Origin: Three Kingdoms Period. Zhuge Liang's command book.
Original: A gentleman's journey is to cultivate one's morality by quietness and frugality. Not cold, not awake, not quiet, not far away. If you study quietly, you must study. If you don't study, you won't learn widely. If you have no ambition, you can't succeed. You can't work hard if you are slow, and you can't work hard if you are in danger. Time goes by, meaning goes by, and then becomes withered, not meeting the world, and staying in a poor house sadly. What will happen?
The character of a gentleman is to improve self-cultivation from tranquility and cultivate morality from thrift. You can't define your ambitions without being quiet and carefree, and you can't achieve your lofty goals without excluding external interference. Learning must be calm and single-minded, and talent comes from learning. Therefore, if you don't study, you won't grow up, and if you don't have ambition, you won't get results.
Indulging in laziness can't cheer you up, nor can impatience and adventure cultivate your temperament. Time flies, and the will passes with the years. In the end, most of them are out of touch with the world and are not used by society. They can only sit in the poor house sadly. How could they regret it at that time?
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Appreciation of Ten Commandments
This article was written in the 12th year of Jian Xing in Shu Han Dynasty. It was a letter that Zhuge Liang wrote to his eight-year-old son Zhuge Zhan in his later years. Zhuge Liang did his best for the country and the people until he died. He worked day and night for the cause of Shu and Han countries, neglecting to educate his son personally, so he wrote this letter to warn Zhuge Zhan.
Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu and Han in the Three Kingdoms, was praised as "the embodiment of wisdom" by later generations. His Ten Commandments is a family precept full of wisdom and a masterpiece of ancient family precepts. This paper expounds the profound truth of self-cultivation and scholarship, which is thought-provoking to read. It can also be seen as Zhuge Liang's summary of his life, and later became a famous piece of self-cultivation and determination to get married.
The main purpose of "The Book of Commandments" is to persuade my son to study hard and be determined, and to cultivate self-cultivation should work hard from indifference and tranquility, and avoid laziness and impatience. Summarize the experience of being a man and doing research, focus on the word "quiet", and at the same time attribute the failure to the word "mania", which is in sharp contrast.
This book of commandments not only expounds the ways and methods of self-cultivation, but also points out the relationship between determination and learning. It not only explains the importance of tranquility and indifference, but also points out the harm of indulgence, neglect and extreme impatience. Zhuge Liang is not only strict with his son in general principles, but also shows subtle concern for his children in some specific matters.
The article is short and pithy, fresh and elegant, unpretentious and approachable, which are the characteristics of this article.
Baidu Encyclopedia-not indifferent, not clear, not quiet, not far away.
Baidu Encyclopedia-The Book of Commanders (Works by Zhuge Liang)