The meaning of sheep in classical Chinese

1. The distant classical Chinese about sheep is an idiot selling sheep. There was a scholar in the Liang Dynasty, who had sexual dementia and didn't know about sheep.

Once, someone gave him a ram, and he tied his neck with a rope and took it to the market to sell. Other people's prices are very low and have not been sold for a long time.

People in the market knew that he was demented, so they secretly traded a macaque for a sheep. The scholar saw the macaque and thought it was just a sheep. Strangely, the macaque suddenly changed its face and lost its horn.

Seeing the monkey's hands and feet keep moving, it's strange that people in the market twist their horns, but there are no scars on the monkey's head, so it's not good to go to a freak again. So he took the macaque home and said, "I have a fat and thin monster."

First, the smell of sheep. It stinks now, and it has been in the market several times, but it can't be sold in the three dynasties.

He lost the horn on his head and his face was covered with orange peel. "This is an old joke. It doesn't explain anything, that is to say, the fool doesn't know the story of the sheep being stolen, but he also justifies it.

Mencius replied, "Confucius' disciples didn't talk about Qi Huangong and Jin Wengong, so they didn't pass down from generation to generation, so I haven't heard of them. If you insist on what I said, can you tell me the truth of unifying the world with benevolence? " '

King Xuan asked, "How does Benevolence unify the world?"

Mencius replied, "No one can stop him from comforting the people and ruling the world." King Xuan asked, "Can a monarch like me care about the people?"

Mencius said, "Yes."

King Xuan asked, "Where did you know I could?"

Mencius said: "I heard such a thing from Hu Bi: (once) Your Majesty was sitting in the main hall, and a man was passing by with a cow. Your majesty saw it and asked,' where are you taking the cow?' (The man) replied,' Use it to sacrifice the clock.' The king said,' Let it be! I can't bear to watch it tremble in fear and be dragged to death without guilt. "(The man) asked,' So no bells?' The king said,' How can you not? Replace it with a sheep! I wonder if this is the case. King Xuan said, "That's true."

Mencius said: "such a heart is enough to unify the whole country!" People think that the king is stingy. I knew the king couldn't stand it. " Xuanwang said, "Well, there are indeed people who talk like this. Although Qi is small, how can he spare a cow? It was because I couldn't bear to watch it tremble in fear and was dragged away to kill it, so I changed it into a sheep. "

Mencius said, "Your Majesty, don't blame the people for thinking that you are stingy. How can they understand what you did when you replaced Daniel with Lamb? Your Majesty, if poor animals are killed innocently, what's the difference between cattle and sheep? Wang Xuan smiled and said, "What kind of psychology is this? I'm not stingy with money. I trade sheep for cattle. No wonder people say I'm stingy. "

Mencius said: "It doesn't matter, this is the expression of benevolence, because you only see cows, but not sheep." A gentleman can't bear to watch animals die alive; I can't bear to eat their meat when I hear them whine and moan. Because of this, a gentleman should put the kitchen away from himself. "

3. Comment on the classical Chinese translation of Andy's Sheep Next Door: 1. Andy: Yang Zhu, a famous thinker in the Warring States Period.

2. Leading his political party: leading his relatives. Party, honey.

3, vertical: servant. 4. Time shift: many times.

Andy's neighbor ran away with a sheep. The neighbor led his family to pursue it, and then asked Andy's servant to help him pursue it.

Andy said, "Hey! I ran a sheep, why do so many people want to chase it? " The neighbor said, "There are too many forks in the road near here." When the neighbor came back, Andy asked, "Did you find the sheep?" The neighbor replied, "I can't find it."

Andy asked, "How did you escape?" The neighbor said, "There is another fork in the road. We don't know where the sheep went, so we must come back. " Hearing this, Andy's face suddenly changed. He hasn't spoken for a long time and hasn't laughed all day.

His students were surprised and asked (Andy), "Sheep are just animals. They are not your teachers, but they make you unsmiling. Why? " Andy didn't answer, and his students didn't get his answer in the end. People who enlighten learning often change their learning contents and methods, and will lose their nature, direction and even life. Only by grasping the fundamental things and the essential things of unity can we not go astray.

From this fable, we can further understand that in learning, we should not only grasp the fundamental things, but also grasp the consistent essential things, and observe and handle everything in this way. Objective things are complicated, so we should do everything wholeheartedly, not half-heartedly.

If you don't have a mind of your own and want to take another road when you see a fork in the road, you will eventually get nothing, even lose your nature and even your life, just as the fable of a dead sheep warns. Idioms condensed from this fable, such as "dead sheep in another way" and "dead sheep in another way", are used to describe people who lose their nature, lose their direction, go astray, accomplish nothing and have serious consequences because of complicated and changeable situations or inattention.

4. Translation of the classical Chinese "Selling Sheep": There was a scholar in the Liang Dynasty who was sexually demented and didn't know about sheep.

Once, someone gave him a ram, and he tied his neck with a rope and took it to the market to sell. Other people's prices are very low and have not been sold for a long time. People in the market knew that he was demented, so they secretly traded a macaque for a sheep.

The scholar saw the macaque and thought it was just a sheep. Strangely, the macaque suddenly changed its face and lost its horn. Seeing the monkey's hands and feet keep moving, it's strange that people in the market twist their horns, but there are no scars on the monkey's head, so it's not good to go to a freak again.

So he took the macaque home and said, "I have a fat and thin monster." First, the smell of sheep. It stinks now, and it has been in the market several times, but it can't be sold in the three dynasties. I lost a horn on my head and my face was covered with orange peel. "

5. Translation of Classical Chinese Replacing Cattle with Sheep Qi Xuanwang ① asked, "Have you ever heard of Qi Huan and Jinwen ②?" Mencius said to him, "The followers of Zhong Ni who have nothing to do with Taoism and literature will never be handed down in the future.

I haven't heard of it. If there is no (3), what about the king? "Yue:" What kind of virtue can be king? "He said," If you protect the people and be king, you can't protect yourself. "

He said, "If I am a person, how can I protect the people?" Say, "Yes." Yue: "How do you know I can do it?" He said, "I heard from Hu Bi that the king was sitting in the hall, and a cow passed by under the hall. The king saw it and said,' What is an ox?' Yes, I said, I will use bell 6.

The king said,' Give it up! I can't stand being with him. If I am innocent, I will die. "Yes:' But why use a clock?' Yue:' What can be abolished? Trade sheep for them! Know nothing? Say, "Yes." . "

He said: "The heart is king. The people love the king, and I know the king can't stand it. "

The king said, "Of course. There are sincere people.

Although Qi is young, why do I love a cow? I just can't bear to be swaddled, and innocent people die, so I exchange sheep. "Yue:" Jun is no different from the people who love you.

Small is easy to be big, and evil is known? If the king hides his innocence and dies, what about the cattle and sheep? "Wang Xiao said," what is sincerity? I must love its wealth. It is easy to use sheep, and it is appropriate for people to call me love. "

He said, "This is harmless, but it is a kind of technology. When you see cows, you can't see sheep. A gentleman is to an animal, seeing its life, and can't bear to see its death; I can't bear to eat its meat when I hear its voice.

It is a gentleman who stays away from the kitchen. Note 1: Tian, whose real name is Bijiang.

Qi Weiwang's son and King Qi Min's father reigned from about 3 19 BC to 30 1 BC. ② Qi Huan and Jin Wen: Qi Huangong and Jin Wengong.

Qi Huangong was the monarch of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period. His surname is Jiang, and his first name is Jiang. He reigned from 685 BC to 643 BC and was the first overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the monarch of the State of Jin was surnamed Ji. From 636 BC to 628 BC, he was also one of the "five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period". (3) Doing nothing: Like "already", it is a last resort.

④ Hu Bi: a person's name, a trusted minister around Qi Xuanwang. ⑤: Verb, go, go.

⑥ Disturbing the bell: casting a new bell, taking blood from the sacrifice and smearing the bell hole for sacrifice. According to ancient etiquette, whenever a new national artifact or ancestral temple is put into use, animals should be slaughtered and blood taken for sacrifice.

⑥ ⑥ ⑥ ⑥ ⑥ ⑥ ⑥ ⑥ ⑥ ⑥ ⑥ ⑥ ⑥ ⑥ ⑥ 9318 Love: stingy.

9 (Bian): Small. ⑩ difference: verb, strange, suspicious, blame.

⑾ Hidden: Love, pity. ⑿ No injury: It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.

[13] Kitchen: Kitchen. Translation; Qi Xuanwang asked, "Can you tell me something about the hegemony between Qi Huangong and Jin Wengong in the Spring and Autumn Period?" Mencius replied, "Confucius' students didn't talk about the hegemony of Qi Huangong and Jin Wengong, so they didn't pass it on to future generations, and I haven't heard of it.

Your majesty, if I have to say it, why don't I talk about unifying the king of the world with morality? King Xuan asked, "How can morality unify the world?" Mencius said: "Everything is for the people to live and work in peace and contentment.

No one can stop the unification of the world in this way. King Xuan said, "Can people like me live and work in peace and contentment?" Mencius said, "Yes."

King Xuan said, "Why do you know I can?" Mencius said, "I once heard Hu tell me that one day, your majesty, someone was sitting in the hall and passing by with a cow." When you saw it, you asked,' Where are you taking the cow?' The man who led the cow replied,' I'm going to kill the blood-collecting sacrificial bell'. You said,' Let it go! I can't bear to watch it tremble with fear, just like being executed everywhere without guilt.

The man who led the cow asked,' Then there will be no bell festival?' You said,' How can you not sacrifice the bell? Replace cattle with sheep! -I wonder if there is such a thing? "XuanWang said," there is such a thing. "Mencius said," with your kindness, your majesty can unify the world.

People think you are stingy when they hear about it, but I know you are not stingy, but because you can't bear it. Xuan Wang said, "Yes, some people really think so.

However, although we are small, how can I be too stingy to part with a cow? I really can't bear to watch it tremble with fear, just like being sentenced to death without guilt, so I replaced it with a sheep. Mencius said, "Your Majesty, don't blame the people for thinking that you are stingy.

They only see you use a little sheep, not a big cow. How can they know the meaning? Besides, if the king has pity on cows and sheep, it is not a sin to kill them. What is the difference between cows and sheep? "Wang Xuan smiled and said," yes, even I don't know what kind of psychology this is. Admittedly, I don't spare money to replace cattle with sheep, but people do have their reasons for thinking so. "

Mencius said, "Never mind. Your majesty doesn't want to be kind, just because you saw the cow with your own eyes and didn't see the sheep.

A gentleman can't bear to see the dead zone when he sees birds and beasts; I can't bear to eat their meat when I hear their whining. Therefore, gentlemen always stay away from the kitchen. "

6. Henan Leyangzi's wife explained in classical Chinese that she didn't know He's daughter.

The sheep tasted the journey, got a golden cake and gave it back to his wife. The wife said, "I heard that people with lofty ideals don't drink the water from stealing springs, and honest people don't take the food from stealing springs. How about picking up waste products for profit and polluting their behavior! " The sheep was ashamed, but donated money to the wild and asked the teacher to learn.

After going home for a year, his wife knelt down and asked him why. The sheep said, "It doesn't make any difference if you think about it for a long time." The wife pointed a knife at the machine and said, "This kind of weaving was born from the cocoon and formed on the loom. A little tired, even inch by inch, and then become a horse. If we stop knitting today, we will lose success and waste time. If a master accumulates knowledge and knows his death, he will be virtuous; What's the difference if you go back to the middle road? " Sheep feel what they say and go back to their last job.

Translated as:

Le Yangzi's wife in Henan county is the daughter of a person who doesn't know her surname.

While Le Yangzi was walking on the road, he once picked up a golden cake thrown by others and took it home to his wife. The wife said, "I heard that ambitious people don't drink water from stolen springs, and upright people don't accept food given by others in an arrogant and rude way, not to mention picking up things lost by others for personal gain and tarnishing their morality!" " Hearing this, Yang Zi was ashamed, so he threw the gold into the wild and went out to study as a teacher.

A year later, Le Yangzi came home, and his wife knelt down and asked him why he came back. Yang Zi said, "I have been away for a long time, and I feel homesick. Nothing special. " Hearing this, the wife picked up a knife and walked quickly to the loom and said, "These silks are all born from cocoons and woven on the loom. Only by accumulating one silk at a time can you reach an inch long, and by accumulating one inch at a time, you can become a horse. Now, if we cut off these silk fabrics being woven, we will lose the chance of success and delay the waste of time. If you want to accumulate knowledge, you must' learn things you don't understand every day' to achieve your virtue; If you come back halfway, what's the difference between cutting off this silk? " Yangzi was moved by his wife's words and went back to finish his studies.

7. Yang Fu, the second son of Yang Sui, was very intelligent as a teenager and was very close to Xie Yishou.

Once, he went to Gu Jie early in the morning and didn't have breakfast. After a while, Wang Ji and Wang Jing also came. They didn't know yangfu at first, so they left their seats and looked a little unhappy. They want Yang Fu to leave.

Yangfu didn't look at them, just put his feet on the small table and looked at them casually. Xie single-handedly exchanged a few commonplaces with the two kings. Later, he chatted with yangfu and commented. The two kings realized that he was different and began to talk to him.

In a short time, the food was served, but the two kings didn't care about eating at all, just kept persuading yangfu to eat and drink. Yangfu didn't answer them much, just shoveled and left.

Two kings struggled to retain, yangfu refused. He just said, "I couldn't comply with your wishes just now because my stomach is still empty." Er Wang is Wang Xiaobo's two younger brothers.