Don't be idle, white and sad!
Interpretation: When you are young, don't waste your youth. When you are old, you will regret that you didn't spend time doing meaningful things when you were young.
2. Tang Dynasty: Yan Zhenqing's "persuasion"
Teenagers only know how to play, but don't know how to study hard. When they are old, they regret why they didn't know how to study hard when they were young.
Interpretation: But if you only know how to play and don't know how to study hard, then you will regret why you didn't know how to study hard when you were young. I didn't regret why I didn't know to study hard when I was young until I was old.
3. Qing Dynasty: Zheng Xie Bamboo Stone.
After thousands of tortures and blows, it is still strong, whether it is the southeast wind or the northwest wind in winter, it can bear it and will still be tough and straight.
Interpretation: You are still strong after many trials and tribulations, and you can blow the east and west and blow the north and south winds.
4. Han Dynasty: Anonymous Long song
If young people don't work in time, they will only regret for life when they are old.
Interpretation: If young people don't work hard in time, they will only regret it for a lifetime when they are old.
5. Han Dynasty: Cao Cao's "Although Gui Shou"
The old horse lurks, aiming at a thousand miles.
The martyrs were full of courage in their later years.
Interpretation: Although the old swift horse squatted by the manger, his ambition still galloped thousands of miles. Even in his later years, people who aim high will not stop trying to make progress.
6. Song Dynasty: Zhang Lei's "Showing Straw"
If you don't have lofty aspirations, you must be firm. If you have a desire for peace, you will have leisure?
Interpretation: There is no distinction between high and low work, but you must have a strong will. How can a man with pursuits have leisure?
7. Tang Dynasty: Liu Xiyi's "Joining the Army"
Husband cleans Wan Li, who will clean the room?
Interpretation: A gentleman is determined to clean up the dirt and silt in the territory of Wan Li, and cannot be satisfied with sweeping his own yard!
8. Pre-Qin period: Mencius and his disciples were born in sorrow and died in happiness.
Therefore, when the sky falls, people must first suffer their minds, their bones and muscles, starve their bodies, empty their bodies, and mess around. Therefore, patience has benefited them a lot.
Interpretation: Therefore, God is about to place a great responsibility on such a person. First of all, we should make him feel heartache, make him tired, starve him, make him thin, make him poor, and turn things upside down, which is always unsatisfactory. Through those, he will be alert to his heart, make his character firm, and increase his talents that he does not have.
9. Pre-Qin: Qu Yuan's Li Sao.
For the ideal cherished in my heart, I will not regret it a thousand times.
Interpretation: this is what I pursue in my heart, and I will not regret it even if I die many times.
10, Pre-Qin: Xunzi's "persuasion"
Leap, not ten steps; This is a great contribution to the success of Ma Xu. Perseverance, rotten wood can't be carved; Perseverance, the stone can be carved.
Interpretation: the horse jumps in less than ten steps; A rotten horse can pull a cart for ten days, and its achievement comes from constantly walking. If it stops after a while, the rotten wood will continue to be carved. Stick to carving and the stone will be carved successfully.