Source: "Book of Han·The Biography of Liu De, King of Hejian Xian": "Study the ancients and seek truth from facts."
Liu De is the third son of Han Jing Emperor Liu Qi, who lived in BC In 155, he was named the King of Hejian as a prince. Liu De liked Confucianism very much. He imitated Confucian scholars in his clothes, words and deeds. Many Confucian scholars in Shandong relied on him.
Confucianism had not yet become orthodox at that time. After the war at the end of the Qin Dynasty, few classics remained, and scholars were rare. It was not easy to restore Confucianism. At this time, Liu De, the king of Hejian, rose up in response to the situation and "compiled the lost and scattered volumes after the ashes were gone, only to survive again." Liu De was king for 26 years and never got involved in the political whirlpool of kings fighting for power. Instead, he devoted his life to the collection and arrangement of ancient Chinese cultural books.
In order to collect books, Liu De traveled all over Luoyang, Shandong, Hebei and other places. He was not afraid of hard work and practiced it personally. Whenever he heard that there was a good book among the people, he would go there in person and buy it with a lot of money. He would also order someone to copy a copy and leave it to the people. For those who were unwilling to sell it, he would beg for it easily and would never give it to him. Take coercive measures. This was difficult for most rulers at that time to achieve, so Liu Dexian became famous far and wide, and many intellectuals traveled thousands of miles to bring old books from their ancestors and give them to Liu De. To these people, Liu De gave them important positions and bonuses. The books he obtained include "Poetry", "Zuo Zhuan", "Zhou Guan", "Book of Rites", etc., as many as dozens of kinds.
Liu De also personally participated in the compilation of ancient books. He appointed famous scholars Mao Chang and Guan Changqing as doctors, and Wang Ding as Shi Cheng. He also recruited famous scholars from all over the world to study the books he obtained. ,tidy. Liu De's attitude towards compiling ancient books was extremely rigorous. For ancient books that were incomplete, had different characters and different versions, he would organize a group of Confucian scholars to conduct research and analysis, make corrections, and carefully proofread them before compiling them into volumes.
After painstaking collation work, Liu De compiled a large number of original ancient books, which was a real help for the Han Dynasty, which was very short of books at that time. According to historical records, Liu De carried ancient books such as "Poems" and "Books" to the court many times in response to imperial edicts. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che was very happy to see that Liu De had brought so many books, and a grand book-receiving ceremony was held every time.
Although Liu De devoted himself to the compilation of ancient books, he later became worried and became ill because of the suspicion of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and died in Fengguo in 130 BC. However, Liu De's actions are still sought after by intellectuals. Ban Gu wrote a biography of him in the "Book of Han". The first chapter of his biography commented on Liu De's "seeking truth from facts" in his scholarship.
Examples and sentences: When summarizing experience, you must seek truth from facts and do not make lies.