(1) If you don’t follow the rules, you won’t be able to form a circle.
The translation cannot draw squares and circles correctly without compasses and rulers. ?
(2) Right, then determine the severity; degree, then know the length.
Only when the translation is weighed can one know its importance; only by measuring it can one know its length. ?
(3) People do not do anything, and then they can do something.
The translator must not do anything before he can do something. ?
(4) Although there are things that are easy to grow in the world, if they are violent in one day and cold in ten days, nothing can survive.
Translation Even if there is a plant that is the easiest to grow, if it is exposed to the sun for one day and then frozen for ten days, it will not grow again. ?
(5) Those who advance sharply will retreat quickly.
Those who move forward too quickly will retreat too quickly. ?
(6) The organ of the heart is thinking. If you think, you can get it. If you don’t think, you can’t get it.
Translation: The organ of the heart is responsible for thinking. Only by thinking can we obtain, but without thinking we cannot obtain. ?
(7) Born in sorrow and died in happiness.
Translation: Sorrow and suffering are enough to make people survive, and comfort and happiness are enough to make people die. ?
(8) Only benevolent people should be in high positions. Being unkind and holding a high position is spreading evil to others.
Translation Only benevolent people with high moral standards should be in a dominant position. If an unkind person with low morals is in a dominant position, his evil will be spread to the masses. ?
(9) If the emperor is unkind, he will not protect the world; if the princes are unkind, he will not protect the country; if the ministers and officials are unkind, they will not protect the ancestral temple; if the scholars and common people are unkind, they will not protect the four bodies.
Translation: If the emperor is not benevolent, he cannot preserve his empire; if the princes are not benevolent, they cannot preserve their country; if ministers and officials are not benevolent, they cannot preserve their ancestral temples; if ordinary people are not benevolent, they cannot preserve their own country. Body.
(10) If the king is benevolent, he will be invincible in the world.
Translation: If the monarch of a country loves benevolence, there will be no rivals in the world. ?
(11) Save penalties, reduce taxes, and make farming easier (n^u).
The translation reduces penalties and reduces taxes, so that people can cultivate deeply and carefully and get rid of filthy weeds early.