Quotation content: If you ask questions, you will be rich; if you use it yourself, you will be small.

Explanation of the famous saying:

"Shang Shu·Zhong Hui's Edict".

Good question: Ask more. Yu (yùyu): sufficient, rich. Self-use: self-righteous. The general idea of ??these two sentences is: People who ask questions when things happen will continue to enrich their knowledge, while people who are self-righteous and self-willed will make themselves poor in knowledge.

Shang Tang and Xia Jie fought in the field of Mingtiao, and the Xia army was defeated. After Tang put Jie in Nanchao, he returned to Dadong from Xia. He was still not confident that he was destined for heaven because of his high virtue. Therefore, the minister Zhong Fei wrote a poem to comfort him, saying that as long as the king can be "cautious about the end and only the beginning, be courteous in colonization, and overthrow the stupid and violent", listen to a wide range of scholars, and not be willful, he can "admire the way of heaven and always protect the destiny." ". It can be seen that the original meaning of this article is to encourage Shang Tang to not be ashamed to ask his subordinates and listen to the world in politics. It was originally a politician's motto. But it can also be used as a warning for scholarship. Although the whole sentence only has eight words, it makes an argument from both sides, one positive and one negative. The sentence structure is neat, the reasoning is profound, the words are concise and clear, and it has a strong philosophical sense.