Original text:
Where to study, the books read before the age of twenty are very different from those read after the age of twenty. Teenagers are naive and have solid knowledge. Although I haven't reviewed for a long time, I can recite a few lines occasionally. If you study in your prime, you will forget it after a month, and it won't last long. Therefore, the text of the Six Classics of Qin and Han Dynasties, the word ancient Austria, must be read from an early age. After the expansion, although it will get twice the result with half the effort, it will eventually affect it.
From the age of eight to twenty, there are not many years in between. Can encore give up? Or read a leisurely book. At this time, it is necessary to read this article and choose elegant, honest and pure words, which can be read by people who have no disadvantages for 20 or 30 years. If the sun sets in China, you are ignorant and eccentric, and lose your body, please read this useless article for those who are in the present, when pearls and jade are hard to change. How about reciting one or two articles about Zuo and Guo, and a few articles about Eastern and Western Han, which are valuable for life?
I hope that you Cao will regard the classics you have read as an arch wall and review them within one month. Can you read all the ancient books? But when you read an article, you must be able to recite it, then try to figure out the meaning and apply it to your wrist. In this way, talents will naturally increase. If you have read this book and can't quote it at all, it's called "Painting Cakes to Fill Hunger"; It is "inedible" to quote words without using them. It doesn't make any difference to them to go to the stomach. Your generation is here, and it is extremely appropriate to save.
Translation:
People read books, and the books they read before the age of twenty are far from those they read after the age of twenty. When I was a child, I was naive and stubborn. Even if I didn't review my books for a long time, I could recite a few lines occasionally. If you forget the books you read in your prime after one month, it won't last long. Therefore, the articles of the Six Classics, Qin and Han Dynasties and Gu Zhuo's writings are profound and profound, so we must read them from an early age.
After the prime of life, even if you work hard several times, it is just unrealistic after all. From the age of eight to twenty, the time is not long. How can you waste time or read unimportant books? At this time, we should read the text of the imperial examination, but we should also choose books with elegant and pure content, rich connotation, beautiful words and no mistakes for twenty or thirty years.
Just like the articles that are picked up in the morning, they are shallow, vulgar, absurd and indecent, and they are pleasing to the eye for a while. How can you read these articles without any benefit when jewelry and jade are difficult to exchange? It's better to recite one or two Zuozhuan and Guoyu, and several gorgeous and literary articles in Chinese and Western classics, as treasures that will be used for life!
I hope you people regard the classics you have read in the past as treasures and will definitely review them within one month. How can you read all the books written by the ancients? But every time you read an article, you must be able to recite it, and then consider knowing the meaning and using it flexibly in your hands. If you do this, your talent will naturally spread.
If you have read this book, but you can't name the words in it at all, call him "painting cakes to satisfy your hunger"; Those who can say words but can't use them are called "inedible food", which is probably no different from fasting. You people should immediately and deeply reflect on this practice.