Rites
CommentaryConfucius said: When you enter your country, you can know its teachings. He is also a person, gentle and kind, and poetic; Alienation is far away, and books and teachings are also; Broad and easy to teach, music and education; Quiet and subtle, easy to teach; Frugal and respectful, etiquette and teaching; It is a rhetorical comparison, and the Spring and Autumn Sect is also. Therefore, the loss of poetry is foolish; The loss of the book, the falsehood; Loss of pleasure, luxury; Easy to lose, thief; The loss of etiquette is annoying; The loss of spring and autumn is chaotic. He is also a man, gentle and generous but not stupid, and he is deeper than a poet; If you are far away from the notice and do not falsely accuse, you are deeper than the book; Broad and easy to be good but not extravagant, it is deeper than the pleasure; If you are quiet and subtle and not thief, you are deeper than the easy; Frugal and respectful without annoyance, it is deeper than courtesy; Words are more than things and not chaotic, and they are deeper than those in the Spring and Autumn Period.
The Son of Heaven is a ginseng with heaven and earth, so virtue matches heaven and earth, and benefits all things; It shines with the sun and the moon, shining on the four seas without leaving a small footprint. In the imperial court, the order of the holy rites and righteousness of the Dao Ren is heard, and the Yan listens to the sound of Yasong; There is the sound of ringing when walking; The car has the sound of luan and harmony. The residence is polite, the advance and retreat are measured, the officials are appropriate, and everything is in order. Shiyun: A lady and a gentleman, his etiquette is not hesitant. It is Shikoku. That's right. The order is issued and the people say, it is called the sum; The blind date up and down is called benevolence; The people do not seek what they want, and they receive it, which is called faith; Removing the harm of heaven and earth is righteousness. Righteousness and faith, harmony and benevolence, the instrument of the overlord. If you have the intention of governing the people but do not have the means, you will not succeed.
Etiquette is also for Zhengguo, balance is for weight, rope and ink are for straightness, and rules are for Fangyuan. Therefore, Hengcheng County should not be bullied; Rope and ink are sincere, and they cannot be bullied; The rules are set sincerely, and they cannot be deceived by the square; A gentleman shall judge the courtesy, and shall not be accused of treachery. It is a solemn courtesy, which is called a person with a good way; If you don't pay respects, you can't pay respects, and you can't say it. The way of respect, too. Therefore, if you are in the temple, you will be respected, if you enter the court, you will have a position, if you are in the family, you will be father and son, and if you are in the township, you will be in order. Confucius said: To govern the people in peace, do not be good at courtesy. That's right.
Therefore, the gift of Hajj, so the righteousness of the monarch and the minister; The gift of hiring and questioning, so that the princes respect each other; The rite of funeral sacrifice, so the grace of the courtiers is also; The gift of drinking in the township, so the order of the young and the young is also; The gift of faint marriage, so the difference between men and women is also clear. Husband, the place where the chaos is forbidden, and the place where the water stops in Jufang comes from. Therefore, those who regard the old workshop as useless and bad will be ruined; Those who use the old rites as useless will be in trouble. Therefore, if the ceremony of faint marriage is abolished, the way of the husband and wife is bitter, and the sin of fornication is many; If the ritual of drinking in the township is abolished, the order of the young and the old will be lost, and the prison of contention will be complicated; If the funeral rite is abolished, the grace of the courtiers is thin, and the people who forget the dead are numerous; If the ceremony of hiring the pilgrimage is abolished, the position of the monarch and the minister will be lost, the princes will do evil, and the defeat of the invasion of the tomb will be started. Therefore, the education of the rites is also slight, and its evil is also not formed, so that people can move away from sin without knowing it, which is also the first Wang Longzhi. Yi said: A gentleman should be cautious. The difference is like a hero, and it is a thousand miles. That's right.