Original text:

Love is silent, love is good at crossing everything without saying anything; Kindness is like water, and water is good for all things, and there is no dispute. Being hated by everyone is a matter of the Tao. Living in a good place, kind-hearted, kind-hearted, good at words, good at governance, good at doing things, good at dealing with people. Husband is just indisputable, so there is nothing special.

Vernacular translation:

The best man, like water, is good at nourishing everything without competing with it. Stay in a place that everyone doesn't like, which is the closest to Tao. The best people are those who are best at choosing their place of residence, those who are good at keeping calm and unfathomable, those who are good at treating others sincerely, kindly and selflessly, those who are good at keeping their promises, those who are good at streamlining administration, those who can manage the country well, those who can give full play to their own strengths and those who can seize opportunities in action. The best people do what they do because they have indisputable virtues, so there is no fault or blame.

This article comes from the eighth chapter of Laozi's Tao Te Ching in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Extended data writing background:

Tao Te Ching is a philosophical work of Lao Zi (Li Er) in the Spring and Autumn Period, also known as Tao Te Ching, Lao Zi's Five Thousand Words and Lao Zi's Five Thousand Articles. It is a work before the separation of pre-Qin philosophers in ancient China and an important source of Taoist philosophical thoughts. Tao Te Ching is divided into two parts. The first part of the original text is the Tao Te Ching, and the second part is the Tao Te Ching, without chapters. Later, it was changed to the Tao Te Ching in the first 37 chapters, and the Tao Te Ching in the last 38 chapters, divided into 8 1 chapters.

Laozi was born in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. At that time, the environment was weak in the Zhou Dynasty, and various governors constantly competed for hegemony. The violent turmoil and changes made Lao Tzu witness the sufferings of the people, which was regarded as the Tibetan history of the Zhou Dynasty, so he put forward a series of thoughts on governing the country and protecting the people.

Yin also played a great role in the compilation of Tao Te Ching. When he was young, he was fond of astronomy, reading ancient books, and had a profound cultivation. Sima Qian recorded in Historical Records Biography of Laozi that Laozi "lived in Zhou for a long time and saw Zhou decline, so he went away." Guan (Ling) Yin said, "My son will be hidden, so he wrote a book for me. Therefore, I said that I would go with the virtue of 5,000 words, and I didn't know what to do." Yin moved Lao Tzu, who traced his life experience, the rise and fall of the dynasty and the safety and happiness of the people to the source and wrote the first and second books, totaling 5,000 words, namely the Tao Te Ching.

Lao Tzu stated at the beginning of Tao Te Ching: "Tao, Tao and Tao are extraordinary. Names, nicknames, unusual names. Nothing, the beginning of the world; Yes, the mother of all things. Therefore, there is often nothing and I want to see its wonders; Often, I want to see it. Both of them have different names. They are both called Xuan. Mysterious and mysterious, the gate of Wan Qi. " This is a general description of the concept of "Tao" by Laozi: Tao was not the general Tao in the society at that time, that is, the Tao of human relations and common sense, nor was it the Tao that people could name at that time.

"Tao" has surpassed the secular social life in Laozi, and is closer to the Tao of natural laws, because the origin and mother of all things in heaven and earth are based on "Tao". Starting from the Tao, "Tao gives birth to one, one, two, three and three things". Therefore, Laozi used "both mysterious and mysterious" to describe the particularity and profundity of Tao. In fact, although this "Tao" is "visible", "audible" and "understandable", what I said is not far from people. Here, Lao Tzu just used "Xuan" to emphasize the difference between what he said and what the society said at that time to explain him.