Zi Gong asked, "Who is this?" Confucius said, "The shame of what you have done makes it work in all directions and does not disgrace your life."

Yue: "Dare to ask second." Yue: "Clans are called filial piety, while township parties are called brothers."

Yue: "Dare to ask second." He said, "You must keep your promise, and your actions will bear fruit. What a little man! Suppression can also be a second time. "

He said, "What about politicians today?" Confucius said, "Hey! People who fight (2), what is enough? "

To annotate ...

① kēng: shallow and stubborn. (2) shāo people: "refers to people with narrow measurement. Bucket, called quantity in ancient times; Ruo, bamboo basket, small capacity; Narrowness of barrel and metaphorical measurement.

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Zi Gong asked, "How can I be called a scholar?" Confucius said: "There is a sense of shame in doing things, and going abroad can well accomplish the mission of the monarch. Such a person can be called

This is a taxi. "

Zi Gong said, "Dare to ask a servant." Confucius said, "The clansmen praised him for being filial to his parents, while the villagers praised him for respecting his brother."

Zi Gong said, "Those who dare to ask again." Confucius said, "You must keep your word and do things with results. What a shallow and stubborn villain! " ! Maybe just wait a little longer.

Please call a taxi. "

Zi Gong added, "What about those who are in power now?" Confucius said, "Alas! How can these little people count? "

What a despicable person, that is, this is a shallow and stubborn person.

My understanding is this: regarding the standards of scholars, Confucius divided them into three levels (the last "fighter" in the text is not included). According to these three viewpoints, "keeping promises and doing practical work" belongs to the last level. The reason why such people can still be called scholars must be their beliefs, not for the sake of "fighting people". In other words, their persistence is not even clear to themselves, and they are even a confused paranoid. They obey the above instructions or hearsay without knowing clearly, and they can't tell right from wrong. They just seek the completion of the "task" and order. In the current words, a third-class taxi is a fool. They don't know what justice is and what is right and wrong. At this point, Mencius said more clearly: "You don't have to believe what adults say, and what you do doesn't have to be fruitful." Mencius' Li Lou Zhang Sentence