From Xun Zi's Persuasion, it means that no matter how you study or do things, you must have the spirit of "perseverance" and you can't give up halfway. There are also two meanings, each with two clauses. First of all, a good horse can't jump ten steps at once, and a bad carriage can go far in ten days. Its success lies in not giving up. Then he said that if you give up halfway, even a piece of rotten wood can't be moved; However, as long as you keep carving and don't give up, even metal and stone can be carved successfully.
Xunzi was a famous thinker, writer, political commentator and one of the important representatives of Confucianism in the Warring States period. He developed Confucianism and advocated the theory of evil nature, which was often compared with Mencius' theory of good nature. It also made a considerable contribution to the reorganization of Confucian classics.