增廣賢文

"Augmented Zi-wen," also known as "Yin Wen yore", "ancient Yin Wen." Title first appeared in the Ming Dynasty opera "The Peony Pavilion", which can be extrapolated latest book written in Wanli. Later, after the Ming and Qing dynasties literati continuously updated, only changed now this looks like, called "augmented yore Yin Man", known as "Zengguangxianwen." Author has been no any book containing only know the Qing Tongzhi years scholars Hsi Tao had been conducted recast, is likely to be the crystallization of folklore.

        "Zengguangxianwen" to rhyme sayings and Selected Quotes from the literature, which are very broad, from etiquette ethics. Laws and institutions to the scenery allusions, astronomy, geography, almost nothing free, but the center is about the philosophy of life, life skills.

        Some proverbs, sayings reflect the Chinese nation for thousands of years to form the industrious and simple, hard-working tradition, a precious spiritual wealth, such as "the spring, day is Yin," "a meal a porridge, when thinking hard to come by, Bansi half thread, constant reading material was hard, "etc.; lot about society, life aspects, through the vicissitudes of tempered, become cautionary Figurative motto, such as" good medicine tastes bitter , resented help line "," what goes around, comes around "," can not be very happy, Queer ', etc.; Some proverbs, sayings summed up thousands of years people struggle with nature experience and become condensed vivid philosophical style scientific knowledge, such as "to know the nature of fish near the water, close to the mountains to know the birds sound", "proximity and easier, sunny flowers early in Spring" and so on.