Why do you call decent people decent people?

This word first appeared in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, the government stipulated that ordinary schools should give priority to teaching Confucian classics. Moreover, Confucian classics are divided into "serious" and "border classics". Among them, seriousness is the most important, and you must be familiar with one or two books to succeed. People who read "serious" are also called "serious people", while reading other books is regarded as doing nothing. Later, seriousness was extended to mean solemnity and propriety.

In today's life, whether it represents a person's moral level seriously. In the past, decent people were generally called decent people. Why? Let's talk about why decent people are called decent people.

Details 0 1 "Zheng Zheng" first appeared in the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the government stipulated that all schools except music and arithmetic should take Confucian classics as the basic teaching content, and further divided Confucian classics into "serious" and "marginal classics". Among them, the "serious" part is a compulsory course for students, and it is required to be familiar with and master at least some of them before graduation.

Specifically, classics can be divided into three categories: Dajing, Zhongjing and Xiaojing. Among them, The Book of Rites and Zuo's Family Biography in the Spring and Autumn Period are classics, with a school system of three years. The Book of Songs, Zhou Li and Yi Li are all classics, and the educational system is two years. Zhouyi, Shangshu, Biography of Yang Gong in the Spring and Autumn Period and Biography of Gu Liang are called Xiaojing, which lasts for one and a half years. "Bianjing" refers to "The Book of Filial Piety" and "The Analects of Confucius", which lasts for one year.

Comparatively speaking, the school pays much more attention to the teaching of "seriousness", and each course is explained by a teacher who specializes in this course, and the requirements for students to learn "seriousness" are much higher than those of "edge classics". Later, with the evolution and development of Confucianism, the specific meaning of "Zheng Zheng" also changed. The Analects of Confucius, put forward by Zhu, a master of Neo-Confucianism in the Southern Song Dynasty, combined with Mencius, The Doctrine of the Mean and Daxue into four books, and added with the five classics of Poetry, Book, Book of Changes, Rites and Spring and Autumn Annals, four books and five classics were formed. Since then, the "Four Books and Five Classics" have become the "serious" that scholars regard as the standard.

In addition, at one time in history, some people regarded the Thirteen Classics of Confucianism as "serious" and other works of philosophers as "marginal classics". For example, Ge Hong in the Jin Dynasty said in "Bao Pu Zi Hundred Schools": "Zheng Zheng is a deep moral sea, and catalpa is a deepening stream." Generally speaking, because Confucianism has always been highly respected by rulers, these "serious" changes can not produce the "Thirteen Classics" of Confucianism. Because the previous imperial examinations were based on these "solemnities", the mastery of "solemnity" determined the fate of scholars. Therefore, reading "serious" includes the possibility of being an official and is regarded as "serious business" People who read "serious" are also called "serious people", while reading other books is regarded as doing nothing.