What does it mean to make him three feet just for the wall?

Writing to someone thousands of miles away is just for a wall. What can he do?

This is a poem written and recognized by Zhang Ying, a university student in Wenhua Temple during the Kangxi period.

During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Ying served as a university student and minister of rites in Wenhua Hall. The official residence of my hometown Tongcheng is adjacent to the Wu family, and there is an alley between the two courtyards for both sides to use. Later, the Wu family wanted to build a new house and take this road. The Zhang family disagreed. The two sides were at loggerheads and took the lawsuit to the local county government. Considering that both families are famous families, the county magistrate dare not end it easily.

At this time, the Zhang family angrily wrote an urgent letter asking him to come forward to solve it. After reading the letter, Zhang Ying thought he should be modest to his neighbors. In his reply to his family, he wrote four sentences: a thousand miles of books are just separated by a wall. Why not let him be three feet? The Great Wall of Wan Li is still there today, but I haven't seen Qin Shihuang. After reading it, the family understood the meaning and offered to give up three feet of open space. Wu Jia was deeply moved by this scene and offered to give up the three-foot homestead, hence the name "Six-foot Lane".

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As a new cultural carrier, the spirit of humility contained in Liuchi Lane's allusions is actually the spirit of China's traditional culture, and its "width" lies not in "six feet" but in people's spiritual realm and harmonious comity spirit.

Although the origin of the cultural connotation of Liuchi Lane is limited to the personal moral level of the Wu family, it highlights the attitude of the government towards the people, the position of interest disputes and the way to solve contradictions, and is a model for dealing with the relationship between the government and the people in an era.

Brief introduction of the author

Zhang, whose real name is also called "Six Lakes". He is from Xiaoshan, and Qingzhou officials know him. He is the author of the Collection of Six Lakes (collected by the Governor of Zhejiang Province) with 12 volumes, and his poems are divided into 18 sets. Its private printing name is called "Shaoling Private Book" and "Five-character Great Wall", which is quite pretentious. What you do is generally based on xiurun.

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