Introduction: What belongs to you is treasure, and what belongs to others is grass. The following are 59 proverbs that I have compiled and shared for you. Welcome to read and refer to them.
1. Be obedient and listen to people.
2. A virtuous wife will bring few troubles, and a son will be filial to his father and have a generous heart.
3. Scholars rebelled, but it took three years to succeed.
4. There are patients on the kang and sad people on the ground.
5. Don’t do anything bad during the day, and you won’t be surprised if someone knocks on the door in the middle of the night.
6. If you are ill, you will seek medical treatment indiscriminately and burn incense in temples.
7. People cannot be judged by their appearance, and sea water cannot be measured.
8. There is no fire in the house and no smoke outside.
9. People have human speech, and animals have animal speech.
10. Talking is just talking, laughing is just laughing, and there is no tutor for moving hands and feet.
11. People make mistakes and horses make mistakes.
12. It takes a hundred years to start a business, but it takes one day to lose money.
13. If you are careless, you will lose Jingzhou, and if you are proud, you will lose the street pavilion.
14. If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.
15. There is no wind without waves, and there is no deep water without fish.
16. If you want to know what is going on in the mountains, you must ask the woodcutter.
17. Diseases enter from the mouth, and colds start from the feet.
18. A thin stream of water becomes a river, and a grain of rice accumulates into a basket.
19. Cars have lanes and horses have roads.
20. Three-thirds of medicine is taken and seven-cents of conditioning.
21. A thousand days to learn well is not enough, but one day to learn badly is more than enough
22. Get up early and get three benefits, get up late and get three panics.
23. Accumulating a little makes a lot, and accumulating evil becomes a disaster.
24. Intelligence lies in learning, and genius lies in accumulation.
25. If a person is thin, his face will be yellow, and if he is thin, he will have less food.
26. Good things never go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.
27. It is better to believe in books than to have no books at all.
28. Don’t be afraid of not knowing the goods, just be afraid of comparing goods.
29. People love the rich, but dogs bite the poor.
30. A horse falls to death on a flat road, and a person drowns in shallow water.
31. Don’t imitate the thousand eyes of the lantern, but imitate the single heart of the candle.
32. To catch a dragon, you have to go to the sea, and to fight a tiger, you have to go up the mountain.
33. Losing one’s ambition by playing with things.
34. When buying a chicken, look at the claws, and when buying a duck, look at the beak.
35. If it’s windy, go to the alleys; if it’s raining, go to the streets.
36. Good and evil are done by people, and misfortunes and misfortunes are caused by oneself.
37. Sometimes a mouthful is saved, and when there is a shortage, it is a bucket.
38. A thread a day makes a thread in ten years.
39. Eat a hard time and gain wisdom.
40. If you make one wrong move, you will lose the whole game.
41. A simple meal can nourish a person, and rags and trousers can keep out the cold.
42. It’s all ginger but not spicy, it’s all pepper but not numb.
43. Once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of straw ropes for three years.
44. Don’t be afraid of chaos, just be afraid of not investigating.
45. It is better to add a bucket of food than to add a mouthful.
46. Even if it rains for a hundred days, there will always be sunshine.
47. If the lights are not on, you need someone to dial them; if something is unclear, you need someone to tell you.
48. Now that winter has arrived, can spring be far behind?
49. The water is too big to cover the boat, and the hand is too big to cover the sky.
50. A good sweat protects three villages, and a good dog protects three neighbors.
51. If you have enough food and clothing, you will not be poor all your life.
52. People do not know blessings when they are blessed, and a boat does not know how to flow in the water.
53. Don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the unexpected.
54. Eat less and taste more, but eat more will harm your stomach.
55. A large amount brings great blessings, a broad heart and a wide house.
56. I can’t put on pants because of my belly.
57. Listen to others’ advice, and you will have enough to eat; if you know people’s advice, you will have high martial arts skills.
58. Those who are close to vermilion are red, and those who are close to ink are black.
59. A horse is not worthy of two saddles, and it is difficult for one foot to ride on two boats.