The whole poem (every sentence has pinyin)

Where there is a will, there is a way. If you burn your bridges, you will end up in Chu.

Travel, history, philosophy, history, scenery, process, slope, Fu, Chen, Zhou, Bai, Er, Qin, Guan, Zhong, Shu and Chu;

Hard-working people live up to expectations, and 3 thousand armor can swallow Wu.

Cool, new, human, heaven, no, rich, me, new, long, single, three, former, Vietnam, Canada, Ke, Tun and Wu.

-Pu Songling wrote self-encouragement couplets

To annotate ...

(1) cross the rubicon: "Historical Records of Xiang Yu's Biography": "When Xiang Yu learned that he was leading his troops to cross the river, they all sank, burned their huts, and gave three meals to show that all the soldiers were dead, and none of them returned home."

(2) Sleeping hard: "Historical Records of Gou Jian's Family": "When Wu pardoned Yue, Gou Jian, the king of Yue, returned to China, but he was afraid to sit down for fear of his health. I was afraid when I sat down, and my diet tasted courage. "

(3) Pu Songling (1640- 17 15): a famous writer in Qing Dynasty. Zi, Zi, whose real name is Liu Quan, was called Mr. Liaozhai in the world and was born in Zichuan, Shandong (now Zibo). He is a talented young man, and he is proud of himself. 19 years old won the first place in county, government and road. From then on, I concentrated on my studies, hoping to gain fame and get rewards for my ambition. Throughout his life, he was not proud of the examination room and tried again and again. At the age of 7 1, he helped to be a volunteer.

Long-term poverty, teaching as a career. There are many works in his life, especially the collection of short stories "Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio", which reached the peak of China's creation of classical Chinese novels and was praised by later generations. There are also Poems of Liaozhai and Collected Works of Liaozhai.

Pu Songling was extremely clever and was keen on starting a career when he was young. But he was unhappy because he "lost his wings year after year and lost to the examination room year after year". In order to motivate myself to keep learning and creating, I carved this couplet on a copper ruler for pressing paper.

Meaning: An ambitious person is sure to succeed in doing things!