| 釋義 |
知人論世zhī ré lùn shìunderstand people and their times
? 頌其詩，讀其書，不知其人可乎？是以論其世也。(《孟子·萬章下》) He repeats their poems,and reads their books,and as he does not know what they were as men. to ascertain this,he considers their history.
? 倘要～，是非看編年的文集不可的，……（魯迅）So to understand writers and their times we must read their works in chronological order，… |