1. Don’t criticize others’ shortcomings, don’t speak of your own strengths, laugh when others criticize you, and laugh when others praise you. ——Qi Baishi

Don’t talk about other people’s shortcomings, and don’t talk about your own strengths. If someone scolds you, smile lightly. If someone compliments you, smile lightly. By extension, don't gossip about others, and don't boast too much about yourself. Be careful about other people's gossip and personal honor and disgrace.

2. Don’t teach a day to be idle. ——Qi Baishi

It means not to spend every day idle, but to seize the time and not to waste it.

When Qi Baishi was 85 years old, he painted four pictures in a row one day and refused to stop during lunch. After finishing the fifth painting, he wrote an inscription on the drawing paper: "Yesterday there was a heavy storm and I felt restless. I didn't paint at all. I will make this to supplement it now. I won't let you spend a day at leisure."

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"No day can be idle", this sentence has become a motto that inspires many people to move forward. It speaks of the truth that "work is better than diligence". It is really touching that an eighty-five-year-old man can "live a day without teaching".

Qi Baishi was born in Xiangtan, Changsha Prefecture, Hunan (now Xiangtan, Hunan). He is a master of modern Chinese painting and a world cultural celebrity.

Qi Baishi worked as a carpenter in his early years, and later made a living by selling paintings. He settled in Beijing after he was fifty-seven years old. He is good at painting flowers and birds, insects and fish, landscapes and figures. His pen and ink are vigorous and moist, the colors are bright and bright, the shapes are concise and vivid, and the artistic conception is honest and simple. The fish, shrimps, insects and crabs created are full of natural interest.