How to Understand the Classical Chinese of Tao Te Ching

1. How can I read? How can we learn to understand the Analects of Confucius and Tao Te Ching? 1. Don't worry, find some vernacular books or reference books first.

1. Look at the vernacular first, it is not difficult to understand;

2. Look at the ancient prose again. If you don't understand, it doesn't matter. You can look at definitions, some explanatory words, some explanatory sentences, and then come back to look at ancient Chinese. So you should be able to understand the general meaning.

Pay attention to reading sentence by sentence, and don't read too much at once. If you have a bad foundation, you won't remember it.

When reviewing the next day, you will know the general idea by reading classical Chinese.

4. Pay attention to accumulate over time. After reading The Analects for a month, you can basically understand it.

The above is the basic method to understand the article according to the landlord's requirements.

If we want to study his thoughts, this is even more urgent. About the content of ideas, there are simple explanations in vernacular Chinese or reference books. If you can understand them, that's best. If you can't understand them, don't dig them. Remember first, take your time and don't think too much at once.

Like a reference book on the first floor, if the landlord has a professional foundation of Chinese language and literature (non-university Chinese), you can refer to it. If not, I suggest not using it yet. Those are basically difficult classical Chinese, which is not easy to understand, and there is nothing to read if you don't major in it.

3. It's not called classical Chinese. Classical Chinese mainly talks about grammar. Because the books published now are basically simplified characters, it is not recommended to buy them if they are traditional. If the foundation is not good, it will be difficult to read that word.

2. How to read the Analects of Confucius and the Tao Te Ching is relatively easy to understand, but the Book of Changes and the Tao Te Ching are more difficult. To understand the ancient culture of the motherland, we must first understand how our ancient sages thought, which is very important and what modern people lack. The way we modern people think is to follow the western way of thinking, that is, the exquisiteness from the local area.

The ancients in our country believed that the world was universal and interrelated. So they don't care about the parts, but reveal the laws and origins of the world from the overall research.

Knowing this, you can read the Tao Te Ching. I no longer feel that the Book of Changes is mysterious and unknowable.

One thing you must remember, don't copy the meaning of the vernacular, you can refer to more vernacular explanations. The most important thing is your own understanding.

Especially the Tao Te Ching.

3. How to understand ancient classical Chinese? You said that you can read the three-character classics and other books, which shows that your classical Chinese skills and understanding ability are good.

As for you saying that you can't understand the Art of War, it's normal. Those who use the art of war also use the book of art of war. This is a book that the ancients used to learn how to fight. Since it is a book for study, it has a certain degree of professionalism, just like professional books such as medical books now, which are not understandable by ordinary people who can read, because there will be some special terms in it.

For a normal person who doesn't have much knowledge in this field, these nouns are naturally a bit foggy, and so are you when you read The Art of War, because you are equivalent to a normal scholar in ancient Chinese knowledge. Besides, you don't know much about military strategists, so you can't understand them.

For example, I said that the enemy soldiers were lost. If you know that missing words means disorderly arrows, then you naturally know that I am talking about enemy chaos.

If you are interested in these things, you can only read more books about ancient wars and learn more about military strategists, and then you will naturally understand. Of course, if you want to read something so professional, it should be like this, just like a philosophical book like Tao Te Ching.

To understand it, of course, we must first understand the words and methods used by the ancients in expounding philosophical knowledge. Tao Te Ching is the work of Laozi.

It's hard to really understand. If you want to study deeply, I suggest you read more things in Zhuangzi first.

Zhuangzi is the successor and promoter of Laozi's spirit. Because Zhuangzi likes to reason in the form of fables, and Zhuangzi's things are easy to understand, this is also the biggest reason why I recommend you to learn the Tao Te Ching from Zhuangzi.

4. How to read the Analects of Confucius and the Tao Te Ching is relatively easy to understand, but the Book of Changes and the Tao Te Ching are more difficult. To understand the ancient culture of the motherland, we must first understand how our ancient sages thought, which is very important and what modern people lack. The way we modern people think is to follow the western way of thinking, that is, the exquisiteness from the local area.

The ancients in our country believed that the world was universal and interrelated. So they don't care about the parts, but reveal the laws and origins of the world from the overall research.

Knowing this, you can read the Tao Te Ching. I no longer feel that the Book of Changes is mysterious and unknowable.

One thing you must remember, don't copy the meaning of the vernacular, you can refer to more vernacular explanations. The most important thing is your own understanding.

Especially the Tao Te Ching.

If you don't understand Tao Te Ching, even if you have a translator, how can you understand it? I don't know why you want the elementary school version of Tao Te Ching. If you are a parent, or a primary school educator, I would like to advise you that children's education is gradual, and China's ancient literature is extensive and profound, especially Tao Te Ching, a masterpiece mixed with philosophical thoughts, that is, how many young people can really understand it in a year or two. I suggest that you start with primary school students reciting The Analects of Confucius and Mencius. Studying in Qionglin, Wen, Disciples' Rules and Yan's Family Instructions are all good teaching materials, so why choose the most difficult and greatest Tao Te Ching! If you are a primary school student and the teacher asks you to learn the Tao Te Ching, you can explain the situation to your parents. This is definitely not a qualified people's teacher! If you really want to know the objective situation, my method is that you don't need to read the translation, because you don't understand it after reading it. Just read it for half a year, one hundred times, two hundred times, and you may finally get some insight.

6. Explaining the Tao Te Ching by interpreting classical Chinese is understandable or not, but only superficial.

Heaven, can it be expressed in words? If it is really expressed in words, then I can say that anyone who knows a few big characters can be a saint! Tao Te Ching is the quintessence of China, and the thought contained in it is the tradition of China since ancient times. Everyone has his own way. In fact, reading one of the more than 80 chapters of the Tao Te Ching has already benefited a lot.

Why are you so persistent that you have to figure everything out? Avenue 3 thousand, I only take one spoon. As long as you read the Tao Te Ching with your own understanding of nature and the world, you will find your own way.

Unfortunately ... people in the world. I know the Tao clearly, but I still don't understand it.

Yeah, me too.

7. Why is the Tao Te Ching so abstruse? A: Because the level of Tao Te Ching is very high. For example, I add and subtract, which is basically understood by everyone. When I solved the equation, fewer people knew it, and then I went to calculus, and even fewer people knew it. People's wisdom is high and low. For people with low wisdom, the Tao Te Ching is a heavenly book, but for people with high wisdom, it is not so difficult. A: There are no shortcuts and methods to understand the Tao Te Ching. If you want to understand the Tao Te Ching, you must have great wisdom and understanding. If you don't have great wisdom and understanding, you will never understand. If you have great wisdom and understanding, you will soon understand the Tao Te Ching. I hope you have great wisdom and understanding to recommend two books to you, which will help you understand the Tao Te Ching.

8. Understanding the progress of classical Chinese, chapter 8 1 (Tao Te Ching)

Good words are not beautiful (1), and good words are not believed (2). Good people (3) don't argue (4), and debaters are not good. He who knows knows nothing, and he who knows nothing. Sages don't accumulate (6), which means that the more people (7), the more people (8). Heaven benefits without harm (9); The way of man is indisputable (10).

To annotate ...

(1) Is the letter beautiful: faithfulness, sincerity and truth. Beautiful, beautiful, gorgeous. Honest words are not beautiful

(2) Don't believe in good words: gorgeous words are dishonest. At the beginning of this chapter, Laozi expounded his dialectical thought with a series of aphorisms. Honest writing, because it is simple, is not gorgeous and beautiful; Gorgeous words are often exaggerated because they sound good. Laozi actually discussed a series of contradictory issues such as truth and beauty (as well as goodness and debate, knowledge and knowledge), which showed that the external form and internal essence of things are often inconsistent, or even just the opposite. It is precisely because people often attach importance to superficial phenomena in real life, unable to see through or unwilling to face the things behind them, so Lao Tzu reveals this contradiction in an absolute way. (3) Good man: This "good man" can be understood as a kind person or a good speaker. Today, from the latter point of view, it is similar to Laozi's thought, such as "great wisdom is foolish, great wisdom is foolish, and great debate is foolish."

(4) Debate: eloquent and eloquent.

(5) Intellectuals don't know much: when it comes to knowledge, it means showing off, that is, people who really understand don't show off. When it comes to knowledge, people who really have knowledge are not extensive. Today from the latter. The more professional knowledge, the narrower the scope; It is often impossible for a knowledgeable person to make achievements in a certain field, which is "a knowledgeable person doesn't know".

(6) Accumulation: refers to privately retained accumulation.

I think there are more people: I will try my best to help others, but I will be more full. Yes, Ricky.

(8) and: giving.

(9) beneficial and harmless: beneficial and harmless. "

(10) Don't fight: Help others not fight. Laozi hated people's selfish desires and struggles and put forward the idea of "indisputable". This "indisputable" is not depression and decadence, but requires people to naturally exert their abilities. Laozi's so-called "sage" with "Tao" is an ideal personality. He acts in a natural state of mind, achieves something but doesn't take it for himself, and always helps others. People with this personality are really indifferent to nature and have no burden.

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Honest words are not beautiful, beautiful words are not honest. Good people are not eloquent, and eloquent people are not kind. People who really understand are not broad, and broad people don't understand deeply. A "saint" doesn't keep anything in private. He tries his best to help others, but he is richer. He gives as much as possible to others, but he is richer. The law of nature is to benefit without harm; The principle of "sage" is to help others and not compete with others for profit.

9. Understanding the progress of ancient Chinese (Tao Te Ching) This is the last chapter of Tao Te Ching and the formal conclusion of the book.

The motto of this chapter can be said to be the highest criterion for dealing with people, such as loyalty, silence, specialization, benefiting the people, and indisputable. The highest state of life is the combination of truth, goodness and beauty, with truth as the core.

This chapter contains simple dialectics, which is the moral standard to judge human behavior. Full-text translation: the truth is not pleasant to hear, and what is pleasant to hear is not the truth; Good people are not eloquent, and eloquent people are not good people; A wise man does not know much, and a man who knows much is not wise.

Saints do their best to help others without reservation, but they are very rich; Give everything to a person and he will enrich himself. The running law of the sky is to benefit all things without harming them.

The sage's life principle is to help others and never compete with others.