Life is always contented. People always take a break and there are green poplars everywhere. The Ma family has a road leading to Chang'an: Life should be contented, but when is contentment achieved? Leisure is leisure when you reach old age. . As long as there are willow trees, horses can be tied, and there are roads leading to Chang'an everywhere.

Source: "Zengguang Xianwen", a children's enlightenment book of the Ming Dynasty: You know when you have enough in life, and you will be idle when you are old. But there are green poplars that can tie horses, and there are roads leading to Chang'an everywhere. What's the point of looking back once you've fallen into the cauldron? It's hard to collect the water that keeps coming back.

Translation: Life should be contented, but when is it enough? Leisure is leisure when you reach old age. As long as there are willow trees, horses can be tied, and there are roads leading to Chang'an everywhere. Now that the cauldron and steamer have been smashed, what's the use of looking back? It's even harder to recover the water that was thrown away.

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Introduction to the work:

The content of "Zengguang Xianwen" generally has the following aspects: first, it talks about people and interpersonal relationships; The third one talks about fate, the third one talks about how to live in the world in Ai Guangqin's "Zengguang Xianwen", and the fourth one expresses his views on reading. In the world described in "Zengguang Xianwen", people are hypocritical. People are fickle for their own selfish purposes. They hate 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 of the content is the core of the whole text. There are many descriptions of tolerance in the article, and it is believed that tolerance is the way to eliminate troubles and disasters.

While advocating self-protection, caution and tolerance, it also emphasizes people's subjective initiative and believes that this is the principle of doing things. There is also a lot of advice in the article to encourage people to do good, “You must not have the intention of harming others, and you must have the intention of guarding against others.

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