Zi Xia asked, "'Smiling and smiling, beautiful eyes, I always thought it was beautiful.'" 'What is also?' ”
Zi Yue: "After the painting." ”
"After the ceremony?" ”
Zi Yue: "Giver Shangya!" The poems have been completed. ”
Translations
ZiXia asked, "The Book of Poetry says, 'A beautiful smile is so beautiful!' Beautiful eyes black and white! Use white to make the colors more brilliant! What do you mean by that? ”
Confucius said: "When painting, white is used for adjustment at the end. ”
Zi Xia said, "Does this mean that the ceremony was only produced later?" ”
Confucius said, "The person who inspired my thinking is you, and now I can talk to you about the Book of Poetry." ”
unscramble
According to the reasoning, "Smiling and smiling, beautiful eyes, and always thinking that it is brilliant" are all sentences in the "Poetry Classic, Wei Feng, Shuoren", and the sentence "I have always thought that it is brilliant" has been left behind. Zi Xia obviously just didn't understand the last sentence, and he said "Smart smile, beautiful eyes and hope" as well, just mentioning it in passing when quoting. Confucius knew that he understood the first two sentences, so he only answered the last sentence. "Smiling and smiling, beautiful eyes and looking forward to it" is to describe the beauty of Zhuang Jiang, the wife of Duke Wei Zhuang, and the meaning of "known to be brilliant" may mean that the color patterns on Zhuang Jiang's clothing are particularly gorgeous against the background of white colors.
When the ancients painted, they first drew patterns in other colors, and finally outlined them in white. Due to the white background and trimming, other colors can appear more vivid and dazzling. White is a plain color, but the role of shaping and trimming in painting is very critical, without which other colors will be eclipsed.
After entering the private society, the competition driven by self-interest has made the social atmosphere begin to deteriorate, forcing people to pay attention to the construction and maintenance of morality. Etiquette is the embodiment of morality, which stipulates people's moral demands as forms of etiquette, etiquette, etiquette, etc., and requires people to comply with them. Virtue is content, etiquette is form; content is produced first, form is produced later. With good content and no good form of embodiment, the content will be eclipsed.
Zixia realized this truth from Confucius's answer of "painting the aftermath": after the birth of the ceremony, the relationship between the ceremony and the virtue is like the relationship between white and the color, and the ceremony can make the virtue play a better role. The metaphor of the relationship between etiquette and virtue to the relationship between white and color in painting, and the hook with the verses of the Book of Poetry, this brilliant idea was very creative and inspired Confucius, so he gave Zixia a high praise.
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