Sixth Grade Volume 2

72. Pastoral Miscellany in Four Seasons (1) (Song Dynasty) Fan Chengda

Working in the fields during the day and planting hemp at night, the village Children are responsible for their own affairs. The children and grandchildren are still working for farming and weaving, and they are also learning to grow melons by the mulberry tree.

73. Pastoral Excitement in Four Seasons (2) (Song Dynasty) Fan Chengda

The plums are golden, the apricots are fat, the wheat flowers are sparse, the white cabbage flowers are sparse. No one passes through the fence as the sun grows long, only dragonflies and butterflies fly.

74. Farewell to Dong Da (Tang Dynasty) Gao Shi

Thousands of miles of yellow clouds in the daytime, and the north wind blows the snow. Don’t worry about having no friends in the future. No one in the world knows you.

75. Wang Wei from Anxi (Tang Dynasty), the second envoy of the Yuan Dynasty,

The morning rain in Weicheng is light and dusty, and the guesthouses are green and the willows are new. I advise you to drink another glass of wine and leave Yangguan in the west without any old friends.

1. Those who are not strong in ambition are not wise, and those who do not believe in their words will not achieve results.

--Mo Zhai, a thinker of the Warring States Period

2. Internal and external correspondence, words and deeds should be consistent.

--Han Fei, philosopher and educator of the Warring States Period

3. Goodness does not come from outside, and the name cannot be made in vain.

--Qu Yuan, a poet of the Warring States Period

4. The true is the most sincere. Without sincerity, it cannot move people.

--Zhuang Zhou, the Warring States philosopher

5. If a person breaks his promise, his reputation will be ruined.

--Liu Xiang, a Confucian scholar of the Han Dynasty

6. Hypocrisy cannot last long, emptiness cannot last long, rotten wood cannot be carved, and love cannot last long.

--Han Ying, a poetry critic of the Han Dynasty

7. If you accept someone with a letter, the world will trust you; if you don’t accept someone with a letter, your wife will be suspicious of you.

--Chang Quan, a hermit of the Jin Dynasty

8. A person cannot stand in the world without loyalty.

--Cheng Yi, a philosopher of the Song Dynasty

9. More virtuality is worse than less reality.

--Chen Fu, a philosopher of the Song Dynasty

10. Treating others with truthfulness not only benefits others, but also benefits yourself.

--Yang Jian, scholar of Song Dynasty

11. Honesty is the lifeblood of life and the foundation of all values.

--Dreiser, British writer

12. Be loyal in words and respectful in deeds.

--The Analects of Confucius