Leaving One’s Homeland

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孟（mèng）子（zǐ）曰（yuē）：（）“（）孔（kǒng）子（zǐ）之（zhī）去（qù）鲁（lǔ），（）曰（yuē）：（）‘（）迟（chí）迟（chí）吾（wú）行（xíng）也（yě）’（），（）去（qù）父（fù）母（mǔ）国（guó）之（zhī）道（dào）也（yě）。（）去（qù）齐（qí），（）接（jiē）淅（xī）而（ér）行（xíng），（）去（qù）他（tā）国（guó）之（zhī）道（dào）也（yě）。（）”（）

Mencius said that when Confucius left his native state of Lu, he remarked, “I am going slowly,” as one should when leaving one’s homeland. When he left Qi, he departed with the rice still wet from washing, as one does when leaving a foreign state.

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