The following are all classic famous sayings with explanations in Chinese studies:
Be faithful in your words and respectful in your deeds.
selected from: The Analects of Confucius
Meaning: speak faithfully and honestly, and act kindly and seriously.
one relaxation at a time is the way of civil and military affairs.
From The Book of Rites
Meaning: Sometimes nervous, sometimes relaxed. This is the way Zhou Wenwang and Zhou Wuwang handle political affairs. Nowadays, it means to combine work, study and life.
a tree can win a hundred things, and so can a person.
selected from
Pipe Right Repair
Meaning: what can be harvested once is to cultivate talents. Although it takes time and effort to cultivate talents, it has gained a lot.
a scholar has a hundred lines, with virtue as the head.
Selected from the History of the Three Kingdoms
Meaning: People with lofty ideals have hundreds of virtues and regard virtue as the first. Later, it was used to explain that people should put "virtue" in the first place.
one puff, then decline, and three exhaust.
selected from Zuo Zhuan
Meaning: beating the drum for the first time will boost morale; Hit the drum for the second time, and morale began to decline; Hit the drum for the third time, and the morale will completely disappear. This sentence encourages everyone to do things in one breath when they are in high spirits.
people are not born knowing, who can be without confusion?
selected from "Shi Shuo" by Han Yu
Meaning: People are not born knowing everything. Who can have no problems? Explain the importance of learning from others.
of all things, people are the most precious.
Source: Fan Ye's Book of the Later Han Dynasty? Zhou Juzhuan
means that among all things in the world, people are the most precious.
difficult things in the world must be made easy; Great things in the world must be done in detail.
Source: Laozi
Meaning: The difficult things in the world must develop from the easy things; The great events in the world must have developed from small things.
absent-minded, blind, listening but not smelling, eating but not knowing its taste.
Source: Book of Rites
Meaning: If the mind is not there, it can't see anything, hear anything, and eat nothing. Tell us to focus on whatever we do.
don't defect from poverty, and don't change your ambition from meanness.
Source: Huan Kuan's On Salt and Iron
Meaning: don't change your integrity because you are frustrated, and don't change your ambition because of your humble position.