An ancient poem about Si Qi
An ancient poem about Si Qi
An ancient poem about Si Qi
If you see a talented person, you should look up to him. If you see a talented person, you should look back (using him as a negative textbook). That should be the meaning.
Confucius said, "When you see the sage Si Qi, you should reflect on yourself if you don't.
The source of The Analects of Confucius, Liren
The general idea is to look up to people with virtue, and to reflect on their own shortcomings when they see people without virtue. This is what Confucius said, and it is also the motto of later Confucian self-cultivation and moral cultivation. "Seeing Si Qi" means that a good example will shock you and drive you to catch up; "Introspection when you see a bad example" means that a bad example "teaches you", so you should learn from it and continue to degenerate with others. Mencius' mother moved three times in a row for fear that Mencius would be influenced by bad neighbors. Du Fu boasted in his poems that "Li Yong seeks knowledge and William Wang is willing to be a neighbor", which all showed the role of this "example".