1. Life is not subject to old age and poverty.
This is from the fifth chapter of Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions in the Qing Dynasty. It means that one should not suffer the poverty of old age in one's life.
People to old age, energy failure, to do what can not do, to the outside world of hardship resistance is greatly weakened, and then suffered from poverty at this time, certainly in the mental and physical torment and pain, this sentence can be used to illustrate that old age is very unfortunate to suffer from poverty, but also can be used to illustrate that young people should not be inactive or enjoyment of the waste, resulting in old age suffered from poverty.
2. Glory and splendor are easy to be exhausted, and one must retreat and withdraw.
This line is from the 86th episode of Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions in the Qing Dynasty. It means that prosperity is easy to disappear, and you must retreat early.
The world is changing, honor and disgrace are unpredictable, glory and wealth are difficult to last. Wise people must act early, in the glory has not disappeared, in time to jump out of the circle, until the glory is gone, the arrival of the inevitable embarrassment and shame, then to draw back will be too late. This phenomenon is especially common in the feudal society where things are unpredictable. These two sentences are often used to advise people not to be greedy.
3. Falsehood is true when it is true, and nothing is true where there is nothing.
This line is from the first chapter of Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions. It means that if you take the false as true, then its also become false; if you take nothing as something, then something also becomes nothing.
These two sentences speak the truth of the relative between things: true and false are not the same, but if the false for true, then the true is also fuzzy value, so that the true and false are indistinguishable. It is precisely because of this phenomenon of taking the false for the true and not distinguishing between black and white that these two sentences have a certain degree of representativeness.
4, see the strange, its strange self defeat.
This is from the ninety-fourth episode of Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber. It means that if you don't make a fuss when you see something weird, the weirdness itself won't work.
When you see something strange and unusual, if you are alarmed and fearful, you will not know how to deal with it, and you will not be able to deal with what you could have dealt with. On the contrary, if you see the strange, calm and collected, calmly dealt with, will take the right measures to find a reasonable way to make the strange subside.
5. Either the east wind has suppressed the west wind, or the west wind has suppressed the east wind.
This line is from the eighty-second installment of Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions. This is the Dream of the Red Chamber, Wang Xifeng's two quotes, the original metaphor for the contradictory sides of a large family, there is always a side to prevail. Later, it was used to refer to the sharp confrontation between the progressive forces and the reactionary forces, which is irreconcilable.
6, toads want to eat swan meat.
This sentence is from the eleventh chapter of Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber. This sentence is a metaphor for the lack of self-knowledge, delusional, bent on seeking things that are impossible to reach. This phrase can be used when ridiculing people's expectations are too high and detached from reality.