1. As a role model for the world, be a role model for others.

From: "Northern History·Wang Xin Biography" by Li Yanshou of the Tang Dynasty

Translation: Yang Min paid attention to his own moral quality to become a role model for others.

2. A three-foot podium, a three-inch tongue, a three-inch pen, and three thousand peaches and plums. Ten years of trees, ten years of wind, ten years of rain, and a hundred thousand beams.

From: Guan Zhong's "Guan Zi Quan Xiu No. 3" in the Spring and Autumn Period

Translation: The teacher is busy all day on the three-foot podium explaining to the students with a three-inch tongue and three inches of chalk. In the end, three thousand peaches and plums were cultivated all over the world. The peaches and plums specifically refer to the students trained by the teacher. Ten Years of Trees refers to the fact that students have gone through ten years of ups and downs and become talents of one hundred thousand pillars.

3. After harvesting the honey from hundreds of flowers, for whom does it work hard and for whom does it taste sweet?

Source: Tang Dynasty: "Bee" by Luo Yin

Translation: Whether on the flat land or on the mountain peaks, the beautiful scenery is occupied by bees. Bee, you collect all the flowers and turn them into nectar. Who do you work hard for, and who do you want to taste the sweetness? ?

4. Your Majesty has peaches and plums all over the world, why bother planting more flowers in front of the hall?

From: Tang Dynasty Bai Juyi's "Fenghe Linggong Plants Flowers in the Green Wild Hall".

Interpretation: To have high public morals and high respect, to have many disciples all over the world, to have outstanding achievements, to be famous far and wide, and to bloom like peach and plum blossoms all over the world.

5. The spring silkworms will not run out until they are dead, and the wax torches will not dry until they turn to ashes.

From the Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin's "Untitled: It's Hard to Say Goodbye When We Meet"

Translation: Spring silkworms spin cocoons until they die, and the candles burn out and turn into ashes. Only when the wax oil like tears can drip dry.