The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead. The next sentence is that the new people in the world drive out the old ones.
“The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and the new people in the world chase away the old people.” This sentence means that the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead step by step, and the new people in the world follow in the footsteps of their predecessors and replace them from generation to generation. It tells the truth that history is moving forward and excellent newcomers will emerge in endlessly. From "Zengguang Xianwen". "Zengguang Xianwen". Also known as "Xianwen of the Past" and "Xianwen of the Ancient and Modern Times", it is a children's enlightenment book compiled during the Ming Dynasty in China. The title of the book was first seen in the opera "The Peony Pavilion" during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. From this, it can be inferred that the book was written during the Wanli period at the latest. "Zengguang Xianwen" collects various Chinese mottos and proverbs from ancient times to the present. Later, after continuous additions by literati from the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was changed into its current form, called "Zengguang Xianwen", commonly known as "Zengguang Xianwen". "Zengguang Xianwen" may seem chaotic on the surface, but as long as you read the whole book carefully, it is not difficult to find its internal logic. The book's understanding of human nature is based on the Confucian Xunzi's "theory of evil nature" as the premise, and it provides a cold-eyed insight into social life. Family ties are polluted by money, "If you live in poverty in a busy city, no one cares about you, but if you are rich in the mountains, you have distant relatives." Friendship is just a lie. When drinking wine at a banquet, serve the rich first." Law and justice are controlled by money. "The yamen is open with eight characters. If you have reason, don't come in without money." Human nature is distorted by interests. "There are straight trees in the mountains, but there are no straight people in the world." Sophistication It leads to unpredictability in people's minds, "It is difficult to paint the bones of a tiger on its skin, and it is difficult to know the face of a person but not the heart"; it is difficult to distinguish between good and evil in people's words, "When you go into the mountains, you are not afraid of tigers that hurt people, but you are afraid of the double-faced sword of human beings." "Zengguang Xianwen" highly summarizes the dark phenomena in many aspects of society and coldly displays them in front of readers. Most of the sentences in "Zengguang Xianwen" come from collections of classics and history, poems, dramas, novels and literati's miscellaneous notes. Its ideas and concepts come directly or indirectly from Confucian and Buddhist classics. In a broad sense, it is a collection of refined and popular works. A popular version of the "Sutra". You can read it without explanation, and you can also understand the thoughts and life wisdom of the scriptures by reading "Zengguang Xianwen".