1. Never come back in the prime of life, and it is hard to get up in the morning. It is time to encourage yourself when you are in the middle of your life. time goes by and waits for no one.
Interpretation: Once youth has passed, it is impossible to come back, and you will never see the next day in one day. We should encourage ourselves while we are in the prime of life. Time goes by and waits for no one.
Source: Miscellaneous Poems by Tao Yuanming in Wei and Jin Dynasties
2. Tomorrow will follow tomorrow, and there are so many tomorrows. I will wait for tomorrow and everything will be wasted.
Interpretation: Day after day, how many days are there tomorrow? If I live in the world and wait for things to be done tomorrow, many things will become fantasies.
Source: Tomorrow Song by Qian Fu in Ming Dynasty
3. Today is today, how rare it is today! Not today, when will it happen! Life is a hundred years today, and today is not a pity!
Interpretation: Day after day, how few today are! If you don't do anything today, when will it be finished! There are several todays in life. What a pity it is to waste time by not doing today's things!
Source: Today's Poems by Wen Jia in Ming Dynasty
4. Being young and talented, you have a high ambition all your life. Others have swords, and I have a pen like a knife.
Interpretation: I was quick-witted and versatile when I was young, and I have always been ambitious and extraordinary. Others have swords in their arms, but the pen in my hand is like a knife, sharper than a sword.
source: the poem of a prodigy, compiled by Wang Zhu in the Song Dynasty.
5. It's the night when men are reading. Teenagers only know play, do not know to study well, to the old time regret when they are young, why don't know to study hard.
Definition: It is the best time for boys to study at midnight every day. When they are young, they should know how to study hard and study hard.
But if you only know how to play and don't know how to study hard, you will regret why you didn't know how to study hard when you were young when you were old.
source: Yan Zhenqing's "exhortation to learn" in the Tang dynasty.