The meaning of this sentence is that Chu is indeed a place where talented people come forth in large numbers, and Yuelu Academy is a club where talented people gather. For a long time, students in Sanxiang are often proud of this couplet, thinking that this Millennium university is full of talents and proud enough. Only Chu Youcai refers to Chu Youcai, which is often used in Hunan and Hubei. Prosperity means that this place is more prosperous.

"Only Chu has talent and prospers in Si" is a couplet at the entrance of Yuelu Academy of Hunan University in Changsha, Hunan Province. From the 17th to 22nd year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (1812-1817), Yuan was the head of Yuelu Academy. The master asked him to write a couplet, and Yuan asked the students to respond with "only Chu has material". Just as he was meditating, your respectful name Zhang Zhongjie arrived, and everyone said, "Prosperity is thinking". This famous couplet was written in this way.

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This is a typical antithetical couplet. In the first part of the book, there are synonyms for "only Chu is talented" and "only Chu is talented", which originated from Zuo Zhuan's Twenty-six Years of "xianggong". The original sentence is: "Although Chu is talented, Jin is practical." Since it is said that it is a "Chu Cai", it certainly originated from the State of Chu and should be closely related to the talents of the State of Chu. "Only Chu has material" is transformed from "although Chu has material" and is extended because of its meaning. Although there is a word difference between "although" and "just", the content is actually the same. It is said that Chu (the land) has materials, which conforms to historical facts and logical laws, so it has become a conclusion.

The second couplet "Xing Yu Si" comes from "The Analects of Confucius Taber" and "Sheng Yu Si Yu Tang Yu". This is Confucius' praise for the heyday of talents in Zhou Wuwang's period. In the traditional teaching of ancient China, the emphasis was on reading Confucian classics and subsets of classics and history, while Yuelu Academy happened to have another tradition of putting practical knowledge and skills in politics, economy, science and technology and military affairs into practice. In modern times, there were many talented people in Sanxiang, Hunan Province, who made unique contributions to the China Revolution and China culture.

Reference materials? Baidu encyclopedia-Wei Chu you Liao