What is the truth of the proverb, "A liter of rice feeds kindness, a bucket of rice feeds hatred"?

Knowing and repaying is a traditional virtue of the Chinese people, our parents have taught us since childhood that we must be a person who knows how to be thankful, and to keep the good of others in our hearts, and to find opportunities to repay them in the future. As the old saying goes, "The kindness of a drop of water should be repaid by the spring." Even the slightest kindness, should be kept in mind, and then a thousand times a hundred times to return, do not know how to be grateful to the person is selfish, but also extremely sad, no one wants to get along with this kind of people.

The kindness can be divided into three kinds, one is the parents to give the child's upbringing, the Tang Dynasty poet Meng Jiao wrote: "who said inch grass heart, to repay the three spring sunshine." The second is the help of friends and relatives, this is the most common, as the old saying goes, at home rely on parents, go out and rely on friends; the third is the kindness of strangers, relatively speaking, very rare, usually known as the grace of knowledge, also known as the so-called nobleman.

There are countless positive deeds about repaying favors in ancient times. Han Xin's family was poor in his early years, coupled with the early death of his parents, he became an orphan with no one to rely on, and his life became increasingly difficult. As the saying goes, the children of the poor will be a family, Han Xin has a great ambition and intends to change his destiny with his efforts. He studied very hard, especially those books on military strategy and tactics, which almost made him sleep and eat.

Besides that, he also practiced martial arts, aiming to become an ambitious young man with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physicality, aesthetics, and labor, and then make a name for himself. The ideal was very rich, but the reality is very face. At that time, the imperial examinations had not yet appeared, so Han Xin's full of talent was useless, and he was even bullied by a butcher, and Han Xin endured the humiliation of his crotch. Perhaps Han Xin complained more than once about why the heavens were so unfair to him.

One day, when he hadn't eaten for several days, he went fishing by the river, praying that he would catch some big fish to fill his stomach. However, he was so unlucky that he didn't catch a single fish. When he was starving, a woman who was washing clothes took pity on him and gave him her own food. Han Xin kept this favor in his heart, and after he became famous, he repaid his floating mother with a thousand taels of gold.

The story of Han Xin, which most of us have heard before, highlights both his mother's willingness to help others and Han Xin's virtue of repaying kindness. Ancient people often say, there is a favor not to repay in vain, but there is also a folk saying: "liter of rice to raise grace, bucket of rice to raise hatred." A fierce listen to the feeling is nonsense, but carefully comprehend the reasoning behind it, will find that it is indeed so, what is the meaning of the proverb?

The so-called "liter" and "bucket", are ancient capacity units, a liter of rice is equivalent to 1.25 pounds of rice, and a bucket is equal to ten liters, literally, "liter of rice to feed the grace of the bucket of rice to feed the enemy! "The meaning is not difficult to understand, small favors can make others remember your kindness, but great kindness may make each other hate you, treat you as an enemy, said "great kindness, no teeth to forget", how did it become "bucket of rice to raise hatred "The first time I've seen this is when I've had a chance to see you.

Anciently, there were two families, the master was the old Zhang and the old Wang, originally their family was almost the same. Due to the old Zhang lazy, usually spend a lot of money, almost no savings, and the old king talk about things willing to do, the crops are well taken care of, the harvest is naturally more than the old Zhang. Plus the old king is thrifty and frugal, life is getting better and better. One year, when there was a famine and almost no harvest, Lao Zhang went to Lao Wang's house to borrow food.

Based on the idea that it is better to be a neighbor than a distant relative, Wang did not hesitate to lend a helping hand to help Zhang tide over his difficulties. However, Lao Zhang is still uneducated, and his family is so poor that he can't cook anymore. He has borrowed food from Lao Wang many times, which has caused Lao Wang to be stretched to the limit, saying that his own family is about to run out of food, and letting Lao Zhang think of another way.

Lao Zhang completely forgot about Lao Wang's kindness and blamed him for being too stingy, saying bad things about him everywhere, and Lao Wang was so angry that he never talked to Lao Zhang again, which is why there is the saying "a liter of rice to raise grace, a bucket of rice to raise hatred".

In fact, there are many such examples. A certain star, out of goodwill, subsidized a poor college student without asking for anything in return. Then, the other party not only not thankful, but formed a kind of dependence, even as an ATM, with all kinds of excuses to ask for money. The star is very angry, no longer continue to sponsor, college students even write articles to slander her, its behavior is simply spiteful, but also shows that "rice to raise grace, bucket rice to raise hatred" reason.

The proverbial "rice to feed the grace, bucket of rice to feed the hatred", which has been passed down for thousands of years, is not to teach the world to become indifferent, but rather to advise us to help others before to recognize the character of the other side, and meet the ungrateful, it is best not to go! It's not about teaching the world to be apathetic, it's about counseling us to recognize the character of the other person before we help them. Readers, do you think it is correct to say that "a liter of rice feeds kindness, but a bucket of rice feeds hatred"?