Zhao Ya is proud, so it's best to impart knowledge to her in a concise manner. Zheng Yang has a candid and fearless personality, so it works best to get straight to the point with him. Wang Ying is meticulous, so the details are very important to her when it comes to learning new things. Yuan Tao is broad-minded and doesn't like the nitty-gritty details, so it's better to focus on the larger picture when it comes to him. As for Liu Yang, he doesn't have any particular strengths or flaws, but he has an unyielding heart, similar to that of Zhuo Yan…
The personalities of the students he had taken in so far flowed through his head, and a smile crept onto Zhang Xuan's lips.
Lu Chong is resilient and obstinate. Once he decides on something, nothing will be able to shake his determination.
A flower does not drop from the tree because it is heartless. It morphs into spring soil and nourishes the next generation of flowers!
This is a poem that comes from Gong Zizhen, an intellectual active in the late Qing dynasty. He descended from a family of eminent scholars and officials, and with great hopes and dreams of changing the Qing dynasty, he joined the imperial court as an official through clearing the imperial exams. However, he soon realized that what he could change as a minor official was really limited, and he eventually became disillusioned and resigned from his role, returning back to his homeland.
This poem depicts his feelings after he retired from his job.