Source: Guan Zhong's Three Complete Repairs of Guan Zi from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Original text:

A year's plan is nothing more than a tree valley; The ten-year plan is nothing more than a tree; Lifelong planning is nothing more than cultivating people. A tree gets a tree, and the valley is also; Ten wins in one tree, and wood is also; There are many things in a tree, and so are people. I will never forget the kindness of putting a willow tree in my heart.

Vernacular translation:

Nothing is better than planting crops for a year; Nothing can compare with planting trees for ten years; There is nothing better than training and selecting talents all your life. Once cultivated, it is the crops that double the harvest; Once cultivated, it is the tree that harvests ten times; Once you practice, all the people who gain a hundredfold (shine on you is better than Blue) are talents. Small favors given by others should also be remembered and repaid for life.

Extended data writing background:

Guanzi is a compilation of hundred schools of thought's speeches in the pre-Qin period, with a wide range of contents. It was written from the Warring States Period (475 ~ 22 BC1) to the Qin and Han Dynasties, and its contents were very complicated, including the opinions of legalists, Confucianism, Taoism, yin and yang scholars, famous artists, military strategists and farmers. The thought of Guanzi is an important method for politicians to rule the country and level the world in the pre-Qin period. Guanzi is basically a collection of works by Guan Zhong, a Taoist propagandist in Xia Ji. That is to say, it is regarded as the pipe school of Xia Ji's research. It is listed as a Taoist category in History of Han Dynasty and a Legalist category in Annals of Classics by Sui Shu. Sikuquanshu listed it as a sub-legalist.

Zhang Xuecheng, a historian in Qing Dynasty, said: Guanzi is a Taoist saying. According to the statistics of Japanese scholars at home, almost every book Guanzi contains Lao Zi's language fragments and philosophical thoughts. The content is extensive and profound. It was written in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period (475 BC ~ 22 BC1year) to the Qin and Han Dynasties. There are 86 articles in the early Han Dynasty, 76 articles in this edition, and the rest 10 articles only exist in the catalogue. Including the views of Confucianism, Legalism, Yin and Yang, famous artists, military strategists and farmers. Among them, Huang's works are the most, followed by 18 legalist works, and the rest are miscellaneous. Among them, the legalist thought is the legalist thought under the influence of Taoist thought.

The book Guanzi is classified as a Taoist category in the Records of Han Art and Literature, while the Records of Sui Shu Classics and Records is classified as a legalist category. Even the more I look at it, the more I feel that there are not so strict barriers between the factions in the early Han Dynasty, which is really very different from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. For example, when talking about the Confucian idea of "don't be condescending", Jia Yi, a young Yan Jun at that time, strangely quoted the words of Guanzi, saying: "Guanzi said:' Courtesy, righteousness and shame are four dimensions; If the four dimensions don't open, the country will die. "-if this sentence is put in the Analects of Confucius or Mencius, you can't see it at all.

The book Guanzi, centered on Huang Lao Dao, not only puts forward the concrete plan of governing the country according to law, but also attaches importance to the basic role of moral education. It not only emphasizes the political system with the monarch as the core, but also advocates people-oriented and promotes the balanced development of agriculture, industry and commerce; There are both heroic and overbearing strategies and just ideals; It not only avoids the tendency of Jin legalists to ignore moral people's hearts, but also supplements the lack of Confucian political practice experience, and has an indelible and important position in the history of thought.