Therefore, for people, etiquette is like the koji used to make wine, the gentleman is virtuous, and the wine is mellow, and the villain is thin, and the wine is also lacking in taste.

"≤, so the Holy King firmly adheres to the two tools of etiquette and righteousness to govern human feelings.

For example, human affection is like a field, and the holy king is like a farmer, the holy king uses rituals to plough, the righteousness of the preaching as the seed, the explanation and teaching as the weeding, the exercise of benevolence as the harvest, and the preparation of music and wine as the farmer's reward.

It can be said that propriety is the institutionalization of righteousness.

There are some provisions of the rites, and none of them are inconsistent with the standard of righteousness, but the previous kings did not explicitly stipulate it, and this may as well disappear by itself according to the conditions of the time.

Righteousness is the standard of distinguishing between right and wrong, the measure of charity.

In line with the standards and benevolence, whoever does these two things will be strong.

Benevolence is the foundation of righteousness, and it is also the concrete manifestation of heavenly principles and human feelings.

Therefore, governing the country without courtesy is like plowing the field without using farm tools; Ritual without originating from righteousness is like cultivating a plough without seeds; Having righteousness without explaining and educating is like planting without weeding; Boundary-based education without combining it with benevolence is like weeding without reaping. Combining with benevolence and not preparing wine to treat the farmer is like not letting the grain be eaten; Preparing for pleasure and drinking to treat the farmer without answering the natural realm is like eating a meal but not being physically strong.

With sound limbs and plump skin, this is a person's physical strength.

Father and son are in harmony, brothers are in harmony, and husband and wife are harmonious, and this is a strong body of a family.

Ministers abide by the law, ministers are honest, all officials obey their duties and work together, and monarchs and ministers encourage each other to be correct, which can make a country's body strong.

The Son of Heaven regarded morality as a vehicle, music as a driver, princes exchanged courtesies, doctors according to the order of the law, scholars examined each other according to their credit, and the people maintained relations according to the principle of good neighborliness, which made the whole world healthy.

A person's body is strong, a family's body is strong, a country's body is strong, and the whole world is strong, and these together are called Dashun.

Dashun, it is the eternal law used to maintain health and send death to worship ghosts and gods.

Reaching the Great Shun, even if there is no delay in one thing, the two things will not hinder each other if they are carried out together, although the behavior is small, there will be no mistakes, although the profundity can be etiquette, although strict but there is no lack of channels, both interrelated and independent of each other, follow the rules and move without repelling each other, this is the highest state of Shun.

From this, I understand the importance of shun, so that we can always be vigilant and hold a high position.

The biggest feature of the ceremony is to pay attention to the difference, the number of rites should be less can not be increased, the number of rites should be more can not be reduced, only in this way, in order to maintain human feelings, harmony and harmony and each in its place.

Therefore, the holy king made rituals according to the favorable conditions of the heavens, places, and people, and did not let those who were accustomed to living in the mountains migrate to the water, and did not let those who were accustomed to living in the river islands to move to the plains, so that people would live and work in peace and contentment.

The use of water, fire, gold and wood and diet should be adapted to the times.

Marriage between a man and a woman shall be timely; The award of knighthood and promotion shall be based on virtue.

The people should take advantage of the slack and not take away the agricultural time, so there will be no floods, droughts, locusts, and moths, and there will be no ferocious demons to haunt them.

This has created a peaceful and prosperous world in which the sky does not spare its way, the earth does not spare its treasures, and people do not hesitate to cherish their feelings.

So the heavens will be nectar, the earth will spring with sweet springs, ready-made utensils and vehicles will appear in the mountains, dragons and horses will appear in the big river, and the four spirits of the phoenix, unicorn, gods, ghosts, dragons, and dragons will be complete, or inhabit the grass in the suburbs, or the pools raised in the palace, and the other birds and beasts that follow the four spirits are nesting all over the place, and good people get along with each other, and the eggs they lay, people can bow their heads and they can conceive the fetus, and people can reach out and touch them.

There is no other reason for this, but because the ancestors were able to institutionalize all kinds of heavenly principles and human feelings through the system of rituals, and through honesty to achieve compliance with heavenly principles and human feelings.

And the peaceful and prosperous world is just the result of conforming to the principles of heaven and human feelings.

(10) Ritual utensils use ritual as a vessel, which can lead to the situation of Dashun.

And this situation is the manifestation of Sidley.

Rites can eliminate evil, enhance the beauty of essence, and when applied to people, everything is right, and when used in things, everything can be accomplished.

For people, etiquette is like the outer green skin of a bamboo arrow, and the inner solid of a pine and cypress.

In the whole world, only bamboo arrows and pines and cypresses have this big festival, so they are always lush from beginning to end all year round, and the leaves never fall.

A gentleman is polite, and it is precisely like this, he can not only live in harmony with people outside, but also love people inside.

Therefore all the people were reckless in His mercy, and even the demons and gods were glad to accept His sacrifices.

The rites formulated by the previous kings have both internal essence and external form.

Faithfulness is the inner essence of propriety, and propriety is the outward form of propriety.

Without the essence of the inner zai, the rite cannot be established; Without an outward form, the rite cannot be performed.

Rite should be a kind of thing that is in harmony with heaven and place, in harmony with ghosts and gods, in people's hearts, and in all things.

Each of the four seasons has different creatures, the land has different productions, the five senses have different functions, and all things have different uses.

Therefore, the animals and plants that are not in season are not local specialties, and the gentlemen do not take them as sacrifices, and even if they do, the ghosts and gods refuse to enjoy them.

He lives in the mountains, but he uses the fish and turtles in the water as gifts; He lives near the water, but he gives gifts to deer from the mountains.

This kind of practice is considered by the gentleman to be impolite.

Therefore, it is necessary to determine the basic principle of the use of money according to the amount of the country's property.

the number of gifts, the size of the gifts; The thickness of the gift, the quality of the gift.

Therefore, even in the year of famine, the people are not afraid, and the reason is that the king is very measured in the ceremony.

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