This sentence comes from a famous literary writer, Han Yu, the first of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties. He wrote a famous poem: "There is no limit to learning the sea, but it is difficult to make a boat." Included in "Augmented Sages", it aims to encourage people to read more books, not afraid of hardship, and only hard work can succeed.
Books are like a mountain. If you want to reach the summit of the lofty mountain of knowledge successfully, diligence is the only way to reach the summit. Knowledge is like the ocean, and the attitude of hard work will be a moving ship, which can take you to the other side of success.
Among them, the word "boat" in "Boundless Learning" means boat, which means taking a boat. This sentence compares knowledge to the ocean. Learning knowledge is like a person in the sea. Only when he understands the truth and applies what he has learned can he be better than his own boat. Knowledge is transformed into a ship of wisdom, and the voyage of life mileage has a direction. Therefore, the word "boat" is used to describe the role of learning.
Han Yu's introduction is as follows:
Han Yu (768-824) was a writer and philosopher in the Tang Dynasty. Return the word. Henan (now Mengxian) people, ancestral home Changli, known as Han Changli. In his later years, he served as assistant minister of the official department, also known as the Korean official department. Posthumous title "Wen", also known as Han Wengong.
I studied at the age of 7, 13, and I can write. At the age of 20, I went to Chang 'an to take the Jinshi exam, and I failed the third exam. At the age of 25 (792), he was admitted to the middle school. 36-year-old (803), a former censor, was demoted to Yangshan Order for writing a letter about drought and famine, demanding that the corvee tax be reduced, and accusing him of failing to serve in the imperial court. He rejected Buddhism all his life. In the 14th year of Yuanhe (8 19), Xian Zong welcomed the Buddha's bones into Da Nei. He tried his best to remonstrate and was almost executed, and was later demoted to Chaozhou secretariat.
Han Yu has made great achievements in politics and literature all his life, among which literature is the main achievement. He opposed parallel prose since Wei and Jin Dynasties and advocated ancient prose. He adheres to the writing principles of "everything can't be flat, so you can listen" and "what you say must be done". Due to the advocacy of Liu Zongyuan and others, the ancient prose in Tang Dynasty was finally formed.