A sacred profession it is being a teacher. Throughout the upper latter five thousand years of history in China, teachers have been playing a leading role in social development.

伏羲，我们最早的祖先之一，也是最早的老师。他教人们识天象，明地理，保持天地人合一，八卦是最早的教材。

Fu Xi, one of the earliest forefathers of the Chinese nation, is the earliest master. He taught people then how to get to know about Heaven and Earth and how to live in harmony with both. And his Eight Diagrams is the earliest teaching material.

神农氏是第二位最伟大的老师，识百草、以自身试辨益毒，教人种粮养蚕，解决吃穿问题。

Shen Nun, the second greatest teacher in history, made test on himself to differentiate what was edible and what toxic, thus to tell the people the edible from the toxic. He then taught the people how to plant those edible and how to raise silkworms for silk, thus to get the problems of food and clothing solved.

孔子总结先祖们的实践经验，提升至理论高度，创儒家学说，办学兴教，培养大批德才兼备的人才，为中华民族兴旺发达奠定了坚实的基础。

Confucius summed up all practical experiences of the earlier assentors, heightened them into a series of theories, and thus gave birth to Confucianism. He ran schools for people education, turned out a large number of capability and virtue and laid a firm foundation for the prosperity of the Chinese nation.

中华民族的兴旺靠的是教育，教育靠的是老师；中华民族的复兴仍然靠教育，教育仍然靠老师。中华民族前进的每一步都离不开教育，离开不开老师。历史上是这样，现在是这样，将来也是这样。

The first prosperity of the Chinese nation relied on the education, on teachers in particular. The rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is still relying on education, on the mass of teachers for certain. Every step forward to be made for the Chinese nation would have been be impossible without education, and education could have never be separated from the toiling of the teachers. True was it in history, so is it now, and so will it be in future.

Credit: Chinese Culture