6.14 Ziyou is Wu Chengzai. Zi said: "How can a woman be deaf?"He said: "Those who have destroyed the Ming Dynasty have no way to do it, it is not an official business, and it has not been to the Yanzhi room." ”
Translation] Ziyou does Wu Chengzai. Confucius asked him, "What do you get here?"Ziyou replied: "There is a person named Zhantai Mingming, who walks without shortcuts, is not on official business, and never comes to my house." ”
Interpretation] Ziyou - Yan Yan, the word Ziyou, Wu Guoren, one of the ten philosophers of Confucius, the only southern ** among the seventy-two sages of Confucius.
Wucheng - Lu Guowu Chengyi.
Female - Tongru.
Yan'er - also known as "Yan'er". "Women win men?".The semantics are smooth, and the addition of the word "Yan'er" is not smooth, and here the "Yan'er" is translated as "here (referring to Wucheng)".
The word Ziyu later also became a student of Confucius and one of the seventy-two sages of Confucius. 澹 (音谭).
Trail – path, shortcut.
The dialogue in this chapter embodies two distinctive features of Confucius's doctrine. The first is to put talents first for politics;The second is to choose talents with morality as the first.
Behave in a disciplined manner and don't take shortcuts;is not official, does not enter the room of the governor, and does not hide favoritism. It seems to be a trivial matter, but it really shows the sage of the Ming Dynasty.
There are two interpretations for future generations, which are still worth playing.
First, Yang Shi of the Song Dynasty said: "If there is a way in the future, people will think that it is a detour;."If it does not come to its room, it will be simple. "Is our moral standard of judgment regressive?
Another interpretation is what Zhang Juzheng told the young Wanli Emperor. "The master travels to a city to slaughter, and its selection of people is as if it is, and so on, the prime minister chooses a hundred bureaucrats for the son of heaven, and the master chooses the prime minister for the world"When will the wind of flattery cease?It is important to extinguish the Ming Dynasty, but I am afraid that it is even more important to discover and respect his Ziyou!
The idiom "do not follow the way" comes from this article.