Source: Liu Shao's Biography of Old Tang Books and Wei Zhi.
Original: Husband, with copper as a mirror, you can be well dressed; Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall; Take people as a mirror, you can know the gains and losses. Wei Zhi: No, I lost a mirror.
Vernacular translation: using copper as a mirror can straighten clothes; Taking the past dynasties as a mirror, we can know the truth of the country's prosperity; Take people as a mirror, you can understand your own gains and losses. After Kevin·Z died, I lost a good mirror.
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In the seventeenth year of Zhenguan (643), Wei Zhi died of illness, and Li Shimin was very sad and abandoned the DPRK for five days. Wei Zhi was posthumously awarded as the commander-in-chief of Sikong and Xiangzhou, and was named "Wen Zhen". Li Shimin wrote to Wei Zhi asking for a heavy burial, but Wei Zhi's wife Shi Pei refused, because life in Wei Zhi is simple and simple, and a luxurious funeral is not the wish of the deceased. Pei's only car was loaded with a coffin, so he called civil and military officials out of the city to see him off and personally wrote an inscription. ?
After Wei Zhi's death, Li Shimin often said to the courtiers around him: "We can dress our clothes with bronze mirrors, know the ups and downs with ancient history as mirrors, and see the gains and losses with people as the foundation. I often use this way to prevent myself from making mistakes, but now that Wei Zhi has passed away, I am missing a mirror.
After Wei Zhi died, I sent someone to his house and got a page of his legacy. It's just drafted, and the words are hard to read. Only the first few lines are slightly recognizable. It says, "There are good and evil in the world. If you hire good people, the country will be stable; if you hire bad people, the country will decline. Between ministers, there is love and hate. The person you hate only sees his evil, and the person you love only sees his good.
Be careful between love and hate. If you love and know its evil, and hate and know its good, you will be duty-bound to eliminate evil, and appoint sages without doubt, and the country will prosper. This is the general idea of the Heritage List, but when I think about it, I'm afraid I can't avoid the mistakes that Wei Zhi said.
Or courtiers, you can write these words on the board, knowing that I am wrong, you must remonstrate. In February of the same year, Ming Yan painted twenty-four heroes in Lingyange, ranking third.