1. When the pen falls, it will shock the wind and rain, and the poem will make you cry.
from: Send Twenty Rhymes to Li Taibai by Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty
Interpretation: When I saw you put pen to paper, the wind and rain lamented it; Seeing your poem, ghosts and gods are moved to cry.
2. There is nothing wrong with a frown, which has been written for thousands of years.
source: in the mountains by Shao ding in song dynasty.
Interpretation: There is nothing in my heart that makes me frown, but my work has a thousand years of work.
3. The sages of later generations are easy to use books and deeds, with hundreds of officials to govern and all the people to observe.
Interpretation from Ji Chang's Book of Changes in the Western Zhou Dynasty
: Later emperors changed this situation and replaced it with documents and deeds. Many officials made decisions on government affairs by means of documents management, and many people distinguished how to act by means of documents.
4. A river makes a picture, Luo makes a book, and a sage makes it.
from Ji Chang's Book of Changes in the Western Zhou Dynasty
Interpretation: The Yellow River was unearthed, and the book was published in Luoshui, and the saints made divinations accordingly.
5. Dan Qing and Wen Shi, what should we do without this?
It's from the Tang Dynasty's "Yong Xuan Zhou Pen"
Interpretation: If I give up painting and writing, what else is worth my career!