Teaching Sons and Grandsons

Teaching sons and grandsons, mind you teach them a trade : plant the 'sang' and the 'che', but not many flowers.

[Note. The sang is the mulberry and the che, according to Kanghi, a species of the same, the leaves of which are also used in feeding silk-worms.]

[Source: Collection of Chinese Proverbs, translated and arranged by Wiliam Soarborough, SHANGHAI:'?AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION PRESS. ?London: Triibner and Co" 57 and 59 Ltidgate Hill. : p.77, 1875]