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非圣书，屏勿视；敝聪明，坏心志。 勿自暴，勿自弃；圣与贤，可循至。
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Books not written by the sages should be discarded and not even looked at. Such books cloud the intellect and corrupt one’s heart and aspirations. Don’t get angry with yourself; don’t give up on yourself. Becoming a person of high moral standards and virtue is something we can all attain in time.
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Emperor Kangxi knew very well that one’s character was influenced by what one’s mind learned, particularly from a young age.
Emperor Kangxi (康熙帝) of the Qing Dynasty, one of China’s greatest emperors, was an avid student and role model for life-long learning—a value that he imparted to his children as well.
Twice a day, after leaving the royal court, Emperor Kangxi would personally come to check on the princes’ studies. He would randomly select a paragraph from a book, and the princes would recite the paragraph from heart. He would also make the princes stand in line and take turns reciting to him. Kangxi himself knew the value of memorising the wisdom of ancient Chinese texts, having done so himself. “When I was young I would read a classic text aloud 120 times, then I would recite it from memory 120 times, no less. It was not until I memorised each paragraph that I moved on to the next paragraph. I learned the lesson paragraph by paragraph,” he said. With such hardworking and exacting standards, it’s no surprise that Kangxi was such a highly educated and successful emperor. During his inspection tours around China, Kangxi never stopped studying, whether it was on a boat or in a hotel. His literary preferences were the great and profound classical texts, including The Book of Changes, An-
“When I was young I would read a classic text aloud 120 times, then I would recite it from memory 120 times, no less.” Emperor Kangxi
the reign of Emperor Wu of Han during the author’s time. This historic masterpiece, however, came at a heavy price for its author, Sima Qian, who was made to endure extreme humiliation and suffering in order to complete these records. Sima Qian’s father, Sima Tan, was the court’s Grand Historian when he became inspired to write the ReWhat happened to Sima Qian cords. However, he died before that nearly made him abandon he could finish his work. On his historic mission? To find out, his death bed, Sima Tan made visit the link below for the rest his tearful son promise to finof the article! ish the work that he could not. Sima Qian later assumed his father’s position of Grand Historian, and threw himself into completing the Records. But before he could even finish the rough draft, his life was turned http://goo.gl/hRx6JY completely upside-down.
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nals of Zuo, Documents of the Elder, and The Book of Odes. Kangxi also learned medicine, mathematics, geography and technology from the Jesuits, and applied this knowledge to improving his rule. Under his strict tutelage, Kangxi’s heirs also developed various types of talents, in politics, scholarship, the sciences, arts and calligraphy, and in moral values.
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Sima Qian (司马迁) Endures Humiliation to Complete His Greatest Work
The final lesson from Dizi Gui is a wise and encouraging one: “Don’t get angry with yourself; don’t give up on yourself. Becoming a person of high moral standards and virtue is something we can all attain in time.” The Records of the Grand Historian (史记) are one of the earliest and grandest historical records in China’s history. Completed around 100 BC, it covers 3,000 years of Chinese civilisation, from the rise of the Yellow Emperor to
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