The following is "It is best to find companions and books when you are free, and the most peaceful sleep is to have nothing in this life."
This couplet is a couplet inscribed by Liu Yong, a calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty, to return the inkstone in the Suzhou Couple Garden.
This is an excerpted couplet from Lu Shaoheng's "Zui Gu Tang Sword Sweeping" in the Ming Dynasty.
It means: In real life, how do people relax after work, and what kind of companions do they find in leisure.
Everyone has different hobbies and different ways of doing it.
The same people have nothing but high standards.
To "have no external desires" means not to be bound by external things such as fame, reins, and power, and to maintain an ethereal and clear state of mind.
This couplet expresses the mood and taste of the owner of the couple garden who is free from vulgarity and has few desires, so he can spend time studying and cultivating his moral character.