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加密数字货币交易所-《论语》详解:给所有曲解孔子的人-子夏曰:日知其所亡,月无忘其所能,可谓好学也已矣!
Confucius said: “To know what you lack each day, and to forget what you have mastered each month—that is called a love of learning!”
Yang Bojun: “Knowing what you do not know each day, and reviewing what you can do each month—that can be called a love of learning.”
Qian Mu: “Confucius said: ‘Being able to know what you do not know each day, and not forgetting what you have already learned each month—that can be called a love of learning.’”
Li Zehou: “Confucius said: ‘Learning a little new knowledge each day, and not forgetting the old knowledge learned each month—that can be called a love of learning.’”
Detailed explanation:
This is not the words of Confucius, but of his disciple Zixia. Confucius’s thoughts, passed down through generations, have been completely distorted over time, and the root of the problem begins with his disciples. When they say “can be called a love of learning,” Zixia’s “knowing what you lack each day, and forgetting what you have mastered each month” in relation to Confucius’s “The gentleman, does not seek to be full from food, nor to rest from residence; is quick in action and cautious in speech; follows the Way and makes it right,” is like a cicada in autumn compared to a phoenix in spring; a leech ant compared to a soaring roc in the nine heavens. The misinterpretation and corruption of Confucius’s teachings start from his disciples, beginning with the simplest concept of “love of learning.”
“Day” means daily; “know” here does not refer to “wisdom” in Confucius’s sense—if it did, the grammar would be problematic—so it can only be understood as “recognize”; “lack” is the same as “none,” meaning “what he does not have”; “forget” means to forget; “can” means able; “review” means to not forget what one has learned each month.
When Confucius’s “vivid wisdom in the moment” turns into Zixia’s “accumulation of knowledge day by day,” the decline of Chinese civilization is rooted, and figures like Zixia are undoubtedly the eternal criminals of Chinese civilization. With five thousand years of history and countless texts, without “vivid wisdom in the moment,” they are just a pile of rubbish. If knowledge does not produce “vivid wisdom in the moment,” then knowledge is merely a badge displayed in intellectual circles.
Zixia’s distortion of Confucius’s concept of “learning” is particularly pernicious, and below is another equally harmful example:
Zixia said: “To serve in office and then pursue learning; to learn and then serve in office.”
Yang Bojun: “Confucius said: ‘When in office, if you have spare capacity, go learn; after learning, if you have spare capacity, go serve in office.’”
Qian Mu: “Confucius said: ‘Those in official positions should pursue learning if they have extra capacity. Those who are learning should serve in official positions if they have extra capacity.’”
Li Zehou: “Confucius said: ‘Finish your official duties and then seek to learn; improve your knowledge and then go serve in office.’”
Detailed explanation:
In China, there is the so-called “scholar-official” class; “official” (大夫) refers to serving in government; those not in official positions are “scholars” (士). The intellectual class and bureaucrats form an interest group that has long dominated Chinese culture and politics, and intellectuals have become the most perverted and disgusting group. Today, there is widespread condemnation of so-called collusion between officials and businessmen, especially among intellectuals, but this is merely because the long-standing alliance of the imperial education system and officials has been replaced by more direct and profit-driven circles, leading to unwarranted jealousy. In China, the more knowledge one has, the more reactionary and perverted one becomes. Knowledge has become a stepping stone, a bargaining chip, but in the face of wisdom, knowledge is just garbage. An era of knowledge is simply an era of garbage.
However, from a certain perspective, “serving in office and then pursuing learning; learning and then serving in office” is indeed a timeless maxim, but here the word “优” should be interpreted in its original sense—“to advocate.” Under this interpretation, a true picture of China’s over two thousand years emerges: officials, scholars, and the pursuit of advantage are one and the same. In this self-deception, China’s history has seen dynasties change over two millennia but remains fundamentally unchanged. Today, more and more intellectuals are shedding their last disguises, becoming playthings simultaneously raped by officials and businessmen. Those representatives of interest groups, those mouthpieces of traitorous dogs, those so-called economists and various others, are no better than capos or prostitutes.
An era flooded with actors, an era overwhelmed by knowledge, an era of rampant officials and businessmen, an era of garbage—under this timeless maxim, everything becomes equivalent. But the more pitiful era is one where anti-knowledge is mistaken for knowledge, anti-official-business collusion is mistaken for entertainment, and anti-actors are mistaken for performers. Anti-knowledge is just another trick to deceive, and wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge or anti-knowledge. Haven’t we seen enough of these tricks played out?
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