Seventy-year-olds can wear silk and eat meat, and no one is hungry or cold. No one has ever achieved the goal of not unifying the world and not being king.

This article is from King Huiliang of Mencius, and I am doing it for my country.

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Portrait of Mencius

The original paragraph teaches you to be filial, and the winners are not on the road. Seventy people eat meat, clothes and silk, and the Lebanese are neither hungry nor cold, but they are not kings and have nothing.

To annotate ...

Sincerity: caution, here refers to serious engagement.

Xu Xiang: Study of Ancient Rural Areas. "Book of Rites": "The ancient teachers have learned, the party has a dilemma, the technique is orderly, and the state has learned.

Home: This means that there are 25 households in one lane, named Lu.

Shu: A school in Lv Zhong.

Party: 500 households are party.

à (xiánɡ): A school located in the Party.

Operation: The same as "Sui", 12,500 households are Sui.

The school located in Suizhong. Country, capital.

Study: University.

Teaching: enlightenment.

Shen: Repeat the statement.

Filial piety: love parents and brothers. t .

Righteousness: truth.

White: gray hair. Grant, through the "site".

Negative wear: negative, carry things.

Dai: I have something on my head.

CoCo Lee: People.

Wang: The verb used here is to be king, and to be king means to make the people of the world submit.

Nothing: nothing. It means "seventy people eat meat, and the people are not hungry or cold, but they are not kings."

Old people with gray hair don't walk on the road with heavy loads on their backs or heads. 70-year-old people can wear silk and eat meat. None of the people are hungry and cold. No one has ever unified the world and won't be king.

The author briefly introduces Mencius (about 372-289 BC), whose real name is Ke, who was born in Zou (now southeast of Zoucheng, Shandong Province) during the Warring States Period. A famous thinker, politician and educator. According to Records of Historical Records, Mencius and Biography of Xun Qing, he was a disciple of Zisi (the grandson of Confucius, whose real name was Ji) and lobbied Qi, Song, Teng and Wei. At that time, Mencius said that "the virtue of Tang Yu's three generations" was considered pedantic and divorced from reality by the rulers and was not adopted. Therefore, Mencius "retired from Zhang Wan's disciple's preface to the poem book, stated Zhong Ni's meaning, and wrote seven pieces of Mencius".

Creative background Liang proudly asked Mencius, "Are saints also happy for this?" Mencius takes "sage enjoys it, but those who don't correct it are happy" as the topic, and through the comparison of historical facts, proves the different results of sage's "happiness" and those who don't correct it: Wang Wen cares about the people, and the people love him, and Wang Wen can be happy; Xia Jie has no sympathy for the people, and the people hate him, so Xia Jie can't enjoy himself. It was in the process of contact and conversation that Mencius and Liang deepened their understanding, so there was a political question and answer that was told through the ages.

Appreciate ... Mencius painted a contrasting picture for readers: pigs and dogs of wealthy families eat other people's meals, and the road is full of hunger. It can be said that "Zhumen wine stinks, and the bones on the road freeze to death"! When this happens, King Hui of Liang doesn't open the granary to help the people, and the people starve to death, but say "it's not me, it's also years old", which is different from killing someone with a weapon and then saying it's not himself but a weapon! Here, Mencius criticized Liang for using metaphors to shirk responsibility. Finally, seriously point out the correct attitude of "increasing people": don't complain about others, but take concrete measures to implement benevolent government. In this way, people all over the world will come to you.

After solving the problem of people's basic food and clothing, we should gradually improve people's material living standards. Develop the silk industry so that all 70-year-olds can wear silk clothes; Develop animal husbandry so that 70-year-old people can eat meat. We should also fundamentally solve problems, develop education, and make filial piety deeply rooted in people's hearts. Everyone is filial to their parents and loves their brothers, thus popularizing them. Isn't such a safe, simple and happy society a pure land and a paradise?

Mencius is a very reasonable person. He used the metaphor that 70-year-olds can eat meat and those over 70 can wear silk clothes, which is very vivid and practical.

If Limin can't eat meat and put on good clothes when he is 70 years old, it means that the life of every household is quite miserable.

None of those dignitaries will consider these things of the people. They never get tired of eating delicious food every day. No one will ponder the problem of people's food and clothing.

Mencius expressed rich psychological connotation by eating this form. The culture of eating has surpassed "eating" itself and gained more profound social significance.

Food is the most important thing for people. People always want to know what they can eat after a hard day's work. Poor farmers who work in the fields for a day will bring home food such as green onion dipping sauce, glutinous rice porridge and tortillas; I'm just looking forward to saving energy during the Chinese New Year, with an scrambled egg and a pot of stew. There is little meat and a large population, so we can only add more vermicelli and cut a Chinese cabbage to make up for it, making the pot very lively.