After the fifteenth day of the month, there will be little light, and when a person reaches middle age, everything will stop.

Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. Don’t be a horse or a cow for your children and grandchildren.

"As long as a person lives, the grass and trees grow in autumn" evolved from "As long as a person lives, the grass grows in autumn". From "Zengguang Xianwen".

The original paragraph is as follows:

Be patient with anger for a moment to avoid a hundred days of worry.

I recently learned the turtle method, and when I have to shrink my head, keep it down.

Afraid of the Dharma and the joy of court, deceived and worried every day.

As long as the grass grows, the autumn will last.

After the fifteenth day of the month, there will be little light, and when a person reaches middle age, everything will stop.

Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. Don’t be a horse or a cow for your children and grandchildren.

Don’t plan for a thousand years, thirty years to the east and forty to the west.

Extended information

"Zengguang Xianwen", also known as "Xianwen of the Past" and "Xianwen of Ancient and Modern Times", is a children's enlightenment book compiled during the Ming Dynasty in China. The title of the book was first seen in the opera "The Peony Pavilion" during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. From this, it can be inferred that the book was written during the Wanli period at the latest.

"Zengguang Xianwen" collects various Chinese maxims and proverbs from ancient times to the present. Later, after continuous additions by literati from the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was changed into its current form, called "Zengguang Xianwen", commonly known as "Zengguang Xianwen". The author has never seen any book records. He only knows that the Confucian scholar Zhou Xitao revised it during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. It is likely to be the crystallization of folk creations in the Qing Dynasty.

The content of "Zengguang Xianwen" generally has the following aspects: first, it talks about people and interpersonal relationships, second, it talks about destiny, third, it talks about how to live in the world, and fourth, it expresses views on reading. In the world described in "Zengguang Xianwen", people are hypocritical. People are fickle for their own selfish purposes. They dislike the poor and love the rich, and follow the crowd. This makes the world full of traps and crises.

There is a lot of emphasis on fate and retribution in the article. It is believed that everything about people is arranged by fate, and people should do good deeds to have good luck. "Zengguang Xianwen" has a large amount of space describing how to treat others, and this part is the core of the whole text.

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