What does it mean to "make a first-class wish, enjoy a second-class blessing"?

It means: to be a man, you should have great ambitions, just seek a moderate fate, and you can't force it. The important thing is that you can keep a low profile, live an ordinary life and enjoy the blessings of ordinary people.

This is the first couplet of a pair of couplets on the left, and the second couplet is "Stand tall, sit flat, walk wide". The second couplet is to teach people to be a man, to look at problems in the long run, to be a low-key person, and to leave room for themselves and others in everything.

This is Li Ka-shing's favorite couplet, the only calligraphy couplet in his study, which can also be said to be his life guide.

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Zuo (1812165438+1October1September 5, 885), Han nationality, with high word season, simple word, andno. Xiangnong. Hunan Xiangyin people. An important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, a strategist and politician, a famous general of Xiang Army, one of the representatives of Westernization School and one of the four famous ministers of ZTE in the late Qing Dynasty.

Zuo studied at Chengnan College in Changsha, and passed the provincial examination at the age of 20, although he tried every time. Later, he took part in the movement to pacify the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, initiated the Westernization Movement, suppressed the Nian Army, put down the rebellion of Tongzhi in Shaanxi and Gansu, recovered Xinjiang, and promoted the establishment of Xinjiang as a province. During the Sino-French War, he invited himself to Fujian to supervise the division. In the 11th year of Guangxu (1885), he died in Fuzhou at the age of 73.

On the left are Chu Barracks System and Park Cunge's Agricultural Books. His manuscript and literature are the Complete Works of Zuo Wenxiang, and later generations compiled the Complete Works of Zuo.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Zuo Tang Zong