Explanation of Confucius' famous sayings is as follows:
1. Knowing it silently, being tireless in learning, and tireless in teaching others, what is there for me?
Explanation: Memorize (knowledge learned) silently, learn without feeling bored, teach without feeling tired, what is the reason for this for me?
2 , work hard and forget to eat, enjoy yourself and forget your worries, not knowing that old age is coming.
Explanation: When you study hard, you forget to eat. When you are intoxicated with knowledge, you forget about sorrow. You don’t know that aging is coming.
3. When three of us travel together, we must be our teacher. Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones.
Explanation: Several people are walking together, and one of them must be my teacher. We should choose their strengths to learn from, and pay attention to correcting their shortcomings
4. Scholars must be ambitious and have a long way to go. Isn't it too heavy to be benevolent when one has already done one's duty? Isn't it too far to do it after one's death?
Explanation: A truly responsible person must have a strong will to realize the heavy responsibility he bears. The road is long. Because it is one's responsibility to take benevolence as one's responsibility, it is a heavy responsibility. Because the end of life is the end of the mission, the road to realizing benevolence is long and distant.
5. Zi Jue Four: No intention, no necessity, no solidity, no self.
Explanation: Confucius eliminated four shortcomings: no subjective suspicion, no expectations that must be realized, no stubbornness, and no selfishness.
6. Look ahead, suddenly look behind. Master is always good at seducing people. He persuades me with words and invites me with courtesy.
Explanation: (As for the teacher’s knowledge and morality), I looked up, and the more I looked, the higher I felt; I studied hard, and the more I studied, the more I felt it was inexhaustible. It seems to be in front, and suddenly it seems to be behind. The teacher was good at guiding me step by step, using various classics to enrich my knowledge, and using various etiquette to restrain my words and deeds, making it impossible for me to stop learning until I exhausted all my strength.
7. Rotten wood cannot be carved.
Explanation: Rotten wood cannot be carved. It is a metaphor that people cannot be improved or things and situations are corrupt and irredeemable. Also written as "Rotten wood cannot be carved." Also written as "Rotten wood cannot be carved."
8. The Master taught four things: literary conduct, loyalty and trustworthiness.
Explanation: Confucius educated his disciples from four aspects: 1. Literature, that is, famous studies. Study how to increase visibility, and secondly, practice learning and standardize people's behavior so that people's words and deeds can be followed. 3. Loyalty is a matter of self-cultivation. It is to cultivate people to do what they should do voluntarily. 4. Faith learning is the learning of knowing people and distinguishing things, and the learning of cultivating people's judgment.
9. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always concerned.
Explanation: A gentleman is broad-minded and tolerant of others; a villain is petty and narrow-minded.
10. He is sensitive and eager to learn, and he is not ashamed to ask questions. This is why he is called "literary".
Explanation: It means not to be ashamed to ask for advice from people whose status and knowledge are lower than your own. Therefore, the word "文" can be used as his posthumous title.