1/04/09
Yeah! Finally two weeks to go. Today was Aprilful day, haha... everyone started making lame jokes and began to punk others. Well, in the morning we had our IS lecture. Today topic was Chinese traditional thoughts. The lecturer is the principal of the foreign language school, his English was good, he can speak fluently. It was a 4hours lecture. During this lecture we learned many things; we learned the history of china, the mindset of the Chinese in the past and the history of Confucius.
After the IS lecture, we went for lunch and back to class again at 2pm for the summary of this lecture. Then after classes we went for basketball. We asked many of our peers to join us; almost half the group played with us basketball.
After basketball, we went to the canteen for dinner, then we went back to our dorm and continue our miniproject…
REFLECTION
Today IS topic was very interesting, it really inspired me. I briefly had some knowledge about each dynasty in China. The most interesting part on today IS topic is the thought of Confucius (孔夫子) and Mencius. The lecturer said that if everyone follows the thought of Confucius exactly, then the world will be in peace, there won’t be war, crime and conflict. As Mencius believed men are born innocent. Everyone could be a sage. They have the inclination towards goodness. All the social corruptions and perversions are due to the distortion of human nature and the falling away of men’s character from its original goodness. The abuse of innate goodness that leads men into evil doings could be vanish if the individual has once recovered his/her original goodness and the state returned to the purity. This is one of the core of Mencius’ doctrine, the orthodoxy of the Confucian school.
Yup is true you know, we human seriously has no direction at all, in this modern society, most of us had our own modern thoughts, everyone only care for themselves, and humans never be satisfy. The problem with human is that, they do not know which way to follow, the good side or the bad side, worst still, some may thought that the good side might be bad for them and likewise the bad side might be good for them.
Well… Confucianism is just only a teaching, so the decision is still up to the people whether they should follow Confucian thoughts. I personally felt that parents is the most role in this part. Just like the story of Mencuis. When Mencius was a boy, their house was near a graveyard. The boys played a game of grave-digging and Mencius was most energetic at the game---building the tombs and burying the dead. “This is no place for my child.” said Mother Mong, so she moved to live next to a market. This time Mencius played with the boys to peddle (叫卖) the “goods”. Mother Mong said once more, “This is no place for my child.” Once again she moved to live near a school. This time Mercies played at reading and practiced rituals. “ This is truly a place for my child,” said the mother and she settled down. Mencius learned the six arts and became a learned scholar. Mother Mong was a great mother who knew the significance of gradual transformation.
Yeah! Finally two weeks to go. Today was Aprilful day, haha... everyone started making lame jokes and began to punk others. Well, in the morning we had our IS lecture. Today topic was Chinese traditional thoughts. The lecturer is the principal of the foreign language school, his English was good, he can speak fluently. It was a 4hours lecture. During this lecture we learned many things; we learned the history of china, the mindset of the Chinese in the past and the history of Confucius.
After the IS lecture, we went for lunch and back to class again at 2pm for the summary of this lecture. Then after classes we went for basketball. We asked many of our peers to join us; almost half the group played with us basketball.
After basketball, we went to the canteen for dinner, then we went back to our dorm and continue our miniproject…
REFLECTION
Today IS topic was very interesting, it really inspired me. I briefly had some knowledge about each dynasty in China. The most interesting part on today IS topic is the thought of Confucius (孔夫子) and Mencius. The lecturer said that if everyone follows the thought of Confucius exactly, then the world will be in peace, there won’t be war, crime and conflict. As Mencius believed men are born innocent. Everyone could be a sage. They have the inclination towards goodness. All the social corruptions and perversions are due to the distortion of human nature and the falling away of men’s character from its original goodness. The abuse of innate goodness that leads men into evil doings could be vanish if the individual has once recovered his/her original goodness and the state returned to the purity. This is one of the core of Mencius’ doctrine, the orthodoxy of the Confucian school.
Yup is true you know, we human seriously has no direction at all, in this modern society, most of us had our own modern thoughts, everyone only care for themselves, and humans never be satisfy. The problem with human is that, they do not know which way to follow, the good side or the bad side, worst still, some may thought that the good side might be bad for them and likewise the bad side might be good for them.
Well… Confucianism is just only a teaching, so the decision is still up to the people whether they should follow Confucian thoughts. I personally felt that parents is the most role in this part. Just like the story of Mencuis. When Mencius was a boy, their house was near a graveyard. The boys played a game of grave-digging and Mencius was most energetic at the game---building the tombs and burying the dead. “This is no place for my child.” said Mother Mong, so she moved to live next to a market. This time Mencius played with the boys to peddle (叫卖) the “goods”. Mother Mong said once more, “This is no place for my child.” Once again she moved to live near a school. This time Mercies played at reading and practiced rituals. “ This is truly a place for my child,” said the mother and she settled down. Mencius learned the six arts and became a learned scholar. Mother Mong was a great mother who knew the significance of gradual transformation.
This part of Mencius story tells us that, the environment forms the child character. Thus as a parent, you have to choose the correct environment for your child, if not he/she will go a stray.
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