Fish I want is also selected from Mencius? Gaozi Shang (Notes on Thirteen Classics, Zhonghua Book Company 1980), the title was added by the editor. I have prepared the following for your reference!

I want fish, I want fish, bear's paw, and I want fish, too. You can't have both, and you can take bear's paw instead of fish. Life is also what I want, righteousness is also what I want, and you can't have both. Those who give up life and take righteousness are also. If people do not enjoy more than life, then what can be used to find the means to survive, which can not be used? If there is no more than death in disgust, what can be done to avoid the evil that can be used to escape evil? Use some means to be able to live, but some people do not want to use; Some way can escape the scourge, but some people refuse to use it. Thus, they love something more precious than life; What they hate is more serious than death. If you are born, you will be born without it; If you are right, you can make trouble without doing anything. A bowl of rice, a bowl of soup, get it can live, do not get it will starve. But with disdain to drink to eat, the hungry pedestrians are unwilling to accept; To kick others to eat with their feet, the beggars would not accept them.

The senior official accepted it without distinguishing whether it was propriety or propriety. Call for it, and the people on the street will be blessed; It's too much to beg for help.

Is it for the splendor of the house, the service of the wives and the poor who know to be grateful to me? For the beauty of the palace, the service of wives and concubines, the poor and needy get me and you? The hometown is not subject to physical death, and today it is the beauty of the palace; The hometown is not subject to physical death, and now it is regarded as a wife and concubine; I don't want to die in my hometown, but now I want to do it for the poor and needy: yes or no? This is called the loss of human nature.

Fish is my favorite, and so is bear's paw. If I can't get both at the same time, then I have to give up fish and choose bear's paw. Life is what I love, and morality is what I love. If these two things can't be both at the same time, then I have to sacrifice my life and choose morality. Life is what I love, but there are things I love more than life, so I don't drag out an ignoble existence. I hate death, but there are things I hate more than death, so I don't avoid some disasters. If people love nothing more than life, then what can be used to survive can't be used? If people hate nothing more than death, then what can be done to avoid disaster? You can survive by some means, but some people refuse to use it; A certain method can avoid disaster, but some people refuse to adopt it. It can be seen that what they like is more precious than life (that is? Righteousness ); What they hate is something more serious than death (that is? Unjust? )。 Not only the sages have this kind of nature, but everyone has it, but those who have talents don't lose it.

A bowl of rice, a bowl of soup, you can live if you get it, or you will starve to death if you don't get it. But the hungry pedestrians are unwilling to accept the contemptuous yelling for people to eat; Kick others to eat, and beggars refuse to accept it because of contempt.

High-ranking officials and generous officials accepted it without knowing whether it was in line with etiquette or not. In this way, what good will it do me? Is it because of the splendor of the house, the service of wives and concubines and the poor people I know that I am grateful? In the past, (some people) would rather die than accept it, but now (some people) accept it for the sake of its splendor; Before (some people) would rather die than accept it, but now (some people) accept it for the service of wives and concubines; In the past, (some people) would rather die than accept it, but now (some people) appreciate themselves for the poor people they know but accept it. Can't this practice stop it? This is called losing the inherent nature of human beings.

Notes:

1, selected from Mencius? Sue on ".

2. You got it: You got it, here is it? Drag out an ignoble existence? Meaning of.

3, suffering: disaster, disaster.

4. Bi: Tong? Avoid? , avoid.

5. If: If, if.

6. Why not use it? What means are not available?

7, don't mourn: don't throw it away.

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