1. If you don’t read for three days, thorns will grow in your mouth; if you don’t play for three days, thorns will grow on your hands. ——Zhu Shunshui of the Qing Dynasty, "Answers to Yejie Questions"
2. What you look up to becomes taller, and what you drill into becomes stronger. (It means that the more you look up, the more lofty you feel; the harder you study, the more profound you feel.) - "The Analects of Confucius - Zihan"?
3. It is better to have no books at all than to believe in books. ——"Mencius? Try your best"?
4. Work hard at reading and rest at ease in writing. ——Yuan Dynasty. Cheng Duanli's "Yearly Schedule for Studying in Cheng's Family School"?
5. To know the affairs of the world, you must read the books of the ancients. ——Ming Dynasty. Feng Menglong's "Awakening of the World"
Chinese text: It is beneficial to open the book
Pinyin: kāi juàn yǒu yì
From: Jin Tao Qian's "With "Zi Yan et al.": "If you gain something when you open the book, you will happily forget to eat."
Idiom usage: subject-predicate; used as object, attributive, and clause.
Explanation: Open book: open a book, referring to reading; benefit: benefit, gain. There are always benefits to reading.
Synonyms: eager to learn, never let go of the book, successful in opening the book
Antonyms: uneducated, incompetent, reading is useless
Grammar: subject and predicate Form; used as object, attributive, clause; means that reading is always beneficial
English: original meaning: you will gain something if you open the book and read it.
Idiom allusion:
This idiom comes from "Mianshui Yan Tan Lu". Taizong of the Song Dynasty read three volumes of "Yu Lan" every day. Due to lack of work, he made up for it in his spare time. Taste said: "Opening the book is helpful, I don't think it's a bother." In the early years of the Song Dynasty, Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi ordered civil servants Li Fang and others to compile a large-scale classification encyclopedia - "Taiping General Classification". This book collects and excerpts the important contents of more than 1,600 ancient books, classified into 55 categories, and has a thousand volumes. It is a very valuable reference book. This book was compiled during the Taiping and Xingguo years of the Song Dynasty, so it was named "Taiping General Classification". For such a huge work, Song Taizong stipulated that he should read at least two or three volumes every day, and read them all within one year, so he changed its name to "Taiping Yulan". When Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty made up his mind to devote energy to reading this great book, someone once felt that it was too hard for the emperor to deal with so many national affairs every day and to read such a big book, so they advised him to read less, not necessarily every day. You have to read them all so as not to overwork yourself. However, Song Taizong replied: "I like reading very much. I often get pleasure from books. Reading more books will always be beneficial. Besides, I don't feel tired." So he still insisted on reading three volumes every day. Sometimes he was delayed due to busy state affairs, so he would take time to make up for it, and often said to the people around him: "As long as you open the book, there will always be benefits." Song Taizong was very knowledgeable because he read three volumes of "Taiping Yulan" every day. , and he is also very handy in handling national affairs. The ministers at that time saw that the emperor was so diligent in reading, and they followed suit one after another. Therefore, the trend of reading was very strong at that time. Even the prime minister Zhao Pu, who usually did not read, also diligently read "The Analects of Confucius". It was said that "half of the Analects rules the world." Later, "opening a book is beneficial" became an idiom, describing that as long as you open a book and read, there will always be benefits. It is often used to encourage people to be diligent and studious, and reading more will benefit them.