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In those days, the virtuous writings taught you earnestly. The rhyme of the collection increases, and you see more and hear more.

When looking at the present, it is advisable to learn from the past, as the present cannot be achieved without the past.

Know yourself and your enemy, and compare your feelings with your own.

Drink wine when meeting close friends, and recite poems to those who meet you. We know each other all over the world, how many people can we know well?

Meeting each other is like knowing each other for the first time, and there will be no resentment until the end.

You know the nature of fish when you are near the water, and you know the sounds of birds when you are near the mountains.

Mountains and streams are easy to rise and easy to retreat, and they are easy to reverse and change the hearts of small people.

The gold turned into iron when transported away, and the iron turned into gold.

Reading must be done with intention, a word is worth a thousand pieces of gold.

When you meet someone, you have to say only a few words, but don’t give up everything.

If you plant flowers deliberately, they will not bloom, but if you plant willows unintentionally, they will create shade.

It is difficult to paint the skin of a tiger, but it is difficult to paint the bones of a tiger.

Money is like dung, but kindness is worth a thousand pieces of gold.

The water flowing down the beach is unintentional, and the white clouds coming out of the stream are unintentional.

If you didn’t climb high and look at it, who would believe that the ocean is deep?

A horse’s power can be seen through a long journey, and a person’s heart can be seen through time.

If two people are of the same mind, they can’t buy gold if they don’t have money; if one person is of the same mind, if they have money, it’s hard to buy needles.

It's easy to get along well with each other, but it's hard to make friends after staying for a long time.

A horse's weakness is due to thinness, and a person's lack of charm is due to poverty.

To forgive others is not to be a fool, but a fool will not forgive others.

It’s a close relationship but not a close relationship, but it’s not a close relationship but it’s a close relationship.

Beautiful or not, it depends on the water in the hometown; whether you are close or not, it depends on the people in your hometown.

The orioles are still afraid of aging in spring, how can they teach people to spend spring in vain?

If we meet again and return home without drinking anything, the peach blossoms at the entrance of the cave will also smile.

Don't let the pretty girl grow old, and don't teach the poor to the wandering man.

You don’t know how to welcome guests at home, and you don’t know your master until you go out.

Scutellaria baicalensis is not false, asafoetida is not true.

If the guest does not care about the host, he is an unworthy guest.

If a good guest and host do not care, they may be fools.

The poor live in the busy city and no one cares about them, the rich live in the mountains and have distant relatives.

Who doesn’t speak behind someone’s back, and who doesn’t speak in front of someone?

If you have money, you speak the truth, but if you don’t have money, you speak the truth.

If you don’t believe it, just look at the wine at the banquet and advise the rich first cup by cup.

Earn money in the busy city and settle down in a quiet place.

It comes like wind and rain and goes like dust.

Vernacular interpretation: Use the words of the sages of the past to teach you earnestly. Extensive collection of rhyming words is compiled into "Zengguang" to make you more informed. We should learn from the experiences and lessons of the ancients to guide today's behavior, because today is a continuation of ancient times. If you know what you think, you should also know what others think, so you must use your own heart, be considerate of other people's hearts, and put yourself in others' shoes.

You should drink wine with those who understand you, and sing poetry with those who understand it. You may know many people, but there are only a few who truly understand and understand them. Meeting people should always be like meeting them for the first time, so that you won't feel resentment even when you grow old. If you live by the water, you can learn the habits of different fish, and if you live by the mountains, you can recognize the sounds of various birds.

You can only speak three points when talking to others, and you cannot reveal all your inner thoughts to others. Flowers may not bloom if you plant them intentionally, but willows may grow luxuriantly if you plant willows intentionally. The shapes of dragons and tigers are easy to draw, but their skeletons are difficult to draw. It is easy to understand people on the surface, but it is very difficult to understand people's hearts.

Some people are relatives in name but not like relatives, and some people are closer than relatives even though they are not relatives. Regardless of whether it's sweet or not, the water in your hometown is delicious; whether you're a relative or not, the people in your hometown are the closest to you. If you don't drink when you get together with friends, even the peach blossoms at the entrance of the cave will laugh at you for not understanding human feelings.

It comes as violently as a storm, and recedes as quietly as falling dust. The waves behind the Yangtze River push against the waves ahead, and the new people in the world are catching up with the old ones.

Source: From "Zengguang Xianwen" written by Zhou Xitao in the Ming Dynasty.

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Introduction to the content of "Zengguang Xianwen":

The content of "Zengguang Xianwen" generally has the following aspects: 1. The first is about people and interpersonal relationships, the second is about fate, the third is about how to live in the world, and the fourth is about expressing views on reading. In the world described in "Zengguang Xianwen", people are hypocritical. People are fickle for their own selfish purposes. They hate the poor and love the rich, and follow the crowd. This makes the world full of traps and crises.

There is a lot of emphasis on fate and retribution in the article. It is believed that everything about people is arranged by fate, and people should do good deeds to have good luck. "Zengguang Xianwen" has a large amount of space describing how to treat others, and this part of the content is the core of the whole text. There are many descriptions of tolerance in the article, and it is believed that tolerance is the way to eliminate troubles and disasters.

While advocating self-protection, caution and tolerance, it also emphasizes people's subjective initiative and believes that this is the principle of doing things. There is also a lot of advice in the article to encourage people to do good, "You must not have the intention to harm others, and you must have the intention to guard against others."

"Zengguang Xianwen" emphasizes the importance of reading and the value of filial piety. These views reflect the orthodox Confucian spirit. But it is precisely because of this complexity that people with different ideas can see the mottos they recognize in it, making it widely representative.

Zengguang Xianwen is a collection of rhymed proverbs and selected quotes from literature. Its content is very wide, covering almost everything from etiquette and morality, rules and regulations to customs and allusions, astronomy and geography. The sentences are smooth and easy to understand.

But the center is about the philosophy of life and the way to live in the world. Some of the proverbs and sayings reflect the fine traditions of diligence, simplicity, hard work and hard work that have been formed by the Chinese nation for thousands of years, and have become precious spiritual wealth, such as "A year's plan begins in spring, a day's plan begins in the morning"; many about society , life content, after many vicissitudes of life, has become a warning motto.

For example, "Good medicine is bitter to the mouth and good for the disease, and honest words are bad to the ears and good for deeds", "Good deeds are rewarded with good deeds, and evil deeds are rewarded with evil deeds." The experience of natural struggle has become concise and vivid philosophical scientific knowledge, such as "near the water to know the nature of fish, near the mountain to know the sound of birds", "near the water to the tower first to get the moon, the sun to the flowers and trees early to spring" and so on.