Today, people are born into Confucianist families and start to carry on their father's profession from an early age. They have books but do not read them, they simply continue their ancestors' venture. This is how far they go before they crash. This is the eighth lament. People used to suffer because there was no place they could retreat to and cultivate themselves.
Today there are academies and local schools where they can pursue teachers.
This is the ninth lament. There used to be the great ties between the lord and his minister, between the father and his son, there used to be the great conducts of loyalty and filial piety, of benevolence and propriety. The students of our age do not study and practice, so the great ties and the great conducts are used to sweep the floor. This is the tenth lament.