The opening chapter of the Analects, "Learning," is very short, with only sixteen chapters, each of which is no more than a few sentences.

Fang Yun writes and recites the first chapter that everyone knows well.

"Zi said: 'When you learn and learn it, don't you also say it?' There are friends from afar, don't you be happy?'

After Fang Yun finished reciting, he said: "In this sentence, the word 'say' is pleasant, and the pronunciation is also the same as Yue, and '愠' is regarded as a rare word for beginners, which means angry, so it must be phonetized first." ”

As Fang Yun spoke, he first marked the pronunciation of these two words on the page, and then began to exegesis, that is, to explain the words and words in them.

"In the Spring and Autumn Period, 'Shi' often refers to the appropriate time or a certain time, with the change of language, the meaning of Shi is closer to the often; The word 'learning' not only refers to learning, but also to the completion of learning......"

In the process of exegesis, it is customary to quote the explanations of previous masters and discern and discuss.

After the reprimand, Fang Yun began to translate this sentence literally, and said as he wrote: "Isn't it also a pleasure to study and practice it at the right time? Isn't it also very happy to have friends from afar?

Fang Yun completely uses vernacular and simplified Chinese characters to translate literally, which is to prepare for the popularization of mass education in the future, and has long decided that if he writes a book in the future, he must divide it into two, one in the simplified vernacular, and the other in the old style of classical Chinese, if it can be understood by teenagers, it is the greatest humanitarian merit.

Fang Yun paused for a moment, glanced at the demons, and continued to write as he said: "If you only literally understand the holy scriptures, it is equivalent to not reading them, so after the literal translation, you should add a paraphrase. ”

"It's fun to learn and learn. Xi not only has the meaning of review, but also the meaning of practice, such as the six arts of the gentleman, courtesy, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy and mathematics. After learning the skills of archery, it is natural to practice repeatedly, and just reviewing the knowledge in books is not 'practice'. Would you be happy when you study and then do an internship?"

"Continue to take archery as an example, the teacher teaches, we learn, and then we take the bow and arrow by ourselves to 'practice', which is also practiced, but will we be happy just like this? I think most people can't get happiness from it, and even feel tired, so is it because Kong Sheng's realm is high, so he is not tired? Obviously, this is not the case, if Kong Sheng learns archery, then he should be most happy to suddenly encounter a foreign enemy, holding a bow and arrow to fight the enemy, only in this way can he play the true purpose of archery. We can also think from another angle, if this is happiness, then how can it cause the most unhappiness after studying? Is it not reviewing homework after studying? Is it not practicing after studying? No, it is that after studying, there is no place to use, and learning in vain is what makes people the most unhappy. ”

So the paraphrase of this sentence is: Isn't it a joy to learn and gain something, and finally to be able to show what you have learned at the right time?"

In the same way, if it is just a friend who has come from afar, why did Kong Sheng say it in particular? Why should it be connected to the previous sentence? Obviously, the "happiness" in the "unhappy" here is not ordinary happiness. Therefore, this sentence should mean that like-minded friends come from afar, communicate together, learn together, and improve together in addition to friendship, and also gain something. ”

"If it forms a semantic progression with the previous sentence, then the paraphrase has a new interpretation: after learning something, even if you can't show what you have learned, there are like-minded people who come from afar to communicate, and find that my way is not alone, and this friend may have the opportunity to achieve the same ambition and learning on his behalf, which can be regarded as making up for the regret in his heart, isn't it also a very happy thing?"

Then, the sentence 'people don't know and are not ashamed, and they are not gentlemen', can be translated as a matter of course: because we have not really applied what we have learned, we are not known and understood by others, but even so, what we have learned makes us not angry, this is a good character and cultivation, isn't it to reach the realm of a gentleman? Therefore, Confucius is saying that as long as you study hard, or have the opportunity to show your ambitions, or have like-minded people to do this, or improve your self-cultivation, no matter what, there will be benefits, and there will be no harm. ”

So the three sentences are done in one go, not in pieces. ”

"This is also why the opening paragraph of the Analects is this paragraph, which is the first to catch people's hearts and clear the meaning at the beginning, nothing more than this!"

As soon as the words fell, the holy qi in the valley fluctuated, and the voices of the chaos and darkness came from all directions, as if there were endless beings who were reading every word and every sentence before reciting Fang Yun, but when they listened carefully, they couldn't hear it clearly.

The sound is like the sound of the Word, but it is not the same.

Under the blood tree, Fang Yun finished the first chapter of the first part of the Analects and breathed a long sigh of relief. After writing the paraphrase of this paragraph, my spirit was extremely tired, as if I had exhausted my energy all day, but after being tired, I faintly had the idea of accessibility, and I seemed to have gained an unprecedented direction.

Fang Yun had long been speaking in his mouth, coupled with the power of the Enlightened Holy Dao, the demons present were fascinated by it, and they had completely forgotten the difference between bloodline and race, and they were all like Terran students, immersed in the edification of Confucius and Fang Yun.

The snake emperor was a little sober, and was stunned after hearing it, as the holy son of the ancestral god clan, he was forced to learn the important scriptures of the human race since he was a child, although he later saw the human race art of war more, but he was able to memorize the "Analects" early.

Regarding the annotations of the Analects, he looked at no less than three kinds carefully, and no less than ten kinds of them, but none of them were as simple and clear as Fang Yun said, but they were so profound and thorough.

The Snake Emperor had a feeling that not only in the Demon Realm, but even for most of the Terran scholars, after listening to Fang Yun's lecture, the previous "Analects" could be read in vain!

"This is reading the scriptures and interpreting the scriptures, this is the temptation to follow the path......" The Snake Emperor muttered to himself, and a slight smile involuntarily appeared on his face, which was the instinctive reaction of learning to succeed.

Phonetic, exegesis, literal translation, paraphrase translation, four steps to complete. Since this chapter does not deal with history or classical documents, Fang Yun did not discuss the fifth step, but the later Analects often involve some ancient people and history, and it is necessary to discuss them in order to better interpret the scriptures.

After writing this chapter, Fang Yun first re-read the main text of the New Commentary on the Analects, changed a few places to make the word order more fluent and the sense of language better, and then closed his eyes and recalled the process of Fang Cai's lecture in his heart, and then picked up his pen and prepared to annotate the second chapter.

Next, Fang Yun began to explain the Analects to the demon man chapter by chapter, and at the same time wrote the New Commentary on the Analects.

This process is tireless and the last effective step of learning.

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