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Thrift is a virtue.

Diligence and thrift are virtues. The activities are as follows:

Since ancient times, China has regarded frugality as the virtue of self-cultivation, keeping the family in order and keeping the country at peace. All Tessa advocates living a simple life, not serving things, and maintaining spiritual freedom. Some people may say that it seems inappropriate to advocate thrift in today's increasingly rich material. How can there be production without consumption? Advocating economy will lead to production stagnation and market downturn. Actually, these people are wrong.

Since the beginning of 2 1 century, energy shortage has swept across the country, making more and more people obviously feel that China's economy is being constrained by resource shortage. Lack of resources will become the biggest bottleneck restricting China's economic development. Nature can satisfy people's basic needs, but it can't satisfy people's greed. The resources of the earth are limited, but the needs of human beings are infinite, and saving is the balance point between limited and infinite. At the same time, some extravagant winds around us not only waste limited resources, but also encourage unhealthy trends.

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Diligence and thrift, advocating a moderate, thrifty and reasonable way of life and development, contains the value orientation of cherishing resources and protecting the environment, contains the moral quality of being proud of hard work and ashamed of extravagance and waste, embodies the importance of sustainable development and being responsible for future generations, and is a remarkable symbol of social civilization.

From "Managing the country diligently and managing the family diligently" put forward in Shangshu, to "Keeping quiet to cultivate one's morality and saving to cultivate one's morality" advocated by Zhuge Liang, and to Zhu's motto "It's not easy to think of a meal", many ancient sayings have demonstrated the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation in advocating thrift and restraining luxury.

As the ancients said, "A day's need is a precaution", and all walks of life are helping us to serve and prepare, so we don't have to worry about our lives. So the whole society is really a mutual aid. Everyone should repay society by taking it from society and applying it to society. Both spirit and experience, including one's own money, should have this attitude of repayment.