For the past and the future, parallelism is used to open peace for the world. Parallelism is a rhetorical method that arranges words or sentences with the same or similar structure, closely related meaning and consistent tone into a string. The rhetorical function of parallelism can be summarized as "increasing literary potential" and "broadening literary significance".

The whole sentence is: make a heart for heaven and earth, make a life for the people, link the past with the future, and create a peaceful future for all generations. Since Zhang Zai, this famous saying has been called "Four Sentences of Hengqu", which has been passed down from generation to generation because of its conciseness.

"Four for one sentence" involves the spiritual value, meaning of life, academic inheritance and political ideal of society and people. We can translate Zhang Zai's "four for one sentence" into modern Chinese: rebuild the spiritual value for the society, establish the meaning of life for the people, inherit the lost academic system for the former saints, and open up the foundation of peace for all generations.

Zhang zai

Zhang Zai was a thinker, educator and one of the founders of Neo-Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty? . For the first time in the history of China's philosophy, Zhang Zai established a relatively complete philosophy system of Qi monism, which opened up a new stage of simple materialist philosophy. He is the first philosopher in the history of China's philosophy to criticize Buddhist idealism from the philosophical theory of the relationship between thinking and existence.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhang Zai