中国文化集锦
A Collection of Choice Specimens from Chinese Culture

英语逾甲子情缘
Over Sixty Years’ Love of Knowledge about the English Language

公者千古，私者一时。（1) The public ensures a thousand years, the private perishes in an instant. (2) What is public lasts forever, what is private fades away.

早晨不起误一天，幼时不学误一生。(1) Laziness in the morning ruins a day; childhood idleness ruins a lifetime. (2) Lazy in the morning wasted day; idle in youth wasted life.

古人学问无遗力，少年功夫老始成。 The ancients learned with all their strength, those who would succeed only through hard work while young.

🌹 状元

连中三元～ 意思是指古代科举考试接连在乡试、会试、殿试中考中了第一名为解元、会元、状元，合称“三元”。

看似寻常最奇崛，成如容易却艰辛。（看似寻常，实际却奇异特出，写出来好像很容易却饱含艰辛。It seems usual, but actually rather extraordinary. success seems easy but quite hard.）

“状元”、“榜眼”、“探花”是中国古代科举制度中殿试前三名的进士的称谓。 The top three candidates in the imperial examination of ancient China were called "Zhuangyuan", “Bangyan”and "Tanhua" .

中国的科举考试始于隋朝（581—618），隋炀帝（杨广569—618年，604—618在位，隋朝第二个皇帝）于公元605年设立进士科，标志着科举制度正式确立，终于清代1905年，影响后世整整1300年。

在中国古代的科举考试中，共有18人连中三元（三元及第）。有文状元15位：

唐朝（618—907）的张又新、崔元翰（729—795）、武翊黄、白敏中（白居易的弟弟）
Zhang Youxin, Cai Yuanhan, Wu Yihuang, Bai Minzhong (Younger brother of Bai Juyi)

宋代（960—1279）的孙何、王曾、宋痒、杨置、王若叟、冯京、陈尧叟 Sun He, Wang Zeng, Sing Xiang, Yang Zhi, Wang Ruosou, Feng Jing, and Chen Yaosou in the Song Dynasty.

辽国（907—1125）的王棠，Wang Tang in Liao times

金朝1115—1234）的孟宋献
Meng Songxian Under the Jin

元朝（1271—138）的王崇哲
Wang Chongzhe in the Yuan era

明朝（1368—1644）的商辂、黄观（在靖难中反燕王，后当上皇帝，被永乐皇帝（原燕王，朱元璋的第四子）废了他的状元令） Shang Lu and Huang Guan，Due to the Jingling Campaign, Huang Guan, resisting against the Yan Prince faction,, was deposed the top scholar (Zhuangyuan) by Emperor Yongle in the Ming period.

清朝（1644—1911）的钱棨、陈继昌
Undet the Qing
状元：Number One Scholar， title conferred on the one who came first in the highest imperial examination or the very best (in any field 任何领城)
Numbet Two Scholar
“状元”的称谓起源于唐代科举制度中的“状头"演变而来，至宋代正式确立的殿试第一名的官方称谓，其发展贯穿于科举制度从初创到成熟的全过程。
The title of "Zhuangyuan" (the first place winner in the imperial examination) originated from the evolution of "Zhuangtou" in the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) until the official title for the top candidate in palace examination formerly established in the Song Dynasty(960-1279), in the development spanned the entire process from the initial establishment to the maturity of the imperial examination.

榜眼 (殿试考试成绩第二名）：Number Two Scholar
(the second place winner in the imperial examination)

探花 （殿试考试成绩第三名）
Number Three Scholar (the third place winner in the imperial examination)

养鸡状元
Chicjen-raising champiop
养猪壮元
Pig-raising champion