Source: Lin Chuan's "Xin An Lu" in the Song Dynasty, those who don't know enough are eager to learn, and those who are ashamed of asking are complacent, and those who are satisfied are not poor; Omnipotent, the sky can't be cheap; What can be deformed outside can't be sick in the sky; Can not be greedy, the sky will not die; Those who can be happy with the situation, the sky can not be sleepy; Those who can become talents should not be immune to it; People who can set an example for future generations of the world cannot be denied.
Vernacular translation:
People who know their own shortcomings, who are modest and eager to learn, who are ashamed to ask others for advice, who are conceited and always satisfied, cannot be poor by God. God cannot humble those who are not greedy; God can't make people who can treat their bodies as things outside their bodies sick; God can't let those who can't lust after life die;
God can't embarrass those who can be content with the status quo; God cannot isolate those who can actively reward and cultivate talents; Those who can stand up and plead for the interests of all people in the world and future generations will not be desperate by God.
This article is from the Song Dynasty, written by Lin Ding.
Extended data writing background:
The long river of history rolls by, and the waves wash the sand. The preserved documents are all gold and silver vessels, which are particularly precious. The admonishment literature handed down from China people (folk and family) directly reflected the moral ideal advocated by people at that time, and reflected the characteristics of China culture more directly and truly than those gorgeous official Confucian classics.
These educational books, which were handed down to future generations by scholars and literati, comprehensively and comprehensively expounded a series of guidelines for staying in the world, determined to get married, and dealing with family relations and interpersonal relationships, even involving various aspects such as being an official, governing the country, studying, cultivating oneself and thinking about society, nature and life, and can be used as reference materials for today's spiritual civilization construction and moral norms.
Such famous sayings and family precepts are often refined, vivid, straightforward and catchy, which is of great appreciation value. As a product of history, they will naturally deteriorate and be doped with some negative and backward things. We hold the attitude of sublation and do the work of sorting out and eliminating, hoping that readers will have correct judgment and understanding.
About the author:
Lin Bu, 967- 1028) was born in Huangxian Village, Dali, Zhejiang Province (now Huangxian Village, Qiucun Town, Fenghua City). In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, a famous recluse poet never married an official and had no children. He only likes to grow plums and raise cranes, calling himself "plum as his wife and crane as his son" and "plum wife crane". Tiansheng died in the sixth year (1028). At the age of sixty-one, Sejong mourned and was named "Mr. He Jing".