◆The mountain is climbed step by step, and the boat is rolled out one oar after another.

◆One look is worth less than a thousand lessons, and one practice is worth less than a thousand looks.

◆If you live on a slope for a long time, it is never too steep.

◆Horses look at their teeth, and people look at their words and deeds.

◆If you don’t experience the cold of winter, you won’t know the warmth of spring.

◆If you don’t take the burden, you don’t know the weight; if you don’t walk the long road, you don’t know the distance.

◆If you don’t sleep in the quilt, you don’t know how wide it is.

◆If you don’t get into the water, you will never know how to swim; if you don’t set sail, you will never know how to punt.

◆If you don’t have a family, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are; if you don’t have children, you don’t know the kindness of your parents.

◆Your hands won’t get dirty if you don’t touch the bottom of the pot, and your hands won’t get greasy if you don’t hold the oil bottle.

◆The falling water reveals stones, and over time it reveals people’s hearts.

◆The blacksmith should hold the pliers by himself, and the farmer should go to the fields by himself.

◆ Ask the woodcutter when gathering firewood, and ask the boatman when sailing a boat.

◆Better to have done it than to miss it.

◆I was fooled the first time, but became enlightened the second time.

◆Send back water and accumulate mud; experience something and gain wisdom.

◆Hearing is false, seeing is true.

◆The old horse knows the way, the old man is sophisticated.

◆If the old people don’t talk about the past, the younger generations will be wrong.

◆The old beef is chewy and the old man’s words are listening.

◆Old ginger has a strong spiciness, and the elderly have more experience.

◆It is better to see it than to hear it a hundred times, and to do it once is worse than seeing it a hundred times.

◆Suffer once and learn to be good.

◆Only when you are in charge do you know that salt and rice are expensive; only when you go out do you know that the road is difficult.

◆ Just talk without practicing the fake moves, just practice without talking about the real moves, talk and practice all the moves.

◆The more you file, the faster the saw will be, and the more you will gain knowledge.

◆A tree has many roots and people have many knowledge.

◆Chop firewood and go up the mountain, catch birds and go up the tree.

◆Chop wood, chop off the little head, and ask the old man for directions.

◆The casserole will not leak unless it is pounded, and the wood will not be able to penetrate unless it is chipped.

◆Grass cannot cover the eyes of an eagle, and water cannot cover the eyes of a fish.

◆Medicine farmers go into the mountains to see herbs, and hunters go into the mountains to see animals.

◆It is a snake with a cold body, and a wolf with a fishy body.

◆Fragrant flowers may not necessarily be beautiful, and good talk may not necessarily be capable.

◆After some setbacks, I gained some insights.

◆Have extensive experience and know much.

◆If you want to know what is happening in the mountains, ask the old farmers in the countryside.

◆Know the kindness of your parents and hold your children and grandchildren in your arms.

◆If you want to eat spicy food, plant spicy rice seedlings; if you want to eat carp, walk along the Yangtze River.

◆The old man is half-hearted, but the old man knows everything.

Proverb No. 2

◆One person’s words are all right, but two people’s words are different.

◆One righteousness can ward off three evils, and a righteous person can ward off hundreds of evils.

◆The momentary strength depends on strength, and the eternal victory or defeat depends on reason.

◆One thing makes sense, all things are in harmony.

◆People are afraid of being ignored, and dogs are afraid of having their tails pinched.

◆People are afraid of reason, and horses are afraid of whips.

◆People have their own reasons, and horses have their reins.

◆The more people produce righteousness, the more grains produce good rice.

◆It doesn’t matter whether the person is close or not, but whether it is straightened out or not.

◆As long as there are no clouds in the sky and no rain, nothing will happen in the world.

◆All bows in the world are curved, but all principles in the world are straight.

◆There are no two days in the sky, and there are no two principles in people.

◆The more you dig the well, the clearer the water becomes; the more things are laid out, the clearer the reason becomes.

◆Be unreasonably flustered, and be rationally courageous.

◆The oxen cannot drag the harrow, and the people speak unreasonably.

◆If you accept reason but not people, you will not be afraid of anything.

◆Recognize reason but not people, help managers but not relatives. The water is too big to cover the boat, and the hand is too big to cover the sky.

◆If the water is not level, let it flow; if the reason is not level, let it flow.

◆When the water recedes and the stone remains, good people will not be bad.

◆Convince the population with force and convince people with reason.

◆If you give people an inch, you can be reasonable.

◆Speak the truth when you have reason, and speak nonsense when you have no reason.

◆Those who are reasonable think about what to say, and those who are unreasonable rush to say it.

◆A person who is right is not afraid of being pressured by force, and a person who is upright is not afraid of a distorted shadow.

◆Don’t talk too high when you are right, talk about it in front of your face.

◆Don’t throw away the rationale and don’t argue with the unreasonable.

◆Win with reason and lose without reason.

◆ Put reason into action and use good steel to the edge.

◆You can travel all over the world with reason, but you can’t move even without reason.

◆A tree can fall down with an axe, but it will not fall down with a reasonable argument.

◆You have ambitions but not your age, and you have reason but you don’t know how to speak.

◆Eat rice and talk rationally.

◆The one who eats people is soft-spoken and the one who talks about people is short-sighted.

◆Eat with flavor and speak with reason.

◆He can walk without making a difference, and he can talk without making sense.

◆The tongue is made of flesh, the fact is ironclad.

◆If the light is not on, ask someone to turn it on; if something is unclear, ask someone to tell you.

◆If the light is not turned on, it will not turn on, and the reason will not be clear.

◆Good people argue and bad people argue.

◆Don’t be afraid to taste good tea carefully, and don’t be afraid to talk about good things in detail.

◆Good wine is not afraid of brewing, and good people are not afraid of speaking.

◆There is an endless road to walk and endless principles to know.

◆Afraid of heavy rain when walking, afraid of being criticized when talking.

◆The mouth of the altar can be sealed, but the population cannot.

◆Be neither short-sighted nor soft-spoken.

◆The dishes have no salt and taste, and the words are useless.

◆My feet can’t outrun the rain, my mouth can’t handle it.

◆Act in accordance with natural principles and speak in accordance with people's opinions.

◆The ship is stable and not afraid of strong winds, and it can navigate the world with reason.

◆Be sure to put rice when cooking and be reasonable when speaking.

◆ Every other line is like a mountain, every other line is not separated.

◆If the drum is not beaten, it will not sound, and the reason will not be clear.

◆The road is crooked, but the truth is straight.

◆If the road is uneven, everyone will step on it; if things are uneven, everyone will take care of it.

◆There are thousands of roads, but only one way.

◆When grinding grain, you must grind out rice, and when you speak, you must make sense.

◆More rice will produce more rice, and more people will make more sense.

◆Chop firewood to see the texture, and speak based on reason.

Proverb No. 3

◆People have ambitions, but bamboos have integrity.

◆If a person has perseverance, everything will succeed; if a person does not have perseverance, everything will fail.

◆People are not big or small, horses are not high or low. People go to higher places, and water flows to lower places.

◆People look to the big place, and birds fly to high places.

◆People compete for qi, fire competes for flames, and Buddha competes for a stick of incense.

◆When a person is old, his heart will never grow old, and when he is poor, his ambition will never be poor.

◆People must have strong hearts and trees must have hard bark.

◆People rely on ambition, and tigers rely on power.

◆People are afraid of having no aspirations, and trees are afraid of losing their bark.

◆When a person has his heart, a tree has its roots.

◆Three hundred and sixty lines, every line is number one.

When the mountain is high, there is a way to climb, and when the road is far, there is a way to run.

◆The mountains are high and the rivers are flowing, and the ambition is great and the spirit is strong.

◆The villain holds grudges, but the gentleman has long ambitions.

◆Don’t be afraid of the long road, just afraid of the shortcomings.

◆Don’t be afraid of things going wrong, but be afraid of being discouraged.

◆If you are not afraid of high mountains, you are afraid of weak feet.

◆If you are not afraid of failing in your studies, you are afraid of being dishonest.

◆Don’t be afraid of being ignorant, but be afraid of being short of ambition.

◆It is difficult to develop courage without taking three risks.

◆You cannot become a hero without training.

◆Although the wooden ruler is short, it has a thousand feet of energy.

◆Nothing is difficult in the world, as long as there are people who are willing.

◆No one will be poor even if it rains for a month.

◆Heaven does not give birth to useless people, and the earth does not grow nameless grass.

◆If you have no ambition, a mountain will weigh you down, but if you have ambition, you will move a mountain.

◆Don’t be afraid of the strong and don’t bully the weak.

◆The moon does not change the light, and the broken arrow does not change the steel.

◆The water is so deep that it is difficult to see the bottom, and the tiger will not be defeated even if it dies.

◆The water flows downward, and people compete to move upstream.

◆As long as you make progress, you are not afraid of being looked down upon by others.

◆There is only a sky that cannot be climbed, and there is no mountain that cannot be passed.

◆Afraid only of lack of diligence, not afraid of lack of excellence; just afraid of lack of perseverance, not afraid of failure.

◆Only for gentlemen as gatekeepers, not for villains.

◆Birds are valued for their wings, but people are valued for their ambitions.

◆Birds fly to bright places, and people fly to high places.

◆If you don’t have courage in strangers, your strength will be in vain.

◆It is better to be cold in body than to be cold in heart; it is better to be poor than to have poor aspirations.

◆I would rather suffer in body and bones than be embarrassed.

◆I would rather be an ant’s legs than a sparrow’s mouth.

◆It is better to be a poor person than to be a wealthy person.

◆I would rather break bones than bow my head and be humiliated.

◆It is better to be a horse puller for a good man than for a lazy man.

◆I would rather give a fight to the poor than a mouthful to the rich.

◆I would rather eat porridge with eyebrows open than rice with frowning eyebrows.

◆I would rather carry shoes for a gentleman than share wealth with a villain.

◆It is better to strike the golden bell once than to break the sound of a thousand drums.

◆It is better to suffer money than to suffer losses to people.

It is better to die than to be unreasonable, and to be poor than to lose one's ambition.

◆If you have ambitions, you will not grow taller; if you have no ambitions, you will live a hundred years in vain.

◆There is a sky that cannot be reached, and there is no level that cannot be passed.

◆If there is a mountain, there must be a road; if there is water, there must be a crossing.

◆It rains continuously for a hundred days, but there will always be sunshine.

◆The steamed buns that have been eaten are not fragrant, and the sugar canes that have been chewed are not sweet.

◆A good man depends on his willpower, and a good horse depends on his courage.

◆A good man will not suffer the consequences of being bored, and a good bird will not hide in the thorny forest.

◆A good man will work hard to the end, and a good horse will run to the end.

◆A good man does not fight for property and possessions, and a good woman does not fight for her wedding clothes.

◆A good drum will sound as soon as it is beaten, and a good lamp will light up as soon as it is pulled out.

◆Aspire to be high and your taste will be high, your ambition will be low and your taste will be low.

◆Don’t be afraid of climbing mountains when walking, and don’t be afraid of crossing dangerous shoals when boating.

◆If a man has no ambition, there will be no steel in blunt iron; if a woman has no ambition, there will be no seedlings in the grass.

◆A scholar will starve to death without selling his books, and a strong man will not sell his sword if he is desperate.

◆The grain must grow on its own, and the people must strengthen themselves.

◆There is no tree that cannot be sawed down, and no bell that cannot be ringed.

◆Don’t lose your ambition if you are poor, and go crazy if you are rich.

◆Poor people don’t climb high relatives, and they don’t climb high ridges when it rains.

◆A gentleman’s revenge is never too late.

◆A gentleman’s revenge takes three years, but a villain’s revenge is just around the corner.

◆Tiger is not afraid of high mountains, fish is not afraid of deep water.

◆A tiger is thin and ambitious, but a poor person is ambitious.

◆The roots of old trees are deep and the bones of old people are strong.

◆Trees are afraid of rotten roots, and people are afraid of lack of ambition.

◆The grass will not sprout if there is no intention, and the people will not develop if there is no intention.

◆The bold one rides a dragon and a tiger, the timid one rides a cat and a rabbit.

◆The brave can travel all over the world, but the timid cannot move even a single step.

◆Although the weight is small, it can weigh a thousand pounds.

◆If you keep the green hills, you won’t have to worry about running out of firewood.

◆No matter how high the waves are, they are still on the bottom of the boat; no matter how high the mountain is, they are also on the bottom of the feet.

◆If the food has no intention, it will die, and if the person has no intention, it will die.

◆You can eat vegetables, but you can eat chaff, but you cannot eat Qi; you can eat it, wear it, but you can't control it.

◆The tiger is not at a disadvantage, and the eagle is not standing on a weeping branch.

◆The rope cuts the wood, and the water drops penetrate the stone.

◆The nights are long when people are worried, but the days are short for people with lofty ideals.

◆I am willing to die for everyone, not for one person.

◆When casting a net, cast the net head-on, and when sailing, you must sail against the sail.

Proverb No. 4

◆When one person builds a road, ten thousand people can walk safely.

◆When one person does evil, ten thousand people suffer.

◆Don’t speak two-faced words, and don’t seek double-dealing in front of others.

◆When a tiger emerges from a mountain, hundreds of pigs will die.

◆If the two ends of a word are even, the scale will not hurt anyone.

◆One good thing cannot cover up a hundred ugliness, and a hundred good things cannot cover up one ugliness.

◆If you can’t eat enough from one egg, you will carry a bad reputation until you grow old.

◆People are afraid of debauchery, and iron is afraid of falling into the furnace.

◆People are afraid of temptation, and people are afraid of penetration.

◆People are afraid of selfishness, and the land is afraid of desolation.

◆People are afraid of losing face, and trees are afraid of losing their bark.

◆People rely on self-cultivation, and trees rely on people to cultivate.

◆A person relies on his good intentions, and a tree relies on its strong roots.

◆A human heart can be exchanged for a human heart, and eight taels can be exchanged for half a catty.

◆If you like to argue with others in front of others, you will definitely talk about right and wrong behind others.

◆People should be solid, fire should be hollow.

◆People are really good, but ginger is old and spicy.

◆When entering the mountains, you are not afraid of tigers that can hurt people, but you are afraid of the double-edged sword of human beings.

◆Knife wounds are easy to treat, but oral wounds are difficult to treat.

◆Pedestrians trample on the grass on the road, and others say that they have evil intentions.

◆A thousand pieces of gold can’t buy someone’s heart, but ten thousand pieces of money can’t sell their faith.

◆Steal needles when you are young, steal gold when you are older.

◆The villain holds grudges, but the gentleman is grateful.

◆Don’t be afraid of the angry-eyed Vajra, only be afraid of the narrow-eyed Bodhisattva.

◆Don’t be afraid of tigers and wolves sitting in front of you, but be afraid of being cut off from both sides.

◆If you are not afraid of others being disrespectful, you are afraid of being unfair to yourself.

◆Don’t be afraid of ghosts scaring people, but be afraid of people scaring people.

◆Don’t ride a two-headed horse or drink two-headed tea.

◆It’s not your money, don’t keep it in your pocket.

◆If you don’t drink, your face won’t turn red; if you don’t commit a crime, your heart won’t be frightened.

◆If you don’t take advantage, you won’t be fooled. If you take advantage, you will suffer big losses.

◆Heaven relies on the sun and the moon, and people rely on their conscience.

◆An evil horse harms the herd, and a smelly tangerine leaves the basket empty.

◆Persuading people will always be beneficial, but instigating people will do endless harm.

◆If you hit someone, you will be worried for two days, and if you scold someone, you will be ashamed for three days.

◆It takes a lot of effort to punch empty punches, and it takes a lot of effort to talk empty words.

◆Hitting water will turn into waves, hitting rocks will turn into fire, and it will stir up people and cause disaster.

◆You can only save people, not drag them down.

◆You can only persuade others to reconcile, but you cannot persuade them to leave.

◆It can only save suffering, but not gambling.

◆Only building bridges and paving roads, not breaking bridges and cutting off roads.

◆Only Qianli’s reputation, but not Qianli’s prestige.

◆A bird cherishes its feathers, a tiger cherishes its skin, and a man cherishes his face.

I would rather admit my mistakes than lie.

◆It is better to recite Buddha’s name than to curse others.

◆It is better to have no money than to be shameless.

◆It is better to be right but not enough, not to be evil and have more than enough.

◆It is better to fight with open guns than to hurt people with hidden arrows.

◆It is better to have no money for a day than to have bad behavior.

◆It is better for the heart to suffer than for the face to be heated.

◆It is better to extend a helping hand than to trap people.

◆I would rather save a hundred sheep than a wolf.

◆If one swears to be successful, there will be no guilt in the prison cell.

◆The whip hurts the flesh, and the bad words hurt.

◆There are things to say in front of your face and things to do before your eyes.

◆The power cannot be exhausted, and the blessing cannot be fully enjoyed.

◆ Burn incense if you want to, no matter morning or evening.

◆Don’t tell lies in front of real people.

◆Irresponsible behavior, tongue three inches short.

◆A wise man does not do secret things, and a true man does not tell lies.

◆Being contented can lead to peace, while being greedy can easily lead to disaster.

◆Content is called a gentleman, greed is a villain.

◆Be contented and happy all your life.

◆It’s easy to know your mistakes but hard to correct them, it’s easy to say good things but hard to do good deeds.

◆If a dog bites a man, there is a cure; if a man bites a man, there is no cure.

◆Foxes always show their tails, and poisonous snakes always stick out their tongues.

◆It is difficult to accomplish big things if you are greedy for small profits.

◆Use your heart and mind to your own detriment.

◆ Harmony brings wealth, disobedience brings disaster.

◆It takes three years to learn well and three days to learn badly.

◆A thousand days of learning well is not enough, but a day of bad learning is more than enough.

◆If you let the tiger go back to the mountain, there will be trouble later.

◆Being mean doesn’t make money, being loyal doesn’t cost money.

◆If you are mean and start a family, you will never enjoy it for long.

◆If you are a thief, you can’t hide it from your hometown, and if you steal food, you can’t hide it from your teeth.

◆Being a thief comes from stealing, and corruption comes from taking advantage of others.

◆Stolen money lasts two or three days; hard-earned money lasts tens of thousands of years.

◆Eating secretly will not make you fat, and being a thief will not make you rich.

◆If your feet are upright, you will not be afraid of crooked shoes; if your heart is upright, you will not be afraid of thunder.

◆Keep your feet steady and don’t be afraid of the stick rolling.

◆Cats and mice sleep in different places, and tigers and deer walk in different directions.

◆The bow of the boat is stable and not afraid of the wind.

◆Money is like dung, but face is worth thousands of gold.

◆Poverty brings joy, while wealth brings sorrow.

◆You can’t tell lies and your crops can’t be harvested.

◆A sparrow falls into the field to eat grain, and a fox enters a house to steal chickens.

◆Don’t bully mountains, don’t bully water, don’t bully people, don’t bully your heart.

Proverb No. 5

◆One monk carries water to drink, two monks carry water to drink, and three monks have no water to drink.

◆I tried to catch two rabbits, but ended up empty-handed.

◆Being bitten by a snake once, and afraid of straw ropes for three years.

◆If you don’t know anything about it, you will not be able to rule by gods.

◆A life is counted three times a year, and even if you are not sick, you will become sick.

◆One bottle of water does not make any sound, but half a bottle of water is sloshing around.

◆The human heart is not enough for the snake to swallow the elephant, and the greed is not enough for the moon.

◆People do not know blessings when they are blessed, and a boat does not know the flow of water.

◆People see benefits but not harm; fish see food but not fishing.

◆People love the rich, dogs bite the poor.

◆The more people play, the lazier they become, and the more they eat, the more greedy they become.

◆If you make a mistake yourself, it will not count, but if others make a mistake, you will be spanked.

◆My own meat is not fragrant, but other people’s food is.

◆Professing to be good is rotten straw.

◆A cat that meows more will catch fewer mice.

◆Don’t talk about other people’s preoccupations, saying that you have good flowers and good rice.

◆It is difficult to cure an unjust disease with good medicine, and it is difficult to persuade a fool with good words.

◆A wise man can be beaten three times, but a foolish man cannot be beaten back.

◆Wearing three-foot clothes, speaking without distinction.

◆You will be hungry when you have no money, and you will be rich when you have money.

◆If you make flowers out of paper, they won’t bear fruit, and if you make a core out of wax, they won’t get close to fire.

◆A chicken cannot fly over a wall, and ashes cannot build a wall.

◆See if others are struggling to carry the burden, and then rest step by step while carrying the burden yourself.

◆Watch the Buddha police the monks, watch the father police the son.

◆Speak based on momentum, and do things based on limelight.

◆The father does not know how to plow the fields, and the son does not know how to plant grains.

◆When one is urgently ill, he or she seeks medical treatment and burns incense in temples.

◆Family words are ignored, while outsiders talk about the Golden Scripture.

◆The family has no backbone, and the broom is turned upside down.

◆The more incense you burn, the more ghosts you provoke.

◆When the mother hurts the son, the road becomes long; when the son hurts the mother, the thread becomes long.

The mother misses the son, the Yangtze River water, the son misses the mother, the pole is long.

◆If you can be big and small, you are a dragon, but if you are big but not small, you are a worm.

◆My big eyes and small belly make me unable to eat.

◆The eyes cannot recognize treasures, but Ganoderma lucidum is like basil.

Proverb No. 6

◆If you are good all the way, you can make gold and silver; if you are good all the way, you have no money to eat snacks.

◆You can recognize a person at ten miles and recognize your clothes at a hundred miles.

◆The king is easy to meet, but the kid is hard to find.

◆The great master throws away the lot, and the common people chew the bricks.

◆When the big tree fell, the hozen ran around.

◆Rhubarb can cure people without any fault, and ginseng can cure people with no fault.

◆After three years of clearing the prefecture, one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver were earned.

◆You can’t become a rich man if you don’t do evil things.

◆I went to the casino and didn’t recognize my parents.

◆There is a begging stick in front of the door, and close relatives do not come to the door.

◆There is a green grass mound in front of the door, and my biological uncle is an outsider.

◆The villain is arrogant, and the stream is loud.

◆The crows in the world are as black as the crows in the world, and the rich men in the world are as ruthless.

◆The Yamen of Tianxia opens to the south, so don’t come in if you have reason or no money.

◆A huge lawsuit, a huge amount of money.

◆The laws of nature and geography make money and reason a reality.

◆If you don’t cultivate mud fields, you can eat good food, and if you don’t raise flower silkworms, you can make good silk.

◆The longer and crooked the horns are, the bigger and greedier the rich man is.

◆Bull’s eyes look at people as high, and dogs’ eyes look at people as low.

◆The father hopes that the son will become a dragon, and the son hopes that the father will ascend to heaven.

◆Being rich is not benevolent, being benevolent is not rich.

◆Civilian officers have three hands, military officers have four legs.

◆If a civil official talks, a military officer will break his legs.

◆When the fire is too hot, the pig’s head is rotten, but when the money is enough, it is for business.

◆Great wealth can defeat others, and great power can suppress others.

◆Cold, cold in the wind, poor, poor in the rent.

◆The poor have good hearts, while the rich have hearts like knives.

◆The poor have dark hands and feet, and the rich have dark eyes.

◆The poor beg for food, while the rich beg for food.

◆The sweat of the poor is the food of the rich.

◆A dull dog speaks secretly.

◆Military officers know how to kill, civilian officers know how to scrape.

◆When it comes to flattering a horse, you have to laugh first and speak later.

◆Dogs bite the broken ones, and people lick the good ones.

◆A dog fights against the power of a human being, and a snow fights against the wind.

◆The dog walks towards the fart, and the man walks towards the trend.

◆A greedy person doesn’t have enough to eat, and a stingy person doesn’t know how to be rich.

◆The poor live in the busy city and no one cares about them, the rich live in the mountains and have distant relatives.

◆The monk does not tell ghosts, and there is no rice in the bag.

Proverb No. 7

◆It is difficult to cover two ears with one hand, and it is difficult to board two ships with one foot.

◆Can’t catch two fishes with one hand, can’t read two lines of writing at a glance.

◆One person can tell the truth, and a hundred people can tell the truth.

◆Do the same thing in a variety of ways.

◆You can’t become fat with one bite, and you can’t reach the horizon with one step.

◆A feather indicates the direction of the wind, and a grass indicates the current of water.

◆One stroke of painting cannot make a dragon, and one shovel cannot dig a well.

◆You get what you pay for, and it’s a good buy at ten percent of the price.

◆Ten bucks to spend and one buck to save.

◆Conceive for ten months and give birth once.

◆People cannot be judged by appearance, and sea water cannot be measured.

◆From a young age, people look at horses kicking their hooves.

◆If a person has no long-term worries, he must have immediate worries.

◆A dragon cannot survive without clouds, and a fish cannot survive without water.

◆Dragon eyes recognize pearls, phoenix eyes recognize treasures, and ox eyes recognize grass.

◆Set up for the night before it’s too late, watch the sky early when the rooster crows.

◆Go out to watch the sky, cook to watch the fire.

◆Don’t be suspicious of people you employ, and don’t use people you are suspicious of.

◆No melon is round, and no man is perfect.

◆It is better to lose something than to lose a moment.

◆You can only use knives against robbers, and sticks against vicious dogs.

◆How big your feet are and what shoes you wear.

◆Every success must have a failure, and every advantage must have a disadvantage.

◆There is something to say in the open, and there is medicine to apply to the painful area.

◆Every effect must have a cause, and what is beneficial must be harmful.

◆Where there is an uphill, there must be a downhill, and where there is a way in, there must be a way out.

◆Taste before eating and think before eating.

◆Eat food with heart, and be obedient.

◆If you continue to cut off, you will suffer from chaos.

◆Strong will break easily, soft will last forever.

◆What you can say will make people laugh, but what you can’t say will make people jump.

◆I can blame myself but not others.

◆If you can jump, shrink your feet first, and if you can bump, shrink your neck first.

◆It’s all ginger but not spicy, it’s all pepper but not numb.

◆ First drive the stakes and then tie the donkey, first build the nest and then fish.

◆More timely rain and less hindsight.

◆The deeper the foundation, the higher the wall.

◆Sail while the wind is favorable, and strike while the iron is hot.

Proverb No. 8

◆No one can open a shop unless he has a smiling face, and he will settle down if he can smooth things over.

◆Beauty lies not in appearance, but in good intentions.

◆People put etiquette and justice first, and trees put flowers and fruits first.

◆It is unfair for the big to bully the small; it is unfair for the big to help the small.

◆It’s never too late to be polite.

◆Don’t coax the young, and don’t bully the old.

◆We are not afraid of patches on our clothes, but we are afraid of stains on our hearts.

◆If you don’t greet someone with courtesy, you will have traveled forty miles in vain; if you greet someone with a courtesy, you will have traveled ten miles less.

◆Those who are afraid of you are fake, but those who are afraid of you are real.

◆Don’t hit someone in the face, don’t take away the bowl when eating.

◆If you don’t lose money, your tongue will roll.

◆If you give up an inch, you will receive a foot.

◆ Giving way is not a fool, and hiding is not a fool.

◆Don’t say mean things in front of dwarves.

◆Fighting over not having enough food, giving in to food.

◆If you can open your mouth when traveling, you can travel freely in the world.

◆It’s never too late for a good meal, and it’s never too late for a good word.

◆Benevolence and righteousness cannot be achieved without buying and selling.

◆You respect others one foot, and they respect you one foot.

◆You are ruthless to others, and they are unkind to you.

◆Don’t cover the fire when it’s cold, and don’t cover the wind when it’s hot.

◆A gentleman speaks but a villain takes action.

◆Gentlemen quarrel with each other for propriety, while villains quarrel with each other.

◆A word of patience will give you a break from your anger; a word of forbearance will help you win a step forward.

◆If you want to be good, let the big one give way to the small one.

◆Things are afraid of summing up, and people are afraid of being polite.

◆Getting along well with others and annoying others.

◆Good words are respected by others, but bad words hurt people's hearts.

◆Talking just talking, laughing just laughing, no tutor for moving hands and feet.

◆Don’t talk about light when you’re meeting a blind person, and don’t talk about sores when you’re meeting a leprous person.

If you don’t thank the doctor for your recovery, there will be no doctor next time.

◆Love your disciples like your son, respect your teacher like your father.

◆Respect the elderly and you will get old, and you will get treasures by respecting the crops.

Proverb No. 9

◆If you save a gourd head in a day, you will save a big ox in a year.

◆If you save one or two grains a day, you will need to use a warehouse to store it in ten years.

◆Save a handful a day and buy a horse in ten years.

◆A thread a day can accumulate into satin in ten years.

◆Eat porridge a day and save rocks and grains a year.

◆A drop of sweat can bring thousands of grains of grain, and a long stream of water can help with the famine.

◆Ten thousand stones of grain are accumulated; thousands of feet of cloth are woven from root to root.

◆All things are born from soil, and they all rely on hard work.

◆Every inch of soil is valuable, and the earth is an old root.

◆Every inch of land is empty, and there is a full store of food.

◆Bending your way up the mountain, you will have firewood when you get home.

◆It is better to rely on yourself than to rely on yourself.

◆Having a horse in front of the door does not mean you are rich, but having someone at home does not mean you are poor.

◆If you are not afraid of the cold weather, you are afraid that your hands and feet will not move.

◆Don’t be afraid of being slow, just be afraid of standing; one stop is two and a half miles away.

◆We are not afraid of hardship when we are young, but we are afraid of poverty when we grow old.

◆I am not afraid of picking up a big bowl when eating, but I am afraid of being lazy at work.

◆Don’t hesitate to work hard when you are young, and never give up when you are old.

◆Craftsmanship is a living treasure, and the world will never be hungry.

◆The Yangtze River does not reject trickles, and Mount Tai does not reject earth and rocks.

◆If you have wine today, you will get drunk today, but tomorrow you will drink cold water.

◆It is easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality.

◆The drizzle makes clothes wet; cups of wine ruin everything.

◆The mind needs constant exercise and the body needs long work.

◆The more the fire burns, the stronger it becomes, and the more people work, the stronger they become.

◆A ruler is useful for a ruler, and an inch is useful for an inch.

◆Hands are living treasures that cannot be used in a lifetime.

◆The water drops penetrate the stone, and the mountain is empty.

◆Achievements come from frugality, and excellence comes from diligence.

◆If you are easy to ask, you will not get lost; if you are easy to do, you will not be poor.

◆The money from labor lasts for thousands of years, and the money from corruption is right before our eyes.

◆It is better to ask for yourself than to ask for others, and it is better to use your legs to help others.

◆A year of flowering and a day of flowering.

◆If you stock up on the top provinces, the days will be longer; if you stock up on the bottom provinces, you will fight famine.

◆The waste of hoarding at the top is invisible, and you will regret it when you get to the bottom of the hoarding.

◆Men are lazy, and women are lazy too. They roll their eyes when it rains and snows.

◆The mountain will be empty if you sit down, and the ground will sink if you stand up.

◆Save one dollar every day and get a thousand dollars in three years.

◆Don’t waste water near a river, and don’t burn firewood near a mountain.

◆The cold weather does not freeze the hardworking man, and the loess does not suffer from the hardworking people.

◆Without the mud-legged people in the countryside, the greasy mouths in the city will starve to death.

◆Without the smell of feces, there would be no fragrance of grains.

Proverb No. 10

◆One person is no match for two people, and three people perform two acts together.

◆One person and one pair of hands can do the work without help, but ten people and ten pairs of hands can drag Mount Taishan away.

◆It is difficult for one person to sing a unique tune without clapping his hands.

◆A skillful cobbler does not have good shoes; two stupid cobblers have discussions with each other; three stinky cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang.

◆A piece of grass cannot be twisted into a rope, nor a piece of bamboo can be woven into a basket.

◆It is difficult to make a row with one piece of wood, and it is difficult to bundle firewood with one piece of straw.

◆One thread is easy to break; thousands of threads can pull fibers.

◆A bamboo pole is easy to bend, but three strands of silk thread are difficult to break.

◆It is difficult to walk with one foot, and it is difficult for one person to start a family.

◆One bee cannot make honey, and one rice cannot make porridge.

◆Three kinds of diligence and one thing of laziness, but you can’t be lazy even if you want to; three kinds of laziness and one thing of diligence, you can’t be diligent if you want to.

◆A thousand trees are connected to their roots, and ten fingers are connected to their hearts.

◆The wind is strong and the weather is cold, and the number of people is strong.

◆I am willing to help others in normal times, but there is someone who can help me in emergencies.

◆Brothers are united for money, and sisters-in-law are united and the family will never be separated.

◆Brothers work together to turn mountains into jade, and father and son work together to turn soil into gold.

◆If there are many birds, they are not afraid of eagles; if there are many people, the mountains will be leveled.

◆We share the blessings and share the difficulties.

◆United as one heart, loess turns into gold.

◆Be able to talk and do things that are hard to match.

◆Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and close neighbors are not as good as the opposite door.

◆ Help others in a timely manner and sincerely.

◆If your neighbor catches fire, you will be in danger if you don’t save him.

◆A soldier never leaves his team, and a bird never strays from its flock.

◆Brothers should not bully their neighbors, and generals should not bully their neighbors.

◆A tiger has no power away from the mountains, and a fish cannot survive without water.

◆A single thread cannot make a thread, and a single tree cannot make a forest.

◆It is difficult to carry food with a single chopstick, and it is difficult to fly into the sky with a single wing.

◆Bricks connect bricks to form walls, and tiles connect tiles to form a house.

◆It is difficult to start a fire with a single piece of wood, but the flame will be high with a large amount of wood.

◆A single tree cannot make a forest, and a single string cannot make a sound.

◆Family disharmony leads to bullying by outsiders.

◆ If the family is harmonious and the life is prosperous, everything will be prosperous if the country is harmonious.

Proverb No. 11

◆It is difficult for one person to sail a large sailboat, and it is difficult for one person to cover the eyes of others.

◆One person cannot obey the wishes of hundreds of people, and one wall cannot block the winds from all directions.

◆If one stitch is not repaired, it will be difficult to sew ten stitches; if there is danger, if it is not blocked, it will cause disaster and cause suffering.

◆One eye can’t see far; a thousand eyes can see through the sky.

◆One beauty brings about a hundred diseases, and people drown in shallow water.

◆A bird out of its cage is hard to come back from, and words left out of its mouth are hard to take back.

◆You will only suffer if you are careless, and you will be fooled if you are not careful.

◆It is easy to get things wrong but difficult to get things done.

◆It is better to regret and change than to regret.

◆It is better to take ten steps far than to take one dangerous step.

◆Be lenient to others and strict to yourself.

◆Speak less and do less excessive things.

◆It has the natural scent of musk and does not need to be blown by strong winds.

◆Prevent choking when eating and falling when walking.

◆No one loves you when you boast, and no one wears your broken flowers.

◆Words cannot be rewritten and words cannot be spread randomly.

◆Don’t burn the tofu before it gets too old, and don’t talk nonsense too soon.

◆Hard work can achieve success, and humility can add wisdom.

◆The stake that trips people may not be high; the dog that bites may not bark.

◆Be frugal at home and cautious when traveling.

◆A big tree attracts the wind, which brings bad luck.

◆Eating too much hurts the stomach, and talking too much causes loss of speech.

◆Think carefully when you speak, and chew carefully when you eat.

◆Leave three steps forward to move forward and three steps behind to retreat.

◆Too much salt will make you salty, and too much talk will make you annoying.

◆There is no good step if you walk hard, but you will get the taste slowly.

◆Firewood cannot withstand a hundred axes, and a man cannot withstand a hundred words.

◆Don’t talk nonsense when meeting people, and don’t rush into trouble.

Proverb No. 12

◆A day of reading is a day of success, a day of not reading is a day of nothingness.

◆A day without reading orally will make a difference, and a day without writing by hand will make a difference.

◆If you are not good at one skill, you will lose your life.

◆You can learn a trick in one day and a set in ten days.

◆The swords and guns become brighter and brighter, and the knowledge accumulates more and more.

◆A dull knife will be sharpened by a stone, and a fool will learn from it.

◆A sharp sword requires steel, and a strong horse requires strong materials.

◆If a knife is not sharpened, it will rust, and if a person does not learn, he will fall behind.

◆Third points rely on teaching and seventy points rely on learning.

◆Land is valuable in cultivation, knowledge is valuable in application.

◆If you don’t learn it when you are young, you will be a fool, and if you don’t learn it when you grow up, you will be a lazy dragon.

◆Don’t be afraid of things being difficult, just be afraid of being impatient.

◆If you don’t read a family’s books, you won’t know a family’s characters.

◆The sky is boundless and the wisdom is infinite.

◆No wood can be cut without cutting, and people cannot understand without learning.

◆If you dig the well three times for good drinking water, you will be a person with high martial arts skills.

◆If you win the game, you will win, and if you study hard, you will win.

◆An ox cannot plow without training, and a horse cannot ride without training.

◆Fingers may be long or short, and knowledge may be high or low.

◆The heart must be used, and the land must be sown.

◆ Only a dedicated mind can embroider flowers, and a calm mind can weave linen.

◆When water drops gather together, they become a sea; when reading books gather together, they become knowledge.

◆If jade is not carved, it will not become a tool; if wood is not carved, it will not be useful; if people do not learn, they will not understand.

◆Nothing is difficult in the world, only those who are willing can do it.

◆The more you use something, the less it becomes; the more you learn, the more you learn.

◆As long as you work hard, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle.

◆Birds are valued for their wings, and people are valued for their wisdom.

◆Only by asking questions while learning can you become knowledgeable.

◆If you have children and don’t teach them, it’s better not to have them.

◆Speak often when you are old, and ask often when you are young.

◆If you don’t chew, you won’t know the taste; if you don’t read, you won’t know the meaning.

◆The master leads us in, and everyone’s skill lies in it.

◆The more you learn from the same teacher, the more you know the art.

◆Being comfortable is not an adult, being an adult is not comfortable.

◆Those who can speak are not as good as those who can listen, and those who can teach are not as good as those who can learn.

◆There are sages among the people, and gold and silver among the earth and stones.

◆Good iron needs to be refurbished three times, and a good book needs to be read a hundred times.

◆Learning comes from hard work, and art comes from hard work.

◆There is talent in words and wisdom in books.

◆The river will no longer flow backwards, and people will no longer have blackheads when they grow old.

◆Think carefully to gain wisdom, chew carefully to reveal taste.

◆Fine work will produce skillful craftsmen, and fine mud will make good tiles.

◆If you want to be good, you will be tired every day; if you want to be good, you will work hard.

◆To achieve amazing art, you must work hard.

◆Trees rely on people to cultivate, and learning relies on self-cultivation.

◆Don’t leave the field while farming, and don’t leave the desk when reading.

◆Put a tree early and teach your children while they are young.

◆The spring water cannot be drained, and the knowledge cannot be exhausted.

◆Live and learn as you go. Eighty years of learning is still too little.

◆It is better to educate your children than to accumulate money, and it is better to read a book than to sit idle.

◆Make candles for clarity and read for reason.

◆My parents take good care of themselves, and I take care of myself.

Proverb No. 13

◆A friend is a road, an enemy is a wall.

◆One family’s adopted daughter is sought after by hundreds of families.

◆People are humane and the play has a sense of drama.

◆People are eager to seek refuge with relatives, and birds are eager to seek refuge in the forest.

◆The son loves the younger one, and the daughter-in-law loves Qiao Qiao.

◆It is better to have fewer children than to have more children, and it is better to have fewer children than to have fewer children.

◆If you lose the land, you will not be able to bear seeds; if you lose the people, you will not be able to have friendship.

◆It is better to choose friends than to make friends widely, and it is better to visit friends than to seek teachers.

◆The son does not think the mother is ugly, the dog does not think the family is poor.

◆Ride to see if the horse is good or bad, and see if it is friendly or bad.

◆A horse is good because of its bark, but a person is beautiful because of his appearance.

◆No family can be built without a wife, and no house can be built without beams.

◆Cocks fight head to head, couples quarrel but do not hold grudges.

◆The moon is full and wane, and people are different when they gather together.

◆Today’s visitors were a sign of good intentions in the past; today’s fights were a sign of good intentions in the past.