A story about perseverance

Examples of ancient celebrities who stuck to their true intentions

The story of "sitting in peace" has been widely known in China throughout the ages, and Liu Xiahui was therefore considered a model of abiding by traditional morals. In contemporary times, people also use "Liu Xiahui" or "sitting in the arms calmly" to describe a man's decent style on gender issues.

The saying "sitting in the arms without chaos" comes from the biography of Mao Heng in "The Book of Songs·Xiaoya·Xiangbo". When Mao Heng commented on the poem "Xiang Bo", he told a story: There was a man in the state of Lu who lived alone in a room, and his neighbor was a widow who lived alone in a room. One night there was a storm and the widow's house was destroyed. The woman came to the man to ask for shelter. Men don't let women in. The woman said to him from the window: "Why don't you let me in?" The man said: "I heard that men and women cannot live together until they are sixty years old. I am still young now, and so are you, so I can't let you in." The woman said, "Why don't you, like Liu Xiahui, use your body to warm a woman who has no time to go out to avoid the cold, and others don't think he has done anything inappropriate?" The man said, "Liu Xiahui can open the door, so I can't." I should use my "not opening the door" to learn from Liu Xiahui's "opening the door".

"This story shows that at the latest in the early Western Han Dynasty, there was a legend about Liu Xiahui being pregnant, but it was a little unclear.