The original words are "there should be a real spirit of understanding things", which was revised as "there should be a spirit of understanding things" when it was incorporated into the second volume of eighth-grade Chinese published by People's Education Press (also included in the second volume of eighth-grade Chinese textbooks compiled by the Ministry).
19911018. Outlook Weekly held an essay awarding ceremony for Mr. Chinese-American physicist in the Great Hall of the People, and Mr. Ding gave a speech on "The Spirit of Really Understanding Things".
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Knowing knowledge from things is an important concept in China's ancient Confucianism, which originated from The Book of Rites? As stated in the eight goals of the university-honesty, knowing and doing, sincerity, integrity, self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world-"If you want to be sincere, let him know first; Knowledge exists in things. The content is known, and the knowledge is sincere.
However, this passage is the only passage in Da Xue, but no explanation was given afterwards, and the words "Wu Ge" and "Zhi Zhi" were not quoted in ancient books in the pre-Qin period, which made the true meaning of "Wu Ge Zhi Zhi" a mystery of Confucianism. The fifth edition of Modern Chinese Dictionary published in 2005 interprets "knowing knowledge by studying things" as "reasoning about the principles and laws of things and summarizing them as rational knowledge".