Mencius said, "What do you mean by a promising man? For example, he dug a well. He dug nine wells, but he abandoned the well and left?" ?

Mencius said, "Doing things is like drilling a well. After drilling six or seven feet, the spring water has not been hit yet, and it is still an abandoned well. "

Source: from the famous philosopher Mencius in the Warring States Period.

Original text:

Mencius said: "Hungry people are willing to eat, thirsty people are willing to drink, eating is right, and hungry people are thirsty." Is there only hunger in your mouth? The human heart is also harmful. People don't have to worry about hunger and thirst, but they are not as worried as people. "

Mencius said, "Liu Xiahui does not exchange information with Sangong.

Mencius said, "Those who have the ability to dig wells, digging nine wells is not as good as a spring, but still abandoning wells.

Mencius said: "Yao and Shun are also natural; Soup, martial arts, body also; The five tyrants are also fake. If the long vacation doesn't come back, do you know it's not there? "

Vernacular translation:

Mencius said, "Hungry people think everything is delicious, while thirsty people think everything is delicious.". This has not tasted the taste of normal diet, but has been damaged by hunger and thirst. Is it only the mouth and stomach that have hunger and thirst damage? The human heart is also damaged. People can't turn (similar) hunger injury into heart injury, so (temporarily) they can't catch up with others, and there is no need to worry about it. "

Mencius said: "Liu Xiahui will not change his integrity because he is a big official."

Mencius said, "Doing things is like drilling a well. After drilling six or seven feet, the spring has not been hit yet, and it is still an abandoned well. "

Mencius said, "Yao and Shun were born with benevolence, and the Tang kings were benevolent by themselves, and the five tyrants were benevolent. If you don't pay them back for a long time, how do you know that they have no kindness? "

Extended data:

The book "Mencius", consisting of seven articles, is a compilation of Mencius' remarks during the Warring States Period, which records Mencius' contention with hundred schools of thought, his words and deeds to his disciples, and his lobbying for princes. , and was compiled by Mencius and his disciples (Zhang Wan, etc.). ).

Mencius recorded Mencius' thoughts on governing the country, political strategies (the debate between benevolence and Wang Ba, people-oriented, respecting the right and wrong of the monarch's heart, the people being the monarch, and the monarch following it) and political actions. Written in the mid-Warring States period, it belongs to Confucian classics. His theoretical starting point is the theory of good nature and advocates the rule of virtue. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu called Mencius, The Analects of Confucius, Daxue and The Doctrine of the Mean the Four Books.

Since the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has been regarded as a family heirloom. Just like our textbooks. Mencius is the longest and heaviest of the four books, with more than 35 thousand words. From then until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the "Four Books" had been a compulsory part of the imperial examination. Mencius' theory is not only pure and broad, but also full of heroic beauty. (Five Classics: Poetry, Book, Ceremony, Book of Changes, Spring and Autumn Period)

Mencius is a book that records Monk's words and deeds, and it is also one of the important Confucian classics. The topics are: (1) Liang, (2) Gong Sunchou, (3), (4), (5) and (6) Gao Zi.

Mencius is magnificent, full of emotion, eloquent, infectious, spread to future generations and has far-reaching influence, and has become one of the classic works of Confucianism.