Source: The Analects of Confucius Lutz: "Zeng Zi said:' A gentleman takes literature as his friend and benevolence as his help. This means that Ceng Zi thinks that a gentleman should make friends by studying articles and improve his moral level through communication and help among friends. But ordinary people make friends by measuring power and interests, and the purpose of making friends is to use each other. ?
Ceng Zi was a thinker in the late Spring and Autumn Period, one of the disciples of Confucius in his later years, an important representative of Confucianism and a descendant of Yu Xia. Advocating Confucianism with filial piety and faithfulness as its core, its political view of "cultivating one's morality, governing the country and leveling the world", self-examination and cautious independence, and filial piety-oriented still have extremely valuable social significance and practical value.
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Making friends through writing is making friends. Although "Wen" is as light as water, it can meet articles and knowledge and communicate with like-minded people, but it can be "light and close". Accordingly, if wine and meat make friends and interests intersect, there will be no friendship. Helping friends is the purpose of making friends.
Ceng Zi does not deny that the purpose of making friends is to "help benevolence", that is, to promote the improvement of virtue, not to obtain some material benefits. Combining making friends with learning to cultivate one's morality, as a way of learning to cultivate one's morality, still has reference significance today.
Baidu Encyclopedia-A gentleman makes friends with articles and helps others with righteousness.