Where there is a will, there is a way. If we cross the rubicon, 120 Qin Guan will belong to Chu after all.
Hard-working people, heaven rewards hard work, and never stops. More than 3,000 armour can swallow Wu.
Wu Gongheng (Qing Dynasty) recorded in Lian Hua that this couplet was written by Jin Sheng, a famous anti-Qing scholar.
Statement 2:
Where there is a will, there is a way. If we cross the rubicon, 120 Qin Guan will belong to Chu after all.
Hard-working people, heaven rewards hard work, and never stops. More than 3,000 armour can swallow Wu.
-Pu Songling's own couplet? (Note: Yan Mai, a native of Guizhou, made it clear that he forged couplets, not Pu Songling. )
The whole poem allusions:
1. Where there is a will, there is a way-Biography of Geng in the Later Han Dynasty
2. Cross the rubicon-"Historical Records of Xiang Yu"
3. One hundred and twenty Qin Pass will eventually be returned to Chu-the Chu army occupied one hundred and twenty Qin Pass at the end of Qin Dynasty.
4. Taste courage-"Historical Records of the King of Yue Gou Jian's Family"
5. Three thousand Yue families can swallow Wu-Gou Jian swallowed Wu with three thousand Yue families.