The person who is a fake boat is not able to water, and the meaning of river in the absolute river

Translation: People who use boats are not good swimmers, but they can cross the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.

From: Xunzi "Persuasion".

Excerpt from the original text: Those who fake horses are not profitable, but thousands of miles; Those who fake the boat are not able to water, but the rivers. A gentleman is not different, and he is good at things.

People who use chariots and horses do not walk fast with their feet, but they can reach thousands of miles away.

People who use boats are not good swimmers, but they can cross the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. The qualifications and temperament of a gentleman are no different from those of ordinary people, (except that a gentleman) is good at using external objects.

False: By virtue of, exploited. Yu: Carriage, here refers to the car. Foot: Feet walk fast. Water: Swimming. Absolutely: Crossing.

Creative background: Xunzi was a Confucian in the late Warring States period.

representatives. He believes that the existence of the natural world is not subject to human will, but people can use subjective efforts to understand it, conform to it, and use it. He emphasized the importance of acquired learning, which is the main purpose of the article "Persuasion of Learning".

Author's Ideological Views:

Xunzi's thinking is biased towards experience and personnel, starting from the social context, attaching importance to social order and opposing mysticism.

The idea of valuing human effort.

Confucius. The central idea is "benevolence", Mencius.

The central idea is "righteousness", Xunzi put forward "etiquette" and "law" after the two, and attaches importance to the norms of people's behavior in society. Confucius is a sage, but opposes the philosophical ideas of the "Simeng School" headed by Mencius and Zisi, and believes that Zigong.

He is a scholar who inherits the ideas of Confucius.

Xunzi believes that people are born with a desire to satisfy their desires, and if their desires are not satisfied, disputes will occur, so he advocates that human nature is evil (for details, please refer to Yi Zhongtian.

Teaching "The Hundred Schools of Thought of the Sons of the Pre-Qin Dynasty"), it is necessary to be educated by the holy king and the ritual law to "turn the character into a hypocrisy" and improve the personality.

Xunxue has the spirit of academic criticism and the consciousness of inclusiveness, which reflects the historical trend of the Warring States period from a hundred schools of thought to academic integration.

water", noun is used as a verb, 'swimming'. "Absolute" is extended to "cross". "River" in ancient times specifically referred to the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, and now the meaning of the word has been expanded to refer to all rivers and rivers. The full sentence is translated as: A person with the help of a boat is not able to swim, but can cross a river.

People with the help of chariots and horses are not fast on their feet, but they can reach thousands of miles away, and people with the help of boats and boats are not good at swimming, but they can cross the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.

1. Original text. I try to think all day long, it is better to learn what I have to learn; I try to look at it, it is better to climb the heights. Ascend and move, the arm is not lengthened, and the one who sees is far away; Blowing with the wind, the sound is not a disease, but the hearer is prominent. Those who fake horses are not profitable, but thousands of miles; Those who fake the boat are not able to water, but the rivers.

A gentleman is not different, and he is good at things.

2. Translation. I used to meditate all day and night, but I couldn't get as much as I learned in a moment; I used to stand on tiptoe and look into the distance, but I might not be as good as climbing to a high place to see wide. When he ascended to a high place and beckoned, his arms were not lengthened, but those in the distance could see it; Shouting with the wind, the voice did not increase in height, but the listener could hear it clearly.

People with the help of chariots and horses are not fast on their feet, but they can reach thousands of miles away, and people with the help of boats and boats are not good at swimming, but they can cross the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. The qualifications and temperament of a gentleman are no different from those of ordinary people, (except that a gentleman) is good at using external objects.

3. Source. Pre-Qin Xunzi "Persuasion".

Persuasion and Learning".

As the opening work of Xunzi, "Persuasion" is an essay that discusses the importance of learning and persuades people to learn with the right purpose, attitude and method.

The article is based on simple materialism as the theoretical basis, and it reflects some correct views of pre-Qin Confucianism in education, and also reflects the artistic style of Xunzi's essays as the culmination of the ideas of the pre-Qin scholars.

Those who fake horses are not profitable, but thousands of miles; Those who are fake boats are not able to water, and they are not able to water, but they can reach thousands of miles away. People who use boats are not good swimmers, but they can cross the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.

The sentence is from "Persuasion", "Persuasion" is a discourse written by Xunzi, a thinker and writer during the Warring States Period, and is the first article of the book "Xunzi". This paper systematically discusses the theories and methods of learning, and comprehensively and profoundly discusses the problems related to learning from the aspects of the importance of learning, the attitude of learning, and the content and methods of learning.

A gentleman is not unusually wise, but just good at using things. Horseback riders don't have to run fast on their own, but they can reach thousands of miles away, and boaters don't necessarily swim but can cross rivers.

A person who rides a horse does not run fast on his own, but he can reach thousands of miles away; If you take a boat, you don't necessarily have to swim, but you can cross the river.

A man on horseback does not have to walk, but he can travel thousands of miles; Those who take a boat do not need to swim, but they can cross rivers and lakes.