It means: "So I hate those who are eloquent." Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty commented: "What Zilu said was not his original intention (originally he didn't mean to say it like this at first), but was just a rhetorical sophistry. It’s just a way to persuade others.”
Zhu Xi’s comment led to an idiom called “Li Qu Ci Qi Qian”. Qu: short, loss; poor:, this word means "having nothing to say due to a lack of reason".
"This is why the evil husband is a sycophant" comes from "The Analects of Confucius·Advanced Chapter" by Confucius's disciples in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Original text: Zilu sent Zigao to serve as Fei's slaughterer. Zi said: "The son of a thief." Zi Lu said: "There are people and a country, so why study and then learn?" Confucius said: "This is why you are an evil husband and a sycophant." "
Translation: Zilu asked Zigao to be the governor of Feidi. Confucius said: "This is a way of harming the children. Zilu said: "If you have people, land and grain, why do you need to study to be considered learning?" Master said: "That's why I hate those who are eloquent." "
Confucius thought that Zilu was quibbling. He said that Zilu was a "sycophant." Zhu Xi thought that Zilu did not intend to say that at first, because he heard the teacher say that he was harming others. Children who talk back when they are not convinced are Liquciqiong.
Extended information
The "Advanced Chapter" comes from "The Analects of Confucius", and this chapter contains 26 chapters. Confucius's evaluation of his disciples, and used this as an example to illustrate the golden mean thought of "too much is not enough"; the relationship between learning various knowledge and becoming an official in the future; Confucius' attitude towards ghosts, gods, and issues of life and death. In the last chapter, Confucius and his students. They each described their ambitions, reflecting Confucius's political and ideological tendencies.
Confucius advocated "learning to become an official," and opposed learning to become an official, believing that this would cause mistakes and mislead people. Sending him to an official position before he is knowledgeable is nothing more than harming him.
Zilu believed that governing the people is practice, and Confucius always valued practice and emphasized practice, and believed that book knowledge was secondary. It is to use the spear of the son to attack the shield of the son, but in politics, one must have enough knowledge and insight to handle government affairs well. Otherwise, learning by doing is actually using the people as experimental subjects, which will easily harm the people and yourself.
Confucius therefore scolded Zi Lu for his eloquent rhetoric and justified the unreasonable.
Zi Lu was the steward of the Ji family at that time and had great authority. He took great care of Zi Gao, who was twenty-one years younger than him. Recommend him to be an official.
If this happened after Confucius "fell to the three capitals", then more than ten years later, when Wei was in civil strife, he was serving as the governor of Puyi. Zilu rushed to the capital to help quell the rebellion. At the city gate, he met Zigao who had just escaped from the city. Zigao tried hard to persuade him not to enter the city, but Zilu did not listen. Relevant records show that the relationship between the two was extraordinary.
The reason why Confucius disagreed with Zigao's appointment as Prime Minister of Fei Yi was because Zigao was relatively stupid. The fundamental reason was that he was young, had not completed his studies, and had a poor foundation, so he was not suitable for entering politics immediately. He only entered politics at the age of fifty-one. The young Zigao was not capable of taking on important responsibilities. He would only harm the seedlings by pulling them.
When Zigao became an adult, the situation was different. Justice), who enforced the law fairly and was even grateful to the prisoners. A man who was sentenced to beheaded (cut off his feet) later became a guard guarding the city gate; when the Wei Dynasty was in civil strife, it was this officer who helped him escape from the city gate. .
After Zigao returned to the state of Lu, he told his teacher about this. In his later years, Confucius said happily: "Those who are good officials will create virtue, and those who are not good officials will create resentment." Gong Xingzhi also, his son Lamb is called Jie! "(Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty, "Shuo Yuan·Zhi Gong", which means that those who work as wardens attentively will establish moral character and prestige; those who do not work as wardens attentively will establish enemies and grievances. Justice and fairness must be exercised with what is in hand. Power, upholding the justice of the law, like Zi Gao)
Later, Zi Gao served as the governor of Wu City and the governor of the city.
Because Zi Lu was emotional. Confucius couldn't listen to the teacher's opinion and made an explanation. His retort was "Why study for the sake of learning?" Confucius was really angry: "You are not doing the right thing, but you are making excuses." And it's a fallacy; I hate eloquent villains, and you behave like this today.
Confucius severely criticized his disciples. The Analects contains several examples, but the proportion is not high. Confucius had more. It is earnest instruction.
In fact, severe criticism is also a necessary part of good guidance.
Baidu Encyclopedia--The Analects·Advanced Chapter
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