Ancient poems about civilization and etiquette

1. If you don't learn etiquette, you can't stand. -- Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period -- Disciples of Confucius and his re-disciples, "The Analects of Confucius - The Sixteenth Book of Ji"

Vernacular translation: If you don't learn the rites, you won't know how to establish yourself.

2. There is no action without benevolence, and no behavior without rites.

Vernacular translation: Do not do anything that is not benevolent, and do not do anything that is not in accordance with etiquette.

3. Those who love others will always be loved; those who honor others will always be honored. --Warring States period-Meng Zi, "Those who love others, people always love"

Vernacular translation: Those who are kind love others, and those who are courteous respect others. He who loves others, others often love him; he who honors others, others often honor him.

4. It is not courteous to go and not come; nor is it courteous to come and not go. --Western Han Dynasty - Dai Sheng "Li Ji - Qu Li Shang"

Vernacular translation: Ritual honors the exchange; it is not polite to respect others but not to receive respect from them. It is also unseemly to be respectful to others without being respectful to them.

5. Cultivating one's body and practicing one's speech is called good behavior, and the way to practice one's speech is the quality of rites. --Western Han Dynasty - Dai Sheng (戴圣)《礼记-曲礼上》

白话翻译文：Cultivating your behavior in order to practice what you say is called good behavior. Cultivating your behavior to practice what you say is called good behavior.

Baidu Encyclopedia - There is no way to establish oneself without learning the rites

Baidu Encyclopedia - Those who love others will always be loved

Baidu Encyclopedia - Qu Ri