The beginning of life.

Wang Yinglin [Song Dynasty]

People on earth are good at living.

The same nature varies from upbringing to upbringing.

Without education, there will be deviations.

In order to teach well, you should think deeply.

It is inappropriate for children not to study.

Why bother if you are young and don't learn?

The best diamonds must be cut.

Unless you learn, you will become an animal.

Translation and annotation

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At the beginning of human birth, human nature itself is kind.

The nature is similar, but the acquired environment and education are different, and the habits are very different.

If you don't get a good education from an early age, the nature of kindness will change.

In order to keep people from becoming bad, the most important way is to educate children wholeheartedly.

It is very wrong for children to refuse to study hard.

If you don't study hard when you are young, you won't know how to be a man when you are old, and you won't be able to make a difference when you are old.

Jade will not become a beautiful object unless it is polished and carved.

People who don't study and don't know manners can't succeed.

To annotate ...

Start: start, start.

Sex: character, nature.

Habit, habit.

Gou: If; Suppose.

Teaching: education, guidance.

Move: change.

Special: concentrate.

Yes, you should.

Young: Young, when young.

Cut: carving.

Utensils: utensils, here refers to talent.

Meaning: ancient times were both "vessels". A just and reasonable reason or behavior.

Brief introduction of the author

Wang Yinglin (1223— 1296) was an official and historian in the Southern Song Dynasty. The word "Hou Bo",No. Shen Ning lay man,No. Houzhai. A native of Yinxian County (now Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province). Li Zongchun was a scholar in the first year of your life, and Bao You was a scholar in the Hongci Department for four years. Through Guantaichang Temple, he was sentenced to Taizhou, called as the secret supervisor and the right to write books, and knew the history of Huizhou and Ritual Department.

He is honest and outspoken, and has repeatedly offended Daquan Ding and Jia Sidao, the powerful ministers, and was dismissed. Later, he resigned and returned to his hometown to concentrate on writing for 20 years. As a scholar of Zhu, he dabbled in hundreds of classics, astronomy and geography, was familiar with the anecdote system and was good at textual research. He wrote many books in his life, including more than 20 kinds and more than 600 volumes. According to legend, the San Zi Jing was written by him.