Original text:
Pan Ming of Tang Zhi said, "If you are new, you will be new, and you will be new." Gao Kang said, "Be a new citizen." The poem reads: "Although Zhou is an old country, his life has changed." Therefore, a gentleman does his best.
Translation:
The proverb carved on the bath by King Shang Tang said, "If you can update it every day, you can update it every day." Gao Kang said: "Encourage people to abandon the old and absorb new ideas." The Book of Songs said: "Although the Zhou Dynasty was an old country, it was endowed with a new destiny." Therefore, people with high moral character pursue perfection everywhere.
"To innovate, to innovate, to innovate" comes from the inscription on a vessel in the Shang Tang era quoted by the university in the four books. According to the textual research of Guo Moruo, a writer in Jin Dynasty, there was no moral proverb in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The so-called Shang Tang-era vessels by the author of "University" have long been lost, and the bronzes we saw should be a broken thing. If a part is missing, the word is broken. If it is finished, this proverb will become "father, father, and brother."