1. Use literature to make friends, and friends to help people.
2. Refers to making friends through text. The etiquette and customs of ancient literati in communicating and making friends. Literati put less emphasis on wealth and more on friendship, talent and learning when communicating with each other, so they often responded to each other with poems and essays, expressing their mentality by promoting their talents and exposing themselves. Singing is a common method, that is, reciprocating with poems. During banquets and other gatherings, it is even more forbidden to have wine and poetry. It is a popular custom to compose poems while drinking wine.
3. Source "The Analects of Confucius·Yan Yuan": "A gentleman uses literature to make friends, and friends to support benevolence."