Original: Things are known by people, and people are sincere when they know them, honest and upright, upright and upright, well trained, well nurtured and well treated.

Interpretation: cultivate one's morality: improve one's moral cultivation; Qijia: rectify the family and make it harmonious; Governing the country: governing the country; Level the world: the world is peaceful.

Understanding: This is a famous historical saying that inspires and achieves life. It is easy to cultivate one's morality and cultivate one's nature, but it is difficult to rule the country and level the world. Even if you have this ambition, you may not have this opportunity. Therefore, self-cultivation is the first, "poverty is immune to it, and attainment is beneficial to the world." The way of self-cultivation is to be talented, knowledgeable, honest and upright, and the general meaning of talent, knowledge, honesty and upright is: practice, study, honesty and upright people. These reasons are quite right. Liang Qichao once said that "the progress of teenagers will lead to the progress of the country", so if everyone is "self-cultivation and family harmony", why worry about "the country is ungovernable and the world is uneven"?

Application: self-motivation; The use of rhetoric.

Extended data:

The Book of Rites University was never published separately before the Southern Song Dynasty. According to legend, it was written by Zeng Shen, a disciple of Confucius (505-434 BC). In the Tang Dynasty, Han Yu and Li Ao regarded Daxue and the Doctrine of the Mean as equally important classics as Mencius and Yijing.

In Song Dynasty, Cheng Er and Zhu Xizu expounded this viewpoint and praised its position in Confucian classics, aiming at promoting Neo-Confucianism. Zhu called Daxue, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius "Four Books", which were published in the first year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1 190) and engraved into Notes on Four Books. Because The Analects of Confucius recorded Confucius' words and deeds, The University was written by Ceng Zi, The Doctrine of the Mean. During Yuan You's reign, the four books became the required classics for scholars.