Translation of Mencius 6 1 Gongsun Chouxia

Gongsun Chou asked, the master should be in Qi, and the work of Guan Zhong and Yan Zi can be repeated. Mencius said, Zicheng Qi people are also, and they know Guan Zhong and Yan Zi. Or ask Zeng Xi and say, which is the best of my son and my son.

Zeng Xi suddenly said, my ancestors are afraid. Said, then my son and Guan Zhong are virtuous. Zeng Xi was displeased, and said, how can you compare it to Guan Zhong.

Guan Zhong is as special as he is, he is as good as he is in national politics for a long time, and his merits are as humble as he is.

Dare to ask the master, it is evil. Gongsun Chou asked, "Excuse me, what is the teacher good at?" He said, "I know that I am good at nurturing my heroic spirit."

Mencius said, "I can recognize all kinds of speech, and I am good at cultivating my heroic spirit." "Dare to ask what it means to be heroic. Gongsun Chou said, "May I ask what is the spirit of Haoran." ”。

Gongsun Chou said: "Qi Qing's position is not small, Qi Teng's road is not close, on the contrary, he has not tried to act with his words, why not?" ”

He said: "If the husband is the ruler, what can he say!" ”

[Explanation of the original text].

Mencius served as the secretary of state in the state of Qi, and sent an envoy to the state of Teng to mourn, and the king of Qi asked Wang Yu, the prefect of Gaidi, to serve as Mencius's deputy envoy. When Wang Yu met Mencius in the morning and evening, and traveled back and forth from the state of Qi to the state of Patta, Mencius never talked to him about the funeral.

Gongsun Chou said: "Your position as the secretary of Qi is not small, the distance from Qi to Teng is not close, and I have never talked to him about the funeral all the way back and forth, why?" ”

Mencius said, "He has already dealt with it, what shall I say!" ”

[Notes].

Mencius was the secretary of state in Qi and hanged in Teng, and the king made the doctor Gai Dafu Wang Yu as an auxiliary: Mencius served as the secretary of state in the state of Qi, and sent an envoy to the state of Teng to mourn, and the king of Qi asked Wang Yu, the prefect of Gaidi, to serve as Mencius's deputy envoy. Mourned in Teng, to Teng to mourn the deceased Teng Wengong.

Gai, sound gě, Qiyi. 驩, pronounced huān. Auxiliary, deputy to travel, deputy envoy.

Wang Yu saw the road of anti-Qi Teng in the evening of the Dynasty, but did not try to act with him: Wang Yu met Mencius in the morning and evening, and on the way from Qi to Teng, Mencius never talked to him about the funeral. See you in the morning and evening, and meet Mencius in the morning and evening.

On the contrary, it is the same as "return", which refers to going back and forth. Conduct, missionary matters.

Qi Qing's position is not small, Qi Teng's road is not near, on the contrary, he has not tried to act with his words, He also: your position as the secretary of Qi is not small, the distance from Qi to Teng is not close, and I have never talked to him about the funeral all the way back and forth, why. For, count.

The third "zhi" refers to the road of closing the stupid Ziten.

If the husband has cured it, what can I say: he has already dealt with it, and what shall I say? Husband, that, him. Or, already. Treatment, treatment. refers to the affairs of mourning.

[Interpretation and Commentary].

Qi Qing and the chief of the land as the chief and deputy envoys to mourn, the specifications are not low, they are all of a good level, and they should have special cars. It's just that the whole process of "seeing in the morning and dusk, the road to anti-Qiteng" is that the envoy and the deputy envoy actually don't communicate. The envoy did not say what to do, and the deputy envoy did not ask for instructions.

This Gaidi prefect Wang Yu is also capable enough, as a deputy envoy, he has done all the things of the envoy, destroyed the etiquette of being an official and an envoy, and regarded the secretary and the envoy as decorations. Mencius's "husband or rule, what to say" shows a kind of helplessness and disdain.