Diligence poems include:

1. It’s spring before you realize it when you are reading, every inch of time is worth every inch of gold. ——Wang Zhenbai of the Tang Dynasty, "One of Two Poems from White Deer Cave"

Translation: Concentrate on reading, and before you know it, it is late spring, and an inch of time is as precious as an inch of gold.

Theme: This poem is about my own reading life. The line "an inch of time is an inch of gold" in the poem has become a wise saying that has been passed down through the ages to encourage people to cherish time. Future generations should be inspired and educated by it. Knowledge is accumulated over time. In order to enrich and enrich ourselves, we should cherish time very much.

2. The lights are on at three and the chickens are on at five, which is when men are studying. ——"Encouraging Learning" by Yan Zhenqing in the Tang Dynasty

Translation: Read at night at midnight, and get up at the fifth watch when the rooster crows. This morning and night is a good time for men to study.

Theme: This poem encourages young people to cherish their youth, study diligently, and make a difference. Otherwise, they will accomplish nothing when they grow old and it will be too late to regret. Let children initially understand that life is short, thereby increasing their enthusiasm for learning.

3. The ancients spared no effort in their knowledge, and only when they are young and old can they achieve success. ——Lu You, Song Dynasty, "Reading on a Winter Night to Show Ziyu"

Translation: The ancients spared no effort in learning knowledge. They worked hard when they were young and achieved success in old age.

Theme: This is a poem for teaching children. The poet emphasizes the importance of practice in terms of the relationship between books and practice. Indirect experience is a way for people to absorb nutrients from books and learn the knowledge and skills of their predecessors. Direct experience is knowledge generated directly from practice and is a more important way to acquire knowledge.

4. If you don’t read for a month, your eyes and ears will lose their clarity. ——Xiao Luan of the Qing Dynasty said, "Reading can reveal insights"

Translation: If you don't read for a month, you will feel that your ears and eyes are not clear.

Theme: This poem exemplifies the benefits of reading and the disadvantages of not reading. It advises people to love reading and persevere in reading, and expresses its truth vividly.

5. The books are as affectionate as old friends, and the joys and sorrows of morning and evening are close to each other. ——"Guanshu" by Yu Qian of the Ming Dynasty

Translation: The scroll is like an old friend of mine. It always accompanies me in the morning and evening, whether I am sad or happy.

Theme: This poem describes the poet's personal experience and expresses his love for reading. It has an elegant taste, a straightforward style, and a reasoning image, which is quite contagious.

6. Living water flows everywhere, and the east wind brings new flowers and willows. ——"Guanshu" by Yu Qian of the Ming Dynasty

Translation: Persist in reading frequently, and fresh ideas will come in a steady stream and be inexhaustible; study diligently, and the flowers and willows in the east wind will become new and colorful.

Theme: This poem describes the poet's personal experience and expresses his love for reading. It has an elegant taste, a straightforward style, and a reasoning image, which is quite contagious.

7. Yesterday, the neighbor was begging for a new fire, and Xiaochuang was given a reading lamp. ——"Qingming" by Wang Yucheng of the Song Dynasty

Translation: Yesterday, I asked for a new fire from my neighbor. At dawn, I lit a lamp in front of the window, sat down and read with concentration.

Theme: This poem takes the Qingming Festival as the background, uses line drawing to reproduce the difficult life of poor intellectuals in ancient times, and expresses the poet's hardship in life and his feelings about reading for pleasure.

8. If a man wants to fulfill his life ambition, he should read the Five Classics diligently in front of the window. ——"Poem to Encouragement to Study" by Zhao Heng of the Song Dynasty

Translation: If a man wants to realize his lifelong ambition, he should study diligently in front of the window.

Theme: The language of this poem is popular and the reasoning is clear. It shows that studying to obtain fame was an excellent way out of life at that time. Only after obtaining fame can you obtain wealth and beautiful women.

9. Read thousands of volumes and write like a master. ——Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty, "Twenty-Two Rhymes from Wei Zuocheng"

Translation: He has read thousands of books by heart, and started writing articles with agility as if he was spiritual.

Theme: The poet mainly uses the expression techniques of contrast and twists and turns to express the depressed feelings in his heart in a real and touching way.

10. Work is accomplished by hard work, but wasteful by playfulness; actions are accomplished by thinking, and destroyed by casualness.

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