Therefore, without the accumulation of small steps, we can't reach thousands of miles away, and without the convergence of small rivers, we can't form great rivers and seas.
Original text:
Therefore, you can't take Wan Li Road without accumulating steps; If you don't accumulate small streams, you won't be a river.
Therefore, you can't take Wan Li Road without accumulating steps; If you don't accumulate small streams, you won't be a river. Said by: Xunzi's "persuasion" in the pre-Qin period. The whole book "Encouraging Learning" describes the benefits of learning, encouraging future generations to actively study and love learning. Highlighting the importance of learning, these two sentences are used in life to encourage us to pay attention to the accumulation of things, start from childhood, and every little makes a mickle.
Just like walking, one step at a time, you can always go far, no matter how far you go, as long as you keep going, you will eventually get there. Small rivers can also converge into the sea when they get together, and learning or doing things is accumulated in dribs and drabs.
Extended data
"Encouraging Learning" is an essay written by Xunzi, a thinker and writer in the Warring States Period. It is Xunzi's first work. This paper systematically discusses the theory and method of learning, and comprehensively and profoundly discusses the problems related to learning from the aspects of the importance, attitude, content and method of learning.
The full text can be divided into four paragraphs. The first paragraph clarifies the importance of learning, the second paragraph talks about the correct attitude towards learning, the third paragraph talks about the content of learning, and the fourth paragraph talks about learning from beginning to end. The full-text reasoning is profound and the structure is rigorous, which represents the level of the mature stage of pre-Qin essays.
Creation background
During the Warring States period, slavery further collapsed, the feudal system gradually formed, and epoch-making changes took place in history. Many thinkers expressed their opinions on the social changes at that time from different positions and angles, and gradually formed different factions such as Mohism, Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism, which was called "a hundred schools of thought contend" in history.
A hundred schools of thought contend and wrote many books, publicizing their own views and criticizing others, resulting in a situation of "a hundred schools of thought contend". Xunzi was a representative figure of Confucianism in the late Warring States period. He believes that the existence of nature does not depend on human will, but people can use subjective efforts to understand it, adapt to it and use it. In order to reveal the significance of learning the day after tomorrow, he created the article "Encouraging Learning".
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