Category: Culture/Art

Analysis:

(1) Life

1. The situation is easy to change, but the temperament is difficult to change. (Ming Dynasty Feng Menglong's "Eternal Words to Awaken the World")

2. Contentment leads to happiness, and greed leads to worry. ("Song Xin Lu" by Lin Bu of the Song Dynasty)

3. Don't change your face when you are angry, and don't lose your integrity when you are happy. (Jin Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms")

4. Wandering around for pleasure is the source of bad virtue. ("Qunshu Zhiyao" by Wei Zheng of the Tang Dynasty)

5. Great courage is like cowardice, great wisdom is like foolishness. (Su Shi of the Song Dynasty "Congratulations to Ouyang Xiu for his official career")

6. If you want others not to be evil, you must first be beautiful; if you want others not to be suspicious, you must be confident first.

(Ming Dynasty Feng Menglong's "Chronicles of the States of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty")

7. There is no need to worry about poverty, and there is no obscenity in happiness. (Tang Dynasty Liu Zongyuan's "Tombstone of the School Secretary Dugujun")

8. Being rich is not noble enough, and being poor is not sad.

(Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty, "Reply to the King Drinking Alone on Twelve Cold Nights and Feeling in His Mind")

9. People have joys and sorrows, and the moon waxes and wanes. ("Shui Tiao Ge Tou" by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty)

10. Don't take irrational money, and don't do irrational things. (Ming Dynasty Feng Menglong's "Yu Shi Ming Yan")

(2) Dealing with things

1. When a gentleman is in life, he would rather be at the expense of others; when a villain is in trouble, he would rather be at the expense of others.

(Song Shao Yong's "Chu Shen Yin")

2. Any good thing is convenient for others; any evil thing is advised not to do it.

("Encouraging the World" by Lu Yan of the Tang Dynasty)

3. Be meticulous in your words and meticulous in your actions. (Huainanzi by Liu An of the Han Dynasty)

4. Think twice before taking action, and think before you act. (Jin Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms")

5. A word of promise is worth a thousand pieces of gold. ("Zizhi Tongjian" by Sima Guang of the Song Dynasty)

6. Once a word is spoken, it is difficult to follow it. (Yuan Dynasty Li Shouqing's "Wu Yuan Plays the Flute")

7. If you don't experience anything, you won't gain a piece of wisdom. (A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin, Qing Dynasty)

8. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you. ("The Analects of Confucius")

9. The authorities are confused, but the bystanders are clear. (Qing Dynasty Chen Hongmou's "Yangzheng Yigui")

10. The melon fields do not accept shoes, and the plums do not wear their crowns. (Han Yuefu "The Conduct of a Gentleman")

11. If you blame yourself, you will attack your weaknesses, and if you judge others, you will learn from their strengths. ("With Li Tingzhou" by Yun Jing of the Qing Dynasty)

12. Do not do evil because it is small, and do not do good because it is small. (Ch'en Shou's "Three Kingdoms" by Jin Dynasty)

13. Good medicine is bitter in the mouth and good for the disease, and loyal words are hard on the ears and good for action.

(Wang Su of Wei Dynasty annotated "Confucius' Family Sayings")

14. People's mouths make gold, but accumulation destroys bones. (Historical Records by Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty)

(3) Making friends:

(1) Those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to Mo are black. (Fu Xuan of Jin Dynasty, "Fu Quai Gu Collection")

(2) Those who are close to the wise are wise, and those who are close to the fool are ignorant. ("Ear Proverbs" by Pi Rixiu of the Tang Dynasty)

(3) There are close friends in the sea, and there are neighbors in the world. (Wang Bo of the Tang Dynasty, "Sending Du Shaofu to Shuzhou")

(4) A horse neighs when he meets Bo Le, and a man dies when he meets a close friend. (The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong of the Ming Dynasty)

(5) Mortals cannot be judged by appearance, and sea water cannot be measured. (Anonymous "Little Yuchi" of the Yuan Dynasty)

(6) We are both fallen people in the world, so why should we have known each other before meeting. (Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty, "Pipa Xing")

(7) Friends of the poor and humble should not be forgotten, and the wife of chaff should not leave the court.

(Book of the Later Han Dynasty by Fan Ye of the Southern Song Dynasty)

(8) Birds will stay in tall trees, and scholars will flock to those who are virtuous. ("Shuo Yuan" by Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty)

(9) A gentleman is as light as water, and his love becomes truer with time; a small man's mouth is like honey, and he becomes an enemy in an instant.

("Friends" by Fang Xiaoru, Ming Dynasty)

(10) We are brothers after landing, so why should we be close by flesh and blood?

("Twelve Miscellaneous Poems" by Tao Yuanming of Jin Dynasty)

(4) Study Diligently

1. A nine-story platform starts from tired soil; a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

(Spring and Autumn Period, Laozi's "Tao Te Ching")

2. If Sanyu is not polished, it cannot be an article; if a gentleman does not learn, it cannot be a virtue.

(Han Bangu's "Book of Han")

3. If you can't learn, learn; if you don't know, ask; although you know, you must give in, and then you will know.

("Han Shi Wai Zhuan" by Han Ying)

4. Read it a hundred times, and its meaning will become apparent. (Jin Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms")

5. Be tireless in learning and teaching. ("The Analects of Confucius")

6. Accumulating soil becomes a mountain, accumulating water becomes a sea. (Warring States Period, Xun Kuang's "Confucianism")

7. If you want to have deep skills, grind an iron pestle into a needle. (Ming Dynasty Cao Xuequan's "Sichuan Guangji")

8. Read more than ten thousand volumes, and write like a god.

(Twenty-Two Rhymes from Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty to Wei Zuocheng)

9. Wei Bian repeatedly used iron inkstones to wear them, and he recited them orally and copied them by hand to count the years. ("Jiannan Poetry Manuscript" by Lu You of the Song Dynasty)

10. Black-haired people don't know how to study early, and white-haired people regret studying late. ("Encouraging Learning" by Yan Zhenqing of the Tang Dynasty)

11. There is a road to the mountain of books, hard work is the path, and there is no limit to the sea of ??learning, and hard work is the boat.

("Thousands of Seven-Character Couplets" written by Lai Yizheng)

12. Work is accomplished by hard work and wasteful by play, and success is achieved by thinking and destroyed by follow-up. (Jinxuejie by Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty)

(5) Cherish the time

1. A man with lofty ideals cherishes his years, a wise man cherishes his days, and a sage cherishes his time. (Qing Dynasty Wei Yuan's "Mogu")

2. The opportunity cannot be missed, or the time will never come again. (Book of Jin? Biography of An Chongrong by Fang Xuanling of the Tang Dynasty)

3. Time flies like an arrow, and the sun and the moon fly like a shuttle. (Anonymous "Zengguang Xianwen" in the Ming Dynasty)

4. Don't let the days pass by idlely, youth will never come again. (Tang Lin Kuan's "Youth Journey")

5. Tomorrow comes tomorrow, there are so many tomorrows, waiting for tomorrow every day, everything will be wasted.

(Ming Wenjia's "Song of Tomorrow")

6. Flowers are similar every year, but people are different every year.

(Liu Xiyi of the Tang Dynasty, "The Sad White-headed Man")

7. It is easy for a young man to learn from an old man, and it is difficult to take an inch of time lightly. ("Occasionally Poems" by Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty)

8. An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.

(Ming Dynasty Luo Maodeng's "Three Treasures Eunuchs in the West")

9. The golden crow flies away and the jade rabbit walks away, and the green temples are evergreen, which has never been seen in ancient times. ("Spring Sorrow" by Han Cong of the Tang Dynasty)

10. A moment of gold. (Su Shi's "Spring Night" of the Song Dynasty)

(6) Enterprising

1. An old man is always ambitious, but a martyr is ambitious in his old age.

(Cao Cao of the Wei Dynasty, "The Turtle is Longevity")

2. A Qiji can't take ten steps with one leap; a horse can ride ten times, but the merit lies in perseverance.

(Warring States Period, Xun Kuang's "Encouragement to Learning")

3. One penny a day, a thousand days a thousand; wood is broken by a rope, and a drop of water penetrates a stone.

("Jade Dew in the Cranes and Forests" by Luo Dajing of the Song Dynasty)

4. For the sake of nine people, the success falls short. (Huainanzi by Liu An of the Han Dynasty)

5. Wherever sincerity comes, gold and stone will open. (Book of the Later Han Dynasty by Fan Ye, Song Dynasty, Southern Dynasty)

6. If you want to see a thousand miles away, go to the next level. ("Climbing the Stork Tower" by Wang Zhihuan of the Tang Dynasty)

7. Nothing is difficult in the world, only for those who are determined; nothing is easy, only for those who are careless.

(Qing Dynasty Yuan Mei's "Suiyuan Poems")

8. If you have ambitions, you will not be young, but if you have no ambitions, you will live a hundred years in vain. (Shi Yukun, "Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses" of the Qing Dynasty)

9. Worry and labor can rejuvenate a country, but leisure can destroy one's life.

("New History of the Five Dynasties? Preface to the Biography of Lingguan" by Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty)

10. The edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold.

Lai Yizhengshu "Thousands of Seven-Character Couplets")

(7) Cultivation

1. Be lenient towards others and strict with yourself.

("Original Destruction" by Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty)

2. If everyone loves public affairs, the world will be peaceful; if everyone is selfish, the world will be in chaos.

("Lao Can's Travel Notes" by Liu E of the Qing Dynasty)

3. If you live in this world for one day, you will be a good person; if you live in an official position for one day, you will do good deeds.

("Helin Jade Dew" by Luo Dajing of the Song Dynasty)

4. Be respectful in everything and do not be arrogant. (The Complete Book of Zhu Zi by Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty)

5. It is better to feel ashamed in one’s body than to feel ashamed in one’s mouth; it is better to feel ashamed in one’s heart than to feel ashamed in one’s body.

("Answers to Fishermen and Woodcutter" by Shao Yong, Song Dynasty)

6. If the age is not cold, there is no way to know the pines and cypresses; if things are not difficult, there is no way to know the gentleman. (Warring States Period, Xun Kuang's "Xunzi")

7. If you are not honest, you will do everything; if you are not shameful, you will do everything. (Gu Yanwu's "Rizhilu" of the Qing Dynasty)

8. Blame yourself with the same mind that blames others, and forgive others with the same mind that forgives yourself. (Song Dynasty Lin Bu's "Records of Saving Hearts")

9. Those who are not complacent will benefit, and those who are not self-sufficient will learn a lot. (Song Dynasty Lin Bu's "Records of Saving Hearts")

10. Wealth cannot be fornicated, poverty cannot be moved, and power cannot be surrendered. ("Mencius? Teng Wengong")

(8) Philosophy

1. It is easy to discuss things but difficult to do them; it is easy to do things but difficult to achieve them.

("Jiancheng Zenyuan Five Hundred Arhats" by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty)

2. A saint will surely lose something if he worries a lot; a fool will gain something if he worries a lot.

(Spring and Autumn Period, Yan Ying, "Yan Zi Chunqiu")

3. Misfortunes are where blessings depend; blessings are where misfortunes lie. (Spring and Autumn Period, Laozi's "Tao Te Ching")

4. In terms of power, you can then know the severity; in terms of degree, you can then know the length. (Mencius by Meng Ke during the Warring States Period)

5. After learning, you will know your shortcomings; after teaching, you will know your difficulties. ("The Book of Rites? The Book of Learning")

6. If the peach and plum trees are silent, they will make their own mistakes. (Historical Records by Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty)

7. Use copper as a mirror to correct your clothes; use the past as a mirror to know the ups and downs; use people as a mirror to know gains and losses. ("New Tang Book? Biography of Wei Zheng")

8. If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools. ("The Analects of Confucius")

9. Thousands of sails pass by the side of the sunken boat, and thousands of trees spring in front of the diseased tree.

(Tang Dynasty Liu Yuxi's "Rewarding Lotte and Seeing Gifts at the First Banquet in Yangzhou")

10. The first to get the moon is the first to get the moon near the water, and the flowers and trees facing the sun are easy to spring. ("Qing Ye Lu" by Yu Wenbao of the Song Dynasty)

11. If you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't get the tiger's cubs. (Book of the Later Han Dynasty by Fan Ye, Song Dynasty, Southern Dynasty)

12. A thousand-foot embankment collapses due to the holes of ants; a hundred-foot-long room is burned by the smoke from the gaps.

(Warring States Period, Han Fei's "Han Feizi")