Two poems from White Deer Cave by Wang Zhenbai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, mean that an inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time. Metaphor time is very precious.

Wang Zhenbai, nicknamed Linxi, was born in Yongfeng, Xinzhou (now Guangfeng District, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province). Famous poets in the late Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Gan Tang was a scholar in the second year of Ning's reign (AD 895), and seven years later (AD 902), he served as a school librarian, auditioning with Luo Yin, Fang Gan and Guan Xiu. He is the author of 7 volumes of Lingxi Collection and 1 volume of modern poetry collection.

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This is a poem about the poet's own reading life, and it is also a poem that cherishes time. "Bailudong" is located in the south of Houping Mountain at the southern foot of Wulaofeng in Lushan Mountain, Jiangxi Province. Surrounded by green hills and trees, the environment here is quiet. Named "White Deer Cave", it is actually not a cave, but a flat land between valleys. In the middle Tang Dynasty, Li Bo studied here and kept a white deer as his companion, named "White Deer Cave".

The poem "an inch of time and an inch of gold" has become a famous saying to warn the world to cherish time. Future generations should be inspired and educated. Knowledge is accumulated by time. In order to enrich ourselves, we should cherish time very much.