The meaning of the age of hearing: refers to the age when a person is sixty years old and can distinguish between true and false by listening to other people's words. Later, it was used as a nickname for sixty years old.
The Chinese idiom "the year when the ears are soft", the pinyin is ěr shùn zhī nián, comes from the content of "The Analects of Confucius·Wei Zheng", which means that you can also treat correctly those opinions that are not good for you. Pre-Qin Confucius's "The Analects of Confucius: For Politics": "At ten, I am determined to learn; at thirty, I am established; at forty, I am not confused; at fifty, I know the destiny; at sixty, my ears are obedient; at seventy, I follow my heart's desires without exceeding the rules."
Formal; used as an object; referring to 60 years old. Example: "Han Shu·Biography of Xiao Wang" by Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty: "At the age of hearing, he took up the position of Zhechong and was named general." The Analects of Confucius·Wei Zheng, "Wei Zheng" contains 24 chapters.
The main content of this article involves Confucius's thought of "governing with virtue", the basic principles of how to seek an official position and becoming an official, the relationship between learning and thinking, Confucius's own learning and cultivation process, and learning from the past New learning methods and further elaboration of moral categories such as filial piety and brotherhood.
The meaning and value of learning idioms
Idioms demonstrate the ability of Chinese to express huge and rich connotations and the ability to integrate semantics. It often contains a period of history, a story, an allusion, a principle, a philosophy, and it is naturally formed in the evolution of history. Almost every idiom has its origin. The culture and history of each dynasty and each generation are preserved in idioms, which makes idioms have distinctive cultural characteristics and era characteristics of each dynasty and each generation.
Idioms are a major feature of Chinese traditional culture. They come from a wide range of sources, including classics, masterpieces, historical stories, and common sayings passed down orally. There are words in the words. , there are sounds outside the words, and it contains extremely rich cultural connotations. It can be called the most dazzling pearl in Chinese culture. If you master it, you will master the essence of Chinese and the foundation of Chinese culture.