Confucius said: "It is like a mountain. If I stop before I reach a barrier, I will stop. It is like a flat land. Even if I cover a barrier, I will go forward."

Confucius said: It's like piling soil into a mountain. Just add another basket of soil and it will become a mountain. If you are too lazy to continue, you will stop on your own. It's like piling up a mountain of dirt on flat ground. Even if you just dumped a basket of dirt, if you are determined to move forward, you still have to persevere!

The language comes from "The Analects of Confucius? Zihan Chapter", which is: pronounced as wei, verb, pile of soil to become. 篑: noun, basket. Stop: stop. Level: verb, to level the land. Cover: verb, pour.

Confucius believed that whether learning knowledge or moral cultivation, there is a gradual and slow accumulation process, and it cannot be achieved overnight. Therefore, you can’t just try and stop, you must persevere until you finally succeed. He used the metaphors of "making a mountain" and "a flat land" to encourage people not to stop and give up halfway just because they have achieved a small result before the goal is reached, so that all previous efforts are wasted.