Translation:

When I first started reading, I had no doubts; as I read, I gradually had doubts. When I was halfway through, I had doubts about every section. As you read further, you will have questions. Slowly unravel, and finally reach the level of comprehensive understanding. Only then can all the doubts be clarified, and it can be called learning. Students who are studying should be taught by teachers who should have doubts. If they have doubts, they should clear them up. This is the progress of learning.

Original text:

When reading, at the beginning of reading, there are doubts about the unknown; secondly, there are doubts gradually; in the middle, there are doubts every time.

After this, doubts will gradually be cleared up, until you have a comprehensive understanding and no doubts, and then learning begins.

Those who have no doubts in reading must be taught to have doubts. If there are doubts, they must have no doubts. Only then can they make progress.

Extended information:

The six principles of "Zhu Xi's method of reading" are: step by step, read carefully, reflect with an open mind, observe personally, work hard, and be respectful and persistent.

This is a concentrated summary of Zhu Xi's reading method made by Zhu Xi's disciples. The step-by-step approach has three meanings:

First, reading should be done in a certain order and not backwards and forwards;

Secondly, "do what you can and observe it carefully";

< p>Third, don’t swallow it all and rush for success. Reading well and thinking well means reading well and reciting it well, but also being good at thinking. The "humbly" in "humbly" refers to chewing over and over again and pondering carefully when reading. Personal observation emphasizes that reading must be reflected in one's own actual actions and must be practiced.