From The Exogenous Book of Zhuge Liang's Collection of Commandments. Author Zhuge Liang (181-23410-8), born in Wolong, Yang Du, Xuzhou (now yinan county, Linyi City, Shandong Province), was the prime minister of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period, an outstanding politician, strategist, diplomat, writer, calligrapher and inventor.
Exogenous, that is, nephew. The son of Zhuge Liang's second sister is Pang Huan. Zhuge Liang's Book of Quitting Nephews was written for him. In this letter, Zhuge Liang taught him how to aspire, how to cultivate oneself and how to become a useful person. Pang Huan, the word, was once the official to the county satrap.
The full text is as follows:
The husband should aim high, worship sages, abandon lust and stagnate, so that the ambition of ordinary people can be revealed and felt; Endure flexion and extension, remove details, ask questions extensively, except being too stingy. Although I have stayed for a long time, why bother to harm the beauty, why bother to suffer it? If the will is not strong and the intention is not generous, it will be vulgar, silently tied to the feelings, and curled up in the secular forever, which will inevitably be indecent!
The translation is as follows:
A person should set up lofty ideals, admire sages, control lust, get rid of vulgar thoughts that are stagnant in his chest, and let the lofty aspirations that are close to sages be clearly reflected in you, so that your heart will shake and you will get messages. We should be able to adapt to the test of different situations such as smooth twists and turns, get rid of trivial matters and emotional entanglements, consult people extensively, and eradicate our feelings of complaining about others.
After doing this, although it is possible to stop my career temporarily, it will not damage my noble taste, so why worry that my career will not succeed! If the ambition is not firm, the ideological realm is not open, you are addicted to the secular and mediocre, you will inevitably fall into a vulgar society and become a person without culture and promise.
Extended data:
In the first year of Xingping (194), Zhuge Liang 13 years old, the four of them left their hometown in Shandong with their uncle Zhuge Xuan and went to Zhang Yu (now Nanchang, Jiangxi) to be the magistrate. Soon, the Han court sent Zhu Hao to his post, and Zhuge Xuan, who lost his official position, had to take Zhuge Liang's four brothers and sisters to Jingzhou to take refuge in his old friend Jingzhou Mu (Xiangyang) Liu Biao. After arriving in Xiangyang, Zhuge Liang went to the "academic hall" run by Liu Biao because he was young.
His two sisters got married one after another, and one married Pang Shanmin, the son of Pang Degong, a famous man in Xiangyang. Zhuge Liang respected Pang Degong very much, and went to the door for advice many times, even "worshiping under the bed alone" and "kneeling with courtesy".
Later, Pang Degong also attached great importance to Zhuge Liang, calling him "Wolong" and his nephew Pang Tong "Feng Chu"; The other married Kuaiqi, a big Kuai family in Zhonglu County (now Nanzhang County, Hubei Province). Unfortunately, fate played a trick on people. His brother-in-law was killed by the army of Meng Da, the general of Shu State, in the war.