It means: at the age of thirty, you can be independent; at the age of forty, you can not be confused by external things.

Original text: Confucius said: "At ten, I am determined to learn; at thirty, I am established; at forty, I am not confused; at fifty, I understand the destiny of heaven; at sixty, my ears are obedient; at seventy, I follow my heart's desires without exceeding the rules ( "

Source: Confucius's "The Analects of Confucius: For Politics" in the Spring and Autumn Period?

Translation: Confucius said: "I was determined to study at the age of fifteen; I was able to stand on my own at the age of thirty; four At the age of ten, you can not be confused by external things; at the age of fifty, you understand the destiny; at the age of sixty, you can treat all kinds of opinions correctly without feeling uncomfortable; at the age of seventy, you can do whatever you want without going beyond the rules."

Three-year-olds should be able to establish a career and a family. Generally speaking, a person at the age of thirty can independently bear his own responsibilities and face everything in life independently, whether it is himself, his career or his family. Responsibility.

To establish a body, one must establish character and cultivation, to establish a body, one must establish independence and strength, and to establish a body, one must establish morality and self-cultivation; to establish a career, as the name suggests, is to establish a career, have a skill, and have the ability to make a living; to establish a family. It means having your own family. Home is the harbor of the soul and the destination of the soul. In a sense, starting a family is also a manifestation of social responsibility.

Being forty without doubts. , no doubt. When people are over forty, they no longer have doubts about life. After experiencing the ups and downs of time, and feeling the ruthlessness of the years, in a blink of an eye, there are doubts, hesitations, excitements, and joys, and then there is contemplation. It is a sudden enlightenment, reason and sobriety.

Understand the society externally, and understand the responsibility to oneself. Understand that people are a member of the social intellectual group, and there are rules to abide by and relationships to deal with; I understand what I mean to my family, my responsibilities in the family, my responsibility to serve the society, my responsibility to honor my parents, my responsibility to love my loved ones, and my responsibility to educate my children.

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In this chapter, Confucius describes his process of learning and cultivation. This process is a process of gradually improving his ideological realm as he grows older. In terms of ideological realm, the whole process is divided into three stages: the age of fifteen to forty is the stage of learning and understanding; the age of forty to sixty is the stage of settling down, that is, the stage of not being affected by the environment; the age of seventy It is the stage where subjective consciousness and the rules of life are integrated. In this stage, moral cultivation has reached a higher level.

The main content of "Wei Zheng Pian" involves Confucius' "Government with virtue". Thoughts, the basic principles of how to seek official positions and work as officials, the relationship between learning and thinking, the process of Confucius's own learning and cultivation, the learning method of reviewing the past and learning the new, and further elaboration of moral categories such as filial piety and brotherhood.

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