How to understand the way of Chaowen, it is okay to die at night?

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was written in the Analects of Liren: "Zi said: 'When you hear the Tao, you can die at night.'" So this sentence comes from Confucianism.

Founder Confucius.

Hand. We know Confucianism.

It has a very great influence on China and even the world, and Confucius's remarks and thoughts are very connotative and philosophical. Therefore, to understand this sentence, we should not only understand the superficial meaning, but also understand the meaning behind it more deeply.

Literally, it roughly means: if you understand a certain truth in the morning, even if you die in the evening, you will have no regrets. This is also a common perception of many people.

But this is a philosophical verse, if understood in this way, it will become boring, and it is actually a bit counterintuitive to study it in detail, how can people die for the sake of ordinary truths? Therefore, we should further explore the connotation of this sentence.

In our time, "Tao" generally means truth or truth, but we should look at it with a historical perspective and put it in a specific historical linguistic environment.

To understand that the Confucian way of life is the "way of benevolence and righteousness".

Therefore, the sentence "Hearing the Tao in the morning, dying at night" can be literally translated as "I understand the way of benevolence and righteousness in the morning, even if I fight for it at night, I will die without regrets, and I will understand "I can die at night" with the relationship between "knowledge" and "action", unify the two, and this Tao cannot be understood too biasedly.

In our time, if we look at this sentence from the perspective of development, then it can be understood that even if we know some meaning of life or some truths and beliefs very late, and understand that they are more precious than life, then even if we need to sacrifice ourselves for them, there is nothing to regret!

Zi said: "When I heard the truth, I can die at night." "Little brother will take you to review the traditional culture of the Analects of Chinese Studies!

If you get the Tao in the morning, you are willing to die in the evening. Describes the urgency of receiving the truth or faith.

In the sentence "Dao" refers to all the laws and principles in the universe. That is, "the Tao is very Tao". It is not the literal understanding of "hearing (or understanding) a truth (or truth) in the morning, and it is okay (or doing) to die at night."

Talk about outlook on life.

Values often say "die for the truth" and "die for the cause of justice", and this is precisely the profound connotation of the phrase "if you hear the Tao in the morning, you can die at night" under the new social and historical conditions. This sentence has inspired people with lofty ideals to shed their blood for the life and death of the country and the nation for thousands of years, because it profoundly reveals the relationship between "knowledge" and "action".

The Book of Rites also says: "The one who is erudite, the one who is inquisitive, the one who is prudent, the one who is discerning, and the one who is diligent." The first four sentences can be summed up by the word "knowledge", the purpose of learning is not to stay at the stage of "knowledge", but to "do" on the basis of "knowledge", that is, to do, to practice, to achieve "learning to apply".

In this way, the phrase "if you hear the Tao, you can die at night" should be understood as "If you understand the Tao in the morning, you should immediately act according to the Tao, even if you die for it at night (or die without regrets)." Yang Bojun's translation does not reveal the relationship between "knowledge" and "action", but only stays on "knowledge", and if you know it, you will die, and you will not know what to do.

Based on the above understanding of "hearing the Tao in the morning, it is possible to die at night", and the "Tao" and "death" are explained as follows.

Explanation: 1) Now that you know that there is a reason, then let the things that you did wrong in the past pass, and from now on, follow the "Tao". (2) Smell the Tao in the morning and die in the evening.

The form of dust shouts the urgency of the pursuit of truth or some kind of faith. (3) If you understand the meaning of life in the morning, then it is worth it even if you die at night. (4) If you smell it in the morning (you know harmony), then you may be in danger of dying at night.

Generally, it is interpreted according to the first one.

The first can be known as "Hearing the Tao, you can die at night." It means: if in a country, a person can achieve the ideal that he has always adhered to.

If he implements his own political ideas (Renzheng), then it will be worth it even if he dies at night. However, here we must not simply regard the word "Wendao" as an idle "understanding the truth", which will inevitably be a thousand miles away. The second is to interpret the Tao as 'the implementation of one's own political ideas (benevolence),' which is not an interpretation, which means that if a person knows the meaning of the Tao in the morning, it is worth dying at night.

The Tao here is not the implementation of one's own political proposition (benevolence), but something that has been persistently pursued, and suddenly it is not so important, it is not for people to get it, but for people to let go. The "Tao" here is the absence of desire.

Through explanation, we can understand the pursuit of the noble ideological realm of the ancients. It also educates people that learning is endless, and the pursuit of learning should be endless, and it is not that people can give up learning and thinking when they are old. It is also an affirmation and persistence of the ideals that I have been pursuing.

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