Classical Chinese translation

Classical Chinese translation is as follows:

Original text:

The study of a gentleman is always easy to ask. Asking and learning complement each other. If you don't learn, you don't doubt, and if you don't ask, you don't know; You can't be a good scholar if you are thirsty for knowledge and don't ask questions frequently. Reasonable, but not necessarily achieve the goal; Know its size, don't know its details, why not ask it?

If you are wise to yourself, ask how to solve your doubts. The so-called "Tao is right" is also true. Not as good as yourself, just ask how. The so-called "ask if you can, ask if you can, and ask if you can" is also true. If you are equal to yourself, ask how to learn from each other. The so-called cross-examination is difficult, and the interrogation is clear. Isn't the book a cloud? "Ask and answer." Mencius said, "Seek reassurance" and called it "the way to learn". After studying, there are questions. Zisi said that "respecting morality" boils down to "asking about learning through Taoism", asking first and then learning.

Ancient people enjoyed goodness in vain, asked without choosing anything, asked without choosing others and took it from themselves. It is the words of a madman, the choice of a saint, and the inquiry of ancestors. Shun consulted ordinary people with the words of the emperor, observed your words with great wisdom, was neither humble nor supercilious, and took the goodness with sincerity. After three generations, friends are friends without asking. As for the rule of persuading the good, it is enough. It is urgent to consult each other with justice and reason, and it is also urgent to study hard. What happened?

It's self, not human beings, and the common customs are the same. If you don't learn enough, you must think you understand; If there is something wrong with reason, you should speculate. If so, there is nothing to ask for in my life. Avoid people who are virtuous to themselves and are unwilling to ask questions; Those who are inferior to themselves are light and disdainful; People who are equal to themselves are unwilling to ask questions. If so, there are few people in the world who don't ask questions.

People are not convinced, there is nothing suspicious, and this is only for the teacher's own use. For personal use, the smallest one is also; Knowing its ugliness and protecting its loss, instead of feeling inferior, it is better to keep learning and making progress, which is harmful to the soul, and those who follow it are often nine times out of ten.

Otherwise, what you ask is not what you learned: ask the strange things in the world and tell them quickly; Even if the mind is clear, ask people to measure their abilities, and things are difficult to solve, ask people to be poor and short. Those who are wrong, although related to their physical and mental life, can collect the benefits of goodness and seek compromise without getting it. Ha ha! Why can't you learn a few from the ancients (j: and)?

And the husband is not easy to ask, and the heart can't be empty; If your heart is not empty, you will learn insincerely. It's not because you're not fully committed. His learning is not the learning of the ancients, and his goodness is not the goodness of the ancients. You can't ask for it.

No one is always smart. What saints don't know, fools don't necessarily know; What a fool can do is not necessarily impossible for a saint. There is no major in truth, but there is no end to learning, but can you ask less? In The Book of Rites, the foreign court asked all the people, and Shu Ren was also asked about national politics, so he could ask Lian, Xian, Widow and Old, which is exactly what Tao achieved.

Confucius is not ashamed to ask questions. The ancients regarded asking questions as a virtue, but did not think it was shameful. It is a shame for later generations of gentlemen to argue without asking, but those who are deeply ashamed by the ancients, what later generations have done, are too much, and mourn for their husbands!

Translation:

A knowledgeable person is bound to like to ask questions to others when studying. "Ask" and "learn" are complementary. You can't ask questions without learning, and you can't increase your knowledge without asking. People who love learning but don't have high requirements don't really love learning. I understand this truth, but I can't apply it to practice. I know the general principles, but I may not know the details. How can I solve the problem besides asking?

People with higher moral ability ask them questions in order to get rid of that doubt and find someone with moral knowledge to correct themselves. Why don't we ask our own people so that we can get the right advice? What they say is that we can ask from high talents to low talents and from high moral knowledge to low moral knowledge.

People of the same level ask them, let them learn from each other, cross-examine each other in detail, and make a clear distinction. Didn't Shangshu say that? "Asking questions means having money." Mencius said: "Find your own distraction" and put forward "the way of learning", and "learning" was followed by "asking". Zi Si's "attaching importance to moral cultivation" boils down to asking about learning, and "asking" precedes "learning".

Ancient people modestly adopted good words and deeds, asked questions without picking things, asked questions without picking people, and sought things that were beneficial to their self-cultivation and study. Therefore, it is not accidental modesty that the arrogant ordinary people's words are adopted by saints, and the humble woodcutter and the ancient sages ask for them first. Shun Di, as the son of heaven, asked the common people, but he noticed the shallow and ordinary opinions with great wisdom. It is really necessary to listen to many beneficial opinions.

After three generations, there is "learning" instead of "asking", and friends advise them to do good and not do bad things. It is rare for them to consult each other on right and wrong issues, and diligently regard learning as a top priority, not to mention secular people.

I think I am right, others are wrong, and secular people have the same problems and have not learned well. They just think that understanding and reason are unsafe and rely on subjective guesses at will. Like this, I have almost nothing to ask for in my life. People with higher moral ability are jealous of him and don't want to ask him. It is better for your own people to look down on him and not deserve him. People at the same level don't respect him and don't want to ask him. Like this, few people in the world can ask him.

People are not worthy of admiration, there is nothing suspicious, just self-righteous. Self-righteous, that mistake is still small; I know my shallowness, but I cover up my mistakes. I would rather not make progress in my study in the end than consult others humbly, which will endanger my inner cultivation and make a big mistake, and people who fall into this big mistake are often nine times out of ten.

If you don't, you're not asking what you learned: it's fun to ask strange words and trivial things in the world; Even what you already know in your heart, ask others to try that person's talent; Embarrass someone by asking them some difficult questions. If this is not the case, even if there are things closely related to a person's ideological and moral cultivation, it can also play a role in learning lessons, and it is not good to reduce dignity. Alas! Isn't that why learning can't be close to the ancients?

People who don't like to ask, because they can't be open-minded; You can't be modest, because you don't like to study sincerely. Not because he didn't concentrate on his studies. He has never studied ancient Confucianism, nor does he like it. It is natural that he is not good at asking questions.

A wise man will make mistakes if he thinks about it a thousand times. What saints don't understand, ordinary people don't necessarily understand; What ordinary people can do, saints may not be able to do. Truth does not exist only in one person, and there is no end to learning. So, can you ask less? Zhou Li: Ask the people in the government and the people about state affairs.

Therefore, people with high status can ask people with low status, people with high moral ability can ask people with low moral ability, and old people can ask young people, only considering their achievements in moral knowledge. Confucius is not ashamed to ask questions. Confucius thought he had a high moral knowledge. The ancients regarded "question" as a virtue, but did not think it was shameful. Instead, the gentlemen of later generations scrambled to regard "questioning" as a shame. Therefore, what the ancients were deeply ashamed of, but later generations did not feel ashamed. So sad!

Brief introduction of the author

Liu Kai, whose real name is Mingdong, whose real name is Fang Lai, whose real name is Meng Tu, was a native of Tongcheng in Qing Dynasty and an essayist. Liu Kai was born a few months ago and lost his father. His mother, Wu, worked day and night and took good care of her. At the age of fourteen, he took an article to visit Yao Nai, took him as an apprentice, and taught him how to write poetry. Master Liu Kai, together with fellow villagers Fang, Shangyuan and Mei Zengliang of Shexian County, are also called "the four sons of Yaomen". In the first year of Daoguang, he was hired to work in Bozhou and died of sudden illness.

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