Source: Xunzi's "Xunzi Honor and Disgrace", the original text: Therefore, being kind to others is warmer than cloth and silk; Words hurt people deeper than spears and halberds.
Explanation:
Words can bring happiness as well as pain. Comparing these words with good words that are warmer than cloth and bad words that are deeper than spears and halberds, the image accurately illustrates this consciousness.
This materialistic method can be learned; You can also use the language of "kind words, warm cloth" to directly express the warmth it brings to people, and use "words are deeper than spears" to express the great harm that bad words bring to people and warn people not to hurt others.
Extended data:
Revelation:
Pride and contempt are curses to people; Respect and humility can eliminate the killing of all kinds of weapons. Thus, even with Mao Ge's spikes, it is not as powerful as respect and humility. Therefore, it is warmer to say kind words to others than to dress others.
It is deeper to hurt people with evil words than to stab them with spears and halberds. Therefore, the land of vast expanse cannot be trampled on it, not because the ground is unstable.
One moment anger leads to death; People who are hurt by seeing everything are jealous; People of insight suffer from slander; Trying to clarify is getting more and more chaotic because of your breath.
Supporting and entertaining others, friendship is getting weaker and weaker because of improper treatment of people; Being eloquent and not liked is because of quarrelling; Being honest and not understood is because of arrogance.
Founder's chastity is not respected because it stings people; Being brave and not being feared by others is because of greed; Sticking to credit is not respected because you like to be arbitrary. These are all done by villains, but not by gentlemen.
Xunzi's life story and Historical Records are very brief. From the biography of Xunzi written by Taishigong, the record of Sun Qing written by Liu Xiang, the custom written by Ying Shao, the custom written by Qingxin Chen and the Power written by Xunzi, we can know that Xunzi has been to Qi and Qin countries, and he became famous when he traveled around the world.
Xunzi is the representative of eight schools of Confucianism after Confucius and another master of Confucianism after Mencius. According to Xie Yong's Preface to Xunzi, Xunzi was the most famous teacher in the Warring States Period. As an official biography of Taishi, Mencius and Xun Qing are compared separately.
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