Original text:

Powerful people help others with illness, rich people are willing to share with others, and wise people advise to teach others. If so, the hungry will get food, the cold will get clothes, and the chaotic will be treated. If you are hungry, you will get food, if you are cold, you will get clothes, and if you are chaotic, you will be cured.

Translation:

Answer: Those who have the strength help others as soon as possible, those who have the money work hard to distribute people, and those who have the way try their best to teach people. In this way, the hungry can get food, the cold can get clothes, and the chaotic can be treated. If the hungry can get food, the cold can get clothes, and the chaotic can be treated, this can make everyone live in peace.

It's hard to refute this charitable idea in Mozi Shang Xian. It tells the world that a virtuous person should be judged not only by his outstanding ability, but also by his morality, not only by his ability to take care of himself, but also by his moral quality of helping others.

Extended information

Mozi is a classic of hundreds of Chinese Mohists in the Warring States Period. Advocating universal love, non-aggression, Shang Xian, Shang Tong, Tian Zhi, Ming Gui, non-fate, non-happiness, frugality of burial and use involves philosophy, logic, military science, engineering, mechanics, geometry and optics. Most of the scientific and technological achievements in the pre-Qin period depend on Mozi. The existing book Mozi consists of two parts: Mozi's own work and his disciples' account of Mozi's remarks, which were lost in the Song Dynasty. By the time of compiling Sikuquanshu in Qing Dynasty, there were only 53 articles left.

The article is from small to large, analogies and reasoning step by step, such as Non-attack. The language is plain and unpretentious, and the sentences are colloquial.

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