"There is no end to learning the sea."

The original text of Han Yu's

Persuading Scholars in Ancient and Modern Times is as follows:

I'm afraid I won't move, but my brain is afraid I won't use it. The more you use your hands, the more clever your brain is. Three days fishing, two days drying nets, half-hearted, nothing. A day of practice, a day of work, a day without practice for ten days. Never leave your fist, never leave your mouth. Knives will rust if they are not sharpened, and people will fall behind if they don't learn. There is a road to the mountain of books, and there is no limit to learning the sea. The master leads the door and practices in himself. Practice makes perfect, and industry is good at diligence.

translation: Exercise frequently and think often. Use your hands and brains more. If you don't concentrate, you will accomplish nothing. Learning is like sailing against the current. If you don't work hard for a day, many previous efforts may be in vain. Singers should sing often, and martial arts practitioners should practice often. Even if you are proficient in an academic subject, if you don't practice it every day, actively update your knowledge.

there will be a deserted day. On the road of reading and studying, there is no shortcut, and there is no boat to sail with the wind. If you want to learn more and more knowledge in the vast mountain of books and learning, "diligence" and "concentration" are two essential and the best conditions.

The teacher is the leader of your study, but whether you can really learn well depends on your own efforts. If you want to master technology, only by studying hard and practicing hard can practice make perfect.

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Han Yu is an advocate of the ancient prose movement, advocating inheriting the prose tradition of the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, and opposing the parallel prose which only focuses on the antithesis of temperament and rhythm and ignores the content. Han Yu's articles are magnificent, thorough and logical, and are regarded as the first of the "eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". At that time, people had the reputation of "Korean". Du Mu juxtaposes Korean with Du Shi, which is called "Du Shi Han Bi". Su Shi called him "the decline of eight generations of literature."

The ancient prose movement advocated by Han Liu opened up the development path of ancient prose since the Tang Dynasty. Korean poetry strives for novelty, emphasis on momentum and originality. Han Yu took prose as poetry, and introduced new ancient Chinese language, rules and techniques into poetry circles, which enhanced the expressive function of poetry, expanded the field of poetry, and corrected the mediocre poetic style since Dali (766-78).

In terms of feudal ideology and morality, he also made unique achievements, vigorously advocated Confucianism, assumed the role of inheriting Confucian orthodoxy, and pioneered the Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties.

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