Ten thousand words may not satisfy you, but a handful of flowing water can quench your thirst.
◆The mountain is climbed step by step, and the boat is rolled out one oar after another.
◆One look is worth less than a thousand lessons, and one practice is worth less than a thousand looks.
◆If you live on a slope for a long time, it is never too steep.
◆Horses look at their teeth, and people look at their words and deeds.
◆If you don’t experience the cold of winter, you won’t know the warmth of spring.
◆If you don’t take the burden, you don’t know the weight; if you don’t walk the long road, you don’t know the distance.
◆If you don’t sleep in the quilt, you don’t know how wide it is.
◆If you don’t get into the water, you will never know how to swim; if you don’t set sail, you will never know how to punt.
◆If you don’t have a family, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are; if you don’t have children, you don’t know the kindness of your parents.
◆Your hands won’t get dirty if you don’t touch the bottom of the pot, and your hands won’t get greasy if you don’t hold the oil bottle.
◆The falling water reveals stones, and over time it reveals people’s hearts.
◆The blacksmith should hold the pliers by himself, and the farmer should go to the fields by himself.
◆ Ask the woodcutter when collecting firewood, and ask the boatman when sailing a boat.
◆Better to have done it than to miss it.
◆I was fooled the first time, but became enlightened the second time.
◆Send back water and accumulate mud; experience something and gain wisdom.
◆Hearing is false, seeing is true.
◆The old horse knows the way, the old man is sophisticated.
◆If the old people don’t talk about ancient times, the younger generations will be wrong.
◆The old beef is chewy and the old man’s words are listening.
◆Old ginger has a strong spiciness, and the elderly have more experience.
◆It is better to see it than to hear it a hundred times, and to do it once is worse than seeing it a hundred times.
◆Suffer a loss and learn to be good.
◆Only when you are in charge do you know that salt and rice are expensive; only when you go out do you know that the road is difficult.
◆ Just talk without practicing the fake moves, just practice without talking about the real moves, talk and practice all the moves.
◆The more you file, the faster the saw will be, and the more you will gain knowledge.
◆A tree has many roots and people have many knowledge.
◆Chop firewood and go up the mountain, catch birds and go up the tree.
◆Chop wood, chop off the little head, and ask the old man for directions.
◆The casserole will not leak unless it is pounded, and the wood will not be able to penetrate unless it is chipped.
◆Grass cannot cover the eyes of an eagle, and water cannot cover the eyes of a fish.
◆Medicine farmers go into the mountains to see herbs, and hunters go into the mountains to see animals.
◆It is a snake with a cold body, and a wolf with a fishy body.
◆Fragrant flowers may not necessarily be beautiful, and good talk may not necessarily be capable.
◆After some setbacks, I gained some insights.
◆Have extensive experience and know much.
◆If you want to know what is happening in the mountains, ask the old farmers in the countryside.
◆Know the kindness of your parents and hold your children and grandchildren in your arms.
◆If you want to eat spicy food, plant spicy rice seedlings; if you want to eat carp, walk along the Yangtze River.
◆The old man knows everything.
Proverb No. 2
◆What one person says makes sense, but what two people say makes sense.
◆One righteousness can ward off three evils, and a righteous person can ward off hundreds of evils.
◆The momentary strength depends on strength, and the eternal victory or defeat depends on reason.
◆One thing makes sense, all things are in harmony.
◆People are afraid of being ignored, and dogs are afraid of having their tails pinched.
◆People are afraid of reason, and horses are afraid of whips.
◆People have their own reasons, and horses have their reins.
◆The more people produce righteousness, the more grains produce good rice.
◆It doesn’t matter whether the person is close or not, but whether it is straightened out or not.
◆As long as there are no clouds in the sky and no rain, nothing will happen in the world.
◆All bows in the world are curved, but all principles in the world are straight.
◆There are no two days in the sky, and there are no two principles in people.
◆The more you dig the well, the clearer the water becomes; the more things are laid out, the clearer the reason becomes.
◆Be unreasonably flustered, and be rationally courageous.
◆The oxen cannot drag the harrow, and the people speak unreasonably.
◆If you accept reason but not people, you will not be afraid of anything.
◆Recognize reason but not people, help managers but not relatives. The water is too big to cover the boat, and the hand is too big to cover the sky.
◆If the water is not level, let it flow; if the reason is not level, let it flow.
◆When the water recedes and the stone remains, good people will not be bad.
◆Convince the population with force and convince people with reason.
◆If you give people an inch, you can be reasonable.
◆Speak the truth when you have reason, and speak nonsense when you have no reason.
◆Those who are reasonable think about what to say, and those who are unreasonable rush to say it.
◆A person who is right is not afraid of being pressured by force, and a person who is upright is not afraid of a distorted shadow.
◆Don’t talk too high when you are right, talk about it in front of your face.
◆Don’t throw away the rationale and don’t argue with the unreasonable.
◆Win with reason and lose without reason.
◆ Put reason into action and use good steel to the edge.
◆You can travel all over the world with reason, but you can’t move even without reason.
◆A tree can fall down with an axe, but it will not fall down with a reasonable argument.
◆You have ambitions but not your age, and you have reason but you don’t know how to speak.
◆Eat rice and talk rationally.
◆The one who eats people is soft-spoken and the one who talks about people is short-sighted.
◆Eat with flavor and speak with reason.
◆He can walk without making a difference, and he can talk without making sense.
◆The tongue is made of flesh, the fact is ironclad.
◆If the light is not on, ask someone to turn it on; if something is unclear, ask someone to explain it.
◆If the light is not turned on, it will not turn on, and the reason will not be clear.
◆Good people argue and bad people argue.
◆Don’t be afraid to taste good tea carefully, and don’t be afraid to discuss good things carefully.
◆Good wine is not afraid of brewing, and good people are not afraid of speaking.
◆There is an endless road to walk and endless principles to know.
◆Afraid of heavy rain when walking, afraid of being criticized when talking.
◆The mouth of the altar can be sealed, but the population cannot.
◆Be neither short-sighted nor soft-spoken.
◆The dishes have no salt and taste, and the words are useless.
◆My feet can’t outrun the rain, and my strong mouth can’t handle it.
◆Act in accordance with natural principles and speak in accordance with people's opinions.
◆The ship is stable and not afraid of strong winds, and it can navigate the world with reason.
◆Be sure to put rice when cooking and be reasonable when speaking.
◆ Every other line is like a mountain, every other line is not separated.
◆If the drum is not beaten, it will not sound, and the reason will not be clear.
◆The road is crooked, but the truth is straight.
◆If the road is uneven, everyone will step on it; if things are uneven, everyone will take care of it.
◆There are thousands of roads, but only one way.
◆When grinding grain, you must grind out rice, and when you speak, you must make sense.
◆The more rice is produced, the more people speak out.
◆Chopping firewood depends on the texture, and speaking based on reason.
Proverb No. 3
◆People have ambitions, but bamboos have integrity.
◆If a person has perseverance, everything will succeed; if a person does not have perseverance, everything will fail.
◆People are not big or small, horses are not high or low. People go to higher places, and water flows to lower places.
◆People look to the big place, and birds fly to high places.
◆People compete for qi, fire competes for flames, and Buddha competes for a stick of incense.
◆When a person is old, his heart will never grow old, and when he is poor, his ambition will never be poor.
◆People must have strong hearts and trees must have hard bark.
◆People rely on ambition, and tigers rely on power.
◆People are afraid of having no aspirations, and trees are afraid of losing their bark.
◆When a person has his heart, a tree has its roots.
◆Three hundred and sixty lines, every line is number one.
The mountains are high and there is climbing, and the road is far and wide.
◆The mountains are high and the rivers are flowing, and the ambition is great and the spirit is strong.
◆The villain holds grudges, but the gentleman has long ambitions.
◆Don’t be afraid of the long road, just afraid of the shortcomings.
◆Don’t be afraid of things going wrong, but be afraid of being discouraged.
◆If you are not afraid of high mountains, you are afraid of weak feet.
◆If you are not afraid of failing in your studies, you are afraid of being dishonest.
◆Don’t be afraid of being ignorant, but be afraid of being short of ambition.
◆It is difficult to develop courage without taking three risks.
◆You cannot become a hero without training.
◆Although the wooden ruler is short, it has a thousand feet of energy.
◆Nothing is difficult in the world, as long as there are people who are willing.
◆No one will be poor even if it rains for a month.
◆Heaven does not give birth to useless people, and the earth does not grow nameless grass.
◆If you have no ambition, a mountain will weigh you down, but if you have ambition, you will move a mountain.
◆Don’t be afraid of the strong and don’t bully the weak.
◆The moon does not change the light, and the broken arrow does not change the steel.
◆The water is so deep that it is difficult to see the bottom, and the tiger will not be defeated even if it dies.
◆The water goes to X L, and people compete for the upper reaches.
◆As long as you make progress, you are not afraid of being looked down upon by others.
◆There is only a sky that cannot be climbed, and there is no mountain that cannot be passed.
◆Afraid only of lack of diligence, not afraid of lack of excellence; just afraid of lack of perseverance, not afraid of failure.
◆Only for gentlemen as gatekeepers, not for villains.
◆Birds are valued for their wings, but people are valued for their ambitions.
◆Birds fly to bright places, and people fly to high places.
◆If you don’t have courage in strangers, your strength will be in vain.
◆It is better to be cold in body than to be cold in heart; it is better to be poor than to have poor aspirations.
◆I would rather suffer in body and bones than be embarrassed.
◆I would rather be an ant’s legs than a sparrow’s mouth.
◆It is better to be a poor person than to be a wealthy person.
◆I would rather break bones than bow my head and be humiliated.
◆It is better to be a horse puller for a good man than to be a boss for a lazy man.
◆I would rather give a fight to the poor than a mouthful to the rich.
◆I would rather eat porridge to open my eyebrows than rice to frown.
◆I would rather carry shoes for a gentleman than share wealth with a villain.
◆It is better to hit the golden bell once than to break the sound of a thousand drums.
◆It is better to suffer money than to suffer losses to people.
It is better to die than to be unreasonable, and to be poor than to lose one's ambition.
◆If you have ambitions, you will not grow taller; if you have no ambitions, you will live a hundred years in vain.
◆There is a sky that cannot be reached, and there is no level that cannot be passed.
◆If there is a mountain, there must be a road; if there is water, there must be a crossing.
◆It rains continuously for a hundred days, but there will always be sunshine.
◆The steamed buns that have been eaten are not fragrant, and the sugar canes that have been chewed are not sweet.
◆A good man depends on his willpower, and a good horse depends on his courage.
◆A good man will not suffer the consequences of being bored, and a good bird will not hide in the thorny forest.
◆A good man will work hard to the end, and a good horse will run to the end.
◆A good man does not fight for property and possessions, and a good woman does not fight for her wedding clothes.
◆A good drum will sound as soon as it is beaten, and a good lamp will light up as soon as it is pulled out.
◆Aspire to be high and your taste will be high, your ambition will be low and your taste will be low.
◆Don’t be afraid of climbing mountains when walking, and don’t be afraid of crossing dangerous shoals when boating.
◆If a man has no ambition, there will be no steel in blunt iron; if a woman has no ambition, there will be no seedlings in the grass.
◆A scholar will starve to death without selling his books, and a strong man will not sell his sword if he is desperate.
◆The grain must grow on its own, and the people must strengthen themselves.
◆There is no tree that cannot be sawed down, and no bell that cannot be ringed.
◆Don’t lose your ambition if you are poor, and go crazy if you are rich.
◆Poor people don’t climb high relatives, and they don’t climb high ridges when it rains.
◆A gentleman’s revenge is never too late.
◆A gentleman’s revenge takes three years, but a villain’s revenge is just around the corner.
◆Tiger is not afraid of high mountains, fish is not afraid of deep water.
◆A tiger is thin and ambitious, but a poor person has great ambition.
◆The roots of old trees are deep and the bones of old people are strong.
◆Trees are afraid of rotten roots, and people are afraid of lack of ambition.
◆The grass will not sprout if there is no intention, and the people will not develop if there is no intention.
◆The bold one rides a dragon and a tiger, the timid one rides a cat and a rabbit.
◆The brave can travel all over the world, but the timid cannot move even a single step.
◆Although the weight is small, it can weigh a thousand pounds.
◆If you keep the green hills, you won’t have to worry about running out of firewood.
◆No matter how high the waves are, they are still on the bottom of the boat; no matter how high the mountain is, they are also on the bottom of the feet.
◆If a dish has no intention, it will die, and if a person has no intention, it will die.
◆You can eat vegetables, but you can eat chaff, but you can’t eat Qi; you can eat it, wear it, but you can’t control it.
◆The tiger is not at a disadvantage, and the eagle is not standing on a weeping branch.
◆The rope cuts the wood, and the water drops penetrate the stone.
◆The nights are long when people are worried, but the days are short for people with lofty ideals.
◆I am willing to die for everyone, not for one person.
◆When casting a net, cast the net head-on, and when sailing, you must sail against the sail.
Proverb No. 4
◆One person builds a road and ten thousand people walk safely.
◆When one person does evil, ten thousand people suffer.
◆Don’t speak two-faced words, and don’t seek double-dealing in front of others.
◆When a tiger emerges from a mountain, hundreds of pigs will die.
◆If the two ends of a word are even, the scale will not hurt anyone.
◆One good thing cannot cover up a hundred ugliness, and a hundred good things cannot cover up one ugliness.
◆If you can’t eat enough from one egg, you will carry a bad reputation until you grow old.
◆People are afraid of debauchery, and iron is afraid of falling into the furnace.
◆People are afraid of temptation, and people are afraid of penetration.
◆People are afraid of selfishness, and the land is afraid of desolation.
◆People are afraid of losing face, and trees are afraid of losing their skin.
◆People rely on self-cultivation, and trees rely on others.
◆A person relies on his good intentions, and a tree relies on its strong roots.
◆A heart can be exchanged for a heart, eight taels can be exchanged for half a catty.
◆If you like to argue with others in front of others, you will definitely talk about right and wrong behind others.
◆People should be solid, fire should be hollow.
◆People are really good, but ginger is old and spicy.
◆When entering the mountains, you are not afraid of tigers that can hurt people, but you are afraid of the double-edged sword of human beings.
◆Knife wounds are easy to treat, but oral wounds are difficult to treat.
◆Pedestrians trample on the grass on the road, and others say that they have evil intentions.
◆A thousand pieces of gold cannot buy a person’s heart, but ten thousand pieces of gold can’t sell a person.
◆Steal needles when you are young, steal gold when you are older.
◆The villain holds grudges, but the gentleman is grateful.
◆Don’t be afraid of the angry-eyed Vajra, only be afraid of the narrow-eyed Bodhisattva.
◆Don’t be afraid of tigers and wolves sitting in front of you, but be afraid of being cut off from both sides.
◆If you are not afraid of others being disrespectful, you are afraid of being unfair to yourself.
◆Don’t be afraid of ghosts scaring people, but be afraid of people scaring people.
◆Don’t ride a two-headed horse or drink two-headed tea.
◆It’s not your money, don’t keep it in your pocket.
◆If you don’t drink, your face won’t turn red; if you don’t commit a crime, your heart won’t be frightened.
◆If you don’t take advantage, you won’t be fooled. If you take advantage, you will suffer big losses.
◆Heaven relies on the sun and the moon, and people rely on their conscience.
◆An evil horse harms the herd, and a smelly tangerine leaves the basket empty.
◆Persuading people will always be beneficial, but instigating people will do endless harm.
◆If you hit someone, you will be worried for two days, and if you scold someone, you will be ashamed for three days.
◆It takes a lot of effort to punch empty punches, and it takes a lot of effort to talk empty words.
◆Hitting water will turn into waves, hitting rocks will turn into fire, and irritating people will cause disaster.
◆You can only save people, not drag them down.
◆You can only persuade others to reconcile, but you cannot persuade them to leave.
◆It can only save suffering, but not gambling.
◆Only building bridges and paving roads, not breaking bridges and cutting off roads.
◆Only Qianli’s reputation, but not Qianli’s prestige.
◆A bird cherishes its feathers, a tiger cherishes its skin, and a man cherishes his face.
I would rather admit my mistakes than lie.
◆It is better to recite Buddha’s name than to curse others.
◆It is better to have no money than to be shameless.
◆It is better to be right but not enough, not to be evil and have more than enough.
◆It is better to fight with open guns than to hurt people with hidden arrows.
◆It is better to have no money for a day than to have bad behavior.
◆It is better for the heart to suffer than for the face to be heated.
◆It is better to extend a helping hand than to trap people.
◆I would rather save a hundred sheep than a wolf.
◆If one swears to be successful, there will be no guilt in the prison cell.
◆A whip hurts the flesh, and a bad word hurts the heart.
◆There are things to say in front of your face and things to do before your eyes.
◆The power cannot be exhausted, and the blessing cannot be fully enjoyed.
◆ Burn incense if you want to, no matter morning or evening.
◆Don’t tell lies in front of real people.
◆Irresponsible behavior, tongue three inches short.
◆A wise man does not do secret things, and a true man does not tell lies.
◆Being contented can lead to peace, while being greedy can easily lead to disaster.
◆Content is called a gentleman, greed is a villain.
◆Be contented and happy all your life.
◆It’s easy to know your mistakes but hard to correct them; it’s easy to say good things but hard to do good deeds.
◆If a dog bites a man, there is a cure; if a man bites a man, there is no cure.
◆Foxes always show their tails, and poisonous snakes always stick out their tongues.
◆It is difficult to accomplish big things if you are greedy for small profits.
◆Use your heart and mind to your own detriment.
◆ Harmony brings wealth, disobedience brings disaster.
◆It takes three years to learn well and three days to learn badly.
◆A thousand days of learning well is not enough, but a day of bad learning is more than enough.
◆If you let the tiger go back to the mountain, there will be trouble later.
◆Being mean doesn’t make money, being loyal doesn’t cost money.
◆If you are mean and start a family, you will never enjoy it for long.
◆If you are a thief, you can’t hide it from your hometown, and if you steal food, you can’t hide it from your teeth.
◆Being a thief comes from stealing, and corruption comes from taking advantage of others.
◆Stolen money lasts two or three days; hard-earned money lasts tens of thousands of years.
◆Eating secretly will not make you fat, and being a thief will not make you rich.
◆If your feet are upright, you will not be afraid of crooked shoes; if your heart is upright, you will not be afraid of thunder.
◆Keep your feet steady and don’t be afraid of the stick rolling.
◆Cats and mice sleep in different places, and tigers and deer walk in different directions.
◆The bow of the boat is stable and not afraid of the wind.
◆Money is like dung, but face is worth thousands of gold.
◆Poverty brings joy, while wealth brings sorrow.
◆You can’t tell lies and your crops can’t be harvested.
◆A sparrow falls into the field to eat grain, and a fox enters a house to steal chickens.
◆Don’t bully mountains, don’t bully water, don’t bully people, don’t bully your heart.
Proverb No. 5
◆One monk carries water to drink, two monks carry water to drink, and three monks have no water to drink.
◆I tried to catch two rabbits, but ended up empty-handed.
◆Being bitten by a snake once, and afraid of straw ropes for three years.
◆If you don’t know three questions, there is no rule by gods.
◆A life is counted three times a year, and even if you are not sick, you will become sick.
◆One bottle of water does not make any sound, but half a bottle of water is sloshing around.
◆The human heart is not enough for the snake to swallow the elephant, and the greed is not enough for the moon.
◆People do not know blessings when they are blessed, and a boat does not know the flow of water.
◆People see benefits but not harm; fish see food but not fishing.
◆People love the rich, dogs bite the poor.
◆The more people play, the lazier they become, and the more they eat, the more greedy they become.
◆If you make a mistake yourself, it will not count, but if others make a mistake, you will be spanked.
◆My own meat is not fragrant, but other people’s food is.
◆Professing to be good is rotten straw.
◆A cat that meows more will catch fewer mice.
◆Don’t talk about other people’s preoccupations, saying that you have good flowers and good rice.
◆It is difficult to cure an unjust disease with good medicine, and it is difficult to persuade a fool with good words.
◆A wise man can be beaten three times, but a foolish man cannot be beaten back.
◆Wearing three-foot clothes, speaking without distinction.
◆You will be hungry when you have no money, and you will be rich when you have money.
◆If you make flowers out of paper, they won’t bear fruit, and if you make a core out of wax, they won’t get close to fire.
◆A chicken cannot fly over a wall, and ashes cannot build a wall.
◆See if others are struggling to carry the burden, and then rest step by step while carrying the burden yourself.
◆Watch the Buddha police the monks, watch the father police the son.
◆Speak based on momentum, and do things based on limelight.
◆The father does not know how to plow the fields, and the son does not know how to plant grains.
◆When one is urgently ill, he or she seeks medical treatment and burns incense in temples.
◆Family words are ignored, while outsiders talk about the Golden Scripture.
◆The family has no backbone, and the broom is turned upside down.
◆The more incense you burn, the more ghosts you provoke.
◆When the mother hurts the son, the road becomes long; when the son hurts the mother, the thread becomes long.
The mother misses the son, the Yangtze River water, the son misses the mother, the pole is long.
◆If you can be big and small, you are a dragon, but if you are big but not small, you are a worm.
◆My big eyes and small belly make me unable to eat.
◆The eyes cannot recognize treasures, but Ganoderma lucidum is like basil.
Proverb No. 6
◆ If you are good all the way, you will make gold and silver; if you are good all the way, you will have no money to eat snacks.
◆You can recognize a person within ten miles and recognize your clothes within a hundred miles.
◆The king is easy to meet, but the kid is hard to find.
◆The great master throws away the lot, and the common people chew the bricks.
◆When the big tree fell, the hozen ran around.
◆Rhubarb can cure people without any fault, and ginseng can cure people with no fault.
◆After three years of clearing the prefecture, one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver were earned.
◆You can’t become a rich man if you don’t do evil things.
◆I went to the casino and didn’t recognize my parents.
◆There is a begging stick in front of the door, and close relatives do not come to the door.
◆There is a green grass mound in front of the door, and my biological uncle is an outsider.
◆The villain is arrogant, and the stream is loud.
◆The crows in the world are as black as the crows in the world, and the rich men in the world are as ruthless.
◆The Yamen of Tianxia opens to the south, so don’t come in if you have reason or no money.
◆A huge lawsuit, a huge amount of money.
◆The laws of nature and geography make money and reason a reality.
◆If you don’t cultivate mud fields, you can eat good food, and if you don’t raise flower silkworms, you can make good silk.
◆The longer and crooked the horns are, the bigger and greedier the rich man is.
◆Bull’s eyes look at people as high, and dogs’ eyes look at people as low.
◆The father hopes that the son will become a dragon, and the son hopes that the father will ascend to heaven.
◆Being rich is not benevolent, being benevolent is not rich.
◆Civilian officers have three hands, military officers have four legs.
◆If a civil official talks, a military officer will break his legs.
◆When the fire is too hot, the pig’s head is rotten, but the money is enough for official business.
◆Great wealth can defeat others, and great power can suppress others.
◆Cold, cold in the wind, poor, poor in the rent.
◆The poor have good hearts, while the rich have hearts like knives.
◆The poor have dark hands and feet, and the rich have dark eyes.
◆The poor beg for food, while the rich beg for food.
◆The sweat of the poor is the food of the rich.
◆A dull dog speaks secretly.
◆The military attache knows how to kill, and the civilian official knows how to scrape.
◆When it comes to flattering a horse, you have to laugh first and speak later.
◆Dogs bite the broken ones, and people lick the good ones.
◆A dog fights against the power of man, and a snow fights against the wind.
◆The dog walks towards the fart, and the man walks towards the trend.
◆A greedy person doesn’t have enough to eat, and a stingy person doesn’t know how to be rich.
◆The poor live in the busy city and no one cares about them, the rich live in the mountains and have distant relatives.
◆The monk does not tell ghosts, and there is no rice in the bag.
Proverb No. 7
◆It is difficult to cover two ears with one hand, and it is difficult to board two ships with one foot.
◆Can’t catch two fishes with one hand, can’t read two lines of writing at a glance.
◆One person can tell the truth, and a hundred people can tell the truth.
◆Do the same thing in a variety of ways.
◆You can’t become fat with one bite, and you can’t reach the horizon with one step.
◆A feather indicates the direction of the wind, and a grass indicates the current of water.
◆One stroke of painting cannot make a dragon, and one shovel cannot dig a well.
◆You get what you pay for, and it’s a good buy at ten percent of the price.
◆Ten bucks to spend and one buck to save.
◆Conceive for ten months and give birth once.
◆People cannot be judged by appearance, and sea water cannot be measured.
◆From a young age, people look at horses kicking their hooves.
◆If a person has no long-term worries, he must have immediate worries.
◆A dragon cannot survive without clouds, and a fish cannot survive without water.
◆Dragon eyes recognize pearls, phoenix eyes recognize treasures, and ox eyes recognize grass.
◆Set up for the night before it’s too late, watch the sky early when the rooster crows.
◆Go out to watch the sky, cook to watch the fire.
◆Don’t be suspicious of people you employ, and don’t use people you are suspicious of.
◆No melon is round, and no man is perfect.
◆It is better to lose something than to lose a moment.
◆You can only use knives against robbers, and sticks against vicious dogs.
◆How big your feet are and what shoes you wear.
◆Every success must have a failure, and every advantage must have a disadvantage.
◆There is something to say in the open, and there is medicine to apply to the painful area.
◆Every effect must have a cause, and what is beneficial must be harmful.
◆Where there is an uphill, there must be a downhill, and where there is a way in, there must be a way out.
◆Taste before eating and think before eating.
◆Eat food with heart, and be obedient.
◆If you continue to cut off, you will suffer from chaos.
◆Strong will break easily, soft will last forever.
◆What you can say will make people laugh, but what you can’t say will make people jump.
◆I can blame myself but not others.
◆If you can jump, shrink your feet first, and if you can bump, shrink your neck first.
◆It’s all ginger but not spicy, it’s all pepper but not numb.
◆ First drive the stakes and then tie the donkey, first build the nest and then fish.
◆More timely rain and less hindsight.
◆The deeper the foundation, the higher the wall.
◆Sail while the wind is favorable, and strike while the iron is hot.
Proverb No. 8
◆No one can open a shop without a smiling face, and he will settle down if he can smooth things over.
◆Beauty lies not in appearance, but in good intentions.
◆People put etiquette first, and trees put flowers and fruits first.
◆It is unfair for the big to bully the small; it is unfair for the big to help the small.
◆It’s never too late to be polite.
◆Don’t coax the young, and don’t bully the old.
◆We are not afraid of patches on our clothes, but we are afraid of stains on our hearts.
◆If you don’t greet someone with courtesy, you will have traveled forty miles in vain; if you greet someone with a courtesy, you will have traveled ten miles less.
◆Those who are afraid of you are fake, but those who are afraid of you are real.
◆Don’t slap someone in the face when you hit someone, don’t take away the bowl when eating.
◆If you don’t lose money, your tongue will roll.
◆If you give up an inch, you will receive a foot.
◆It is not a fool to give way, and it is not a fool to hide.
◆Don’t say mean things in front of dwarves.
◆Fighting over not having enough food, giving in to food.
◆If you can open your mouth when traveling, you can travel freely in the world.
◆It’s never too late for a good meal, and it’s never too late for a good word.
◆Benevolence and righteousness cannot be achieved without buying and selling.
◆You respect others one foot, and they respect you one foot.
◆You are ruthless to others, and they are unkind to you.
◆Don’t cover the fire when it’s cold, and don’t cover the wind when it’s hot.
◆A gentleman speaks but a villain takes action.
◆Gentlemen quarrel with each other for propriety, while villains quarrel with each other.
◆A word of patience will give you a break from your anger; a word of forbearance will help you win a step forward.
◆If you want to be good, let the big one give way to the small one.
◆Things are afraid of summing up, and people are afraid of being polite.
◆Getting along well with others and annoying others.
◆Good words are respected by others, but bad words hurt people's hearts.
◆Talking just talking, laughing just laughing, no tutor for moving hands and feet.
◆Don’t talk about light when you’re meeting a blind person, and don’t talk about sores when you’re meeting a leprous person.
If you don’t thank the doctor for your recovery, there will be no one to treat you next time.
◆Love your disciples like your son, respect your teacher like your father.
◆Respect the elderly and you will get old, and you will get treasures by respecting the crops.
Proverb No. 9
◆If you save a gourd head in a day, you will save a big ox in a year.
◆If you save one or two grains a day, you will need to use a warehouse to store it in ten years.
◆Save a handful a day and buy a horse in ten years.
◆A thread a day can accumulate into satin in ten years.
◆Eat porridge a day and save rocks and grains a year.
◆A drop of sweat can bring thousands of grains of grain, and a long stream of water can help with the famine.
◆Ten thousand stones of grain are accumulated; thousands of feet of cloth are woven from root to root.
◆All things are born from soil, and they all rely on hard work.
◆Every inch of soil is valuable, and the earth is an old root.
◆Every inch of land is empty, and there is a full store of food.
◆Bending your way up the mountain, you will have firewood when you get home.
◆It is better to rely on yourself than to rely on yourself.
◆Having a horse in front of the door does not mean you are rich, but having someone at home does not mean you are poor.
◆If you are not afraid of the cold weather, you are afraid that your hands and feet will not move.
◆Don’t be afraid of being slow, just be afraid of standing; one stop is two and a half miles away.
◆We are not afraid of hardship when we are young, but we are afraid of poverty when we grow old.
◆I am not afraid of picking up a big bowl when eating, but I am afraid of being lazy at work.
◆Don’t hesitate to work hard when you are young, and never give up when you are old.
◆Craftsmanship is a living treasure, and the world will never starve.
◆The Yangtze River does not reject trickles, and Mount Tai does not reject earth and rocks.
◆If you have wine today, you will get drunk today, but tomorrow you will drink cold water.
◆It is easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality.
◆The drizzle makes clothes wet; cups of wine ruin everything.
◆The mind needs constant exercise and the body needs long work.
◆The more the fire burns, the stronger it becomes, and the more people work, the stronger they become.
◆A ruler is useful for a ruler, and an inch is useful for an inch.
◆Hands are living treasures that cannot be used in a lifetime.
◆The water drops penetrate the stone, and the mountain is empty.
◆Achievements come from frugality, and excellence comes from diligence.