Confucius said, "How noble the quality of Yan Hui is! Living in a humble hut with buckets of rice and water, others can't stand this poverty, but Yan Hui hasn't changed his interest in learning. How noble the quality of Yan Hui is! "

In this chapter, Confucius praised Yan Hui again and spoke highly of him. Yan Hui's "constant pleasure" is the spirit of thinking about change if you are poor, and thinking about it if you don't move, which contains a universal truth, that is, people should always have a little spirit, and for their own ideals, they should constantly pursue it, even if life is poor and difficult, they should enjoy it.

The Analects of Confucius from the Warring States Period.

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The Analects of Confucius is a chapter in the Analects of Confucius, with a total of 30 chapters. This article involves the doctrine of the mean, the theory of forgiveness, the idea of literariness, and also contains some ideas on how to cultivate benevolence.

The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotations compiled by Confucius and his disciples, which was written in the early Warring States period. The book * * * consists of 20 chapters and 492 sections, with quotation as the main body and narrative as the supplement, which embodies the political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles of Confucius and Confucianism.