He Lou (Ming) translation

Confucius wanted to move to Jiuyi (a remote place), which others thought was crude and backward. Confucius said, "What's so simple about a gentleman living there?" Wang Shouren was banished to Longchang for his crimes, which was located in a remote area outside the territory of ancient Cai State. People think I'm from Beijing, and I'm sure I'll resent the simplicity and impossibility of living here.

However, I have lived here for ten months, but I am very happy. Yi people are good at swearing and swearing, but their temperament is straightforward and simple. When I first came here, there was no house to live in. Living among thorns is very gloomy; I moved to Dongfeng and lived in a cave, but it was dark and wet. I once opened a vegetable garden on the right side of thorns to grow vegetables. The Yi people cut firewood one after another and built a porch on that land for me to live in.

So I planted flowers such as juniper bamboo and peony, piano books, picture books and history books, and more and more literati came to associate with me. After that, the people who came to my porch seemed to come to a city extending in all directions, and I forgot that I lived in a distant place. So he named Xuan "He Louxuan".

Alas, the customs of foreigners now advocate witchcraft, worship ghosts and gods, despise etiquette and indulge their temperament, but this does not hurt their simple nature. If there are gentlemen living here, it is probably easy to enlighten them. But I am not the kind of gentleman who can shoulder this heavy responsibility, so I wrote this "suicide note" and waited for the future.

Original text:

In the past, Confucius wanted to live in Jiuyi, which was considered despicable. Confucius said, "How can a gentleman be humble if he lives there?"

Shouren exiled Longchang for sin. Apart from ancient barbarians, Longchang is important today, but learning is still due to its reasons. Everyone is willing to go from the countryside to the countryside. He will be ugly and can live in it.

And you can enjoy it in the middle of the month, and you can't get the so-called poor people. It's a bird song, a mountain costume, a palace view, and a gift of literature and art, but it's still a legacy of the quality of spring fat. It is natural that the legal system was not ready when it was built in ancient times, and it should not be considered rude.

My husband loves to hate his face and back, and he is clean in vain and has committed the crime of raping the poor. He was stung when he was good outside, and Xia Gai was inevitable. You are depressed, Song Fulu is embarrassed, and you are ignorant. Barbarians can't do this, but arrogant outspoken people will. I don't think it's natural that disciples in the world don't know what they say.

From beginning to end, there is no room to stop, living among thorns, and then depression; Moved to Dongfeng, lived in a cave, and was wet. People in Longchang, old and young, look at it every day, happy but not ugly, beneficial but not hurt. To taste the garden on the right side of the thorn, the people say that giving is also a kind of enjoyment, and the material of the logging pavilion is the porch where you live.

Because of this, bamboo is used as bamboo and medicine as medicine. Hall listing, room arrangement, piano drawing history. Just a little talk about the way of swimming, and the singles' visitors gathered a little. So, people in my porch saw the copper capital and forgot to give it to them. Because of the name "Helou", I believe what Confucius said.

Hey, honey! The prosperity of summer, its law, ceremony and music, has been passed down through saint practice, and it is humble to say that it is impossible to have it; In the future, I despise morality and specialize in law. I am not good at searching clues, but I am cunning, cunning, omnipotent and simple!

If barbarians are uncut trees, though tough and tenacious, vertebral axes are still useful, can they be humble? What does Confucius live on? Although, cultural relics laws and regulations, but also Hu can not talk about?

Nowadays, the custom of barbarians is to worship witchcraft and ghosts, slander feelings, be wrong, and die in the name of ugliness, so you won't talk about it. However, this does not damage its quality. If you live with a gentleman, it is easy to change. And give it to others to remember it for those who come.

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Evaluation of He Lou Xuan Ji

This article is selected from Volume 23 of Wang Wencheng Public Rights Book. "Biography of Wang Shouren in the Ming Dynasty" said that he fought against Zhang to save Dai and others. "(Liu) was angry, and he was promoted to Longchang, Guizhou. Longchang Mountain is thin and Miao people live in compact communities. Shouren is vulgarized, foreigners are happy, and logging is a house to live in. " This book "Selected Stories of He Lou" was published for this purpose.

Based on personal experience, the article praises the simple and helpful character of Miao and Gelao, and refutes the saying that people call it "ugly".

On the contrary, compared with those "treacherous and cunning" people in the Central Plains, they are "uncut trees". Waiting for the master to carve them is to influence them with "cultural relics" and eliminate their bad habit of "worshipping witches and ghosts". The analysis of this article is very subtle. It is rare for feudal literati to get rid of prejudice against ethnic minorities.

Reference source Baidu Encyclopedia-He Lou Xuan Ji