Source: Confucius' The Analects of Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period Zi Gong asked Ri: "Why did Confucius call it' Wen'?" Confucius said, "I am quick and eager to learn, and I am not ashamed to ask questions. It is called' Wen'."
Interpretation of vernacular:
Zi Gong asked, "Why was Confucius named Wen?" Confucius replied: "He is diligent and eager to learn, and he is not ashamed to ask people who are not as good as himself, so he is called Wen."
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Confucius initiated the wind of private schools and advocated benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith. According to legend, Confucius once asked Laozi for gifts, with 3,000 disciples, including 72 sages.
He led some disciples around the world for thirteen years, and revised the six classics of Poetry, Calligraphy, Rites and Music, Book of Changes and Spring and Autumn Annals in his later years. After the death of Confucius, his disciples and their re-disciples recorded the words and deeds, quotations and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples, and compiled the Confucian classic The Analects.
In ancient times, Confucius was regarded as a "saint of heaven" and a "muduo of heaven". He was one of the most learned scholars in the society at that time, and was respected by later rulers as Confucius' sage, the most holy, the most holy teacher, the most holy teacher, the teacher of kings and the teacher of generations.
His thoughts have a far-reaching influence on China and the world, and he is listed as the first of the "Top Ten Cultural Celebrities in the World". With the expansion of Confucius' influence, "Confucius Sacrifice Ceremony" once became a "big sacrifice" at the same level as China's ancestor worship.
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Most people who are intelligent by nature don't like learning, and people with high status are also ashamed to ask questions. Therefore, it is probably a difficult point for people to make "learning to ask questions well" into a text with the method of inheritance. It is because of this that Kong became a writer.
Although Kong Wen's virtue is not good-"Confucius took his great-uncle's wife ill and married her. The disease spread through the first wife's wife. Wen Zi was very angry and would attack it. When visiting Zhongni, Zhong Ni was wrong, so he went his own way.
In the rush of the Song Dynasty, Wen Zi left a hole in his room because of his brother's death, but he was still regarded as "Wen" (posthumous title, who had a very high position in the funeral ceremony), which inevitably puzzled Zi Gong. Confucius, on the other hand, distinguished right from wrong, did not deny his valuable advantages, and told Zi Gong the cause of his death-although he was smart and had a high position, he was not ashamed to ask questions, which was beyond the reach of ordinary people.