1. The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and the new people in the world catch up with the old ones. -Ming anonymous
Translation: The back waves of the Yangtze River push forward the front waves step by step, and each wave is better than the other. The new people in the world are changing from generation to generation in the footsteps of their predecessors!
2. Advance 5 years for new ideas, and then realize them in the Millennium. -On Poetry by Zhao Yi in the Qing Dynasty
Translation: Even if the new idea is drawn for 5 years in advance, it will not be as old as it is in the Millennium.
3. When the Tao is renewed, the art must be renewed, and the new one will have vitality. If it is not renewed, it will die. -Modern Xu Beihong
Translation: The development of things lies in constant innovation and development every day, and so does art. New things have great vitality, and if they are not innovative, things will be eliminated.
4, only change comes out, and change does not follow. -Lv Benzhong's Preface to the Sect Map of Jiangxi Poetry Society in the Southern Song Dynasty?
Translation: Only by ever-changing without blindly agreeing, can the created works be innovative without following.
5. Kyushu's anger depends on the wind and thunder, and it's sad that thousands of horses are together. -
Qing Dynasty: Gong Zizhen's translation: Only the great power like the explosion of thunder can make the land of China full of vitality, but the social and political situation is lifeless after all, it is a kind of sorrow.