If a woman is neither beautiful nor evil, she will be jealous when she enters the palace; if a scholar is not virtuous and dishonest, he will be suspicious when he enters the court.

Translation No matter whether a woman is beautiful or ugly, she will be jealous when entering the palace; no matter whether a scholar is virtuous or unworthy, once he embarks on an official career, he will inevitably be suspected.

Appreciation: A gentleman uses fairness and justice to restrain his selfish desires, so he can be full of love; a villain uses selfish desires instead of justice, so he has many intentions and harms others. If you are caring, others will have skills as if you have skills. If you are harmful to others, if others have skills, you will be jealous and resentful. When a scholar serves in the court, he will be suspected; when a woman enters the palace, she will be jealous. Because of this, the tragedy of "human pigs" occurred in the court of the Han Dynasty. Emperors in the Tang Dynasty were afraid of "human cats". Xiao Yi was jealous of his talents and poisoned Liu Zhilin to death. Confucian scholars in the Sui Dynasty were jealous of their talents and wanted to kill Kong Yingda. Xue Daoheng was killed because of the beauty of his poems. As long as there are jealous villains in the world, those who are talented and beautiful are in danger of being harmed. Only by paying attention to self-cultivation in daily life can we form a broad-minded and less selfish self.