The Analects of Confucius, Chapter 7, Translations and NotesThe seventh chapter of the Analects of Confucius is a narrative. There are a total of 38 chapters, containing a lot of content. The following is part of the original text, annotations, and translation:
** I. 7.1 Original text, annotations, and translation **
1. ** Original text **
The Master said,"To narrate, but not to create,[1] to believe, and to love the ancients,[2] I compare myself with Lao Peng [3]."
2. ** Note **
- To describe and not to write: to describe, to pass on to describe. Creation.
- Privately, privately, privately.
- Old Peng: There are different versions of names in the academic world. Some said it was a "virtuous doctor" who "liked to narrate ancient things" in the Shang Dynasty, some said it was Lao Zi and Peng Zu, and some said it was Peng Zu in the Shang Dynasty.
3. ** Translate **
Confucius said,"I only elaborate and not create. I believe in and like ancient things. I privately compare myself to Lao Peng."
** 2.7.2 Original text, annotations and translation **
1. ** Original text **
The Master said,"To know them in silence, to never be satisfied with learning, to never tire of teaching others, what is this to me?"
2. ** Note **
- Knowledge: Sound, meaning to remember.
- Teaching: Teaching.
- What is it to me?
3. ** Translate **
Confucius said,"What difficulty can it be for me to silently remember (what I have learned), to learn without feeling bored, to teach without feeling tired?"
** 3.7.3 Original text, annotations and translation **
1. ** Original text **
The Master said,"It is my worry that virtue is not cultivated, that learning is not taught, that what is right cannot be changed, that what is bad cannot be changed."
2. ** Note **
- Virtue does not cultivate: Morality and virtue need to be cultivated continuously.
- Don't talk about learning: Knowledge requires constant exploration and emphasis.
- [You can't move when you hear righteousness: You can't do anything righteous when you hear it.]
- Bad things can't be changed: there are bad things that can't be changed.
3. ** Translate **
Confucius said,"I am worried about many people who do not cultivate their moral character, do not pursue their knowledge, do not do what they hear of righteousness, and do not correct what they have done wrong."
** 4.7.4 Original text, annotations and translation (partial)**
1. ** Original text **
When you live in peace, you are as gentle as ever, as gentle as ever.
2. ** Note **
- Living in leisure, daily life.
- Shen Shen Ru also said: neat and dignified appearance.
- Yao Yao is also like a gentle and comfortable appearance.
3. ** Translate **
When Confucius was idle at home, he was dressed neatly and his bearing was gentle and comfortable.
** 5.7.5 Original text, annotations and translation **
1. ** Original text **
The Master said,"This is too much. It has been a long time since I dreamed of seeing the Duke of Zhou."
2. ** Note **
- Duke of Zhou: Duke of Zhou Dan in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, the ideal figure in Confucius 'heart.
3. ** Translate **
Confucius said,"I am very old. I haven't dreamed of the Duke of Zhou for a long time."
** Original text, annotations, and translation **
1. ** Original text **
The Master said,"To be determined by the Way, to be based on virtue, to be based on benevolence, and to wander about in the arts."
2. ** Note **
- Ambition to Dao: determined to pursue the Great Dao.
- According to morality: based on morality.
- According to benevolence: rely on the heart of benevolence.
- Swimming in the Arts: Recreative in the six arts (ritual, music, archery, driving, calligraphy, mathematics and other skills).
3. ** Translate **
Confucius said,"With Tao as the goal, virtue as the basis, and benevolence as the reliance, one should move within the scope of the six arts."
** 7.7 Original text, annotations and translation **
1. ** Original text **
The Master said,"I have never been without instruction from those who have been bound and trained by themselves."
2. ** Note **
- [Self-training: training, dried meat, here refers to the ceremony of apprenticeship (generally believed to be ten pieces of dried meat), indicating the sincerity of learning.]
3. ** Translate **
Confucius said,"I have never failed to teach anyone who is willing to bring me ten pieces of dried meat as a gift."
** 8.7·8 Original text, annotations and translation **
1. ** Original text **
The Master said,"If you are not angry, you will not open your mouth; if you are not sentimental, you will not speak. If you take one corner and don't take three corners, you won't be able to do it."
2. ** Note **
- Anger: the heart wants to ask for a pass but can't pass.
- He wanted to say it but didn't know how to say it.
- Answer: Enlighten.
- Fa: Enlighten.
- [Corner: A corner. This can be understood as a field of knowledge.]
3. ** Translate **
Confucius said,"When teaching a student, do not enlighten him until he wants to understand but cannot. Do not enlighten him until he wants to say but cannot say it." If you teach him one aspect, but he can't infer the other three aspects from it, then don't teach him anymore."
** Original text, annotations, and translation (Part)**
1. ** Original text **
Confucius ate beside the mourner, but he was never full. Confucius wept every day and did not sing.
2. ** Note **
- There is a funeral: There is a funeral at home.
3. ** Translate **
Confucius had never eaten his fill when he ate beside people who had funerals. On this day, Confucius wept for the funeral and stopped singing.
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