This sentence comes from Mencius' Fish I Want. Excerpt from the original text:
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?
Vernacular translation:
A bowl of rice, a bowl of soup, you can live if you eat it, or you will starve to death if you don't eat it. But the hungry people who passed by refused to accept it when they scolded others to eat it; Kicking others to eat, beggars are not willing to accept it. (But some people) accepted the generous salary without knowing whether it was in line with the etiquette. In this way, what good is a generous salary for me? Are you grateful to me for the gorgeous residence, the service of wives and concubines and the familiar poor?
Extended data:
About the author:
Mencius (about 372 BC-about 289 BC), whose name is Ke, the word Zi Yu (to be tested, the word Zi Che or Zi Ju). Han nationality, a native of Zouguo (now Zoucheng City, Shandong Province) in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, was a great thinker, educator, politician and writer in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period.
One of the main representatives of Confucianism. Politically, he advocated that the law should precede the king and be benevolent; In theory, Confucius was praised and Yang Zhu and Mo Zhai were opposed. Known as the Yasheng by the later Buddha, his disciples recorded Mencius' words and deeds as a book "Mencius".
Appreciation of works:
From the literary point of view, prose is full of momentum, strong feelings and lively, which fully embodies Mencius' righteous personality and shows Mencius' eloquence and eloquence. Mencius likes to use metaphors. This article uses concrete fish and bear's paw to compare abstract life and righteousness, and skillfully compares "taking bear's paw instead of fish" to "taking righteousness instead of life", which is a very famous example.
Secondly, this article also uses a lot of contrast techniques, such as comparing fish with bear's paw, comparing life with righteousness, comparing people who value righteousness and commit suicide with those who are greedy for profits and forget righteousness, and comparing "hometown for" (for the sake of the past) with "today for" (for the sake of the present), which makes the truth more clear, gives people a particularly deep impression and strengthens the persuasiveness of the article.
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