Seek truth from facts
It is to start from the actual object, explore the internal relations of things and the regularity of their development, and understand the essence of things. Usually refers to doing things according to the actual situation.
Idioms and their stories
Source: Hanshu Hejian Wang Xian Liu Dechuan: "Make the past serve the present and seek truth from facts."
In BC 155, Liu De, the third son of Liu Qi, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was made king of Hejian. Liu De likes Confucianism very much. His clothes, words and deeds are imitated by Confucian scholars, and many Confucian scholars in Shandong are attached to him.
Confucianism has not yet become orthodox. After the war at the end of Qin dynasty, there were few ancient books and scholars left, and Confucianism was difficult to recover. At this time, Liu De, the king of Hejian, rose at the right time and said, "The ashes are exhausted, scattered and compiled, only preserved."
Liu De has been king for 26 years, but he has never been involved in the political whirlpool of the king's struggle for power and profit. On the contrary, he devoted his whole life to collecting and sorting out China cultural ancient books.
Extended data:
Synonym: Down to earth.
Pronunciation: Ji m \u\u\u\u
This means stepping on solid ground. Metaphor is practical and serious.
Said by: Shao Yong's Song, Volume 18: "The public asked Kang Jie,' Who is someone?' Say,' You are a down-to-earth person.'
Idiom story
The "man" who asked Shao Yong "How am I" was Sima Guang, the one who smashed a jar to save people when he was a child. He is a famous politician, historian, essayist and editor of "A Mirror with Resources" in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the process of being ordered to compile "Lessons Learned from Mutual Learning", Sima Guang worked diligently and worked late into the night every day.
Get up early again the next day. According to legend, in order to ensure that he didn't oversleep, wake up early and get up early, he specially made himself a "police pillow" out of wood, not a police pillow, but a pillow to alert himself. This "police pillow" is round and lies behind the head in a panic. It moved a little and turned around, and the head that had been resting on it fell off. When it falls, people wake up
Don't sleep, get up and continue reading and writing. It is also difficult for him to come up with this trick, which can be comparable to "hanging the beam and stabbing the stocks." The compilation of Zi Tong Zhi Jian took 19 years, which almost exhausted Sima Guang's life energy. Look at what he said in Zi Zhi Tong Jian: "The day is insufficient, and the night comes next", which is really touching and admirable.
The place where Sima Guang compiled Zi Tong Zhi Jian is called Du Paradise, and the site is in Sima Jie Village, Zhuge Town, yanshi city today, which shows that he has a deep relationship with Luoyang.
Sima Guang has many friends in Luoyang, one of whom is Shao Yong, a master of Neo-Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty, who lives in his comfort zone and talks about theory. His history records that "when he was young, he had his own talent, and he was generously eager to become famous." He read everything in the book and began to learn, that is, work hard, don't cook cold, don't fan in summer, stay out at night for a few years. " Shao Yong works as hard as Sima Guang. No wonder they are on good terms.
On this day, Sima Guang came to talk to Shao Yong again, talking about XingChu. Sima Guang asked Shao Yong, "Who is someone?" "How am I?" Shao Old Master Q answered beautifully: "You are a down-to-earth person." Don't think he is flattering. Throughout Sima Guang's life, it really conforms to this evaluation.