Book of commandments and nephews
Original text:
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!
Translation:
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:
This article by Zhuge Liang is only more than 80 words, but it has a deep connotation. As young people, we should not only have lofty ideals and ambitions, but also have concrete and feasible measures to realize them and the perseverance to overcome difficulties and eliminate interference. Otherwise, the ideal may become a fantasy, or even unconsciously lower itself to the point of mediocrity and vulgarity.
This letter from Zhuge Liang is about this truth. If a person is ambitious and determined, plus careful thinking and then put into action, he may succeed in the increasingly fierce social competition. On the contrary, it is doomed to fail. Zeng Guofan also taught his children to be "ambitious, knowledgeable and persistent" in family training.
Resolutely not dirty; With knowledge, we know that knowledge is endless, and we dare not be self-sufficient; Nothing is impossible if you have perseverance. The views of these extraordinary people have condensed their life experiences in the book, which have the same effect.
A brief introduction to the author of My Nephew's Commandments;
Zhuge Liang, whose name is Kongming, whose name is Wolong, is from Yang Du, Xuzhou. Outstanding statesman, strategist, essayist and calligrapher in the Three Kingdoms period. When he was alive, he was named Hou of Wuxiang, and after his death, he pursued loyalty to Hou of Wuxiang. The Eastern Jin regime made him the King of Wuxing. Zhuge Liang devoted himself to the Shu-Han regime until he died.
Representative prose works include An Example and A Book of Commandments. He once invented the wooden ox, the flying horse, the Kongming lantern and so on, and transformed the crossbow, called Zhuge Lian crossbow, which can hit all targets with one crossbow.
He died in Wuzhangyuan in 234. Zhuge Liang was highly respected in later generations, becoming a model of loyal ministers and the embodiment of wisdom. Chengdu, Baoji, Hanzhong, Nanyang and other places have Wuhou Temple, and Du Fu wrote Shu Xiang to praise Zhuge Liang.
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