Chinese Studies Course ‖ Three Hundred Lectures on the Analects Lecture 14 "Thinking of Innocence"

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"Innocence of Thought"

Lecture 14: Innocence of Thought

Zi Yue: "Three hundred poems, in a word, it is said: 'Thinking is innocent'. ”

——" The Second Analects of Politics

Confucius said that the three hundred verses of the Book of Poetry, summed up in one sentence, are all out of truth.

The Book of Poetry is a work of literature, it must have sincere emotions, and it is most afraid of moaning or pretentiousness without illness, so if you understand that the Book of Poetry is an ancient literary work, its original source is that there were officials who collected wind in ancient times to collect various folk songs and ballads in various places, and collected them as a reference for indoctrination. The Book of Poetry has basically no direct relationship with thought, and many places in the Book of Poetry will mention the emotions of complaining, sadness, and worry, which have nothing to do with thought, and it is all about sincere emotions. Therefore, when we read the Book of Poetry, we must remember that it is a literary work, which is mainly based on sincere emotions, and only sincere emotions can move others.

Zi Yue: "Boy He Mo Xuefu poetry?" Poetry can be happy, can be observed, can be grouped, and can be complained about. ”

- "The Seventeenth Analects of Yang Goods"

Confucian education includes literature, history, and art, and in the field of literature, special attention is paid to the Book of Poetry as an expression of sincere emotion, so Confucius said that the "Book of Poetry" has three hundred pieces, which are summarized in three words as "thinking innocence.". Thought is the first word, innocence is to represent going out directly from the inside out, there is no turn, there is no need to go around in any circle, so everything is out of sincere emotion.