China's Essay for Glory is a collection of various maxims and proverbs from ancient times to the present. It is a children's enlightenment bibliography compiled by China in Ming Dynasty.
Excerpt from the original:
Everyone does ordinary things, and the family is in a hurry. Everyone teaches their children in a proper way, and the small family teaches them fiercely.
A gentleman makes money in a proper way. A virtuous woman loves color and accepts it politely.
Good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil. It's not that we don't report. Not yet.
All evils first, filial piety first.
People without faith don't know what they can do.
Translation:
It's normal for a big family to see things, but a small family is in a hurry. Large families teach their children with courtesy, while small families only scold their children and grandchildren with bad words.
Gentlemen also love money, but they all get it through proper channels. Women who keep their duties also like to dress up, but they must conform to the norms of etiquette and justice.
Good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil. It's not karma, it's just that time hasn't come yet.
Among all kinds of evils, fornication comes first, and among all kinds of behaviors, filial piety comes first.
I really don't know what a man who breaks his word can do.
Extended data
The contents of augmented sages are roughly as follows: 1. Talking about people and interpersonal relationships; Second, talk about fate; Third, talk about how to live in the world; Fourth, express your views on reading.
In the world described by augmented sages, people are hypocritical. People are fickle for their own selfish interests and love the poor and the rich, which makes the world full of traps and crises. In the article, a lot of emphasis is placed on fate and retribution, and it is believed that everything in a person is arranged by fate, and people have to do good things to have a good chance.
Augmented sages have a lot of space to describe how to treat people, which is the core of the full text. There are many descriptions of tolerance in this paper, and it is considered that tolerance is the way to eliminate troubles and sins. While advocating self-protection, caution and tolerance, it also emphasizes people's subjective initiative, which is considered as the principle of doing things. There is no lack of persuasion in the article that "it is indispensable to harm others and to prevent others".
It emphasizes the importance of reading and the value of filial piety, and embodies the orthodox Confucian spirit. But it is precisely because of this complexity that people with different ideas can see their own proverbs and aphorisms, which are widely representative.
Graceful prose is selected from rhyming proverbs and well-written literature. Its content is very extensive, from etiquette and morality, laws and regulations to scenery allusions, astronomy and geography, and every sentence is fluent and easy to understand. But the center is about the philosophy of life and the way to live.
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