hold one 's nose and pass stopping one 's nose(yǎn bí ér guò)

hold one 's nose and pass stopping one 's nose

About the author: Mencius (about 372-289 BC), named Ke and named Ziyu, was born in Zou state in the middle of the Warring States period (that is, from the southeast of Zou County in Shandong Province), not far from the hometown of Confucius, Qufu. He is a famous thinker, politician, educator, inheritor of Confucius theory, and an important representative of Confucianism. It is said that Mencius is a descendant of the noble Mencius of Lu state. He lost his father when he was young and had a poor family. He was once a student of Zisi. After he became a scholar, he lobbied the vassals and tried to carry out his own political ideas to Guoliang (Wei), Qi, song, Teng and Lu. At that time, several great powers were committed to enriching the country and strengthening the army, striving for reunification by means of violence. He inherited Confucius' thought of "benevolence" and developed it into the thought of "benevolent government", known as "Yasheng".

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Pronunciation y ǎ Nb í é RGU ò

Cover your nose and walk over. It's about disgust with filthy things.

The source of "Mencius · lilouxia": "if Xizi is unclean, everyone will pass by."

Everyone covers his nose

Antonyms are pouring in

Grammar is formal; it is used as predicate, attribute and object; it has derogatory meaning

English translation

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Xi Zi Meng is unclean, and everyone passes by

Original text: Mencius said: "Xizi (1) if he is unclean, then everyone will hide his nose; although there are evil people (2), if he fasts and bathes, he can worship God."

Notes: (1) Xizi: refers to the beauty of the state of Yue in the spring and Autumn period. (2) Evil: This is opposite to "Xizi", mainly referring to ugliness.

Mencius said: "a beautiful woman like Xi Shi, if she is contaminated with filthy and smelly things, others will cover her nose and go over; although she is a very ugly person, if she fasts and bathes, she can also worship the ancestor god."

This appreciation: Fortunately, it's only unclean, and the problem is not very big. If it's leprosy, "death of love" (AIDS) and so on, it's miserable! Is it more than just a cover up? Most of them are talking about "Xizi" and their color has changed.

On the contrary, as ugly as Hugo's Casimodo, he can still be a bell ringer in Notre Dame. Of course, God will accept his sacrifice and bless him.

Therefore, if there is beauty and kindness, we should not rely on them; if there is ugliness and evil, we should not be afraid of them; if there is self-improvement, we should not lose them.

This is the dialectics of mutual transformation of beauty, ugliness, good and evil.

Self control is particularly important.

The source of the work: Xi Zi Meng is unclean, and everyone passes by with his nose hidden. It is selected from Mencius · Lilou Zhangju Xia.

Mencius, a Book of seven chapters, is a collection of Mencius' comments during the Warring States period. It records Mencius' arguments with other schools of thought, his words and deeds to his disciples, and his lobbying for princes. It is compiled by Mencius and his disciples (WAN Zhang, etc.).

Mencius records Mencius' thoughts of governing the country, his political views (benevolent government, the distinction between the king and the overlord, people-oriented, the difference between the monarch's heart, the people being the most important, the country being the second, the monarch being the least) and his political actions. It was written about the middle period of the Warring States period and belongs to the classic works of Confucianism. The starting point of his theory is the theory of good nature, which advocates the rule of virtue. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi combined Mencius with the Analects of Confucius, the great learning and the doctrine of the mean as "four books". Since the song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has been regarded as a family book. Just like today's textbooks.

Mencius is the largest and heaviest of the four books, with more than 35000 words. From then on until the end of the Qing Dynasty, "four books" has been a compulsory content in the imperial examination. The theory of Mencius is not only pure and profound, but also vigorous and beautiful.

Chinese PinYin : yǎn bí ér guò