Original text:
Confucius said, "It's just and not ordered; His body is not right, although he does not obey. "
Translation:
Confucius said: "If you are right, even if you don't give orders, ordinary people will do it;" If it is wrong, even if the order is given, the people will not obey it. "
Source: The Analects of Confucius and His Disciples in the Warring States Period.
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Creation background
The Analects of Confucius was written in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was recorded by Confucius' students and their retranslators. By the Han Dynasty, there were three editions of The Analects of Confucius (20), The Analects of Confucius (22) and The Analects of Classical Chinese (2 1). At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zheng Xuan compiled and annotated a new book based on The Analects of Lu with reference to The Analects of Qi and The Analects of Ancient Chinese.
After Zheng Xuan's annotations were circulated, The Analects of Confucius and The Analects of China Ancient Literature gradually disappeared. The later editions of The Analects of Confucius mainly include: The Analects of Confucius by Wei in the Three Kingdoms Period, On Shu by Liang Huang Kan in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, The Analects of Confucius by Xing Bing in the Song Dynasty, The Analects of Confucius by Zhu, The Analects of Confucius by Liu Baonan in the Qing Dynasty, etc.
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