The whole poem

The bamboo fence and thatched cottage are good, the Taoist temple is not as good as the monk's hall.

Sometimes in life you must have it, but when you don't have it, don't force yourself to have it.

From "Zeng Guang Xian Wen"

Translation:

The scenery of bamboo fences and thatched houses is very good, but temples and Taoist monasteries are not as good as them after all.

What will be in destiny will always be there, and what is not in destiny should not be forced.

Expanded Information:

The Book of Enlargement: The Book of Enlargement: The Book of the World's Greatest Buddhist Scholar p>The Zengguangxianwen (增广贤文). It is also known as the "Olden Virtuous Writings" and the "Ancient and Modern Virtuous Writings", and is a children's primer written during the Ming Dynasty in China. The name of the book was first seen in the Ming dynasty in the Wanli period of the opera "Peony Pavilion", according to which it can be inferred that the book was written in the Wanli period at the latest.

Zengguangxianwen is a collection of aphorisms and proverbs from ancient to modern China. It was later supplemented by literati of the Ming and Qing dynasties before it was changed into its present form, called Zengguang xianwen (Enlargement and Extension of the Writings of the Past), or Zengguangxianwen (Enlargement and Extension of the Writings of the Virtuous).

The author has not been seen in any book, only know that during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty Confucian scholar Zhou Xitao had reordered, most likely is the crystallization of the folk creation of the Qing Dynasty.

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The Hundred Surnames: "The Hundred Surnames," is an article about Chinese surnames. According to literature, it was written in the early Northern Song Dynasty. The original collection of surnames 411, later added to 568, of which 444 single surnames, 124 compound surnames.

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The Rules of Discipleship: The Rules of Discipleship is a three-character rhyming text made by Li Yuxiu, an educator of the Qing Dynasty.?

The content of the book is based on the sixth article of the Analects of Confucius, which reads: "Disciples should be filial in entering, fraternal in leaving, prudent and trustworthy, and kind in loving all people. Actions have the power, then to learn the text" of the meaning of the text, with three words a sentence, two sentences a rhyme compiled. The whole text consists of 360 sentences and 1,080 words. Disciple's Rules" is a natural and fluent text, simple and unadorned, with far-reaching influence, and occupies an important position in the culture of the Qing Dynasty.

Other Classics of Zeng Guang Xian Wen:

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2. You can plant a garden and the flowers will not bloom, but the willow will become a shade.

3. It's hard to draw a picture of a tiger, and you don't know what you're talking about.

4, the road is far away from the horse power, day to day to see the people.

5, the Yangtze River waves push forward, the world new people for the old. The first thing you need to do is to get the moon in the near water, and the flowers and trees in the sun will be in the spring in the morning.

6, a year's plan is in spring, a day's plan is in the morning.

7. An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, and an inch of gold can't buy you an inch of time.

Works evaluation:

A certain culture is the reflection of a certain socio-political economy in the conceptual form, and Zengguang Xianwen is no exception. Due to the limitations of the times and history, it is bound to bear the marks of that era. Many of its contents reflect feudal ethics and morality, even with obvious feudal superstitions and fatalistic colors; some of its contents are personal-centered, reflecting the selfishness and self-interest that prevailed at that time;

Some of its contents reflect the negative philosophy of life of the ordinary class of the people, who were living a life of complacency, shrinking from peace and avoiding disaster and worldliness at that time and even under the social system of the present day; some of its contents are not a bad reflection of the society at that time, and some of them are not bad for the society. Some of them were correct reflections of social phenomena at that time, but have lost their significance today; and some of them have vague meanings or only one-sided truths, which will become wrong if they are not correctly understood. These are not in line with the spirit of the times, we need to take a critical attitude when reading, to be aware of the Yangjie, critical inheritance, to absorb its nutritious components, the ancient for the modern use.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Zengguang Xianwen