The Implication of"The Hawk Flies Up to Heaven and the Fish Leaps into the Deep"in The Doctrine of the Mean Cited from The Book of Songs
In the twelfth chapter of The Doctrine of the Mean,the poetic sentence"the hawk flies up to heaven and the fish leaps into the deep"cited from The Book of Songs·Daya·Hanlu explains the argument"The gentleman's way is broad and subtle",which is explained based on the original meaning of the sentence in The Book of Songs,which praise the gentleman'way of widespread benevolence.The sentence deepens the meaning of the original sentence and gives it deeper educational significance,which makes the gentleman implement his way to universal objects.
The Doctrine of the MeanThe Book of Songsthe hawk flies up to heaventhe fish leaps into the deep