Everything is low-grade, only reading is noble means that all walks of life are low-grade, only reading is noble.

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Song Dynasty Wang Zhu's "Prodigy Poems": "The emperor values ??heroes, articles teach others, everything is inferior, only reading is good."

"Zhang Xie Zhuangyuan" 1: "You see, everything in the world is of inferior quality, and the only way to think well is to read books." Extended information

The reasons for the popularity of everything in the world to be inferior, but to read books to be high-minded

The reason why the saying "Everything is of inferior quality, only good at reading" was widely popular also reflected the social atmosphere at that time.

Officials in the Song Dynasty generally had very high salaries, and the salary of civil servants was even better than that of military generals. At that time, civil servants were rich and leisurely, and could be free and unrestrained. Ouyang Xiu's famous "The Drunkard's Pavilion" was written by him when he took officials to play in the countryside.

Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao rebelled, wore yellow robes, and established the Song Dynasty. Because of this, Song Taizu, who gained power through mutiny, had always had a grudge against the generals. After he drank and released his military power, he continued to implement the national policy of emphasizing civility over military affairs, making the generals of the Song Dynasty the most frustrated generals in each dynasty. The literati of the Song Dynasty continued the glory of the Tang Dynasty, continued to be brilliant, and wrote many touching poems. Ci chapter.

After the Song Dynasty, officials did not have such high salaries, but scholars had some power after they passed the exam and became officials. Some of them have become corrupt officials. Therefore, there were many corrupt officials in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it seemed to have become a trend.

However, people’s misunderstanding of this sentence continues to this day. Nowadays, this sentence has become a famous saying to encourage scholars to study hard; on the other hand, it has also become a self-proclaimed slogan for some scholars.

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