Original sentence: A year's plan lies in spring, a day's plan lies in morning, a family's plan lies in harmony, and a life's plan lies in diligence.

Interpretation: Be good at grasping the critical time and grasping the key things. Only by grasping and cherishing them well can you succeed.

"A year's plan begins with spring" is a proverb, from: "Zengguang Xianwen".

"Zengguang Xianwen" collects various Chinese maxims and proverbs from ancient times to the present. Later, after continuous additions by literati from the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was changed into its current form, called "Zengguang Xianwen", commonly known as "Zengguang Xianwen".

"Zengguang Xianwen" is a Taoist children's enlightenment book compiled during the Ming Dynasty in China. The author has never seen any book records. He only knows that the Confucian scholar Zhou Xitao revised it during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. It is probably the crystallization of folk creation.

Meaning: The most critical time of the year is spring, and the most critical time of the day is at dawn; the most precious thing for a family is harmony, and the most important thing for a person to succeed is diligence.

Extended information:

"Zengguang Xianwen" highly summarizes the dark phenomena in many aspects of society and coldly displays them in front of readers. Most of the sentences in "Zengguang Xianwen" come from collections of classics and history, poems, dramas, novels and literati's miscellaneous notes. Its ideas and concepts come directly or indirectly from Confucian and Taoist classics. In a broad sense, it is the most popular and elegant book. A popular version of the "Sutra".

A certain culture is a reflection of a certain social, political and economic ideology, and "Zengguang Xianwen" is no exception. Due to the limitations of the times and history, it is bound to be marked by the times.

Some of the content is centered on the individual, reflecting the prevailing thoughts of selfishness and benefiting oneself at the expense of others at that time; some reflects the tendency of the small bourgeoisie to muddle along and cowardly and contentedly under the social system at that time and even today. psychology and a negative philosophy of life that avoids disaster and is world-weary; some contents reflect feudal ethics and moral concepts, and even have obvious feudal superstition and fatalistic overtones;

These are not in line with the spirit of the times. We We should adopt a critical attitude when reading, clearly observe the sublation, criticize the inheritance, absorb its nutritious elements, and use the past for the present.