love all the people and animals(rén mín ài wù)

love all the people and animals

Love people and things, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is R é nm í n à IW à, which means to be kind to people, and then to love creatures; old refers to the benevolence of officials. It's from Mencius with all his heart.

Notes on Idioms

Ren: benevolence.

The origin of Idioms

"Mencius: wholeheartedly," a gentleman is good at things, but he loves people with benevolence; he is good at people with benevolence, but he loves relatives with benevolence, but he loves people with benevolence, and he loves things with benevolence. "

Idiom usage

As predicate, object, attribute; used of officials. As for the fear of heaven and God, and the love of people and things, I have never been lax. Song Zeng Gong's "moving Cangzhou to the upper palace"

The meaning of Idioms

We also say today, "let the world be full of love." But what kind of love? We did not make a specific analysis, nor did we say. Here Mencius made an analysis and said the difference of love levels. for things (Zhu Xi notes, referring to animals and plants), the main thing is to cherish. The concrete expression of cherishing, according to Zhu Xi, is to "take it from time to time and use it with restraint." This kind of thinking, but we have today's environmental protection, cherish the awareness of natural resources. for the people, that is, the common people, we need benevolence. The concrete expression of benevolence, according to Zhu Xi's view of Cheng Yi, is what Mencius said in "King Hui of Liang Dynasty" that "the old and the old, the young and the young." This kind of benevolence is not good for animals, plants and other things. for relatives, that is, their own relatives, it is not a matter of love and benevolence, but a kind of kinship as a bond of love, which is the most natural and intimate level of love. however, only when you can love your relatives, can you love the people; only when you can love the people, can you cherish everything. Otherwise, it will become water without a source and a tree without roots, which is impossible to maintain. Therefore, although love has affinity and estrangement, there are differences, but there are internal and inevitable connections between these differences. On the other hand, the reason why love has affinity, estrangement and difference is not determined by subjective factors, but by objective factors. These objects are different. In the words of Yang quoted by Zhu Xi, it is called "different points, so we can't do it without difference." On the whole, there are differences and connections, "generally speaking, all are benevolent, and separately speaking, the first order." (Cheng Yi) starting from loving one's own relatives, he pushed forward to loving the common people, and then to cherishing all things, which formed the "series of love" of Confucianism, and we found that this series is just in line with the ladder of "cultivating one's morality, regulating one's family, governing the country, and pacifying the world" listed in the great learning. It can be seen from this that what sages and sages have said is profound. In this case, readers can only get the true essence of it by heart.

Chinese PinYin : rén mín ài wù