Xia Zi asked Confucius, "What a beautiful smile! How charming those black and white eyes are, as if they had painted beautiful patterns on the white texture. " What do these words mean? Confucius said, "This means that paintings have a white background first, and then colored paintings." Xia Zi asked again, "So the ceremony came after kindness?" Confucius said, "Shang Bo, you can really give full play to my thoughts. Now I can start talking to you about the Book of Songs. "

"Qiao Qian Xi, beautiful eyes looking forward to Xi" appeared in "The Book of Songs Feng Wei Shuo Ren Pian", which is said to praise the beauty of Zhuang Jiang, his wife who defended Wei Zhuanggong at that time. Xia Zi read this sentence and asked the teacher for advice. Confucius explained it with the principle of painting, saying that it was like painting with a simple white background and then depicting it with colorful colors. In other words, the beauty of beauty lies in natural beauty, and dressing up is a further layer of beauty. Metaphor refers to a good texture for icing on the cake processing.

Xia Zi, who is good at thinking, listened to Confucius and drew inferences from others. He immediately contacted the relationship between benevolence and ceremony and asked, "What about after the ceremony?" Is this the ceremony? In other words, people are kind first, loyal first, and polite later. This kind of reaction makes the teachers very happy and feels inspiring to them. Confucius is really an enlightened professor.

So there are two main points in this passage. One is "painting afterwards". Only when the essence of facts exists first can painting be further created and developed. You always have to lay a good foundation before you can do things well. People have inner purity before they have external temperament from the inside out. Xia Zi is more related to this. Kindness and filial piety are the only manners.

Everything has this relationship between inside and outside. This is also in line with the view of "things have a beginning, things have a beginning, and knowing their order is a shortcut" in the University.

The second is the extension of learning. In "Learning from Time", Zi Gong asked the teacher, "What is poor but not flattering, rich but not arrogant?" Confucius said, "If you are not poor, you will be happy, and if you are rich, you will be happy." Zi Gong also drew inferences and immediately asked, "If the argument is incisive, if it is honed, call it". Confucius also appreciated it. Like this article, he thinks we can talk about The Book of Songs.

Learning should not be rigid, be savvy, understand the unfinished words in literature, and be able to draw inferences from others. This sometimes does not mean that we can learn more and know more, but it still needs a kind of learning flexibility and the extension and expansion of knowledge.

It should be said that there is a third point, "A threesome must have my teacher." Confucius frankly expressed the inspiration gained from the dialogue with students, and there was quite an atmosphere of mutual promotion and common growth. Do students like such a teacher, or do they like a teacher who insists that students should not raise objections?