It means: follow nature, cultivate virtue and accumulate blessings, and be in peace forever, how wonderful it is.
Phonetic: zhǐ xīn xiū hù, Yongsui Jishao (yǒng suí jí shào)
Note:
① Refers to salary: From "Zhuangzi: The Master of Health Preservation": "It means that when you are short of fuel, the fire is passed down, and you don't know its end." It means that when you use firewood to burn fire, the firewood will be exhausted, but the fire will not be extinguished when it is passed down. It means that the human body will die, but human life is endless.
②Hu: blessing; great blessing.
③Sui: peace, comfort.
④Shao: Encouragement, beauty (mostly referring to moral character).
Extended information
1. Author of "The Thousand Character Essay":
Zhou Xingsi, courtesy name Si Zuan, was born in Xiang County, Chen County (now Shenqiu County, Henan Province) , died in the second year of Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty. He has lived in Gushu for a long time, is erudite and good at literature.
During the reign of Emperor Wu, he served as the minister of the Ancheng Kingdom. Every time the emperor ordered his successors to write inscriptions, such as bronze inscriptions, gate and pond tablets, Wei inscriptions, and a thousand-character inscription written by Wang Yi. Every time he plays, he is always praised for his good deeds. The official is finally in trouble. Xingsi wrote more than 100 volumes of emperor's records, records of emperor's virtues, notes on daily life, and professional etiquette. He also wrote ten volumes of collected works (Liang Shu and Liang Tang Shu Zhi) which have been handed down to the world. But the most widely circulated and longest-lasting one is "The Thousand-Character Essay".
2. The creative background of "The Thousand Character Essay":
Literacy textbooks specifically for enlightenment appeared very early in China. In the Qin Dynasty, there were "Cangjie Pian" and "Cangjie Pian". "Yuan Li Pian", in the Han Dynasty there were Sima Xiangru's "Fan Jiang Pian", Jia Li's "Peng Xi Pian", Cai Yong's "Encouraging Learning Pian", Shi You's "Ji Jiu Zhang", in the Three Kingdoms era there were "Pi Cang", "Guang Cang", "The Beginning of Learning", etc.
Among these works, only "Ji Jiu Zhang" had an impact on later generations, and the others had little impact.
Although "Jijiuzhang" is a more prominent primary school book after "Cangjie Pian", due to various problems in its circulation, its authority was not as good as before in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. During this period, Some enlightenment readings, such as "Tinggao" and "Jieyou", have limited readability. It was against this background that "The Thousand Character Essay" came out.
During the Southern Dynasties, in order to teach calligraphy to the kings of the Liang Dynasty, Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty, asked Yin Tieshi to carve out a thousand different characters from Wang Xizhi’s works, each character on a piece of paper, and then put these out of order. The rubbings were given to Zhou Xingsi, who compiled them into rhymes with content. This is the "Thousand-Character Classic" that has been passed down to the 21st century for more than 1,400 years.
Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia - Thousand Character Essay