First, the source of the original sentence

This sentence comes from a couplet written by Gu Xiancheng, the leader of the Ming Dynasty, to encourage scholars.

Wind and rain, reading, hearing.

Family affairs, state affairs and everything in the world care about everything.

It means that it is not enough for a scholar to read a book well. From small family matters to world events, he needs to care and think. Only by understanding the world with his heart can he learn and use it, and he will not die of reading and studying.

Second, the profile of the characters.

Gu Xiancheng, an uncle whose surname was Jingyang, was honored as "Mr. Lin Dong" because he founded Donglin Academy. Famous thinker in Ming Dynasty, leader of Lindong Party. Born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, he was a scholar in the eighth year of Wanli (1580) and served as an official in Beijing and director of the household department.

Gu Xiancheng founded Donglin Academy, and taking Donglin Academy as the position, by giving lectures, arguing, discussing, writing books and publishing books, he lashed out and criticized Wang Shouren's Xue Xin and Wang Xue's various empty, empty and metaphysical thoughts and preaching in moral cultivation and epistemology, which promoted the upsurge of practical learning.

Forty years of Wanli (16 12), Gu Xiancheng died at home. He wrote Notes on Careful Zhai, Gao Jing's Tibetan manuscript and Gu Duanwen's suicide note all his life.