1. If you want to benefit the country, you will live and die. How can you avoid it because of misfortunes and blessings? ——Lin Zexu [Qing Dynasty] "Guide to family members on the way to the army".
Explanation: If it is beneficial to the country, I will not care about life or death. Is it possible to avoid disasters and step forward to welcome blessings?
2. Sacrificing one’s life to go to the national disaster, treating one’s death as if one were returning home. ——Cao Zhi [Wei and Jin Dynasties] "White Horse Chapter".
Interpretation: A person who bravely sacrifices his life to relieve the country from danger. Seeing death is like returning to his hometown.
3. Accumulating soil becomes a mountain, accumulating water becomes a sea. ——Xunzi [Late Warring States Period] "Xunzi's "Confucianism Effect"".
Interpretation: ?Piling up soil can create a mountain, and accumulating water can create a sea.
4. If young people don’t work hard, old people will be sad. ——Han Yuefu [Han] "Long Song Xing".
Interpretation: If a young person does not work hard in time, he will only regret his life when he grows old.
5. Things in the world are often accomplished by difficult agreements and failed by extravagance. ——Lu You [Southern Song Dynasty].
Interpretation: Everything in the world is successful because of working hard in the face of difficulties, and it is also because of being extravagant after success, being sluggish and not seeking improvement, and then failing.