Excerpt from Jin Xuejie by Han Yu in Tang Dynasty, the original excerpt:
Mr. Guo Zi went to imperial academy in the morning, invited all the students to build a library, and said, "Industry is diligent, but it is barren;" What I did was thought, but it was destroyed. When the sages meet today, the quickstep is over. "
Translation:
Mr. Guo Zi walked into imperial academy in the morning, told the students to stand under the dormitory and taught them: "Learning is specialized because of diligence, but abandoned because of play;" Virtue is formed by independent thinking and corrupted by conformity. "
Extended data
Creative background:
This article was written in the eighth year of Yuanhe, Tang Xianzong (8 13), when Han Yu was 46 years old and worked as a doctor in Chang 'an (now Xi City, Shaanxi Province), where he taught as a student. The full text is called "Jin Xuejie", which is actually a work that laments the unexpected encounter and expresses self-resentment.
Main idea of the article:
Jin Xuejie is a work that the author lent to students to express his dissatisfaction. The article shows the anguish of honest, talented and ambitious intellectuals in feudal times and criticizes unreasonable social phenomena, which is of typical significance, so it is endless to read.
About the author:
Han Yu (768 -824) was born in Heyang, Henan (now mengzhou city, Henan). The world is called "Han Changli" and "Mr. Changli". An outstanding writer, thinker, philosopher and politician in the Tang Dynasty.
Han Yu was an advocate of the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty, and was honored by later generations as the first of the "eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties". He and Liu Zongyuan are also called "Liu Han", and they are known as "great writers" and "one hundred generations of literators". Later generations, together with Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi, are also called "the four great writers of the ages". He is the author of The Collection of Han Changli.
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