be pure-minded

Maintain an old acquaintanceship having no real understanding with each other

White face and Confucian crown

The cups go gaily round--toasting each other.

a decrepit cart drawn by a lean horse--descriptive of thriftiness

be full of wrongly written characters

All neglected tasks are being undertaken

Thousands of turns and twists

be in the middle of a creative writing mood

Not to be abandoned

to be in a dilemma(between the devil and the deep (blue) sea

Demolish with penetrating criticism

always changing

pass no judgement on(neither to praise nor to criticize)

ride on a faggot wickerwork cart in ragged clothes--start one's career from humble origins

Humble

not ashamed to learn from subordinates (idiom)

be crowded closely together(crowd against one another; walk shoulder to shoulder and follow in the footsteps of one another)

until one's dying day(to the end of one's days)

be dispelled as the thawing of ice