What is the Zengguangxianwen (增广贤文)? What can we learn from it?

Zeng Guang Xian Wen is a microcosm of traditional Chinese culture, in today's point of view, carefully read some of the sentences, which contains the philosophy of life for us to deal with the world is still a great reference and revelation, take this opportunity, only from the "Zeng Guang Xian Wen" extracted from the three sentences, standing in my personal understanding of the angle of some of the philosophies of life contained therein for a brief exposition of the right to throw a brick to attract jade it!

These are the first three sentences in the book.

"Zeng Guang Xian Wen", also known as the "past and present Xian Wen", "ancient and modern Xian Wen", is a children's enlightenment bibliography written during the Ming Dynasty in China. The name of the book was first seen in the opera "Peony Pavilion" during the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, according to which we can project that the book was written during the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty at the latest. The author has not been found in any book, but it is only known that Zhou Xitao, a Confucian scholar, rearranged it during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. The Zeng Guang Xian Wen is an extremely influential book for monks. "Reading Zeng Guang will make you talk" was a verbal saying in the olden days. In the old days, the literati gathered together folk sayings that were widely circulated as well as fluent phrases from ancient poems and writings that contained deep moral meanings. Later, after the Ming and Qing literati continued to add, the maxims will be arranged together, three words, four words, five words, six words, seven words staggered, read catchy, easier for people to accept, and then passed down to the present.

The Zengguangxianwen seems to be disorganized on the surface, but as long as one reads through the book carefully, it is not difficult to find its inner logic. The book's understanding of human nature is premised on the Confucian idea of Xunzi's "theory of sex and evil," which provides a grim insight into social life.

The book summarizes the darkness of many aspects of society and displays them coldly in front of the reader. Most of the sentences in Zeng Guang Xian Wen come from the classics, poems, lyrics, songs, dramas and novels, as well as miscellanies of writers, and its ideology is directly or indirectly derived from the Confucian and Buddhist classics, which makes it a popularized version of the scriptures for both laymen and laywomen. It can be read and understood without explanation, and the ideology and wisdom of the sutra can also be realized through reading the Zeng Guang Xian Wen. The Zeng Guang Xian Wen is also an anthology of proverbs.