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Wai Gong askedMourning Gong asked Confucius: "What is the great gift?" How respectful is the gentleman's words and courtesy? ” Confucius said: "Qiu is also a villain, not enough to know etiquette." The gentleman said, "No! My son is also right. Confucius said: "Qiu Wenzhi: "The people are born from the courtesy." Incivility is not the god of heaven and earth, incivility is not to distinguish the position of the elder and the youngest of the monarch and ministers, and there is no way to distinguish the relatives of men and women, fathers and sons, and brothers, and the friends of faint marriages; The gentleman respects this. and then teach the people as he can, and not waste the feasts of the congregation. If there is a success, then treat its carved articles to the heirs. It is also obedient, and then said that its funeral, prepare its ding, set up its pig, repair its temple, and worship the clan in order to order the clan. That is, to live in peace, to be ugly in its clothes, to humble its palace, not to carve a few cars, not to carve a few utensils, not to eat a bad taste, in order to benefit the people. So it is with the former gentlemen. Gong said: "Today's gentleman, Hu Mo is also doing it?" Confucius said: "Today's gentleman is insatiable, tireless, lascivious and arrogant, solid and endeavorous, and his people are all right; Seek what you want, not what you want. Those who used the people in the past came first, and those who use the people today come from the back. Today's gentleman, don't be polite. ”
Confucius sat in mourning, and Mourning said, "Dare to ask who is the greatest?" Confucius was stunned and said: "The gentleman and this word are also, and the virtue of the people is also!" Guchen dares to speak to him without resignation, humane, and political. Gong said: "Dare to ask what is politics?" Confucius said, "Politicians are right." If the monarch is upright, the people will be in politics. What the king does, the people obey. If the king does not do it, what will the people do? Gong said: "Dare to ask what is the government? Confucius said: "Husband and wife, father and son, monarch and minister." If the three are right, then the common things will follow. Gong said: "Although the widow has no resemblance, he is willing to hear the way of three words, but he can smell it?" Confucius said: "The ancient is the government, and the lover is great; Therefore, to treat lovers, etiquette is great; Therefore, the rule of etiquette is great; Respect it, and the big dusk is great. It's dark! The dusk is coming, the crown is welcomed, and the kiss is also. Those who are close to each other, those who are close to each other. Therefore, the gentleman is respectful and pro-family; Shejing is a bereaved relative. Buddha love is not close; Respect is not right. Love and respect, the foundation of its politics and? The public said: "The widow is willing to have a word." Crowned and welcomed, is it heavy? Confucius was stunned and said: "It is good to combine the two surnames, after the first saint, I think that the lord of the temple and the society of heaven and earth, what is the importance of the king?" The public said: "The widow is solid! It's not solid, and you have to hear it. If you want to ask, you can't say anything, please go less. Confucius said: "Heaven and earth are not together, and all things are not born." Dusk, the heir of eternity, what does you mean to be heavy? Confucius then said: "The ritual of governing the temple is enough to match the gods of heaven and earth; The courtesy of outspoken words is enough to respect the upper and lower levels. The material shame is enough to revive it, and the national shame is enough to revive it. For the sake of politics. Etiquette, the foundation of its politics and! ”
Confucius then said: "The government of the three generations of Ming kings in the past must respect their wives and have a way." The wife is also the master of the family, dare to be disrespectful? The son is also, after the pro, dare to be disrespectful? Gentlemen are all respectful, and respect for themselves. The body is also, the branch of the pro, dare to be disrespectful? If you can't respect your body, you will hurt your relatives; Hurting their relatives is hurting their roots; Hurt its roots, and the branches will die. The three are also the image of the people. The body and the body, the son and the son, the concubine and the concubine, the king does these three, then the world is concerned, and the way of the king is also. In this way, the country is in order. ”
Gong said: "Dare to ask what is respect? Confucius said: "If a gentleman speaks, the people will speak; If it is too active, the people will lead by example. The gentleman does not say anything, but he does not move, and the people are respectful and respectful, if so, they can respect their bodies; If you can respect him, he can become his family. Gong said: "Dare to ask what it means to be married?" Confucius said: "A gentleman is also a man, and a man is famous." The name of the people is called the son of a gentleman. It is to make his relatives a gentleman, and it is to become the name of his relatives. Confucius then said: "The ancient is the government, and the love of the people is great." You can't love someone, you can't have a body; There can be no body, no land; You can't settle down, you can't be happy; You can't be happy, you can't be it. Gong said: "Dare to ask what is the meaning of enlightenment? Confucius said, "It's nothing more than things." ”
Gong said: "Dare to ask a gentleman, how precious is the way of heaven?" Confucius said, "It's expensive." For example, the sun and the moon are endless, and it is the way of heaven; If it is not closed for a long time, it is the way of heaven; Doing nothing is the way of heaven; It has become clear that it is the way of heaven. Gong said: "The widow is stupid, annoying, and the heart of the child is also." Confucius suddenly opened the table and said: "Benevolence is nothing more than things, and filial piety is nothing more than things." Therefore, the benevolence of the family is also like the day, and the day is like the matter, so the filial son becomes a body. The public said: "If the widow hears this, what is the sin after that?" Confucius said: "The gentleman and this word are also the blessing of the minister." ”