Classical Chinese cursing sheep

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. "

"Sheep" is a sheep in ancient Chinese.

Sheep is an ideogram in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but you can't draw it here. If combined with glyphs, it can probably be understood that there are two horns on the head, so the word sheep has a long history and is inherited from an ancient word. So sheep is still a sheep in ancient Chinese.

Like a pig, it is called a tapir, because the word "tapir" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is also a hieroglyph. Imagine the side of a pig from the shape of a tapir. Later, in order to distinguish, the word "moon" was added to the tapir, which became "dolphin", which means pig. What's left in Japanese? For example, you can now eat noodles called dolphin bone Lamian Noodles in Ajisen Lamian Noodles, which is actually pig bone soup Lamian Noodles ~ Chinese characters have been evolving in history and were later written as pigs. . . I don't remember how this evolved.

Anyway, in general, I just read a word from Oracle Bone Inscriptions ~

4. 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 all 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) There is nothing to do: you have to do it, which is the same as "already".

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. "

5. Classical Chinese "Selling Sheep" Original: There was a scholar in Liang Shi who was stupid and eloquent and never understood sheep. Some people spend money to buy one of their sheep, tie it to a rope and take it to the market to sell. The price is not much, and it is often sold. Everyone in the city knows that he is stupid and dull, so many people trade macaques for him. Scholars not only see macaques, but also call them old sheep, but blame them for changing their faces without horns. Seeing that the macaque could not keep his hands and feet, he only said that the city people had pulled out its horns, but because there was no sore on the macaque's head, it could not be detected, so he kept silent. He took the macaque home and said, "I have a monster, which can be fat or thin." It's good to be a lover. It stinks today. Brought into the market several times, but not sold in three dynasties. If you lose the acacia on your head, your face will be covered with orange peel wrinkles. "

Translation: There was a scholar in Liang Dynasty, who had sexual dementia and didn't understand 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. "

Enlightenment: ① If you want to do a good job, you must realize the understanding of the ins and outs of this matter.