一孔录The video for this chapter is still in production. For now this page gives the original text, the facsimile page, a working translation and the commentary; the full reading follows when the video is out.
子曰：君子矜而不爭，群而不黨。The Master said: The gentleman is dignified but does not contend; he is sociable but not partisan.
What this chapter says
一孔按：君子庄重自持而不争，合群而不结党。矜而无乖戾之心，群而无阿比之意。常有人问：“君子矜而不争，群而不党”，矜持合群怎样才不变成争和党？上面是一孔录的回答。
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白Plain Chinese
孔子说，君子庄重自持而不争竞，与人和群而不结私党。
Draft plain-Chinese rendering following Zhu Xi; it will be checked when the chapter is covered.
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Connections
- Other books
- Read alongside (Yikonglu)Three Character Classic 36: Liu Yan's answer about the character 朋 mocked factions. Read it with Confucius's “sociable but not partisan.”
Relationship map of the whole book · The Analects, AI-reconstructed edition (PDF)
Close reading and checking
For readers who want to go deeper or check our work: key words in the commentary, what other commentators say, textual variants, the commentaries in their own words with facsimile pages, pronunciation and corrections. Tap a heading to open it.
常The common reading
“君子矜而不争，群而不党”，矜持合群怎样才不变成争和党？
注Key words in the commentary
庄以持己曰矜，然无乖戾之心，故不争。和以处众曰群，然无阿比之意，故不党。
核Zhu Xi's commentary, line by line
Zhu Xi's own words on each line of this chapter, each checked against the base-edition page. Other commentators are added when the chapter is covered. About this edition
| Line | Quoted text | Page |
|---|---|---|
| 子曰：君子矜而不 | “庄以持己曰矜，然无乖戾之心，故不争。和以处众曰群，然无阿比之意，故不党。” | page 214—215 |
家Other commentaries
Our base text is Zhu Xi's Collected Commentaries (above). Here are other commentaries side by side: for old commentaries, the first line of the sub-commentary with a link to the woodblock scan; for modern editions, one short quoted translation for comparison. The “compared with Zhu Xi” notes are written by Yikonglu, not quoted.
皇侃《论语义疏》Liang dynasty · 1750 Japanese woodblock edition · juan 八
“云子曰云云者，矜，矜莊也。”……
Compared with Zhu Xi
| Commentary | Point | Relation | Confidence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 钱穆《论语新解》 | same | fairly sure | 同训矜为庄敬持己、群为和处众，无乖戾故不争、无阿比故不党；不是孤立或结私党的两端。 |
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