Zhu Xi’s famous sayings about cherishing time include:

1. I haven’t realized the dream of spring grass in the pond, but the sound of autumn leaves in front of the steps has already happened - Zhu Xi’s "Poetry to Encourage Learning, Occasionally Completed"

2. It is easy to learn when you are young, but it is difficult to succeed when you are old. No inch of time should be taken lightly - "Occasionally" by Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty

3. Zhu Xi was a Neo-Confucian, thinker, philosopher, educator, and poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. He is also a representative figure of the Fujian School. He devoted his life to academic research and education, inherited and developed Neo-Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty, and became an important figure in the history of ancient Chinese philosophical thought. His representative works include Annotations on Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books, Interpretation of Taichi Pictures, Interpretation of Tongshu, Readings of the Book of Changes, and Annotations on Songs of Chu. Among them, Annotations on Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books has become an imperial textbook and the standard for imperial examinations. Zhu Xi's thoughts are rich in connotation and profound philosophical thinking. He advocates studying things to achieve knowledge and practicing self-cultivation, and emphasizes the practicality and action of moral consciousness and ethical concepts.