Confucius said, "Poetry is three hundred (1), which can be summarized as (2), and Confucius said," Thinking without evil (3). "
To annotate ...
(1) Poetry 300: Poetry refers to the Book of Songs, with 305 pieces, and 300 is just an integer.
(2) Coverage: general meaning.
(3) Innocent thinking: This is a sentence in the Book of Songs, where "innocent thinking" is an ideological solution. Innocence is interpreted as "purity" and "integrity", and the latter is more appropriate.
translate
Confucius said: "The Book of Songs has 300 chapters, which can be summarized in one sentence, that is,' pure thinking'."
Comment and analysis
In the era of Confucius, students didn't read many books. After finishing and processing by Confucius, The Book of Songs was used as a teaching material. Confucius studied the Book of Songs thoroughly, so he summed it up with "thinking innocently". Everything in the Analects that explains the Book of Songs is put forward according to the principle of "thinking innocence".