A year's plan lies in the meaning of spring.

A year's plan lies in spring, which means doing more work, starting a year (or a day) and laying a good foundation for the whole year (or a whole day).

This sentence comes from Xiao Tong's Compendium of the Southern Dynasties: "A year's plan lies in spring, and a day's plan lies in the morning."

The vernacular interpretation of the original text is: do more work at the beginning of the year and lay a good foundation for the work throughout the year. Only by working hard can we get a bumper harvest in spring, and we can make all the preparations and lay a good foundation in one morning.

Extended data:

A year's plan starts with spring. This sentence is the experience summed up by the working people in our country in thousands of years of production practice, which emphasizes the important position of spring in all seasons of the year. It means that the one-year plan should be arranged in spring.

It is a metaphor to plan everything early and grasp it at the beginning. Make a good start to a year (or a day) and lay a good foundation for the whole year (or a whole day). Moreover, many literati in ancient and modern times and at home and abroad abound in hymns to spring. People also call people's youth "youth", praising the creativity of spring and emphasizing its preciousness.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-A year's plan lies in spring.