Detailed Explanation of Three Character Classic XXI - Nine Clans

Gao Zeng Zu, father and body, body and son, son and grandson.

Since the children and grandchildren, to Yuan Zeng. It is the nine clans, the human family.

? In this chapter of the Three Character Classic, we count to nine, and we start to talk about people. Along with the sentence of the Three Character Classic, let's talk about two things. The first is to talk about why we put "Humanity" here; the second is to talk about the three ultimate questions that human beings explore: where they come from; where they end up; and how to live between coming and going in a way that makes it more comfortable for them to go, or to go to a more comfortable place. In fact, right, or a thing, but is separated to say more clearly.

This part of the count to "eight" when a person as an individual how to get themselves well has been said, the next is the problem of people getting along with others. The first thing that I want to say is that I don't want to be a part of this conversation, but I want to be a part of this conversation, and I want to be a part of this conversation. In ancient China, the family is the so-called society, especially the big family, that is a side of the people rely on. This is something that Westerners, who live in small families, as well as modern people today, cannot understand. In ancient China, the social structure of the relationship between the individual - the family - the state. It was that one person could reproduce a larger family through struggle, and if that family was better, it would eventually turn the family into a state. So after the individual problem is solved, we have to talk about the family problem, which is the "nine clans".

Let's look at those three questions again. First of all, people come from there, the West is more focused on discussing where mankind came from, this problem can never find a real answer, unless the invention of a time machine, so that people can go back to the past, back to the moment of the opening of the sky to see, otherwise there is no conclusive.

The Chinese ancestors are more intelligent, we do not care where humans come from, I only care about my own things, and finally discuss the "I" is where they come from. "I'm not going to be able to get the best out of this one. Where do I come from? Of course, I am born from my parents, so where do my parents come from? And so it goes on from generation to generation, and eventually this "I" comes from my ancestors. Therefore, in ancient times, every family had its own shrine dedicated to its ancestors, and sacrifices were made on a regular basis. The advantage of this is to constantly educate people that they should know where they came from, how hard it was for their ancestors to start their own business, and that they should maintain the tradition and not to mess around with it, which is to tell everyone not to forget their roots. More importantly, it is telling everyone to use the pioneering and enterprising spirit of their ancestors to perpetuate and prosper their family, and to perpetuate and carry forward the glory of their family forever. In this way, a family stabilized and prosperous, this society, country and nation will naturally be prosperous and endless.

Secondly, where does a man go? Similarly, we have transformed him into, "I" where to go. This depends on the future generations of children and grandchildren, because the children and grandchildren are the continuation of their own lives. In the end, the Chinese summarize that a person has to establish virtue, merit, and speech so that he can exist in this world forever. In traditional Chinese culture, death and dying have two meanings. "Death" means that a person's physical body no longer exists, and "death" means that all traces of a person's existence have disappeared. The Chinese have long known that human life is composed of two parts, one is material and the other is spiritual. The material life, the physical body, is bound to disappear. But the spiritual life, our thoughts, character, culture, and scholarship, as long as it reaches a certain level, will never disappear, and will always be displayed to future generations as proof that a person once existed. So where do people go? In traditional Chinese culture, a person can live forever by "establishing virtue, merit, and speech", being born as a human being, dying as a god, and not being forgotten by future generations, and being remembered forever. This speaks of our spiritual life. This brings us to the next question.

How to do between one and the other is the best choice. In fact, this question has already been answered in traditional Chinese culture in the answer to the second question. It is to do things that can realize the goal of "establishing virtue, establishing merit, and establishing speech". That is why traditional Chinese culture pays special attention to the family, the country and the world, and to dedication, because only by dedicating oneself to the service of society and the nation can a person be praised by the nation forever, and by living in the memory of the nation, one can realize the goal of eternal life by living forever in the great family of the nation. But this standard is very high, and not many people can actually achieve it, so what to do? It is to build up one's own family and educate one's own children and grandchildren, so that this spirit can be incorporated into the bodies of the children and grandchildren, or at least so that one's descendants can remember that there was once such a person in the world. This is the first time that I've ever seen a person who was a member of a family in the United States, and I've never seen a person who was a member of a family in the United States.

From the practical example of the actual family building, the Wuxi Qian's education through the "Qian's family training" is the most fruitful. The most prestigious representative of the Qian family is China's modern scientific and technological field of "three money", respectively, the father of aerospace - Qian Xuesen; the father of China's mechanics - Qian Weichang; the father of the atomic bomb - Qian Sanchang. They are Qian Xuesen, the father of aerospace; Qian Weichang, the father of Chinese mechanics; and Qian Sanqiang, the father of Chinese atomic bomb. They are all from the Qian family in Hongshan, Wuxi (originally from Zheshui), and their ancestor was Qian Qian Qian, the king of Wuyue in the late Tang Dynasty. In modern China, the outstanding sons of the Qian family are found in the fields of science, culture and politics, and Qian Qichen, Qian Zhengying, Qian Xuesen, Qian Weichang, Qian Xuantong, Qian Sanqiang, Qian Jiabo, Qian Zhongshu, Qian Fuxu, Qian Mu and Qian Xun ...... including Chinese scientist Qian Yongjian, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2008, are all descended from Qian Qian. The root of this family's millennia-long history and the explosion of talent in modern times is the kind of education brought about by the Qian Family Tradition, which centers on the idea that "even though children and grandchildren may be foolish, they need to read poetry and books".

Just think, if we all mold ourselves to this culture and cultivate our own offspring to succeed, what will be the face of the country and what will be the face of our nation.

This is the power of Chinese culture.

A detailed table of contents of The Three Character Classic