There is a lot of help for the righteous, and there is little help for the unrighteous to translate

Mencius said: "A favorable time is not as good as a favorable terrain, and a favorable terrain is not as good as the unity of people's hearts." Three miles of the inner city, seven miles.

of the outer city, besieged and attacked it, but could not prevail. If you encircle it and attack it, you will definitely have the opportunity to fight it, but you can't take it.

Victory, which is a favorable day is not as good as a favorable terrain. The walls are not high, the moat is not deep, the weapons and armor are not strong, the food is not too much, and the city is abandoned and fled (but the enemy comes), and this is the unity of the favorable terrain that is not as good as the hearts of the people. So, control.

The people do not flee, do not rely on the borders of the country, consolidate the country without relying on the dangers of mountains and rivers, and subdue the world without relying on the strength of weapons and armor. Get.

and to the righteous and righteous, much will be of help to him; He who loses righteousness will have little help him. There are very few people who help him, even his family.

betrayed him; And the number of those who helped him was so great that all the people of the world turned to him. Let all the world be obedient to him, and he will fight against him, and even his family will carry it.

Whoever rebels against him, (will be invincible; Therefore, if a gentleman does not fight, he will win. ”

The weather and seasons that are conducive to combat are not as good as the geographical situation that is conducive to operations, and the geographical situation that is conducive to operations is not as good as the popular aspirations and internal unity of the soldiers in combat. An inner city with a radius of three miles, an outer city with a radius of seven miles, surrounded and attacked it, but could not win. To surround and attack it, we must have obtained weather and seasons that are favorable to combat, but we cannot win because the weather conditions conducive to combat are not as good as the geographical situation conducive to combat.

The city walls are not high, the moat is not deep, the equipment is not strong and sharp, and the food is not much, but the defenders of the city abandoned the city and fled, because the geographical situation favorable to the battle is not as good as the popular and internal unity in the battle. Therefore, to limit the people to settle in one place, not by the boundaries of the border; Consolidate national defense, not relying on the dangers of mountains and rivers; Deterring the world does not rely on force. A monarch who practices benevolent government will help more people who support him, and a monarch who does not exercise benevolent government will have fewer people who will help and support him.

There are very few people who help him, and relatives inside and outside will betray him. And the number of those who helped him was so great that all the people of the world turned to him. With the condition that all the people of the world submit to him, he attacks the monarch who has betrayed his brothers and sisters, so that the monarch who administers benevolent government will surely win the battle without fighting.

Explanation in the English-Chinese-English Bidirectional Dictionary: just cause gains greatest support, an unjust one gains little

Of course, it means this, but it means a turning point.

Source: Sengoku. Mencius, "There is much help for the righteous, but little help for the unjust".

The original text section of the reed hail is selected: the city of three miles, the Guo of seven miles, and the ring is invincible. If the husband attacks it, there will be those who have the right time; However, the invincible is not as good as the time and the place.

Translation: The inner city within a radius of three miles, and the outer city within a radius of seven miles, surround it and attack it, but it cannot be won. If we attack a city by encircling a city, we must have obtained weather and seasons that are conducive to combat, but we cannot win, because the weather and seasons that are conducive to operations are not as good as the geographical situation that is conducive to operations.

The meaning of the righteous is that those who are righteous will be able to receive support and help in many ways, and those who violate justice will fall into a situation of isolation and helplessness.

The original text and translation of the words "Righteous and Virtuous" are as follows:

Original text: The time is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people. The city of three miles, the Guo of seven miles, the ring and attack it without victory.

If the husband attacks it, there will be those who have the right time, but the one who does not win is not as good as the location. The city is not high, the pool is not deep, the military revolution is not strong, and the rice millet is not much.

Therefore, it is said that the people of the domain do not use the boundaries of the frontier, the country does not take the risk of mountains and streams, and the world does not take the benefits of the military revolution. Those who have attained the Tao have much help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help. Widows are helpless, relatives are on the side.

If you help more, the world will follow it. With the world's obedience, attack the relatives of the side, so the gentleman does not fight, the battle will be won.

Translation: The weather and seasons that are conducive to operations are not as good as the geographical situation that is conducive to operations, and the geographical situation that is conducive to operations is not as good as the aspirations of the people and internal unity in operations. A small city with a radius of three miles, but an outer city with a radius of seven miles, surrounded on all sides and attacked it, but could not win.

Attacking the city by encircling it on all sides must have obtained weather and seasons that are conducive to combat, but it cannot be won, and the season is not as good as the geographical situation conducive to combat. The city wall is not high, the moat is not deep, the equipment is not poor, and the food supply is not insufficient, but the defender of the city still abandoned the city and fled, because the geographical situation of the battle (no matter how good) it is, it is not as good as the people's desire and internal unity.

Therefore, it is said that the people cannot be relied on to demarcate the boundaries of their borders, and the consolidation of national defense cannot rely on the dangers of mountains and rivers, and the deterrence of the world cannot rely on the strength of force. A king who can practice "benevolent government" will have more people to help and support him, and a king who does not practice "benevolent government" will have fewer people who support and help him.

There are very few people who support and help him, and even relatives inside and outside will betray him; There are so many people who support and help him that everyone in the world will submit to him. On the condition that all the people of the world submit to him, if he goes against the king who betrays the blind man even if his relatives oppose it, the gentleman will either not fight, or if he fights, he will be victorious.

About the Author:

Mencius (c. 372 to 289 B.C.), a native of Zou (now southeast of Zoucheng, Shandong). A philosopher, thinker, and educator during the Warring States Period, he was a representative of Confucianism after Confucius and before Xunzi, and was called "Confucius and Mencius" together with Confucius.

Mencius preached "benevolent government" and was the first to put forward the idea of "the people are noble and the king is light", and was listed by Han Yu as a figure who inherited Confucius's "Taoism" by Confucianism in the pre-Qin Dynasty, and was posthumously named "Yasheng" in the Yuan Dynasty.

Mencius's writings are included in the book Mencius. Among them, "Fish I Want", "Righteous and Helpful, Unrighteous and Helpless", "Widow to the Country" and "Born in Sorrow, Die in Peace" and other articles have been compiled into primary and secondary school Chinese textbooks.

It means that standing in terms of justice and benevolence, it will be supported and helped by the majority; If you violate the Tao or righteousness or benevolence, you will inevitably fall into isolation. The article compares the "time", "location" and "people", and progresses layer by layer. It proves the truth that "the time is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people".