Is there a difference between hard and easy things in the world? As long as you are willing to do it, the difficult things will become easy; If you don't do it, the easy things will become difficult. Is there a difference between learning difficultly and learning easily? As long as you are willing to learn, then difficult learning will become easy; If you don't learn, then simple learning will become difficult.

I'm too stupid to catch up with others; I am mediocre and can't catch up with others. I constantly improve myself every day, and when I succeed, I realize my stupidity and mediocrity. I am talented and superior to others; Ability is better than others, but if you don't work hard, it is no different from ordinary people. Confucius' knowledge was finally handed down by Zeng Shen, who was not very clever. So smart and stupid, is it unchangeable?

There are two monks on the border of Sichuan, one is poor and the other is rich. The poor monk said to the rich monk, "I want to go to the South China Sea. What do you think? " The rich monk said, "What are you taking?" The poor monk said, "I just need a water bottle and a rice bowl." Rich monk said: "I have tried to rent a boat in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River for several years, but it has not been successful." What makes you go! "The next year, the poor monk came back from the South China Sea and told the rich monk that he had been to the South China Sea. The rich monk was ashamed.

Sichuan is far from the South China Sea. I don't know how many miles it is. The rich monk couldn't arrive, but the poor monk arrived. Isn't a person who is determined to study worse than that poor monk on the Sichuan border? Therefore, cleverness and agility can be relied on, but not relied on; Those who rely on their own cleverness and agility and don't study hard ruin themselves. Stupidity and mediocrity can be limited or not; Those who study tirelessly without being limited by their own stupidity and mediocrity learn by themselves.

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To study (a song showing sons and nephews)

Qing Dynasty: Peng Duanshu

How difficult is it in the world? For it, it is easy and difficult; If you don't do it, it's hard for easy people. Is it difficult for people to learn? Learned, difficult people will be easy; If you don't learn, it will be difficult for easy people.

I am too faint to catch people, and I am too incompetent to catch people; Learn once and for a long time, but don't be lazy, you will achieve it, but you don't know its vagueness and mediocrity. I am smart, I am smart, I am smart, I am smart; Abandoning it is tantamount to fainting and mediocrity. The way of being a saint was handed down by Lu. However, it is both stupid and clever. How can it be common?

There are two monks in Shu: one is poor and the other is rich. The poor man said to the rich man, "What do I want in the South China Sea?" The rich man said, "Why should I go?" Yue: "I have a bottle and a bowl." The rich man said, "I have always wanted to buy a boat for many years, but I have never been able to buy it." Why go! "In the second year, the poor will come back from the South China Sea to tell the rich, and the rich will be ashamed.

I don't know how many miles it takes to go to the South China Sea in Xishu, but rich monks can't go and poor monks can't go. People's aspirations are not as good as humble monks. Therefore, cleverness and sensitivity can be relied on, but they cannot be relied on; It is self-defeating to rely on its cleverness and sensitivity without learning. Confusion and mediocrity can be limited but not limited; Don't limit yourself to mediocrity. People who are tireless in machinery are also self-reliant.

Second, the creative background

During the Ganjia period in the Qing Dynasty, scholars concentrated on their studies, not seeking fame and fortune, and their studies were rigorous and simple, forming a generation of style of study. So the author wrote this article for his sons and nephews, hoping that they can continue to carry forward this trend, and at the same time urging their sons and nephews not to be limited by ignorance and intelligence, but to exert their subjective initiative.