not as good as human harmony". The function of the last paragraph is to further elaborate on the basis of the previous syllogism and push the scope of argument from war to governing the country, thus fully embodying Mencius' political views and making the article more universal. Secondly, "winning the way" can actually be understood as "winning people's hearts", that is, "harmony between people" The article is clear in context, rigorous in structure and fluent in momentum.