Young people don't laugh at old people's proverbs

The origin of this proverb comes from "expanding scholars", bullying the old and carrying the young, and deceiving others. Literal meaning: I would rather bully the old than the young, because the future development of the young is limitless.

The purpose of augmenting virtuous writing is how to behave and persuade people to be kind, so it is wrong to understand the meaning literally. According to the original understanding: bully the old, not the young, because young people will develop infinitely in the future, and once young people get the opportunity, they will retaliate in turn. Because in the end, you will grow old and become the object of bullying. So the original intention is to warn everyone not to bully others when they are proud.

Another translation: when people are in trouble, they should choose those who do the least harm to themselves, such as an old man and a teenager. If they must hurt one, they should choose the old man, because this choice is beneficial to them. No matter how this sentence is understood, the ultimate goal is to persuade everyone to be kind and not bully others.

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The contents of augmented sages are roughly as follows: 1. Talking about people and interpersonal relationships; Second, talk about fate; Third, talk about how to live in the world; Fourth, express your views on reading. In the world described by augmented sages, people are hypocritical. People are fickle for their own selfish interests and love the poor and the rich, which makes the world full of traps and crises.

In the article, a lot of emphasis is placed on fate and retribution, and it is believed that everything in a person is arranged by fate, and people have to do good things to have a good chance. Augmented sages have a lot of space to describe how to treat people, which is the core of the full text. There are many descriptions of tolerance in this paper, and it is considered that tolerance is the way to eliminate troubles and sins. While advocating self-protection, caution and tolerance, it also emphasizes people's subjective initiative, which is considered as the principle of doing things. There is no lack of persuasion in the article that "it is indispensable to harm others and to prevent others".

Zengguang Xianwen emphasizes the importance of reading and the value of filial piety, which embodies the orthodox Confucian spirit. But it is precisely because of this complexity that people with different ideas can see their own proverbs and aphorisms, which are widely representative.

Graceful prose is selected from rhyming proverbs and well-written literature. Its content is very extensive, from etiquette and morality, laws and regulations to scenery allusions, astronomy and geography, and every sentence is fluent and easy to understand. But the center is about the philosophy of life and the way to live; Some of these proverbs and sayings reflect the fine tradition of hard work, plain living and hard struggle formed by the Chinese nation for thousands of years and become valuable spiritual wealth, such as "a year's plan lies in spring, and a day's plan lies in the morning";

Many things about society and life, after the vicissitudes of the world, have become proverbs to warn people, such as "good medicine tastes bitter and is good for illness, but advice at the worst time is good for action", "good is rewarded with good, evil with evil" and "joy is sad". Some proverbs and sayings have summed up people's experience in fighting nature for thousands of years and become concise and vivid philosophical and scientific knowledge, such as "You can know the nature of fish near the water, the sound of birds near the mountain" and "You can get the moon near the water, and flowers and trees will spring early in the sun".

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