Duke Jinping asked Shi Kuang, "I am seventy years old. I'm afraid it's too late to study. " Shi Kuang said, "Why not light a candle to study?" Jin Pinggong said, "How dare the courtiers tease you?"
Shi Kuang said: "I am blind, how dare I tease the king?" I heard that I liked reading when I was a child, just like the rising sun. I like studying in the prime of life, and I like the sunshine in Japan and China. Learning when you are old is like lighting a candle. Which is better than walking by candlelight or in the dark? " Jin Pinggong said, "Well said!"
Original text:
Duke Jinping asked Shi Kuang, "I am seventy years old, and I am afraid I am eager to learn." Shi Kuang said, "Why not light a candle?" Gong Ping said, "An is a minister. Are you kidding me?" Shi Kuang said, "How dare a blind minister play with the monarch? I am not so eager to learn when I listen, like the sun at sunrise; Strong and eager to learn, such as the light of Japan and China; Old and studious, bright as a candle. What is the light of the candle? " Gong Ping said, "Good!"
This article is from Shuo Yuan written by Liu Xiang in the Western Han Dynasty.
Extended information article appreciation:
Jin Pinggong is over seventy years old. He wants to study. He is worried that it is too late, but Shi Kuang suggested that he study by candlelight. Then Shi Kuang made three metaphors. He liked studying when he was young, as if it were the sunshine when the sun just came out. I like studying when I was young, just like the noon sun; I like studying when I am old, just like the light when I light a candle.
Shi Kuang cleverly pointed out that reading in his later years was much better than walking in the dark, although he couldn't keep up with his youth and prime of life. In this way, Duke Jinping was successfully persuaded, and the purpose of persuasion was achieved.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a musician named Shi Kuang in the State of Jin who was blind, but he was good at playing the piano and discriminating sounds. One day, Duke Jinping asked Shi Kuang, "I am 70 years old. Do you still want to study?" . I'm afraid it's Twilight. What do you think, sir? Shi Kuang didn't answer directly, but took the word "dusk" from Duke Jinping and said, "At dusk, why don't you hold a candle?" Jin Pinggong some don't understand, stupefied at Shi Kuang.
Shi Kuang further explained: "I heard that' less and eager to learn, such as the sunrise; Strong and eager to learn, such as the light of Japan and China; Old and eager to learn, like a candle. "What is the right thing to do?" When Jin Pinggong heard this, he suddenly realized that he was very happy and began to study it in his later years.
The universality and particularity of contradiction are interrelated. Everything in the world contains both the particularity and universality of contradiction. Universality exists in particularity, and particularity and universality are interrelated and inseparable.
Shi Kuang's analysis tells us that people have different learning states in different periods, which reflects the particularity of contradiction-the contradiction of the same thing has different characteristics in different stages of development. But his analysis also tells people that learning is always good for people, which is the universality of contradiction.
Writing background:
Shuo Yuan, written by Liu Xiang in the Western Han Dynasty. Liu Xiang used to be the secretary of the school. This book is based on some historical stories and legends from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the Western Han Dynasty edited by royal books and folk books, with the author's comments, which gives full play to Confucian political thoughts and moral concepts and has a certain philosophical nature.
After the original twenty volumes, only five volumes remain, most of which have been lost. Song Ceng Gong collected them and made them into twenty volumes, each with its own title.
The titles of the 20 volumes are Jun Dao, Chen Shu, Jian Ben, Li Jie, Gui De, Fu En, Zheng Li, Zun Xian, Jian Zheng, Jing Shen, Shan Shuo, Shi Feng, Machiavelli and Zhi Zhi Zhi. Generally, the first rule or the first number is the outline of a volume, and the main idea of this volume is stated by quoting the previous remarks. Here are a lot of historical examples to prove it. Item also compiled a book "New Preface", which is similar in nature.