There are five ways in the world [1], and one of them is friends. Friends, so dispel doubts and persuade the good, learn from each other's strong points and move forward in the Tao. Therefore, we must treat our friends as ourselves. I can't read for ten years if I don't understand the reason. If you consult your friend [2], you will know once and for all. If you have no friends, you will eventually realize that the sun and the moon have flooded [3]. Ordinary people are good, but if a person does it, he will be lazy. If he does it, his energy will be born of each other's feelings. I will stop because I am not good, but I am afraid of not knowing my friends or wandering around.
Oh! Friendship has long since declined. 11, only the trend is the trend, only the profit is the profit [4]. When the potential goes, the benefits will be exhausted, while the sparseness will be sparse; Or meet and ruin. This can't be friends.
I am a friend today, and I gather in a room for no reason, drinking and having fun, and talking about debauchery [5]. Confucius' so-called social life is not as good as benevolence and righteousness [6], is it difficult! Or dislike his heart, and his friends are interlinked, and there is nothing to learn from each other. If it is, it is better than others. I said that people can't live without friends, and friends can't get together often. If you live in peace, you have your own door and do your own thing, such as having a bank in other places. When we meet for a while, we will be suspicious and ask questions; What did friends get on the day they didn't meet? Its unknown is now in the geometry of the knower? It has been able to be wise [7] so as not to forget geometry? You are good [8], you are bad [8], and so is the way of friendship.
Yuke went to Beijing and lived outside the capital, while Zhang Jun Hongxun of Zhenze lived in the city [10], six or seven miles apart. Every ten days or half a month, Zhang Jun will meet once. When we meet, there must be a book, a volume and several poems, which should be rewarded * * *, suitable for the increasingly refined industry. Over time, his poems became more and more industrious and rich, so he became ill and asked more questions [1 1]. Every time Zhang Jun appears, it must be a literary meeting, but the only thing that makes me feel ashamed is Zhang, who doesn't feel that I can't make friends, so I think Zhang Jun's poems are prefaced in the book. guide
Annotation of works
[1] The second sentence of Tianxia: The Book of Rites The Doctrine of the Mean: "The monarch and his subjects, father and son, husband and wife, brother Kun, friends, five, the world is good."
[2] Consultation (Z and capital): inquiry, measurement.
[3] Flood: The flood is late and late.
[4] Wu (W Wu): Pursuit.
[5] Indulge in luxury: indulge without convergence.
[6] Words are not as good as righteousness: words are not as good as righteousness. "The Analects of Confucius Wei Linggong": "It is more difficult to live in groups all day. Kindness and wisdom are difficult! " "Difficult" means that it is difficult to achieve a career.
[7] Xi: Comments.
[8] Jing: praise.
[9]: Criticism and criticism.
[10] Zhenze: the old county name, named after Taihu Lake (called Zhenze in ancient times), is now Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province.
[1 1] (póu): polymerization. guide
Brief analysis of works
This preface discusses the way to make friends, and holds that "there must be harmony if there is good, and there must be harmony if there is evil, and the way to make friends is nothing more than that." The article criticizes people who don't make friends, and also criticizes the so-called friend relationship that takes "drinking, drinking and playing" as the thing and lives in groups all day long. Of course, the way the author talks about making friends cannot go beyond the scope of feudal ethics, but its spirit is still enlightening. guide