1. A generation of Tianjiao, Genghis Khan, only knew how to bow and shoot big eagles. These characters are all gone, a few heroes who can make contributions, and look at today's people. -Modern Times: Mao Zedong's
Spring and Snow in the Qinyuan
Translation: All these figures have passed. Counting heroes who can make contributions depends on people today.2. Worry about the world first, and enjoy it later. -Song Dynasty: Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower"
Translation: Worry before the world is worried, and be happy after the world is happy.
3. The ancient people were full of knowledge, and it took time to grow old. What you get on paper is shallow, and you never know that you have to do it. -Lu You's Reading on a Winter Night in the Song Dynasty
Translation: The ancients spared no effort in learning, and they often didn't achieve anything until they were old. After all, the knowledge gained from books is not perfect. If you want to deeply understand the truth, you must practice it yourself.
4. 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. -Yan Zhenqing in the Tang Dynasty
Translation: It is the best time for boys to study at midnight every day. When I was a teenager, I only knew how to play, but I didn't know how to study hard. When I was old, I regretted why I didn't know how to study hard when I was young.
5. It's spring before you know it, and an inch of time is worth an inch of gold. It was not the Taoist who came to ridicule, and the teachings of the duke of Zhou were devoted to the study of Confucius. -Wang Zhenbai's Two Poems of Bailudong in the Tang Dynasty
Translation: Concentrate on reading, before you know it, spring is over, and every inch of time is like an inch of gold. It's not that Taoist priests come to laugh at it, but that Duke Zhou's essence and Confucius' ideological teachings are put into study.