“Don’t ask about harvest, but ask about hard work” means as follows:

It means just work hard and don’t worry about whether there will be any harvest. As long as you keep working hard, one day you will have something. Harvest.

The specific analysis is as follows:

1. Don’t mean don’t want, no; ask means ask, which can be extended and translated as worry, worry; but means only, only; cultivation generally refers to farming. Things, here refers to one's own gains and gains.

2. These words come from Zeng Guofan's wise saying: "If you are not a sage, you will be a beast; don't ask about harvest, but about hard work." This is the motto that Zeng Guofan followed throughout his life.

Other famous quotes by Zeng Guofan:

1. Don’t act as you please, and don’t speak as you please.

2. The first is ambition, the second is knowledge, and the third is perseverance.

3. Those who have made mistakes in previous lives can correct them by themselves; those who have not been touched in previous lives can create them themselves.

4. If brothers are harmonious, even a poor family will prosper; if brothers are not harmonious, even a noble family will be defeated.

5. Why choose a location? Why choose the time? But ask yourself if your determination is true!