It's from Zhuge Liang's Book of Commandments.
Original text: A gentleman's trip is quiet to cultivate one's morality, frugal to cultivate one's morality, indifferent to one's ambition, quiet and far-reaching. If you study quietly, you must learn. If you don't study, you can't learn widely. If you don't have ambition, you can't succeed.
if you are slow, you can't be energetic, and if you are dangerous, you can't control your sex. Years go with the times, meaning goes with the days, and then they become withered, and they don't meet the world, and they are sad to stay in the poor house. What will happen?
1. Interpretation:
A gentleman's conduct is to improve his self-cultivation from tranquility and cultivate his moral character from frugality. You can't make your ambition clear unless you are quiet, and you can't achieve your lofty goals without excluding external interference. Learning must be quiet and single-minded, and talent comes from learning. Therefore, if you don't study, you can't grow your talents, and if you don't have ambition, you can't make achievements in learning.
Indulge in idleness can't cheer you up, and impatience and adventure can't cultivate your temperament. Time flies at any time, and the will passes with the years. In the end, most of them are out of touch with the world and are not used by society. They can only sit in the poor house sadly. How can they regret it at that time?
second, appreciation:
The main purpose of "The Book of Commandments" is to persuade my son to study hard and be determined, and to cultivate self-cultivation should work hard from indifference and tranquility, and avoid laziness and rashness. This paper summarizes the experience of being a man and doing research, focusing on a word "quiet", and at the same time attributing failure to a word "mania", which is in sharp contrast.
this book of commandments not only explains the ways and methods of self-cultivation, but also points out the relationship between determination and learning; It not only explains the importance of tranquility and indifference, but also points out the harm of indulgence, neglect and extreme impatience. Zhuge Liang is not only strict with his son in terms of big principles, but also shows subtle concern for his children in some specific matters.
1. The Book of Commandments is a letter from Zhuge Liang, a statesman in the Three Kingdoms Period, to his son Zhuge Zhan before he died, which can also be regarded as an ancient family instruction.
most of the ancient family instructions concentrated the author's life experiences, life experiences and academic thoughts, from which not only his descendants benefited a lot, but also today's readers can learn a lot.
Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu and Han Dynasties in the Three Kingdoms, was praised as "the embodiment of wisdom" by later generations. His Book of Commandments can also be described as a family instruction full of wisdom, a masterpiece in ancient family instructions, and it can also be regarded as Zhuge Liang's summary of his life, and later became a masterpiece of self-cultivation.
2. In the Book of Commandments, it can be seen that Zhuge Liang is a noble and knowledgeable father, and his ardent education and infinite expectations for his son are all contained in this book.
The full text, with its wisdom, rationality, conciseness and preciseness, deeply expresses the love of fathers all over the world for their sons, which has become a famous article for students of later generations to cultivate themselves.
3. Zhuge Liang (181-234), whose name was Kong Ming and whose name was Wolong, was an outstanding politician, strategist, essayist and calligrapher in Shu and Han Dynasties. His representative prose works include "A Model" and "A Book of Commandments".