1. During a gentleman's trip, it is quiet to cultivate one's morality and frugality to cultivate morality. -Zhuge Liang

Source: The Book of Commandments

Interpretation: As a gentleman, you should cultivate yourself without being influenced by the outside world and cultivate your moral character with thrift.

2. Don't be surprised, just watch the flowers blossom and fall in front of the court; Whether to stay or not is unintentional, and it is easy to follow the clouds outside the sky. -Hong Yingming

from "Caigen Tan"

Interpretation: Take all the glory and humiliation in stride and enjoy the flowers in the courtyard with a calm mood. I don't care about all the ups and downs and gains and losses, and watch the clouds in the sky gather and disperse with the wind. The so-called body is not shocked, and there is elegance in idle watching. If you have no intention, you will have a casual style. This is a kind of state, and the attitude towards fame and fortune should be neither happy nor worried.

3. don't be happy with things, don't be sad with yourself. —— Northern Song Dynasty/Fan Zhongyan

Source: The Story of Yueyang Tower

Interpretation: You are not happy or sad because of the quality of foreign objects and your own gains and losses. It shows the far-reaching and open-minded attitude of the ancient benevolent people (people with noble morality in ancient times). This sentence uses intertextual rhetoric.

4. If you are indifferent, you will have no ambition, and if you are quiet, you will not be far away. -Zhuge Liang

Source: The Book of Commandments.

Interpretation: It reflects Zhuge Liang's philosophical thinking on life. He thinks that a person must be indifferent to desire to have a clear ambition, and he must be lonely and quiet to reach a far-reaching realm. The language is shallow and profound, full of Taoist philosophy.

5. Be quiet and far-reaching. -Zhuge Liang

Source: "Huai Nan Zi Zhu Shu Xun"

Interpretation: Lian Bo refers to indifference to fame and fortune, that is, not pursuing fame and fortune; Clear, clear, show; Ambition, ambition. Quiet, refers to a quiet and peaceful mind, not troubled by the world; To cause, cause, or achieve; Far, far-reaching and lofty.