The full text is: "Living with goodwill is like entering Lan Zhi's room, but you can't smell its fragrance for a long time;" Living with the wicked is like being in the abalone boss, and you can't smell it for a long time. "

It means:

Living with a virtuous person is like entering a room full of orchid fragrance. After a long time, I will be full of fragrance because of edification, so I can't smell orchid flowers. Living with people with poor quality is like selling abalone in the market. After a long time, even you stink, so you don't think abalone stinks. Explain that the environment can change a person.

Liu Xiang's works include New Preface, Shuoyuan, Biography of Lienv, Bielu and Warring States Policy.

The New Preface is a historical story with satirical and admonitory political purposes. It is a book compiled by collecting the historical facts of Shun, Yu and even the Han Dynasty. Shuo Yuan, also known as Xin Yuan, narrates anecdotes from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty in various types. Biography of Women is a book about women's behavior in ancient China. Some people think it is a history of women.

Bielu is the first comprehensive classified catalogue book with titles and problems in China, with a total of 20 volumes. The Warring States Policy is an important historical work compiled by people at the end of the Warring States Period and during the Qin and Han Dynasties, and it is also an important collection of essays.

Introduction to Liu Xiang:

Liu Xiang (77 BC ~ 6 BC), formerly known as Liu Gengsheng, was born in Fengyi, Pei County (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province). Imperial clan minister and litterateur in Han Dynasty, great-grandson jiao (half-brother of Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty), son of Hou of Yangcheng, father of Confucian scholar Liu Xin, and originator of China Bibliography.

Enter the official position with the shadow of the door and start a career. When Xuan Di proclaimed himself in the Han Dynasty, he gave advice to doctors and things. Emperor Han Yuan acceded to the throne and granted Zong Zhengqing. Gong Hong and Shi Xian, who opposed eunuchs, were imprisoned for their crimes and were exempted from being Shu Ren. After Emperor Hancheng ascended the throne, he became Doctor Guanglu and changed his name to Xiang. He is a captain of Zhongli and is known as Liu in the world. In the first year of Jianping, he was 72 years old.

I was ordered to lead the school secretary and wrote Bielu, the earliest open book catalogue in China. There are New Preface, Shuoyuan, Biography of Lienv, Warring States Policy and Five Classics. Edited The Songs of Chu, and edited The Classic of Mountains and Seas with my son Liu Xin. Prose is mainly a "narrative record" of ancient books, which is characterized by simple narrative, smooth theory and soothing simplicity.