Saaghan

🏮 无材可去补苍天，枉入红尘若许年。

[Saaghan @_saaghan]

Compromise can serve as a mean of unification for those who possess similar mind yet lack tacit understanding; it can also become a mean of great division for those who already bear a world of difference in their mind yet insist on resorting to it.

[Saaghan @_saaghan]

往者亦此境，今者亦此心。
空名但千载，佳思谁一襟。

- 陈傅良

[Chinese Hanfu @AmazingHanfu]

Blue petals, silver filigree, red silk, and floral accents—this blue lotus crown is the perfect embodiment of Song Dynasty aesthetics.（via. antong)
HanfuOOTD
Northern Song dynasty style parallel-collared shirt, Open-front outerwear

[Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @Daoxue_Academy]

By studying the Book of Changes, one becomes clear about the principles of good and evil fortune and of the rise and fall of things, and about the way of advancing or retreating and of holding on or giving way—thus one may be free of great mistakes. (Zhu Xi : Lunyu 7.16)

[Saaghan @_saaghan]

#邓为

[Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @Daoxue_Academy]

Virtue (de 德) means to achieve (de 得). It means to achieve the Way in one’s mind and not lose it. Once one has achieved the Way in his mind and holds to it without letting it slip, then his virtue persists and renews itself daily. (Zhu Xi : Lunyu 7.6)

[Saaghan @_saaghan]

#我不是大师

[Saaghan @_saaghan]

Those brought together through fate part through will; those brought together through will part through fate.
Though means to be brought together or apart are myriad, one tends to see the lack of own actions as fate and the lack of actions from others as his own will.

[Saaghan @_saaghan]

#一瓯春

[Saaghan @_saaghan]

但愿人长久，千里共婵娟。

[Saaghan @_saaghan]

#我不是大师

[Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @Daoxue_Academy]

He who studies literature extensively but does not restrain himself with the rules of propriety will inevitably drift without bound or standard. Having studied broadly, if he can also keep propriety and proceed by compass and square (i.e. general standards), then he may keep from turning away from the Way. (Cheng Hao : Lunyu 6.25)

博學於文而不約之以禮，必至於汗漫。博學矣，又能守禮而由於規矩，則亦可以不畔道矣。

[Saaghan @_saaghan]

Xu Wuying followed the steps of his ancestors and became a magistrate,
left alone in this world whose steps can I follow?
My father died of hunger when I was three,
if I am to insist on his path there is no need to partake in the Imperial Examination”

[Saaghan @_saaghan]

傅毅赴京應舉，途中聞是歲停科，無資遣還。困留鄰郡，詣邑宰徐無影求庇。宰曰：「不事事者，莫得舍。」毅請受役，又拒曰：「一郡無役可授。」毅問：「公何以得為宰？」宰答：「祖若父皆宰，吾繼之固宜。」廣德元年，毅作詩曰：

[Saaghan @_saaghan]

“Cities and villages and plundered and devastated,
there is no abundance seen in provisions or levies.
I see ruin wherever I cast my gaze,
yet there is no shortage of skillful workers.