Career is accomplished by hard work, but wasteful by play; success is achieved by thinking, and destroyed by casualness.

From Han Yu's "Jin Xue Jie" in the Tang Dynasty

Meaning: Studying is accomplished through diligence, but it can be wasted in games. There is another sentence below this sentence, which is accomplished by thinking and destroyed by randomness, which means that things are successful due to repeated thinking, but they can be destroyed by randomness without thinking.

Excerpts from the original text:

Mr. Guozi entered Taixue in the morning, recruited all the students to set up a hall, and taught: "The best in work is diligence, the waste is in play; the success is in thinking. , Destroyed by Sui. Now the sages meet, the evil spirits are removed, and the good ones are recorded. All the people who are famous for their skills are scraping and polishing. If you are lucky enough to be selected, what is wrong with you? If you are unable to master your karma, you will not be able to do it well, and you will not be able to do it because you are not clear about it. Those who laughed at the others said: "Sir, you are bullying me! I have been with you for a long time now. Your master is constantly reciting essays on the six arts, and his hands are constantly writing about hundreds of schools of thought. The chronicler must mention the essentials and compile them. Those who speak must be greedy for more, and don't donate too much to keep the sundial. Mr. Wu's career can be said to be diligent.

Translation:

Mr. Guozi walked into Taixue in the morning, called the students to stand under the school building, and taught them: "Study is due to diligence, and is wasted due to play; virtue is achieved due to independent thinking, and is achieved due to following the rules. Follow the customs and become corrupted. Today, the sage king and the virtuous ministers meet and unite, and all kinds of laws are implemented.

Get rid of evil people and promote outstanding talents. Those with a slight advantage were admitted, and those with talent were not allowed to be appointed. Select outstanding talents and cultivate talents. Only the lucky ones who didn't do well were chosen, no outstanding person went unmentioned. As long as students are worried that their studies cannot be perfected, don't worry that the bureaucrats in charge are not smart enough;

As long as you are worried that virtue cannot be achieved, don't worry about the unfairness of the bureaucrats. "The words were not over yet, some people in the team laughed: "Is this gentleman lying to us? "My husband has been serving for many years now. This gentleman keeps reading articles from the Six Classics, and he keeps reading hundreds of books in his hands.

Historical classics must be To summarize and grasp the outline, we must explore the profound and hidden meanings of the classics. We must study extensively in order to gain something, no matter whether it is insignificant or significant, we must not abandon it. Studying day and night is often tiring all year round. Studying can be said to be diligent.

"Jin Xue Jie" is an ancient essay written by Han Yu, a writer in the Tang Dynasty. It is a work in which the author expresses his complaints under the guise of giving lectures to students.

Full text. It can be divided into three major paragraphs: the first paragraph writes about Mr. Guozi's analysis of the justice of studying, presenting the situation to all students, and positively coming to the conclusion: "The cause of trouble cannot be refined, without suffering from the injustice of the company; the practice cannot be accomplished, without suffering from the injustice of the company." "The conclusion of , refuting the teacher's conclusion; in the third paragraph, the teacher made another self-mockery, expressed his views on the students' opinions, showed a casual and calm attitude, and implicitly ridiculed the imperial court.

The article is original in conception and the language is novel. The image technically absorbs the narration, couplets, ornamentation, rhyme and other forms of poetry and poetry, and then innovates and transforms it, rich in the beauty of order. The famous saying "The work is accomplished by hard work, and the waste is played by play; action is achieved by thinking, and destruction is achieved." "Yu Sui" comes from this article.

Extended information:

Creative background

This article is believed to be dated to the eighth year of Yuanhe (813) of Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Han Yu was forty-six years old. He was a doctor of Confucianism in Chang'an (today's Xi'an, Shaanxi Province) and taught students and students. The whole text pretends that the teacher encourages students to ask questions, and the teacher gives answers. Therefore, it is called "Jin Xue Jie", which is actually a sigh of relief. , a work of self-expression of anger.

Jinxuejie expresses the depression of upright, talented and ambitious intellectuals in the feudal era and criticizes unreasonable social phenomena. It has typical significance and is therefore widely read. In addition, the section on ancient prose writing in the second paragraph can be used to understand his ancient prose theory and literary trends, which is also worth noting.

The reason for the reference is only the Western Han Dynasty. Later, there were more and more paraphrases in the articles, which was inconsistent with the ancient writers' advocating the prose style. In addition to the Confucian classics, there were also the Confucian classics "Zhuangzi", the history book "Historical Records" and "Chu Ci" and Sima Xiangru and Yang. Xiong's poems, essays, etc. These works are often profound and magnificent, and Han Yu is still good at this.

He once called Qu Yuan, Meng Ke, Sima Qian, Sima Xiangru, and Yang Xiong. "Heroes of the Ancients" ("Reply to Cui Li's Book") This is very different from the one-sided opposition between "Tao" and the aesthetic characteristics of literature by some commentators in the early period of the ancient prose movement, and even despised writers such as Qu Yuan and Song Yu. of.

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