The complete poem is: Loyalty is passed down to the family for a long time, and poems and books are passed down for a long time.
This is a couplet extended from Su Shi's "San Huai Tang Inscription". The original text is: "Loyalty is passed down to the family for a long time, and poems and books will last for a long time." 》.
Interpretation: People should be honest, well-read poems and books, and keep learning. Only such a family will prosper and last for a long time. Only a family with loyal and kind qualities can last as long as poems and books in the world. It spreads and never goes out.
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Creative background
This article was written in the home of his student Wang Gong when Su Shi took office in Huzhou in the second year of Yuanfeng, Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty (1079). The inscription of "Sanhuai Hall". When Su Shi was in Xuzhou, Wang Gong went out with him to recite poems. When Su Shi came to Huzhou to take office, Wang Gong also came to meet him and asked him to inscribe an inscription on his "Sanhuai Hall". Su Shi was invited to write the "Inscription on the Sanhuai Hall".
The article first establishes the theory of the permanent destiny of destiny, affirms the karma of good and evil, and puts forward the view that "the benevolent must have a successor"; then it describes Wang Hu's experience and expectations of planting three locust trees by hand, and Wang Hu's The fact that future generations will have many benevolent and capable people. The whole text runs through the thoughts of destiny and karma, advocating the virtues of kindness, loyalty and forgiveness, and the narrative is euphemistic, elegant and smooth.