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I got the following two sentences/phrases from this news article:

昔孟母,择邻处

书中自有黄金屋,书中自有颜如玉

What do they mean?

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昔孟母,择邻处 - just search for story of 孟母三遷

书中自有黄金屋,书中自有颜如玉 - study hard and you will (get good results in exams, get a good job, rise socially and) eventually get what you desire (money, women, you name it).

PS - I have removed the link. Read roddy's post below.

Posted

Thanks, skylee. That link doesn't work though, in the mainland at least.

So 颜 here means women?

Posted

顏如玉 ~ jade like beauty

PS - I have removed the story. See roddy's post below.

Posted

Judging by the url and the fact that it's not accessible, it'll be a FLG issue. Shouldn't be hard to find the story elsewhere.

Posted

So what's wrong with the sentence 昔孟母,择邻处? Why did they need to take it out of the book? :conf

Posted

ah didn't realise that. right it shouldn't be hard to find the story. just search for 孟母三遷. It is a chengyu.

Posted

Yes, I read the story you pasted, skylee.

But I don't understand why 昔孟母,择邻处 had to be removed from the books, according to the article I linked to. It seems fairly inoccuous to me.

As for 书中自有黄金屋,书中自有颜如玉, I like that. I think I'll make it my 座右铭.

Posted

It's not the sentence so much as the story it's the title of - it implies that you should change your environment, rather than live with it in . . wait for it . . . harmony!

Posted

Yeah, it's one of those 'provincial authorities do something daft' stories - if you were nodding your head and saying 'yeah, that makes sense' you'd be ideal cadre material.

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