The Historical Story of Cutting Robes and Severing Righteousness

The prototype of cut robe to break righteousness is to cut the seat to break the friendship, from the Southern Dynasties - Song - Liu Yiqing "Shishu Xinyin - virtue" in a story: the Three Kingdoms period of the State of Wei, a learned scholar tube Ning and good friend Hua Xin *** garden hoeing vegetables, Hua Xin tube Ning two, hoeing vegetables in the garden, the vegetable field is actually a piece of the former buried gold, gold was tube Ning's hoe tumbled out. But Hua-Xin tube Ning they usually read to cultivate sex, is to be discarded out of human nature in the greed, so at this time, tube Ning saw the gold, it as a masonry dirt treatment, with a hoe a set aside thrown to the side. Hua Xin in the back hoe, after a moment also see, know that this thing should not take, but the heart of the head can not bear, or pick up and look before throwing away. This incident shows, Hua Xin's cultivation and tube Ning than to be worse than a cut. After a few days, two people are reading in the house, outside the street there are dignitaries passing by, riding in gorgeous carriages and horses, beating gongs and drums, very lively. Guan Ning still and did not hear the same, continue to read his book seriously. Hua Xin, however, could not sit still, ran to the door to watch, envious of this dignitary's majesty. After the carriage passed, Hua Xin went back to the house, but Guan Ning took a knife and cut the mat they sat together in the center, saying: "You, do not deserve to be my friend!" This story is also the prototype of the later generations' story of cutting off the robe and the land. This story is also the prototype of the later "cut the robe to break the righteousness" and "cut the land to break the righteousness", which means that the two best friends or siblings are no longer friends.