What is the next sentence for a gentleman who is good at self-improvement?

Zhouyi: "Heaven is strong, and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement. The terrain is Kun, and the gentleman carries things with morality. "

The "to" here means "use". Generally speaking, a gentleman should know how to conform to heaven and know how to be patient.

Sentence interpretation

"Heaven is strong, and the gentleman strives for self-improvement", and the next sentence is "the terrain is rich, and the gentleman carries things with morality". Tsinghua's school motto is that heaven (that is, nature) is strong and healthy. Accordingly, a gentleman should strive for progress, be resolute and determined, make unremitting efforts, and never stop, just like heaven; The potential of the earth is thick and slippery, and the gentleman is tolerant. A gentleman should run like a celestial body and be indomitable even if he is displaced; If you are a gentleman, the measurement of objects should be like the earth, and nothing can't be carried.

A gentleman learns from the image of being vigorous, staying in heaven, and constantly striving for self-improvement, learning from virtue. The Book of Changes says: "Heaven is healthy, and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement."

Full text

"Tian Xingjian, the gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement." (dry divination)

"The terrain is Kun, and the gentleman carries things with morality." (Kungua)

"With the wind, a gentleman can do his destiny." (Xungua)

"When you gradually arrive in Lei Zhen, a gentleman is afraid to repair the province." (Divination)

"As good as water, a gentleman begins with doing things." (Kangua)

"Fire is like people, and gentlemen distinguish things by race." (Deviation from divination)

"Step by step, a gentleman can distinguish between people and security." (against divination)

"Shan Qian, there is more than one gentleman." (divination)

The Book of Changes is one of the traditional classics. It is said that it was written by Zhou people, including the Book of Changes and Biography. Classics are mainly composed of 64 hexagrams and 384 hexagrams, each of which has its own interpretation (hexagrams) for divination. Biography contains seven languages * * * and ten explanations of hexagrams, collectively known as Ten Wings, which is said to have been compiled by Confucius. However, it is generally considered to be a Confucian work in the Warring States or Qin and Han Dynasties, and it was not written by one person.

Zhouyi is the theoretical source of natural philosophy and humanistic practice in China's traditional ideology and culture, the crystallization of China's ancient thoughts and wisdom, and is known as the "source of Tao". The content is extremely rich, which has had a far-reaching impact on China's politics, economy, culture and other fields for thousands of years.

Book of Changes is the first book of Book of Changes, Poems, Books, Rites and Music, and it is a teaching book.

Book writing background

In the early society of China, due to the low productivity and underdeveloped science, the ancestors could not give scientific explanations to natural phenomena, social phenomena and human physiological phenomena, which led to the worship of God and thought that there was a supreme emperor and/or God behind things, dominating everything in the world. When people are repeatedly hit by unexpected natural and man-made disasters, they germinate the desire to predict the consequences of this sudden disaster and their actions with the help of providence, so as to achieve the purpose of avoiding disadvantages. Based on this, in their long-term practice, they invented various prediction methods to communicate between man and god, and the Zhouyi, which best embodies the meaning of god, was produced under such conditions.

Book completion time

Cheng Yu Zhou Chu

Wang Guowei said in New Evidence of Ancient History: The Book of Changes was written at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty. Ten wings, according to legend, were made by Confucius; At least 70 children will learn what they said after school. "Gu Jiegang's research conclusion on the date of the emergence of the hexagrams in Zhouyi is consistent with Wang Guowei's point of view. Li Xueqin also believes that Gu Jiegang's article "Inferring the age of divination by scripture should be in the early Western Zhou Dynasty" is "believed by scholars, so it can be said that the age range of divination in Zhouyi is basically determined and has made great contributions".

Born in the Warring States Period

Most scholars believe that the Book of Changes was written in the Warring States Period, which may have been compiled by students according to the records of Confucius when he spoke about the Book of Changes. According to the textual research of Liu Dajun's Introduction to the Book of Changes, The Book of Changes was written by Meng Si School (Confucius' descendant Zi Si, Mencius' later study).

Born in the Western Han Dynasty

In the discussion of China's ancient history and ancient historical documents in the 20th century, Gu Jiegang studied Zhouyi from the perspective of historians. According to the two hexagrams of He Kanghou, he pointed out that the traditional view that the hexagrams in Zhouyi were written by Wen Wang was not credible. Gu Jiegang's On the Story of the Elephant Viewer in the Book of Changes is a special textual research on the story of the elephant viewer that he said was not in the hexagrams of the Book of Changes, in order to prove that the ancient emperors mentioned in the chapter of the Book of Changes were people in the late Western Han Dynasty.

Regarding the relationship between Cohesion Biography and Shiben, Hu Shi pointed out that "some legends in Shiben are very old, but Shiben is a very late book, and Cohesion will not be followed", "Shiben does not use cohesion, perhaps because it is too careless to make utensils. In the chapter of "cohesion", the emphasis is only on the imitation of the vessel, not the pseudonyms of the ancient emperor. If there was already a legend of Cang Xie's endorsement at that time, why not quote it and just call it' the sage of later generations'? " The appearance of Laozi, a simplified version of Guodian Warring States Period, proves that Hu Shi's criticism of Gu Jiegang is correct.

Zhouyi author

In the process of describing the Book of Changes, History of Literature and Art in Hanshu said that "people are more sacred and history is three ancient". The three saints are Fuxi, King Wen and Confucius.

However, this view is also controversial. According to modern academic research, it is generally believed that the Book of Changes (sixty-four hexagrams and rhetoric) was written by Zhou people in the early Zhou Dynasty, with heavy hexagrams and rhetoric.