This sentence comes from Ouyang Xiu, a politician, writer and historian in the Northern Song Dynasty.
The original text is as follows:
Oh! The truth of ups and downs, although called destiny, is not human nature! The original Zhuang Zong won the world for a better reason than those who lost it.
It is said that the king of Jin will eventually give three arrows and tell him, "Liang, I hate him;" Prince, what I represent; I made an appointment with the Khitan brothers; Everyone goes back to Jin, back to Liang. I hate these three. With your three arrows, you will never forget your father's ambition! " Zhuang Zong was hidden in the temple.
Later, when fighting, he sent someone to tell the temple with a small supervisor, asking for his arrow, filling his move, opening up passively, and returning in triumph. It was Yan and his son who wrote that Liang Junchen was the first king, entered the ancestral temple and went back to the first king to tell him that he had succeeded. He is full of energy and can be described as powerful! And the enemy has been destroyed, the world has been decided, a woman cries at night, and the chaos should be four. When the soldiers see the thief, they disperse, and the monarch and the minister care about each other and don't know where to go.
As for swearing, breaking my hair and crying, how bad! Is it hard to get and easy to lose? Suppress the traces of its success or failure, but all come from others?
"Book" said: "Full loss, modest profit." It is natural that fatigue can rejuvenate the country and leisure can die. Therefore, Fang Qisheng is also a hero in the world and cannot compete with him. And its decline, dozens of actors trapped, the country died and died, laughing at the world. Husband's misfortune often makes a mickle, but wisdom and courage are trapped in drowning, so he is a lonely person! Make the biography of Lingguan.
Translation: alas! Although the ups and downs are determined by fate, aren't they caused by personnel? We can understand why Zhuang Zong won the world and why he lost it.
Legend has it that the King of Jin gave three arrows when he died, telling him: "Liang is my enemy, I founded the Prince of Yan, and I became sworn brothers with Qidan. Later, they both betrayed me and took refuge in Liang. These three things are my legacy. Give you three arrows, don't forget your father's ambition for revenge. "
Zhuang Zong was shot dead by an arrow in the ancestral temple. After Zhuang Zong sent troops to fight, he sent entourage officials to sacrifice pigs and sheep to their ancestors, respectfully took out arrows from the ancestral temple, put them in beautiful silk pockets, and let people carry them in front of the army. When they came back from winning the battle, they still put them in the ancestral temple.
When he tied the prince and his son with a rope, filled Liang's head with a wooden box, walked into the ancestral temple, returned the arrow to the throne of the king of Jin, and told him that his revenge had been completed before his death, his expression was so majestic!
When the enemy has been destroyed, the world is stable, and one person makes trouble all night, the insurgents respond on all sides. He sent his troops to the east in panic, and before he saw the rogue, his soldiers fled in succession. You look at me, I look at you, and I don't know what to do. When I cut off my hair and swore to God, I cried my eyes out and my clothes were wet with tears. How could it be so bad?
Is it because it is difficult to win the world and easy to lose it? Or seriously investigate the reasons for his success and failure, all because of personnel?
The history book says: "Pride and complacency will bring harm, while modesty will bring benefits." Worry and fatigue can make the country prosper, and happiness can make itself perish. This is a natural truth. Therefore, when he is in the spring breeze, no one can compete with him; When he was in decline, dozens of musicians framed him, and finally he died and was laughed at by the whole world.
Disasters are often accumulated by minor mistakes. Even smart, talented and courageous people are addicted to a certain hobby, confused by it, and eventually fall into poverty. Just a musician (drowning ingredient)? So I wrote "Biography of Lingguan".
Extended data:
Biography of Historians of the Five Dynasties is a historical theory founded by Ouyang Xiu, a writer in the Song Dynasty. Based on the concrete analysis of the rise and fall of the Five Dynasties and the late Tang Dynasty, this paper draws the conclusions that "worrying about fatigue can rejuvenate the country, leisure can perish" and "disasters often accumulate little, and wisdom and courage can drown", which shows that the rise and fall of a country depends not on fate, but on "personnel".
In order to warn the rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time to take history as a mirror, be prepared for danger in times of peace, beware of procrastination, arrogance and extravagance. The article comes straight to the point and puts forward the main idea of the full text: the reason for the ups and downs lies in personnel. Then, from the perspective of "personnel", it describes the process from prosperity to decline, and then to wealth and sudden death, and demonstrates the main idea with historical facts. In the specific writing, the method of promoting first and then restraining, and comparative demonstration is adopted.
First of all, I highly praised Zhuang Zong's high spirits when he succeeded, and then I felt sorry for his decline when he failed. The contrast between prosperity and death, prosperity and decline is strongly touching, and finally supplemented by the ancient teachings of Shangshu, which further enhances the persuasiveness of the article The full text closely follows the word "ups and downs", combines narration with exposition, history with theory, uses a pen to bring emotion, ups and downs, changes a lot, has a strong appeal, and has become a masterpiece that has always been told.