I praised him for taking the right path handed down from ancient times and made this "Teacher's Commentary" for him.
From the Tang Dynasty Han Yu's Shi Shuo.
Excerpt from the original text: Li is seventeen years old, good at classical Chinese, and knows all six arts. He is not limited to time, but learns from other times. Yu Jiaqi can follow the ancient road and write Shi Shuo to make it last forever.
Pan, the Li family's child, is seventeen years old and likes classical Chinese. He has generally studied the six classics and is not bound by customs, so he learns from me. I commend him for following the way of the ancients (learning from teachers) and writing this "Teacher's Theory" as a gift to him.
Precautions:
Restraint: restraint.
Time: secular.
Y: Me.
Appreciation of the full text of Shi Shuo:
When Han Yu wrote Shi Shuo, some people thought it was in the eighteenth year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong (802). He used articles to publicize his views. Defend pre-Qin Confucianism and oppose contemporary Buddhism and Taoism. The pre-Qin and Han dynasties advocated articles and opposed "vulgar prose", that is, parallel prose that "decorated words and paid attention" since Wei and Jin dynasties: this is the content of the article movement.
Han Yu's active efforts have continuously promoted the development and formation of this movement. As far as the article is concerned, he not only worked hard by himself, but also showed excellent results from theory to practice. More importantly, he tried to advocate regardless of the vulgar smile, especially in giving young people enthusiastic encouragement and instructions. Shi Shuo is an article with progressive significance and emancipatory spirit caused by this kind of effort.