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"Zengguang Xianwen" The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and the new people in the world drive out the old ones. The tower near the water will see the moon first, and the flowers and trees in the sun will see spring early. The ancients did not see the moon today, but the moon used to shine on the ancients. The one who comes first is the king, the one who comes later is the minister. Mo Daojun leaves early, and there are even more early travelers. Don't believe in the straight and the straight, and beware of being unkind. There are straight trees in the mountains, but there are no straight people in the world. Hate yourself that the branches have no leaves, don't blame the sun for being biased. Everything is fate, nothing is up to you. ...

1. Author: Anonymous

2. Most of the sentences in "Zengguang Xianwen" come from a collection of classics and history, poetry, drama, novels and literati's miscellaneous notes. The concepts come directly or indirectly from the classics of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. In a broad sense, it is a popular version of the "Classics" that are both refined and popular. You can understand it without explanation, and you can also understand the thoughts and life wisdom of the scriptures by reading "Zengguang Xianwen". "Zengguang Xianwen" is also a collection of proverbs.

3. "Zengguang Xianwen" is a children's enlightenment book compiled during the Ming Dynasty in China. Also known as "Xianwen of the Past" and "Xianwen of the Ancient and Modern Times". 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. This book collects various 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 probably the crystallization of folk creation.

4. "Zengguang Xianwen" is composed of rhymed proverbs and selected quotes from literature. Its content is very wide, ranging from etiquette and morality, rules and regulations to customs, allusions, astronomy and geography, almost everything Contains, and the sentences are smooth and easy to understand. But the center is about the philosophy of life and the way to live in the world.