It means: if you don't accumulate steps, you can't travel thousands of miles; Without the accumulation of tiny flowing water, there is no way to merge into the rivers and seas.

Metaphor accumulation can enrich, enrich and perfect oneself. It can be used to demonstrate that learning is expensive in accumulation.

By extension, in real life, we should be down-to-earth, not afraid of difficulties, not afraid of twists and turns, and persevere in order to finally achieve our goal. When doing things, you should not be afraid of hardship and fatigue, and step by step toward your own life dream hall. Never be arrogant and down-to-earth, relying on your own efforts is the last word.

Extended data:

1, basic information:

Name of the work: Persuade to learn.

Alias of works: persuasion articles

Creation year: Warring States Period

Source: Xunzi

Literary genre: prose

Author: Xun Kuang (Xunzi)

2. "Encouraging Learning" is the work of Xunzi, a thinker and writer in the Warring States Period, and it is the first work of Xunzi. This paper systematically discusses the theory and method of learning, and comprehensively and profoundly discusses the problems related to learning from the aspects of the importance, attitude, content and method of learning.

The full text can be divided into four paragraphs. The first paragraph clarifies the importance of learning, the second paragraph talks about the correct attitude towards learning, the third paragraph talks about the content of learning, and the fourth paragraph talks about learning from beginning to end. The full-text reasoning is profound and the structure is rigorous, which represents the level of the mature stage of pre-Qin essays.

3. Introduction to the author:

Xunzi (about 365438 BC+03 BC-238 BC), Ming Qing, was born in Huaxia (Han nationality) and Zhao at the end of the Warring States Period. A famous thinker, writer and politician, he is called "Xun Qing". It was also called in the Western Han Dynasty because it avoided the taboo of Emperor Gaozu, and because the words "Xun" and "Sun" were homophony. He served as a drinking ceremony for Xia Ji Gong Xue in Qi State for three times, and was later ordered by Chu Lanling (located in Lanling County, Shandong Province).

Xunzi developed Confucianism. On the issue of human nature, he advocated the theory of evil nature, advocated that human nature was evil, denied the innate moral concept, and emphasized the influence of acquired environment and education on people. His theory is often compared with Mencius' "theory of good nature" by later generations, and Xunzi has also made considerable contributions to sorting out Confucian classics.

References:

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