*Excerpt from "The Essentials of Collective WritingThe Book of Filial Piety, Episode 6
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The first king saw that the people could be transformed, so the first was to fraternity, and the people did not leave their relatives. "Fraternity first", take the lead in setting an example, "fraternity", and love the people of the world equally, but "fraternity" has a root, that is, first of all, we should preach filial piety to our parents, and promote this filial piety of loving our parents, educate the people of the world, so that the people of the world will also honor their parents like him, this is "fraternity". "The people do not leave their relatives", "bequeathed", abandoned, forgotten; "Pro" refers to parents. The first king saw that teaching filial piety could influence the hearts of the people, so he took the lead in practicing filial piety and loving the public, and the people did not abandon their parents and parents.
The ancient sages saw that it was easy to educate the people according to the way of heaven and earth, so they taught according to the filial nature of people. How to teach? "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" says: "Teaching, what is done, what is done by the bottom", that is, you need to set an example of filial piety first, and then guide the people with this, and the people will naturally follow and will not abandon their parents.
Why is it so important that people don't abandon their parents? Because the parents' kindness to their children's education and nurturing is the deepest, and the parents' dedication to their children is selfless and unconditional, and even the parents' great nurturing grace can not be taken to heart to think of repaying. Whose kindness is greater than that of his parents? When a person abandons his parents, it will lead to a social atmosphere of forgetfulness and ingratitude. Everyone is filial to their parents and does not abandon their parents, which shows that the social atmosphere is an atmosphere of knowing how to repay kindness and thinking of the source of drinking water.
In "Yan Zi", it is recorded that Qi Jinggong asked Yan Zi: "What about the people of the Ming King?" "How did the Holy King teach the people? "How did Yan Zi answer? Yan Zi said: "Know its decrees, and first do righteousness; Supporting the people is not harsh, but preventing it is punished by punishment; What is sought from below is not from above; He who is forbidden to the people does not do it. Therefore, the persuasion is also to follow its teachings. ”
First of all, it is necessary to make the education clear, the laws and regulations clear, the monarch must take the lead in setting an example, the people must not be harsh, and they must be punished to prevent them from committing adultery; What the subjects are required to do, the leaders above must do first; He who forbids it against the people must not violate it himself, so that his subordinates can obey his teachings. ”
Say things to the people, listen to the ban on evil, not exhaustive labor, do not harm the truth", the upper is to love the people as the law, the lower is to go on a blind date as the righteousness, is to the world does not contradict each other.
Measure the severity of the matter to appoint the people, and only judicial justice can prohibit **, prevent the people from working very hard, and do not use punishment to harm the people. The people above will love the people as the principle, and the people below will love each other as morality, which is the method taught by the holy monarch to the people. ”
This tells us that in order to teach the people, leaders must first be educated, and educators must be educated first. Confucianism is not the spiritual opium and spiritual ** used by the ruling class to ignore the ruling class. When we open the Four Books and the Five Classics, we don't see a single sentence that is required of the common people, and basically it is for leaders and monarchs. The reason why the people can be educated is actually learned from the words and deeds of the leaders, and the most important thing to educate is the leaders and monarchs.
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