Zi Gong has great respect for his teacher. Once, there was a doctor in the state of Lu who belittled Confucius and raised Zigong in front of everyone. Zi Gong was very angry, and he didn't go easy on that man because he praised himself. He said that if everyone's talent is a house, then the wall of the teacher's house is more than ten feet high, and the brilliance in the house is invisible to ordinary people; And my house is just a shoulder-high fence, which can be seen at a glance. Then, he compared the teacher to the radiant sun and moon, which is beyond the reach of ordinary people! Dr. Lu was ashamed to hear that.
It is said that when Confucius was ill, Zi Gong was away on business and could not visit him. After the death of Confucius, Zi Gong used Kaizhi as a funeral stick to attend the funeral and put it next to Confucius' grave. Then this "funeral stick" germinated and grew into a towering tree. This tree is straight and upright, with sparse branches and many leaves, and no oblique branches. Later generations felt Zigong's sincerity in respecting teachers and attaching importance to Taoism, and built three houses, and erected a monument named "Zigong Lu's Tomb". Zi Gong's good moral character of respecting teachers and respecting morality has been passed down to this day.
Century Hengtong Online Summary: Respecting teachers and stressing morality is our principle of being a man.
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