Meaning: Peach and plum symbolize the students cultivated by the teacher, which means that the teacher cultivated the students but exhausted himself.

From: "Cai Sang Zi", author unknown.

Original text: Not counting the hard work of an ink stone cold, the peach is ripe and flowing, the plum is ripe and the branch is broken, it is easy to plant flowers but difficult to grow people.

Translation: A teacher never counts his hard work; peaches and plums symbolize the bai students cultivated by the teacher, which means that the teacher cultivates the students but tires himself out; it is difficult to grow people, which refers to the understanding of the important and difficult work of a teacher. It is an understanding of teachers' hard work, hardship and selflessness.

Expanded Information

"Not counting the hard work of an inkstone cold, peaches ripe and flowing, plums ripe and branch stumps, planting flowers is easy and tree people difficult" is a couplet to praise teachers. The first line is the first line, the second line is the second line.

An ink stone is cold, hard work, the ink stone freezes in the cold weather, describing the cold winter, spring and summer. When a peach is ripe, it is red, and when a plum is ripe, its branches and leaves are depleted of nutrients. Teaching and educating people is much more difficult than planting flowers and trees. Some say it's a word, some say it's a couplet, but I think it's a word, and it matches the title of the poem, "Cai Sang Zi". The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.