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Li Zhi (Ming)' s The Heart of Childishness' and its translation

Longdongshan people narrated' The West Chamber' [1], and at the end, the saying goes,' If you know, don't call me childlike.' Those who are childlike are sincere. If childlike innocence is indispensable, it is also indispensable to be sincere. Those who are childlike are absolutely false and innocent, and the original heart of the first thought is also. If you lose your childlike innocence, you lose your sincerity; If you lose your heart, you lose your real person. People are not true, and there is no beginning.

the boy, beginning of life also; A child's heart is at the beginning of his heart. At the beginning of my husband's heart, can I lose it? However, childlike innocence is lost. At the beginning, Gaifang heard from the eyes and ears, but focused on it and lost his childlike innocence. It's long, and it makes sense to smell it, but to focus on it and lose childlike innocence. For a long time, the truth is that when you hear that there are more benefits, what you know and feel will be more extensive, so how can you know whether a good name is good or not, and you want to promote it and lose your childlike innocence. It is ugly to know the name of beauty, but it is childlike to hide it. When you hear the truth, you all come from reading more and knowing the truth. The ancient sages never read. However, if you don't study, your childlike innocence will be solid. Read more books, but also to protect this childlike innocence and make it not lose its ears, unless scholars read more books to understand righteousness and reason and overcome obstacles. Since husbands and scholars have blocked their childishness by reading more books to understand righteousness, why should saints use more books to stand up for disabled scholars? Childlike heart is a barrier, so it is a speech, and the speech is insincere; See for politics [2], then politics has no roots; Writing for words, words can't be reached. If it is not included in Zhang Mei, it is not honest and shining. If you want a word of virtue, you can't get it, so what? It is a barrier to be childlike, but it is also a heart to smell the truth from the outside.

since my husband's heart is to smell the truth, what he says is to smell the truth, and what does it matter to me if he doesn't speak from childlike innocence? It' s not a fake statement with a dummy, but a fake thing and a fake article! If you cover up the person, you are not fake. If you talk to a dummy with false words, the dummy will be happy; With false things and false humanity, the dummy is happy; If you talk to a dummy with a fake article, the dummy will be happy. Everything is true, then everything is not happy. The sellout is false, and the dwarf can't argue [3]. However, although there are all the best works in the world, it is rare that they are annihilated by dummies and not seen in later generations! What is it? There is nothing in the world that is not out of childlike innocence. If a child's heart is always there, the truth won't work, the smell won't stand, there is no shortage of words, no one is ignorant, and there is no one who creates physical words instead of words. Why should poetry be ancient "Selected Works" [4], and why should literature be in the pre-Qin period, which was reduced to the Six Dynasties, changed to a modern style [5], changed to a legend [6], changed to a courtyard-based [7], changed to a zaju, changed to the West Chamber Song, changed to the Water Margin, and made a great contribution to today's work [8].

The Six Classics of Fu, Yu and Meng are not praised by their historians, but by their courtiers. Otherwise, their pedantic and ignorant disciples and memory teachers say that a head without a tail is a legacy, and what they see is written in books. If you don't observe what you learn later, it means that it comes from the mouth of a saint, and it is decided that the purpose is the classics. Who knows that most of it is not the words of a saint? Even from a saint, it is necessary to send it for a purpose, but if you send medicine because of illness, you can prescribe it at any time to save such ignorant disciples and pedantic disciples. It is difficult to treat fake medical diseases, so how can we think that it is the most important thing in the world? However, the Six Classics, Yu and Meng are the words of Taoism [11], and the origins of dummies are also determined by the fact that they cannot be expressed in childlike innocence. Whoo! I've got a word with the true sage who has never lost his childlike innocence!

Note:

[1] Shan Nong in Longdong: either Li Zhi's nickname or Yan Jun's name is Shan Nong. The West Chamber refers to The West Chamber written by Wang Shifu in Yuan Dynasty.

[2] See: Tong "Xian". [3] What is the dwarf's argument? Here, acting is used as a metaphor. If the dwarf can't see it at all, he can't tell it apart.

[4] Selected Works: refers to Selected Works edited by Xiao Tong, also known as Zhaoming Selected Works.

[5] Modern poetry refers to modern poetry, including metrical poems and quatrains. [6] Legend: refers to the legendary novels of the Tang people.

[7] Courtyard book: the drama script performed by Jin Daifang.

[8] Ju Ziye: refers to the imperial examination articles, that is, eight-part essays.

[9] Six Classics: refers to Confucian classics, such as Poetry, Book, Rite, Yue, Yi and Chunqiu.

[1] Yu and Meng refer to the Analects of Confucius, Mencius and Four Books.

[11] Daoism: refers to Taoists.

At the end of his preface to The West Chamber, Shan Nong in Longdong said, "People of insight will be satisfied if they don't think I still have childlike innocence." Childlike heart, in essence, is sincerity. If you think there should be no childlike heart, you think there should be no sincerity. The so-called childlike innocence is actually an unpretentious and absolutely sincere original heart when people are not disturbed by the outside world at first. If you lose your childlike innocence, you lose your sincerity; If you lose your sincerity, you lose the qualification to be a real person. Once people are not sincere, they will lose their complete personality forever.

children, the beginning of life; Childlike heart is the source of the soul. How can the source of the soul be lost! Then, why does childlike innocence rush to lose? In the period of enlightenment, people will gain a lot of perceptual knowledge through hearing and seeing, and when they grow up, they will learn more rational knowledge. Once these acquired perceptual hearing and rational truth enter the master's mind, childlike innocence will be lost. Over time, the truth and smell you have done are increasing day by day, and the scope you can perceive and perceive is also expanding day by day, so that you can understand that a good name is good and do everything possible to carry it forward; Knowing that notoriety is ugly, we try our best to cover it up, so that childlike innocence no longer exists. People's hearing, seeing and understanding are all obtained through reading more books and understanding more. However, the ancient sages are not people who read and understand! The key point is that when the saints don't study, their childlike innocence naturally remains. Even if they read more, they can protect their childlike innocence and not lose it. Never like that class of scholars, they will indulge their childlike innocence by reading more than others. Since a scholar can cover his childlike innocence by reading more books and understanding the present, why should a saint be so keen on writing books that he is fascinated? Once childlike innocence is reconciled, it is also insincere to speak; There is no sincere starting point for participating in political affairs; If you write an article, you can't understand fluency. In fact, if a person's beauty is not beyond words, and if he has real talent and learning, he will not even hear a moral truth from his mouth. Why? It is because childlike innocence has been lost, but the acquired sense of smell has entered the mind.

since the heart is to smell the truth, then what you say becomes a replica of the truth, not from the heart of a child. Even if he talks big, it has nothing to do with me. Isn't this telling lies, doing fake things and writing fake articles with dummies? Because once people are false-oriented, every move will be false, so telling lies to dummies is exactly what they want; If you tell a fake story to a dummy, you must believe it; Talking about fake articles to dummies is bound to be appreciated. This is true everywhere, so I like everything! The world is full of falsehood, and laity can't tell the truth from the falsehood. Even the wonderful articles in the world are unknown because they are ignored and buried by dummies. What is the reason for it Because all the good articles in the world are from childlike innocence. If childlike innocence is always there, those so-called smells and truths will lose their foothold. Then, at any time, anyone and any genre can write excellent works. Poetry, why must praise the Selected Works; Prose, why do you have to value the pre-Qin period? Apart from the Six Dynasties' poems, the ancient poems also developed into Tang Dynasty legends, Jin Dynasty Yuan Ben, Yuan Dynasty Zaju, The West Chamber, The Water Margin, and today's eight-part essay that should be tested in the imperial examination. Anyone who stresses the way of being a saint is an outstanding article in ancient and modern times, and must not take the times as the standard to cherish the past and cherish the present. Therefore, I have the deepest understanding of those articles that are heartfelt. It is really unnecessary to say that they must be called the Six Classics, and words must be called The Analects of Confucius and Mencius.

The Six Classics, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius are either flattering words from historians or flattering words from courtiers. Otherwise, they are also those confused disciples who reminisce about the teacher's words, whether they have a head without a tail or a tail without a head, or write them down and compile them into books according to the words they have heard. Scholars of later generations, not knowing this, think that they are all brilliant theories of saints and regard them as classics. I don't know, most of them are not the essence of saints at all! Even if there is a saint, it is targeted, but it is just a matter of time, and it is only a random response to enlighten those disciples who are not enlightened. The right medicine, not stick to one pattern, how can it be regarded as an eternal truth! Obviously, the Six Classics, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius have long been used as tools for Taoists to bluff and as a shield for hypocrites to hide, which can never be compared with the heartfelt words from childlike innocence. Whoo! Where can I find the true saint with childlike innocence and discuss the foundation of my composition with him?