I. Original text
Although there are good dishes, I don't know its purpose; Although there is supreme Tao, learning, I don't know its goodness. It is to learn and then know the deficiency, and to teach and then know the difficulty. If you don't know enough, then you can reverse; Advance despite difficulties, and then strive for self-improvement. So teaching and learning are also beneficial. "Duiming" said: "Learn half." What does this mean?
Second, translation.
"Although there are good dishes" comes from the Book of Rites, which means that even if there are good dishes. This idiom is often used to describe that although there are good things, if there are no proper conditions or environment, they cannot reflect their value. "Although there are good dishes" reminds us to cherish the existing conditions and resources and constantly strive to create a better future.
Brief introduction and creative background of the author "Although there are fine dishes"
I. Introduction to the author
"Although there are good dishes" comes from the Book of Rites. The Book of Rites, also known as The Book of Rites for Little Wear or The Book of Little Wear, is an important collection of laws and regulations in ancient China, written by Dai Sheng, a ritual scholar in the Western Han Dynasty. Dai Sheng was an official, scholar, ritual scholar and educator in the Western Han Dynasty. He studied the Six Classics intensively, and was especially good at "etiquette study". He thinks that the center of the Six Classics is "ceremony", and he expounds the meaning of ceremony from "respect, righteousness and opposition". Shao Liangchao's restoration of etiquette was in the ascendant, showing his leading position, and was later recommended by Liang Wang as a negotiator. During his tenure in the Prince's Mansion, he also selected 2 1 articles on self-cultivation and the success or failure of governing the country inherited by ancient sages, and wrote the Book of Rites day and night.
Second, the creative background
Although there are fine dishes, the creation background of the article is the process of the Book of Rites becoming a classic.
The Book of Rites is one of the Confucian classics, an anthology of articles or explanations about the Confucian etiquette system and significance from the Warring States to the Qin and Han Dynasties, and a compilation of Confucian materials. There is more than one author of The Book of Rites, and the time for its completion also follows. Most of the chapters may be the works of Confucius' 72 disciples and their students, as well as other ancient books and records in the pre-Qin period.
Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "ousted a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone", Confucianism became orthodox, and the Book of Rites, as one of the Thirteen Classics, began to spread.