Kuafu raced against the sun until the sun set; He felt thirsty and wanted to drink water, so he went to the Yellow River and Weihe River to drink water. Yellow River and Weihe River are short of water, so they go to osawa Lake in the north to drink water. I died of thirst before I got to Lake osawa. His abandoned cane turned into a peach garden.
Original: Kuafu moved away from Japan and entered Japan; Thirst, want to drink water, drink in the river, Wei; Rivers, lack of nutrition, drink Ozawa in the north. Before he arrived, he died of thirst. Abandoned his staff and became Deng Lin.
This article is from Shan Hai Jing written by Liu Xin in the Western Han Dynasty.
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Liu Xin studied poetry and books as a teenager, and later studied Yi and Gu Liang Chunqiu. Huang Menlang was summoned by Emperor Han Chengdi, who was able to learn Confucian classics and was good at writing, and was appointed by the government. In the third year of Han Heping (26 BC), entrusted by his father Liu Xiang, he was in charge of the school's "Chinese books" (secret collections) and assisted the school in managing books.
After Liu Xiang died, he inherited his father's business. At the time of mourning for the emperor, Liu Xin was in charge of the general school books, and based on Liu Xiang's Bielu, it was revised into the first book classification catalogue "Seven Laws" in the history of China. In peacetime (from the first 28 years to the first 25 years), the emperor asked Liu Xin and his father to sort out and revise the books collected by the state, which gave Liu Xin an opportunity to get in touch with various rare books of the royal family at that time.
Liu Xin sat on these royal collections and delved into them hungrily. Liu Xin's first contribution in the history of Confucian classics was to find a number of Confucian classics published in the late pre-Qin period, so as to prevent them from being lost. Thanks to Liu Xin's advocacy, these ancient China classics are widely known by the society and scholars and handed down from generation to generation.
Liu Xin's second contribution in the history of Confucian classics is to open up a new way to interpret classics with words and history. In order to carry forward the ancient classics, Liu Xin and others attached importance to exegesis, not only by reading the classics, but also by interpreting the classics according to the glyphs and meanings of ancient Chinese. Liu Xin's third contribution in the history of Confucian Classics was to break the monopoly of modern literature on Confucian Classics, which opened the way for the development of classical Confucian Classics in China.
If Dong Zhongshu initiated the study of Confucian classics in modern Chinese, in a word, it is of great significance, then the study of classical Chinese classics, which attaches importance to the system of names and things, is Liu Xin who opened his gate. He (26 years ago) was called to lead the school, and his father Liu Xiang was the secretary of Tianluge.
As a famous scholar at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xin made a sharp criticism on Confucian classics, which had flourished since the middle of the Western Han Dynasty. In his view, the study of Confucian classics in contemporary literature is wordless and tedious, and scholars can't learn it. It is impossible to achieve the goal of moral education for the people with fewer days and more animals. Therefore, he asked to keep the main idea, use the scriptures, and end the tedious style of study with more than one million words as soon as possible.
In addition, Liu Xin also criticized the drawbacks of Confucian Classics, believing that they knew nothing about their biographies and were ignorant. What they have done is nothing more than to achieve the political goal of being party member and being jealous of the truth. Liu Xin's criticism hit the nail on the head.