First-rate, second-rate, and third-rate will fail, but first-rate, second-rate, and third-rate will succeed.
◆If you don’t practice for one day, your hands and feet will be slow, if you don’t practice for two days, you will lose half of your skills, if you don’t practice for three days, you will be a layman, and if you don’t practice for four days, you will stare.
◆Ten years of practice will make you a good literary scholar, but ten years of practice will not make you a good scholar.
◆People practice in the world, and the sword is sharpened on the stone.
◆A journey of a thousand miles is worth ten years of reading.
◆The heart is separated from the belly, and people look at their behavior.
◆Strength is overwhelming, but courage is overwhelming.
◆Don’t talk about speaking for three days, and don’t do manual work for three years.
◆Words are unfounded, but facts are proof.
◆There are big carp swimming in the lake, not as good as the small crucian carp on the table.
◆ Speaking is not as good as being there, and hearing is not as good as seeing.
◆Children in the mountains are not afraid of wolves, and children in the city are not afraid of officials.
◆Ten thousand words may not satisfy you, but a handful of flowing water can quench your thirst.
◆The mountain is climbed step by step, and the boat is rolled out one oar after another.
◆One look is worth less than a thousand lessons, and one practice is worth less than a thousand looks.
◆If you live on a slope for a long time, it is never too steep.
◆Horses look at their teeth, and people look at their words and deeds.
◆If you don’t experience the cold of winter, you won’t know the warmth of spring.
◆If you don’t take the burden, you don’t know the weight; if you don’t walk the long road, you don’t know the distance.
◆If you don’t sleep in the quilt, you don’t know how wide it is.
◆If you don’t get into the water, you will never know how to swim; if you don’t set sail, you will never know how to punt.
◆If you don’t have a family, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are; if you don’t have children, you don’t know the kindness of your parents.
◆Your hands won’t get dirty if you don’t touch the bottom of the pot, and your hands won’t get greasy if you don’t hold the oil bottle.
◆When water falls, it reveals stones, but over time it reveals people’s hearts.
◆The blacksmith should hold the pliers by himself, and the farmer should go to the fields by himself.
◆ Ask the woodcutter when gathering firewood, and ask the boatman when sailing a boat.
◆Better to have done it than to miss it.
◆I was fooled the first time, but became enlightened the second time.
◆Send back water and accumulate mud; experience something and gain wisdom.
◆Hearing is false, seeing is true.
◆The old horse knows the way, the old man is sophisticated.
◆If the old people don’t talk about ancient times, the younger generations will be wrong.
◆The old beef is chewy, and the old man’s words are listening.
◆Old ginger has a strong spiciness, and the elderly have more experience.
◆It is better to see it than to hear it a hundred times, and to do it once is worse than seeing it a hundred times.
◆Suffer a loss and learn to be good.
◆Only when you are in charge do you know that salt and rice are expensive; only when you go out do you know that the road is difficult.
◆ Just talk without practicing the fake moves, just practice without talking about the real moves, talk and practice all the moves.
◆The more you file, the faster the saw will be, and the more you will gain knowledge.
◆A tree has many roots and people have many knowledge.
◆Chop firewood and go up the mountain, catch birds and go up the tree.
◆Chop wood, chop off the little head, and ask the old man for directions.
◆The casserole will not leak unless it is pounded, and the wood will not be able to penetrate unless it is chipped.
◆Grass cannot cover the eyes of an eagle, and water cannot cover the eyes of a fish.
◆Medicine farmers go into the mountains to see herbs, and hunters go into the mountains to see animals.
◆It is a snake with a cold body, and a wolf with a fishy body.
◆Fragrant flowers may not necessarily be beautiful, and good talk may not necessarily be capable.
◆After some setbacks, I gained some insights.
◆The more you learn, the more you know.
◆If you want to know what is happening in the mountains, ask the old farmers in the countryside.
◆Know the kindness of your parents and hold your children and grandchildren in your arms.
◆If you want to eat spicy food, plant spicy rice seedlings; if you want to eat carp, walk along the Yangtze River.
◆The old man is half-hearted, but the old man knows everything.
Proverb No. 2
◆One person’s words are all right, but two people’s words are different.
◆One righteousness can ward off three evils, and a righteous person can ward off hundreds of evils.
◆The momentary strength depends on strength, and the eternal victory or defeat depends on reason.
◆One thing makes sense, all things are in harmony.
◆People are afraid of being ignored, and dogs are afraid of having their tails pinched.
◆People are afraid of reason, and horses are afraid of whips.
◆People have their own reasons, and horses have their reins.
◆The more people produce righteousness, the more grains produce good rice.
◆It doesn’t matter whether the person is close or not, but whether it is straightened out or not.
◆As long as there are no clouds in the sky and no rain, nothing will happen in the world.
◆All bows in the world are curved, but all principles in the world are straight.
◆There are no two days in the sky, and there are no two principles in people.
◆The more you dig the well, the clearer the water becomes; the more things are laid out, the clearer the reason becomes.
◆Be unreasonably flustered, and be rationally courageous.
◆The oxen cannot drag the harrow, and the people speak unreasonably.
◆If you accept reason but not people, you will not be afraid of anything.
◆Recognize reason but not people, help managers but not relatives. The water is too big to cover the boat, and the hand is too big to cover the sky.
◆If the water is not level, let it flow; if the reason is not level, let it flow.
◆When the water recedes and the stone remains, good people will not be bad.
◆Conquer the population with force and convince people with reason.
◆If you give people an inch, you can be reasonable.
◆Speak the truth when you have reason, and speak nonsense when you have no reason.
◆Those who are reasonable think about what to say, and those who are unreasonable rush to say it.
◆A person who is right is not afraid of being pressured by force, and a person who is upright is not afraid of a distorted shadow.
◆Don’t talk too high when you are right, talk about it in front of your face.
◆Don’t throw away the rationale and don’t argue with the unreasonable.
◆Win with reason and lose without reason.
◆ Put reason into action and use good steel to the edge.
◆You can travel all over the world with reason, but you can’t move even without reason.
◆A tree can fall down with an axe, but it will not fall down with a reasonable argument.
◆You have ambitions but not your age, and you have reason but you don’t know how to speak.
◆Eat rice and talk rationally.
◆The one who eats people is soft-spoken and the one who talks about people is short-sighted.
◆Eat with flavor and speak with reason.
◆He can walk without making a difference, and he can talk without making sense.
◆The tongue is made of flesh, the fact is ironclad.
◆If the light is not on, ask someone to turn it on; if something is unclear, ask someone to explain it.
◆If the light is not turned on, it will not turn on, and the reason will not be clear.
◆Good people argue and bad people argue.
◆Don’t be afraid to taste good tea carefully, and don’t be afraid to talk about good things in detail.
◆Good wine is not afraid of brewing, and good people are not afraid of speaking.
◆There is an endless road to walk and endless principles to know.
◆Afraid of heavy rain when walking, afraid of being criticized when talking.
◆The mouth of the altar can be sealed, but the population cannot.
◆Don’t be short-tempered and soft-spoken.
◆The dishes have no salt and taste, and the words are useless.
◆My feet can’t outrun the rain, my mouth can’t handle it.
◆Act in accordance with natural principles and speak in accordance with people's opinions.
◆The ship is stable and not afraid of strong winds, and it can navigate the world with reason.
◆Be sure to put rice when cooking and be reasonable when speaking.
◆ Every other line is like a mountain, every other line is not separated.
◆If the drum is not beaten, it will not sound, and the reason will not be clear.
◆The road is crooked, but the truth is straight.
◆If the road is uneven, everyone will step on it; if things are uneven, everyone will take care of it.
◆There are thousands of roads, but only one way.
◆When grinding grain, you must grind out rice, and when you speak, you must make sense.
◆The more rice is produced, the more people speak out.
◆Chopping firewood depends on the texture, and speaking based on reason.
Proverb No. 3
◆People have ambitions, bamboos have integrity.
◆If a person has perseverance, everything will succeed; if a person does not have perseverance, everything will fail.
◆People are not big or small, horses are not high or low. People go to higher places, and water flows to lower places.
◆People look to the big place, and birds fly to high places.
◆People compete for qi, fire competes for flames, and Buddha competes for a stick of incense.
◆When a person is old, his heart will never grow old, and when he is poor, his ambition will never be poor.
◆People must have strong hearts and trees must have hard bark.
◆People rely on ambition, and tigers rely on power.
◆People are afraid of having no aspirations, and trees are afraid of losing their bark.
◆When a person develops his heart, a tree develops its roots.
◆Three hundred and sixty lines, and the number one scholar will be the best.
◆The mountains are high and there is climbing, and the road is far and wide.
◆High mountains and long rivers, great ambition and high spirit.
◆The villain holds grudges, but the gentleman has long ambitions.
◆Don’t be afraid of the long road, just afraid of the shortcomings.
◆Don’t be afraid of things going wrong, but be afraid of being discouraged.
◆If you are not afraid of high mountains, you are afraid of weak feet.
◆If you are not afraid of failing in your studies, you are afraid of being dishonest.
◆Don’t be afraid of being ignorant, but be afraid of being short of ambition.
◆It is difficult to develop courage without taking three risks.
◆If you don’t temper yourself, you won’t become a hero.
◆Although the wooden ruler is short, it has a thousand feet of energy.
◆Nothing is difficult in the world, as long as there are people who are willing.
◆No one will be poor even if it rains for a month.
◆Heaven does not give birth to useless people, and the earth does not grow nameless grass.
◆If you have no ambition, a mountain will weigh you down, but if you have a will, you will move the mountain.
◆Don’t be afraid of the strong and don’t bully the weak.
◆The moon does not change the light, and the broken arrow does not change the steel.
◆The water is so deep that it is difficult to see the bottom, and the tiger will not be defeated even if it dies.
◆The water flows downward, and people compete to move upstream.
◆As long as you make progress, you are not afraid of being looked down upon by others.
◆There is only a sky that cannot be climbed, and there is no mountain that cannot be passed.
◆Afraid only of lack of diligence, not afraid of lack of excellence; just afraid of lack of perseverance, not afraid of failure.
◆Only for gentlemen as gatekeepers, not for villains.
◆Birds are valued for their wings, but people are valued for their ambitions.
◆Birds fly to bright places, and people fly to high places.
◆If you don’t have courage in strangers, your strength will be in vain.
◆It is better to be cold in body than to be cold in heart; it is better to be poor than to have poor aspirations.
◆I would rather suffer in body and bones than be embarrassed.
◆I would rather be an ant’s legs than a sparrow’s mouth.
◆It is better to be a poor person than to be a wealthy person.
◆I would rather break bones than bow my head and be humiliated.
◆It is better to be a horse puller for a good man than to be a boss for a lazy man.
◆I would rather give a fight to the poor than a mouthful to the rich.
◆I would rather eat porridge to open my eyebrows than rice to frown.
◆I would rather carry shoes for a gentleman than share wealth with a villain.
◆It is better to hit the golden bell once than to break the sound of a thousand drums.
◆It is better to suffer money than to suffer losses to people.
◆It is better to die than to be unreasonable, and to be poor than to lose one's ambition.
◆If you have ambitions, you will not grow taller; if you have no ambitions, you will live a hundred years in vain.
◆There is a sky that cannot be reached, and there is no level that cannot be passed.
◆If there is a mountain, there must be a road; if there is water, there must be a crossing.
◆It rains continuously for a hundred days, but there will always be sunshine.
◆The steamed buns that have been eaten are not fragrant, and the sugar canes that have been chewed are not sweet.
◆A good man depends on his willpower, and a good horse depends on his courage.
◆A good man will not suffer the consequences of being bored, and a good bird will not hide in the thorny forest.
◆A good man will work hard to the end, and a good horse will run to the end.
◆A good man does not fight for property and possessions, and a good woman does not fight for her wedding clothes.
◆A good drum will sound as soon as it is beaten, and a good lamp will light up as soon as it is pulled out.
◆Aspire to be high and your taste will be high, your ambition will be low and your taste will be low.
◆Don’t be afraid of climbing mountains when walking, and don’t be afraid of crossing dangerous shoals when boating.
◆If a man has no ambition, there will be no steel in blunt iron; if a woman has no ambition, there will be no seedlings in the grass.
◆A scholar will starve to death without selling his books, and a strong man will not sell his sword if he is desperate.
◆The grain must grow on its own, and the people must strengthen themselves.
◆There is no tree that cannot be sawed down, and no bell that cannot be ringed.
◆Don’t lose your ambition if you are poor, and go crazy if you are rich.
◆Poor people don’t climb high relatives, and they don’t climb high ridges when it rains.
◆A gentleman’s revenge is never too late.
◆A gentleman’s revenge takes three years, but a villain’s revenge is just around the corner.
◆Tiger is not afraid of high mountains, fish is not afraid of deep water.
◆A tiger is thin and ambitious, but a poor person has great ambition.
◆The roots of old trees are deep and the bones of old people are strong.
◆Trees are afraid of rotten roots, and people are afraid of lack of ambition.
◆The grass will not sprout if there is no intention, and the people will not develop if there is no intention.
◆The bold one rides a dragon and a tiger, the timid one rides a cat and a rabbit.
◆The brave can travel all over the world, but the timid cannot move even a single step.
◆Although the weight is small, it can weigh a thousand pounds.
◆If you keep the green hills, you won’t have to worry about running out of firewood.
◆No matter how high the waves are, they are still on the bottom of the boat; no matter how high the mountain is, they are also on the bottom of the feet.
◆If a dish has no intention, it will die, and if a person has no intention, it will die.
◆You can eat vegetables, but you can eat chaff, but you cannot eat Qi; you can eat it, wear it, but you can't control it.
◆The tiger is not at a disadvantage, and the eagle is not standing on a weeping branch.
◆The rope cuts the wood, and the water drops penetrate the stone.
◆The nights are long when people are worried, but the days are short for people with lofty ideals.
◆I am willing to die for everyone, not for one person.
◆When casting a net, cast the net head-on, and when sailing, you must sail against the sail.
Proverb No. 4
◆When one person builds a road, ten thousand people can walk safely.
◆When one person does evil, ten thousand people suffer.
◆Don’t speak two-faced words, and don’t seek double-dealing in front of others.
◆When a tiger emerges from a mountain, hundreds of pigs will die.
◆If the two ends of a word are even, the scale will not hurt anyone.
◆One good thing cannot cover up a hundred ugliness, and a hundred good things cannot cover up one ugliness.
◆If you can’t eat enough from one egg, you will carry a bad reputation until you grow old.
◆People are afraid of debauchery, and iron is afraid of falling into the furnace.
◆People are afraid of temptation, and people are afraid of penetration.
◆People are afraid of selfishness, and the land is afraid of desolation.
◆People are afraid of losing face, and trees are afraid of losing their skin.
◆People rely on self-cultivation, and trees rely on others.
◆A person relies on his good intentions, and a tree relies on its strong roots.
◆A heart can be exchanged for a heart, eight taels can be exchanged for half a catty.
◆If you like to argue with others in front of others, you will definitely talk about right and wrong behind others.
◆People should be solid, fire should be hollow.
◆People are really good, but ginger is old and spicy.
◆When entering the mountains, you are not afraid of tigers that can hurt people, but you are afraid of the double-edged sword of human beings.
◆Knife wounds are easy to treat, but oral wounds are difficult to treat.
◆Pedestrians trample on the grass on the road, and others say that they have evil intentions.
◆A thousand pieces of gold cannot buy a person’s heart, but ten thousand pieces of gold can’t sell a person.
◆Steal needles when you are young, steal gold when you are older.
◆The villain holds grudges, but the gentleman is grateful.
◆Don’t be afraid of the angry-eyed Vajra, only be afraid of the narrow-eyed Bodhisattva.
◆Don’t be afraid of tigers and wolves sitting in front of you, but be afraid of being cut off from both sides.
◆If you are not afraid of others being disrespectful, you are afraid of being unfair to yourself.
◆Don’t be afraid of ghosts scaring people, but be afraid of people scaring people.
◆Don’t ride a two-headed horse or drink two-headed tea.
◆It’s not your money, don’t keep it in your pocket.
◆If you don’t drink, your face won’t turn red; if you don’t commit a crime, your heart won’t be frightened.
◆If you don’t take advantage, you won’t be fooled. If you take advantage, you will suffer big losses.
◆Heaven relies on the sun and the moon, and people rely on their conscience.
◆An evil horse harms the herd, and a smelly tangerine leaves the basket empty.
◆Persuading people will always be beneficial, but instigating people will do endless harm.
◆If you hit someone, you will be worried for two days, and if you scold someone, you will be ashamed for three days.
◆It takes a lot of effort to punch empty punches, and it takes a lot of effort to talk empty words.
◆Hitting water will turn into waves, hitting rocks will turn into fire, and it will stir up people and cause disaster.
◆You can only save people, not drag them down.
◆You can only persuade others to reconcile, but you cannot persuade them to leave.
◆It can only save suffering, but not gambling.
◆Only building bridges and paving roads, not breaking bridges and cutting off roads.
◆Only Qianli’s reputation, but not Qianli’s prestige.
◆A bird cherishes its feathers, a tiger cherishes its skin, and a man cherishes his face.
◆It is better to admit your mistakes than to lie.
◆It is better to recite Buddha’s name than to curse others.
◆It is better to have no money than to be shameless.
◆It is better to be right but not enough, not to be evil and have more than enough.
◆It is better to fight with open guns than to hurt people with hidden arrows.
◆It is better to have no money for a day than to have bad behavior.
◆It is better for the heart to suffer than for the face to be heated.
◆It is better to extend a helping hand than to trap people.
◆I would rather save a hundred sheep than a wolf.
◆The person who swears to be successful will be innocent in the prison cell.
◆The whip hurts the flesh, and the bad words hurt.
◆There are things to say in front of your face and things to do before your eyes.
◆The power cannot be exhausted, and the blessing cannot be fully enjoyed.
◆ Burn incense if you want to, no matter morning or evening.
◆Don’t tell lies in front of real people.
◆Irresponsible behavior, tongue three inches short.
◆A wise man does not do secret things, and a true man does not tell lies.
◆Being contented can lead to peace, while being greedy can easily lead to disaster.
◆Content is called a gentleman, greed is a villain.
◆Be contented and happy all your life.
◆It’s easy to know your mistakes but hard to correct them, it’s easy to say good things but hard to do good deeds.
◆If a dog bites a man, there is a cure; if a man bites a man, there is no cure.
◆Foxes always show their tails, and poisonous snakes always stick out their tongues.
◆It is difficult to accomplish big things if you are greedy for small profits.
◆Use your heart and mind to your own detriment.
◆ Harmony brings wealth, disobedience brings disaster.
◆It takes three years to learn well and three days to learn badly.
◆A thousand days of learning well is not enough, but a day of bad learning is more than enough.
◆If you let the tiger go back to the mountain, there will be trouble later.
◆Being mean doesn’t make money, being loyal doesn’t cost money.
◆If you are mean and start a family, you will never enjoy it for long.
◆If you are a thief, you cannot hide it from your hometown, and if you steal food, you cannot hide it from your teeth.
◆Being a thief comes from stealing, and corruption comes from taking advantage of others.
◆Stolen money lasts two or three days; hard-earned money lasts tens of thousands of years.
◆Eating secretly will not make you fat, and being a thief will not make you rich.
◆If your feet are upright, you will not be afraid of crooked shoes; if your heart is upright, you will not be afraid of thunder.
◆Keep your feet steady and don’t be afraid of the stick rolling.
◆Cats and mice sleep in different places, and tigers and deer walk in different directions.
◆The bow of the boat is stable and not afraid of the wind.
◆Money is like dung, but face is worth thousands of gold.
◆Poverty brings joy, while wealth brings sorrow.
◆You can’t tell lies and your crops can’t be harvested.
◆A sparrow falls into the field to eat grain, and a fox enters a house to steal chickens.
◆Don’t bully mountains, don’t bully water, don’t bully people, don’t bully your heart.
Proverb No. 5
◆One monk carries water to drink, two monks carry water to drink, and three monks have no water to drink.
◆I tried to catch two rabbits, but ended up empty-handed.
◆Being bitten by a snake once, and afraid of straw ropes for three years.
◆If you don’t know three questions, there is no rule by gods.
◆A life is counted three times a year, and even if you are not sick, you will become sick.
◆One bottle of water does not make any sound, but half a bottle of water is sloshing around.
◆The human heart is not enough for the snake to swallow the elephant, and the greed is not enough for the moon.
◆People do not know blessings when they are blessed, and a boat does not know the flow of water.
◆People see benefits but not harm; fish see food but not fishing.
◆People love the rich, dogs bite the poor.
◆The more people play, the lazier they become, and the more they eat, the more greedy they become.
◆If you make a mistake yourself, it will not count, but if others make a mistake, you will be spanked.
◆My own meat is not fragrant, but other people’s food is.
◆Professing to be good is rotten straw.
◆A cat that meows more will catch fewer mice.
◆Don’t talk about others’ preoccupations, saying that you have good flowers and good rice.
◆It is difficult to cure an unjust disease with good medicine, and it is difficult to persuade a fool with good words.
◆A wise man can be beaten three times, but a foolish man cannot be beaten back.
◆Wearing three-foot clothes, speaking without distinction.
◆You will be hungry when you have no money, and you will be rich when you have money.
◆If you make flowers out of paper, they won’t bear fruit, and if you make a core out of wax, they won’t get close to fire.
◆A chicken cannot fly over a wall, and ashes cannot build a wall.
◆See if others are struggling to carry the burden, and then rest step by step while carrying the burden yourself.
◆Watch the Buddha police the monks, watch the father police the son.
◆Speak based on momentum, and do things based on limelight.
◆The father does not know how to plow the fields, and the son does not know how to plant grains.
◆When one is urgently ill, he or she seeks medical treatment and burns incense in temples.
◆Family words are ignored, while outsiders talk about the Golden Scripture.
◆The family has no backbone, and the broom is turned upside down.
◆The more incense you burn, the more ghosts you provoke.
◆When the mother hurts the son, the road becomes long; when the son hurts the mother, the thread becomes long.
◆The mother misses the son, the Yangtze River water, the son misses the mother, the pole is long.
◆If you can be big and small, you are a dragon, but if you are big but not small, you are a worm.
◆My eyes are big and my belly is small, so I can’t eat even if I fight.
◆The eyes cannot recognize treasures, but Ganoderma lucidum is like basil.
Proverb No. 6
◆If you are good all the way, you can make gold and silver; if you are good all the way, you have no money to eat snacks.
◆You can recognize a person within ten miles and recognize your clothes within a hundred miles.
◆The king is easy to meet, but the kid is hard to find.
◆The great master throws away the lot, and the common people chew the bricks.
◆When the big tree fell, the hozen ran around.
◆Rhubarb can cure people without any fault, and ginseng can cure people with no fault.
◆After three years of clearing the prefecture, one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver were earned.
◆You can’t become a rich man if you don’t do evil things.
◆I went to the casino and didn’t recognize my parents.
◆There is a begging stick in front of the door, and no close relatives come to the door.
◆There is a green grass mound in front of the door, and my biological uncle is an outsider.
◆The villain is arrogant, and the stream is loud.
◆The crows in the world are as black as the crows in the world, and the rich men in the world are as ruthless.
◆The Yamen of Tianxia opens to the south, so don’t come in if you have reason or no money.
◆A huge lawsuit, a huge amount of money.
◆The laws of nature and geography make money and reason a reality.
◆If you don’t cultivate mud fields, you can eat good food, and if you don’t raise flower silkworms, you can make good silk.
◆The longer and crooked the horns are, the bigger and greedier the rich man is.
◆Bull’s eyes look at people as high, and dogs’ eyes look at people as low.
◆The father hopes that the son will become a dragon, and the son hopes that the father will ascend to heaven.
◆Being rich is not benevolent, being benevolent is not rich.
◆Civilian officers have three hands, military officers have four legs.
◆If a civil official talks, a military officer will break his legs.
◆When the fire is too hot, the pig’s head is rotten, but when the money is enough, it is for business.
◆Great wealth can defeat others, and great power can suppress others.
◆Cold, cold in the wind, poor, poor in the rent.
◆The poor have good hearts, while the rich have hearts like knives.
◆The poor have dark hands and feet, and the rich have dark eyes.
◆The poor beg for food, while the rich beg for food.
◆The sweat of the poor is the food of the rich.
◆A dull dog speaks secretly.
◆Military officers know how to kill, civilian officers know how to scrape.
◆When it comes to flattering a horse, you have to laugh first and speak later.
◆Dogs bite the broken ones, and people lick the good ones.
◆A dog fights against the power of man, and a snow fights against the wind.
◆The dog walks towards the fart, and the man walks towards the trend.
◆A greedy person doesn’t have enough to eat, and a stingy person doesn’t know how to be rich.
◆The poor live in the busy city and no one cares about them, the rich live in the mountains and have distant relatives.
◆The monk does not tell ghosts, and there is no rice in the bag.
Proverb No. 7
◆It is difficult to cover two ears with one hand, and it is difficult to board two ships with one foot.
◆Can’t catch two fishes with one hand, can’t read two lines of writing at a glance.
◆One person can tell the truth, and hundreds of people can tell the truth.
◆Do the same thing in a variety of ways.
◆You can’t become fat with one bite, and you can’t reach the horizon with one step.
◆A feather indicates the direction of the wind, and a grass indicates the current of water.
◆One stroke of painting cannot make a dragon, and one shovel cannot dig a well.
◆You get what you pay for, so it’s a good buy at ten percent of the price.
◆Ten bucks to spend and one buck to save.
◆Conceive for ten months and give birth once.
◆People cannot be judged by appearance, and sea water cannot be measured.
◆From a young age, people look at horses kicking their hooves.
◆If a person has no long-term worries, he must have immediate worries.
◆A dragon cannot survive without clouds, and a fish cannot survive without water.
◆Dragon eyes recognize pearls, phoenix eyes recognize treasures, and ox eyes recognize grass.
◆Set up for the night before it’s too late, watch the sky early when the rooster crows.
◆Go out to watch the sky, cook to watch the fire.
◆Don’t be suspicious of people you employ, and don’t use people you are suspicious of.
◆No melon is round, and no man is perfect.
◆It is better to lose something than to lose a moment.
◆You can only use knives against robbers, and sticks against vicious dogs.
◆How big your feet are and what shoes you wear.
◆Every success must have a failure, and every advantage must have a disadvantage.
◆There is something to say in the open, and there is medicine to apply to the painful area.
◆Every effect must have a cause, and what is beneficial must be harmful.
◆Where there is an uphill, there must be a downhill, and where there is a way in, there must be a way out.
◆Taste before eating and think before eating.
◆Eat food with heart, and be obedient.
◆If you continue to cut off, you will suffer from chaos.
◆Strong will break easily, soft will last forever.
◆What you can say will make people laugh, but what you can’t say will make people jump.
◆I can blame myself but not others.
◆If you can jump, shrink your feet first, and if you can bump, shrink your neck first.
◆It’s all ginger but not spicy, it’s all pepper but not numb.
◆First nail the stakes and then tie the donkey, first build the nest and then fish.
◆More timely rain and less hindsight.
◆The deeper the foundation, the higher the wall.
◆Sail while the wind is favorable, and strike while the iron is hot.
Proverb No. 8
◆No one can open a shop unless he has a smiling face, and he will settle down if he can smooth things over.
◆Beauty lies not in appearance, but in good intentions.
◆People put etiquette first, and trees put flowers and fruits first.
◆It is unfair for the big to bully the small; it is unfair for the big to help the small.
◆It’s never too late to be polite.
◆Don’t coax the young, and don’t bully the old.
◆We are not afraid of patches on our clothes, but we are afraid of stains on our hearts.
◆If you don’t greet someone with courtesy, you will run forty miles in vain; if you greet someone with a courtesy, you will travel ten miles less.
◆Those who are afraid of you are fake, but those who are afraid of you are real.
◆Don’t hit someone in the face, don’t take away the bowl when eating.
◆If you don’t lose money, your tongue will roll.
◆If you give up an inch, you will receive a foot.
◆ Giving way is not a fool, and hiding is not a fool.
◆Don’t say mean things in front of dwarves.
◆Fighting over not having enough food, giving in to food.
◆If you can open your mouth when traveling, you can travel freely in the world.
◆It’s never too late for a good meal, and it’s never too late for a good word.
◆Benevolence and righteousness cannot be achieved without buying and selling.
◆You respect others one foot, and they respect you one foot.
◆You are ruthless to others, and they are unkind to you.
◆Don’t cover the fire when it’s cold, and don’t cover the wind when it’s hot.
◆A gentleman speaks but a villain takes action.
◆Gentlemen quarrel with each other for propriety, while villains quarrel with each other.
◆A word of patience will give you a break from your anger; a word of forbearance will help you win a step forward.
◆If you want to be good, let the big one give way to the small one.
◆Things are afraid of summing up, and people are afraid of being polite.
◆Being friendly with others and causing trouble for others.
◆Good words are respected by others, but bad words hurt people's hearts.
◆Talking just talking, laughing just laughing, no tutor for moving hands and feet.
◆Don’t talk about light when you’re meeting a blind person, and don’t talk about sores when you’re meeting a leprous person.
◆If you are well and don’t thank the doctor, there will be no doctor next time.
◆Love your disciples like your son, respect your teacher like your father.
◆Respect the elderly and you will get old, and you will get treasures by respecting the crops.
Proverb No. 9
◆If you save a gourd head in a day, you will save a big ox in a year.
◆If you save one or two grains a day, you will need to use a warehouse to store it in ten years.
◆Save a handful a day and buy a horse in ten years.
◆A thread a day can accumulate into satin in ten years.
◆Eat porridge a day and save rocks and grains a year.
◆A drop of sweat can bring thousands of grains of food, and a long stream of water can help with the famine.
◆Ten thousand stones of grain are accumulated; thousands of feet of cloth are woven from root to root.
◆All things are born from soil, and they all rely on hard work.
◆Every inch of soil is valuable, and the earth is an old root.
◆Every inch of land is empty, and there is a full store of food.
◆Bending your way up the mountain, you will have firewood when you get home.
◆It is better to rely on yourself than to rely on yourself.
◆Having a horse in front of the door does not mean you are rich, but having someone at home does not mean you are poor.
◆If you are not afraid of the cold weather, you are afraid that your hands and feet will not move.
◆Don’t be afraid of being slow, just be afraid of standing; one stop is two and a half miles away.
◆We are not afraid of hardship when we are young, but we are afraid of poverty when we grow old.
◆I am not afraid of picking up a big bowl when eating, but I am afraid of being lazy at work.
◆Don’t hesitate to work hard when you are young, and never give up when you are old.
◆Craftsmanship is a living treasure, and the world will never be hungry.
◆The Yangtze River does not reject trickles, and Mount Tai does not reject earth and rocks.
◆If you have wine today, you will get drunk today, but tomorrow you will drink cold water.
◆It is easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality.
◆The drizzle makes clothes wet; cups of wine ruin everything.
◆The mind needs constant exercise and the body needs long work.
◆The more the fire burns, the stronger it becomes, and the more people work, the stronger they become.
◆A ruler is useful for a ruler, and an inch is useful for an inch.
◆Hands are living treasures that cannot be used in a lifetime.
◆The water drops penetrate the stone, and the mountain is empty.
◆Achievements come from frugality, and excellence comes from diligence.
◆If you are easy to ask, you will not get lost; if you are easy to do, you will not be poor.
◆The money from labor lasts for thousands of years, and the money from corruption is right before our eyes.
◆It is better to ask for yourself than to ask for others, and it is better to use your legs to help others.
◆A year of flowering and a day of flowering.
◆If you stock up on the top provinces, the days will be longer; if you stock up on the bottom provinces, you will fight famine.
◆The waste of hoarding at the top is invisible, and you will regret it when you get to the bottom of the hoarding.
◆Men are lazy, and women are lazy too. They roll their eyes when it rains and snows.
◆The mountain will be empty if you sit down, and the ground will sink if you stand up.
◆Save one dollar every day and get a thousand dollars in three years.
◆Don’t waste water near a river, and don’t burn firewood near a mountain.
◆The cold weather does not freeze the hardworking man, and the loess does not suffer from the hardworking people.
◆Without the mud-legged people in the countryside, the greasy mouths in the city will starve to death.
◆Without the smell of feces, there would be no fragrance of grains.
Proverb No. 10
◆One person is no match for two people, and three people perform two acts together.
◆One person and one pair of hands can do the work without help, but ten people and ten pairs of hands can drag Mount Taishan away.
◆It is difficult for one person to sing a unique tune without clapping his hands.
◆A skillful cobbler has no good shoes; two stupid cobblers have discussions with each other; three stinky cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang.
◆A piece of grass cannot be twisted into a rope, nor a piece of bamboo can be woven into a basket.
◆It is difficult to make a row with one piece of wood, and it is difficult to bundle firewood with one piece of straw.
◆One thread is easy to break; thousands of threads can pull fibers.
◆A bamboo pole is easy to bend, but three strands of silk thread are difficult to break.
◆It is difficult to walk with one foot, and it is difficult for one person to start a family.
◆One bee cannot make honey, and one rice cannot make porridge.
◆Three industriousness and one indolence, but you can’t be lazy even if you want to;
◆Thousands of trees are connected to their roots, and ten fingers are connected to their hearts.
◆Stronger winds make it cooler, and more people make it stronger.
◆I am willing to help others in normal times, but there is someone who can help me in emergencies.
◆Brothers are united for money, and sisters-in-law are united and the family will never be separated.
◆Brothers work together to turn mountains into jade, and father and son work together to turn soil into gold.
◆If there are many birds, they are not afraid of eagles; if there are many people, the mountains will be leveled.
◆We share the blessings and share the difficulties.
◆United as one heart, loess turns into gold.
◆Be able to talk and do things that are hard to match.
◆Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and close neighbors are not as good as the opposite door.
◆ Help others in a timely manner and sincerely.
◆If your neighbor catches fire, you will be in danger if you don’t save him.
◆A soldier never leaves his team, and a bird never strays from its flock.
◆Brothers should not bully their neighbors, and generals should not bully their neighbors.
◆A tiger has no power if it is separated from the mountains, and a fish cannot survive without water.
◆A single thread cannot make a thread, and a single tree cannot make a forest.
◆It is difficult to carry food with a single chopstick, and it is difficult to fly into the sky with a single wing.
◆Bricks connect bricks to form walls, and tiles connect tiles to form a house.
◆It is difficult to start a fire with a single piece of wood, but the flame will be high with a large amount of wood.
◆A single tree cannot make a forest, and a single string cannot make a sound.
◆Family disharmony leads to bullying by outsiders.
◆ If the family is harmonious and the life is prosperous, everything will be prosperous if the country is harmonious.
Proverb No. 11
◆It is difficult for one person to sail a large sailboat, and it is difficult for one person to cover the eyes of others.
◆One person cannot obey the wishes of hundreds of people, and one wall cannot block the winds from all directions.
◆If one stitch is not repaired, it will be difficult to sew ten stitches; if there is danger, if it is not blocked, it will cause disaster and cause suffering.
◆One eye can’t see far; a thousand eyes can see through the sky.
◆One beauty brings about a hundred diseases, and people drown in shallow water.
◆A bird out of its cage is hard to come back from, and words spoken are hard to take back.
◆You will only suffer if you are careless, and you will be fooled if you are not careful.
◆It is easy to get things wrong but difficult to get things done.
◆It is better to regret and change than to regret.
◆It is better to take ten steps far than to take one risky step.
◆Be lenient to others and strict to yourself.
◆Speak less and do less excessive things.
◆It has the natural scent of musk and does not need to be blown by strong winds.
◆Prevent choking when eating and falling when walking.
◆No one loves you when you boast, and no one wears your broken flowers.
◆Words cannot be rewritten and words cannot be spread randomly.
◆Don’t burn the tofu before it gets old, and don’t talk nonsense too early.
◆Hard work can achieve success, and humility can add wisdom.
◆The stake that trips people may not be high; the dog that bites may not bark.
◆Be frugal at home and cautious when traveling.
◆A big tree attracts the wind, which brings bad luck.
◆Eating too much hurts the stomach, and talking too much causes loss of speech.
◆Think carefully when you speak, and chew carefully when you eat.
◆Leave three steps forward to move forward and three steps behind to retreat.
◆Too much salt will make you salty, and too much talk will make you annoying.
◆There is no good step if you walk hard, but you will get the taste slowly.
◆Firewood cannot withstand a hundred axes, and a man cannot withstand a hundred words.
◆Don’t talk nonsense when meeting people, and don’t rush in when things happen.
Proverb No. 12
◆A day of reading is a day of success, a day of not reading is a day of nothingness.
◆A day without reading orally will make a difference, and a day without writing by hand will make a difference.
◆If you are not good at one skill, you will lose your life.
◆You can learn a trick in one day and a set in ten days.
◆The swords and guns become brighter and brighter, and the knowledge accumulates more and more.
◆A dull knife will be sharpened by a stone, and a fool will learn from it.
◆A sharp sword requires steel, and a strong horse requires strong materials.
◆If a knife is not sharpened, it will rust, and if a person does not learn, he will fall behind.
◆Third points rely on teaching and seventy points rely on learning.
◆Land is valuable in cultivation, knowledge is valuable in application.
◆If you don’t learn it when you are young, you will be a fool, and if you don’t learn it when you grow up, you will be a lazy dragon.
◆Don’t be afraid of things being difficult, just be afraid of being impatient.
◆If you don’t read a family’s books, you won’t know a family’s characters.
◆The sky is boundless and wisdom is infinite.
◆No wood can be cut without cutting, and people cannot understand without learning.
◆If you dig the well three times for good drinking water, you will be a person with high martial arts skills.
◆If you win the game, you will win, and if you study hard, you will win.
◆An ox cannot plow without training, and a horse cannot ride without training.
◆Fingers may be long or short, and knowledge may be high or low.
◆The heart must be used, and the land must be sown.
◆ Only with a dedicated mind can you embroider flowers, and only with a calm mind can you weave linen.
◆When water drops gather together, they become a sea; when reading books gather together, they become knowledge.
◆If jade is not carved, it will not become a tool; if wood is not carved, it will not be useful; if people do not learn, they will not understand.
◆Nothing is difficult in the world, only those who are willing can do it.
◆The more you use something, the less it becomes; the more you learn, the more you learn.
◆As long as you work hard, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle.
◆Birds are valued for their wings, and people are valued for their wisdom.
◆Only by asking questions while learning can you become knowledgeable.
◆If you have children and don’t teach them, it’s better not to have them.
◆Speak often when you are old, and ask often when you are young.
◆If you don’t chew, you won’t know the taste; if you don’t read, you won’t know the meaning.
◆The master leads us in, and everyone’s skill lies in it.
◆The more you learn from the same teacher, the more you know about the art.
◆Being comfortable is not an adult, being an adult is not comfortable.
◆Those who can speak are not as good as those who can listen, and those who can teach are not as good as those who can learn.
◆There are sages among the people, and gold and silver among the earth and stones.
◆Good iron needs to be refurbished three times, and a good book needs to be read a hundred times.
◆Learning comes from hard work, and art comes from hard work.
◆There is talent in words and wisdom in books.
◆The river will no longer flow backwards, and people will no longer have blackheads when they grow old.
◆Think carefully to gain wisdom, chew carefully to reveal taste.
◆Fine work will produce skillful craftsmen, and fine mud will make good tiles.
◆If you want to be good, you will be tired every day; if you want to be good, you will work hard.
◆To achieve amazing art, you need to work hard.
◆Trees rely on people to cultivate, and learning relies on self-cultivation.
◆Don’t leave the field when farming, and don’t leave the desk when reading.
◆Put a tree early and teach your children while they are young.
◆The spring water cannot be drained, and the knowledge cannot be exhausted.
◆Live and learn as you go. Eighty years of learning is still too little.
◆It is better to educate your children than to accumulate money, and it is better to read a book than to sit idle.
◆Make candles for clarity and read for reason.
◆My parents take good care of themselves, and I take care of myself.
Proverb No. 13
◆A friend is a road, an enemy is a wall.
◆One family’s adopted daughter is sought after by hundreds of families.
◆People are humane and the play has a sense of drama.
◆People are eager to seek refuge with relatives, and birds are eager to seek refuge in the forest.
◆The son loves the younger one, and the daughter-in-law loves Qiao Qiao.
◆It is better to have fewer children than to have more children, and it is better to have fewer children than to have fewer children.
◆If you lose the land, you will not be able to bear seeds; if you lose the people, you will not be able to have friendship.
◆It is better to choose friends than to make friends widely, and it is better to visit friends than to seek teachers.
◆The son does not think the mother is ugly, the dog does not think the family is poor.
◆Ride to see if the horse is good or bad, and see if it is friendly or bad.
◆A horse is good because of its bark, but a person is beautiful because of his appearance.
◆No family can be built without a wife, and no house can be built without beams.
◆Cocks fight head to head, couples quarrel but do not hold grudges.
◆The moon is full and wane, and people are different when they gather together.
◆Today’s visitors were a sign of good intentions in the past; today’s fights were a sign of good intentions in the past.
◆The elder brother is like the father, and the elder sister-in-law is like the mother.
◆The water cannot overflow the boat, and the profession cannot bully relatives.
◆It takes charcoal to make iron, and food to raise children.
◆If you don’t get along with others, you won’t know how warm or cold they are; if you don’t get along with others, you won’t know how good they are.
◆Rely on your friends when you go out and your parents at home.
◆It’s better to jump on both feet than to smile.
◆Sentimental people are full of water, but ruthless people are hungry after eating.
◆Rotten wood cannot be used as a pillar, and bad people cannot be used as companions.
◆Eating well and dressing well is not as good as a couple growing old together.
◆You know the pines and cypresses when the weather is cold, and you can make friends in times of adversity.
◆Those who know how to choose choose sons and daughters, and those who don’t know how to choose choose wealth.
◆You can marry your opponent, but you can’t marry your gatekeeper.
◆Those who can make friends will be friends with three generations, and those who can’t be friends will be friends with one generation.
◆When traveling, you need good company, and when you live, you need good neighbors.
◆Make friends according to their thickness, and dress according to the weather.
◆You can’t make friends without giving money, and you can’t make money with both.