Ancient Neighborhood Stories

People in society, inseparable from the interaction with others, our traditional culture attaches great importance to the moral and ethical regulation of the relationship between people, including neighborly relations. Ancient saying: "Kindness and good neighbor, the country's treasure," "relief and compassion for neighbors, the road. There are blessings in practicing the Way." Ancient people believe that being kind to others is the principle of living in the world, and those who do good and walk the path are truly blessed. Ancient people of benevolence and tolerance of others, helping those in distress, leaving behind many short stories. Here are a few of them.

Tao Yuanming moved

Tao Yuanming, a famous poet in the Jin Dynasty, wrote in a poem "Moving Home": "In the past, I wanted to live in the southern village, not for the purpose of divining its house. He chose to move to the southern village because he saw a lot of people with a "heart of gold" here and hoped to spend time with these people, "heart of gold" refers to people with pure and simple hearts. Tao Yuanming, who ploughed the soil every day and wrote poems, was happy to be poor and happy in the road, is also such a person.

The poem also describes his friendly relationship with his neighbors in the southern village: "Neighboring songs when coming and going, resistance to talk about the past. The strange article *** appreciate, doubt and analysis", he often with the neighbors to discuss poetry and life, we frankly express their own opinions; have a good article together to appreciate, there are difficult to understand the problem of mutual consultation and analysis. People helped each other, and the harmony of neighborly relations was a great benefit to each other in terms of morality.

Sima Hui let the pig

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Sima Hui (also known as Mr. Shui Jing) was a famous scholar who was good at recognizing talents. Once, a neighbor lost a pig, and because Sima Hui's pig was similar to the one he lost, he mistook it for his.

Sima Hui didn't argue and said, "Take it if it's yours." The neighbor then unceremoniously drove the pig home. After a few days, the neighbor found his pig elsewhere and returned it to Sima Hui in shame. Instead of scolding him, Sima Hui said that it was not strange for such misunderstanding to happen between neighbors, and praised him for being reasonable and correcting his mistake. The neighbors were very touched by this.

Later, people called Sima Hui "Mr. Water Mirror", which is also a praise for his elegant and pure character.

Zi Rudao charity

In the Yuan Dynasty, Zi Rudao, a native of Qihe, Texas, was usually kind and charitable, and was known for his good deeds. Fellow countryman Liu Xian and other poor people can not make a living, Zi Rudao one by one to give them some fields, let them collect rent to maintain life, until they are old enough to take back the fields.

One year, when the plague was prevalent, it was rumored that eating a kind of melon that could make people sweat would make them better, so Zi Rudao bought a lot of melons, brought food with him, and delivered them to every household in person, despite the danger of being infected, and cured a lot of people. He used to lend wheat and sorghum to people in the spring, and wait until the harvest year to recover, without charging interest; such as encountered a poor harvest year, the borrower has no food to repay, Zi Rudao will be the loan coupon burning, do not want them to return.

He said to his family, "Accumulating food is supposed to prevent famine, so if there is a famine year, you must help the poor folks."

Yang Zhu sells donkeys

Yang Zhu, a minister of the Ministry of Rites in the Ming Dynasty, lived in the capital and rode a donkey to court or went out on weekdays. He was very fond of donkeys, and every day when he came home from court, he personally fed the donkeys and often looked after them. Yang Zhu's neighbor was an old man, almost 60 years old when he gave birth to a son, the old man and his wife are naturally very happy.

But the child cried as soon as he heard Yang Zhu's donkeys braying, causing the whole family to have no peace. But the family did not dare to say this to Yang Zhu, who is a great official of the court. Seeing that the child cries when he hears the donkey braying, and his diet is also significantly reduced, the parents finally told Yang Zhu about this matter. The first time I saw a donkey, I saw a donkey in the back of my head, and then I saw a donkey in the back of my head, and then I saw a donkey in the back of my head, and then I saw a donkey in the back of my head.

The old saying: "Li Ren is beautiful", "Harmony is the four neighbors" and "When you are with others, every word and every thing must be beneficial to others, and that is a good person" points out that people have to do things in a moral and righteous way. They point out that people should act according to the principles of morality and righteousness, be strict with themselves and lenient with others, be kind, sympathetic, caring and helpful to others, and be able to put themselves in other people's shoes. This is the embodiment of people's moral cultivation, which is also the good of others, sowing good causes, so that the society has a harmonious and warm human relations, which is also the basis of social justice.

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