(2017Translation) 孟母三遷
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| English | Mencius’ mother moves three times | |
| Chinese | 孟母三遷 | |
| Korean(RR) | 맹모삼천 | |
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| Author(s) | Liu Xiang 劉向 | |
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| Translator(s) | Participants of 2017 Summer Hanmun Workshop (Intermediate Training Group) | |
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| Year | 2017 | |
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- 1 Original Script
- 2 Translation
- 2.1 Student 1 : Sanghoon Na
- 2.2 Student 2 : Younès M'Ghari
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Original Script
Translation
Student 1 : Sanghoon Na
The mother of Meng ke(Mencius) of Zou was called Mother Meng. Her house was near tombs. When Mencius was little, he enjoyed playing and doing the [funeral] work among the tombs. Mother Meng said, "This is not the place where I dwell and house my son," and immediately went to [reside in] a house next to the market. Mencius enjoyed playing as a merchant by displaying things to sell. Mother Meng [once] again said, "This is not the place where I house my son,” and again moved to dwell next to a school. He, then, enjoyed arranging the sacrificial vessels and bowing, yielding, advancing, and retiring. Mother Meng said, “[This is] Suitable for dwelling and housing my son,” and accordingly settled down there. When Mencius grew up, he learned the six classical arts[1] and in the end achieved fame as a great scholar. The gentleman said, "Mother Meng was good at gradual edification."
Student 2 : Younès M'Ghari
The mother of Mengke1 of Zou2 was called 'Meng's mother'. Her house was near tombs. When Menzi3 was little, he liked to play out and act up the [funeral] matters among the tombs. Meng’s mother said: “This is not the place to make my son live at.” Therefore they left and dwelled next to a market. He liked to play out and act up the merchant advertizing. Meng’s mother said: “This is not the place to make my son live at.” They moved again to dwell next to a school. He then liked to play out, act up displaying the ritual vessels, bowing, yielding, advancing and retreating. Meng’s mother said: “Now I can make my son live [here].” Thus they lived there. Once Mengzi had grown older and learnt the Six Arts4, he finally became a great ritual scholar. The men of virtue say that Meng's mother was good at transformation by the [environment] changing.
1: Mengke (Chinese: 孟軻), the name of the Chinese philosopher Mencius (孟子, Mengzi)
2: Zou (鄒), a vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BCE) in the southeast of contemporary Shandong Province
3: Mengzi (孟子), that is Mencius
4: The Six Arts (六藝) come from the ancient Chinese culture and were later integrated in the confucian vision of a perfect gentleman: the rites (禮), music (樂), archery (射), charioteering (御), calligraphy (書) and mathematics (數)
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In the state of Zou,1 Meng Ke's2 mother was called Meng's Mother. Her home was close to a graveyard. In Mengzi's youth, [he] happily played [by] acting [out] graveyards' undertakings.
Meng's Mother said, "This is not the place I live in to raise a son."
[They] then went to live near a market. [Mengzi] happily played [by] acting [out] markets' dealings.
Meng's Mother again said, "This is not the place I live in to raise my son."
Again [they] moved to live in the vicinity of a school. [Mengzi] happily played then at laying out ritual chopping blocks and ritual stemmed vessels, and bowing with hands clasped, raising hands with a tranquil heart, and advancing and retreating.
Meng's Mother said, "[Here I] can raise and live [with] a son."
[They] continued to live [there, and] when Mengzi grew up, [he] learned the Six Arts,3 [and] in the end [became] a great ritual scholar of reknown.
Gentlemen called [this] Meng's Mother using goodness to gradually transform.
1In present-day Shandong.
2 Given name of the philosopher Mengzi, also known as Mencius.
3The Six Arts are derived from the skills that nobles of the ancient Zhou dynasty learned: ritual, music, archery, charioteering, writing, and arithmetic, but after the Han dynasty (206–220 CE), became mastering a set of texts that became canonical that includes the Book of Changes (易經), the Book of Poetry (詩經), Book of Documents (書經, also called 尚書), Book of Music [or Odes] (樂), the Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋), and various works on ritual (禮). From Stephen W. Durrant, The Cloudy Mirror: Tension and Conflict in the Writings of Sima Qian (New York: SUNY Press, 1995), 47-48.
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鄒孟軻母，號孟母。
The Mother of Meng Ke (Mencius) came from the state of Zhou. She was designated by ‘the mother of Meng”.
其舍近墓。
Their house was situated near a tomb.
孟子之少時，嬉遊爲墓間之事。
When Mencius was young, he liked play out matters of funerals.
孟母曰：「此非吾所以居處子。」
The mother of Meng said: this is not a place where I make my son live.
乃去，舍市旁。
So they left to live next to the market.
其嬉遊爲賈人炫賣之事。
He liked to play out imitating merchant and advertiser.
孟母又曰：「此非吾所以處吾子也。」
The mother of Meng said: this is not the way like I make my son live.
復徙居學宮之旁。
So they moved to live next to a school building.
其嬉遊乃設俎豆，揖讓進退。
He likes to play out matters of rituals, acting make offerings.
孟母曰：「可以處居子矣。」
The mother of Meng said: I can make my son live here.
遂居。
According to me, they lived there.
及孟子長，學六藝[2]，卒成大儒之名。
Meng grow up and he studied the six arts. And finally, he became an important name of the Ritualism school.
君子謂孟母善以漸化。
The gentlemen said that mother of Meng was gradually [immersing] her son in the proper ways.
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- ↑ [1] 六藝: the classical six arts (禮，樂，射，御，書，數 propriety, music, archery, riding, writing, arithmetic).
- ↑ 六藝 : The Six Arts formed the basis of education in ancient Sinized cultures: Rites (禮) Music (樂) Archery (射) Charioteering (御) Calligraphy (書) Mathematics (數) Men who excelled in these six arts were thought to have reached the state of perfection, a perfect gentleman.
