Exploring the Analects

Exploring the Analects

Book 6: 《雍也》 Yong Ye (There is Yong)

《雍也》 Passage 6.5

原思為之宰,與之粟九百,辭。子曰:「毋!以與爾鄰里鄉黨乎!」

Legge Translation (1861)

Yuan Si being made governor of his town by the Master, he gave him nine hundred measures of grain, but Si declined them.

The Master said: "Do not decline them. May you not give them away in the neighborhoods, hamlets, towns, and villages?"
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