Source: Tang Hanyu's "Learning Solution"
Selected paragraph:
Diligence is good at diligence, barren is good at playing; What I did was thought, but it was destroyed. The sages met today, and the fixture was finished. Pull out evil spirits and worship good.
Translation:
Learning is specialized because of diligence, but abandoned because of play; Virtue is gained by independent thinking and corrupted by conformity. Nowadays, when a saint meets a saint, all kinds of laws are implemented. Eliminate evil and promote good.
Extended data:
This article was written by the author when he was a doctor in Guo Zi. Through the dialogue between teachers and students, this paper expounds my views on studying in Germany, mainly venting my resentment that I was highly valued but not appointed, and attacking the unfair employment of people in power. At the beginning, Mr. Wang put forward that "industry is good at diligence, but play is poor;" The famous saying "What you do ideologically is destroyed in following" encourages students to study in Germany, which will certainly be used by the country.
In this article, a lot of satire is used to implicitly expose the unwise of those in power and express their frustration and injustice. The whole article is full of reasoning, passionate feelings, magnificent and changeable words, a lot of songs and pens, and wonderful pens and flowers, still like a wonderful essay. In writing, the form of answering between subject and object is adopted, combined with parallel prose, and the syllables are harmonious and powerful, natural and smooth.