Translation of the classical Chinese "Dancing Candles at Night"

1, the original text: ② asked Yu ③ and said, "I'm seventy years old, and I'm afraid I'm dying to learn." Shi Kuang said, "Why not light a candle?" Gong Ping said, "Is Ann a minister and plays his monarch?" Shi Kuang said, "Do blind ministers dare to play with their princes? Learn less when you listen, and learn well, like the sunrise sun; Strong and eager to learn, such as the light of Japan and China; Old and studious, bright as a candle. What is the light of the candle? " Gong Ping said, "Good!"

2. Duke Jinping asked Shi Kuang, "I'm seventy years old, and I'm afraid it's too late to study." Shi Kuang said, "Why not light the candle?" Gong Ping said, "How can you make fun of his monarch as someone else's servant?" Shi Kuang replied, "How dare I tease my monarch! I heard that I liked reading when I was a child, just like the rising sun in the morning; I like studying in the prime of life, just like the noon sun; When you are old, you like studying, just like lighting a candle. Which is better than lighting a candle and walking in the dark? " Gong Ping said, "Well said!"

First, candlelight night reading location: "Talking about Yuan Jianben"

II. Author's Brief Introduction: Liu Xiang (about 77-6 BC) was originally named Liu Gengsheng. Confucian classics, bibliographers and writers in the Western Han Dynasty. Pei county (now Jiangsu) people. Formerly known as self-improvement, the word is positive. Grandson of King Jiao Liu IV of Chu Yuan. When Xuan Di was declared emperor, he advised doctors. Yuan Di, Zong Zheng. Against eunuch Gong Hong, Shi Xian went to prison, waiting to be released. Later, he was imprisoned for anti-Gong and anti-Xian. After the emperor acceded to the throne, he was hired as Dr. Guanglu and changed his name to "Xiang", which comforted the official school. I was ordered to lead the school secretary and wrote Bielu, the earliest open book catalogue in China. Treating the biography of Liang in the Spring and Autumn Period. He wrote 33 poems, including Nine Sighs, most of which have been lost. Today, there are books such as New Preface, Shuoyuan and Biography of Lienv. And The Five Classics was compiled by Ma Guohan and A Qing Dynasty in Yi Tong. The original compilation was lost, and the Ming people compiled it as Liu Ji.

Third, the literary period: Qin and Han literature.

Fourth, Dynasty: Han Dynasty

Verb (abbreviation of verb) Type of work: narrative

Meaning of intransitive verbs:

Reading and studying is good for everyone.

Reading is not about age, but about heart.

Listen to other people's reasonable suggestions with an open mind.

Never too old to learn.

Books are the ladder of human progress.

The spirit of tireless study is what everyone needs.

Seven, moral:

The universality and particularity of contradiction are interrelated. Everything in the world contains both the particularity and universality of contradiction. Universality exists in particularity, and particularity and universality are interrelated and inseparable. Shi Kuang's analysis tells us that people have different learning states in different periods, which reflects the particularity of contradiction-the contradiction of the same thing has different characteristics in different stages of development. But his analysis also tells us that in any case, learning is always good for people, which is the universality of contradictions.