I saw a couple: "I beg for your kindness and ride four horses. I am really like a gentleman." I don't know what it means, ask an expert for advice.

Riding four horses is a very high courtesy "Four Horses Seeking Talents" means seeking talents with the highest courtesy. Jun Ping and Zi Zhen were two famous people in the Han Dynasty. Let's explain.

Looking for talents

A person looking for talent.

"Poetry? Nan Zhou? Preface to Ear Volume: "Ear Volume is also the ambition of empresses, and it also assists gentlemen, seeks virtuous judges, and knows the diligence of ministers. "Liu Hanxiang" said the garden? Jundao: "So, I am a wise gentleman, so I should be careful to select talents and serve the sages." Tang Taizong's poem "Spring Xuanwumen Banquet" said: "You can keep your virginity and solidity, but you can be vain for yourself and seek the virtuous." Song Shi? Loyalty? Li Ruoshui: "It is advisable to set up posts to seek talents, to wait for scholars outside the couch, to take a long-term view and to promote success."

Chean

In ancient times, carriages were usually used for riding. In ancient times, people usually stood in the carriage when riding, but they could sit safely when riding, hence the name. Book of rites? Qu Lishang: "The doctor is seventy years old (retired) ... suitable for all directions, taking a safety car." Han Zheng Xuan's Note: "Loading, riding, if it is a car today." When an official retires in old age or recruits a respected person, he will often be given a lift, which is a courtesy. It is a special courtesy to pack a car with one horse and four horses. Historical records? "The Scholars": "So the emperor made the emissary take silks and add pearls, rode to meet Shen Gong, and the second disciple passed it on." Shen Gong is old and virtuous, so Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty welcomed him with a mother-in-law. His disciples followed suit, but they could only ride in an ordinary cart with one horse or two horses.

Junping

Yan Junping (86 BC-A.D. 10), born in Chengdu at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, was a Taoist scholar and thinker. The original surname is Zhuang, the real name is Zhuang Zun, and the word is Junping. Later, the name of Emperor Liu Zhuang was taboo, so he changed his name to Yan Zun. According to historical records, he was born in Xixinzhuang, Beijunping Township, at the junction of Pengzhou City in Chengdu and Pingleshan Town in Pixian County. Some historical materials also say that he was born in Pingxiang, Nanjunping Township, Qionglai City, and sold hexagrams in Pixian County and Chengdu. After 9/kloc-0 died, he was buried in Pingle Mountain, Pixian County. He lived in Pingle Mountain for more than 40 years, where he wrote the prophecy of "Wang Mang's national subjugation and martial arts revival", predicted two major historical events of "Wang Mang's usurpation of power" and "martial arts revival" more than 20 years in advance, and trained his proud disciple Yang Xiong on the mountain.

I earn enough money every day to support myself, that is, to read Laozi behind closed doors. He learned from Zhuangzi and never became an official. He wrote more than 100,000 words, which was highly praised by Yang Xiong, a famous writer at that time. He collected only enough copper coins every day to make a living, so he put away his stall and went home to study behind closed doors. Because he didn't admire the government, he was famous and respected at that time. More than 90 years old, with the end of his career, the author of "Shu people love respect" and "Lao Zi's Notes and Moral Truth" (Sui Shu? Historical Records Lao Zi Gui Zhi (volume 13) makes Li Er's Taoist thoughts more systematic and developed. The previous book has been lost, and the latter book has only seven volumes left today.

Yan Junping should be the earliest founder of private schools in China and even in human history.

Yan Junping is rarely recorded in history books. Generally speaking, he is a hermit, but these historical records also reflect Yan Junping's identity as an educator. "Shu has Yan Junping ... Junping divined in Chengdu, thinking:' Divination is cheap, but it can benefit everyone. If there is an evil question, you will be interested in what you say. Speaking of filial piety to the son of man, obedience to brothers and loyalty to officials are all guided by the situation, and more than half of them are from me. "If you read several books a day and earn enough money to support yourself, you will be awarded the curtain call of Lao Zi. Expo is a dead end. I wrote hundreds of thousands of words according to Laozi and zhouyan. ..... Yan Shu Zhan Ming, if you don't watch it, if you don't treat it, you won't change for a long time. " ("Han Shu? Wang Gongliang Biography)

From this passage, we can see that Yan Junping was a famous teacher in Sichuan at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, but his way of studying was completely different from that of Confucius. During the reign of Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty, Wen Weng, the prefect of Shu County, opened the first local official school in the history of China-Teachers' School in Miao Wen Street. Since then, the Han dynasty began to set up local official schools in counties and counties, so that culture could go to the world. Now, next to Miao Wen Street, there is Junping Street, where Yan Junping once opened his own school. However, Yan Junping is different from Confucius after all. He is a typical folk scholar. Although he accepted a lot of Confucianism and culture, his knowledge, Lao Tzu's theory and the local cultural tradition of Shu, as well as Lao Tzu's theory and the local cultural theory of Shu, were not keen on being an official, that is, the purpose of learning was to develop local production and improve the living standards of families. Therefore, this pragmatic educational purpose doomed Yan Junping not to be attached to Shishi official school for a long time. Therefore, there are educational relics of Yan Junping all over Sichuan, and Yan Junping has left many legends in many places in Sichuan. These legends reflect Yan Junping's purport of running a school and teaching and educating people, which is completely opposite to Confucius' educational purport of "being an official by studying". He advocates the combination of study and labor production practice. The students in his school are all farmers, which is what people often say now, although. The idea of "farming and reading" put forward by Yang Xiong, a student in Yan Junping, has become an important purpose of private schools and students in China. Even today, we can see the remains of praise for "farming and reading" in the countryside. Yan Junping's thought of private education and his image as an independent intellectual independent of the government are very close to the direction of modern education and the requirements of modern intellectuals.

Zizhen

Han praised Zheng Pu's words. Jutaniguchi, the world taniguchi is real. Cultivating silence, when Korea proclaimed himself emperor, General Wang Fengli hired him, which should not be; Planting under rocks, the capital is famous. See Hanshu? Wang Gong Liang Xu.

Zheng Pu, a native of Baogu. Sweet and silent, teaching people is the way to respect heaven and treat others. Although he is famous in Beijing, he lives in seclusion. He often fishes at the mouth of Praise Valley, and has a world name "Mr. Taniguchi". In the Qing Dynasty, there was a poem praising: "Celebrities in the Han Dynasty paid attention to truth, kept an honest and clean life, and the wind was high and the fish platform in the valley was like Fuchun."

Source: Tang Zhang Qiao's poem "Seven Pine Pavilion": "Really ploughing Taniguchi, lying by the river with Ling Tao."

Example: Song Fan Zhongyan's poem "Send to Dou Wei in Yinjiang" says: "Wang Xie Jiangshan has been in trouble for a long time, but Zi Zhen is cool today."