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Celebrities who are thrifty and frugal

Celebrity Examples of Thrift and Frugality

Thrift and frugality have always been our traditional virtues, we should inherit, so who are the celebrity stories about celebrities who are thrifty and frugal? The following is organized by me for you, I hope it can help you!

1, Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai, Premier of the story of thrift and frugality, women and children know, become a beautiful story. He has always advocated thrift and hard work to build the country, requiring that "all hospitality must be national goods must be frugal and simple, do not want to spread gorgeous, lose the spirit of the revolution and the style of hard work". Comrade Zhu Guangya has recalled such a story: December 4, 1961 convened a special committee of the Ministry of the Second Machinery Industry at the time of a planning review, the meeting from the morning until noon is not over, Premier Zhou stayed for lunch. On the table is a large pot of meatballs boiled cabbage, tofu, surrounded by a few small dishes of pickles and cakes. Premier Zhou with everyone at the same table, eating the same meal. This story still makes people feel very educated. In Premier Zhou, such examples are countless. 1962 summer, Premier Zhou went to Liaoning Province to inspect the work, just as soon as he stayed, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket, handed over to the comrade in charge of the reception, said: "The things written above can not be done." Originally, this list opened more than 20 kinds of prohibited dishes, chicken, duck, fish and meat and so on are included. It is this pile, a small thing, casting their great charisma, making it the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation and the glorious traditions of the Party and our army. Incarnation!

2, Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong asked others to do themselves first. He lived a life of rough tea, sleep on a hard bed, wear rough clothes, life is extremely simple, a pajama surprisingly made up 73 times, wear 20 years. In times of economic difficulties, he took the initiative to reduce his salary, lower his living standards, and did not eat fish, meat and fruit. In the 1960s, once he held a meeting to noon is not over, he stayed for lunch, the table is also a large pot of meatballs boiled cabbage, a few small dishes of pickles, the staple food is a cake. The great man in thrift and frugality for the people of the country to make an example.

3, Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping practiced thrift along with his three falls and three rises in his life, there are many touching details, charming, and then again and again to recall. "A porridge and a meal, when thinking of hard-won; half silk and half wisp, always think of things hard". Now some of the first broad up the people have seen thrift as petty stingy, waste as to promote consumption. But these people have completely forgotten our national conditions of resource scarcity. China's arable land, fresh water, forests, oil and natural gas and other important resources per capita, respectively, only 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/10 and 1/22 of the world's average level. in the country's more than six hundred cities, there are more than 400 water supply is insufficient. "Heaven nurtures things sometimes, the earth produces limited wealth, and human desire is limitless. To sometimes limited to serve the desire of the limitless, and the legal system is not born between them, then it will be a waste of things and lack of use of wealth." This is the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi's view of the resource crisis. Practicing frugality is the most important option to cope with the shortage of resources. Today, we feel the pain of water shortage, electricity shortage, coal shortage, oil shortage, we should be more than Bai Juyi with a sense of urgency of thrift, and y feel the leaders practicing thrift details of the charm of the everlasting.

4, Lei Feng's spirit of saving

****productivist soldier Lei Feng in the life of every attention to saving, he joined the army, the monthly allowance fee, in addition to the payment of regimental fees, buy books and other essential daily necessities, the rest of all the deposited in the savings. His socks are always mended and worn, worn and mended. He could not afford to buy a new pair of socks even after they had become completely disfigured. The enameled basin and cup had many scars, but he was still reluctant to throw them away and buy another one. His underwear also has many patches. But the troops issued summer clothing, according to the provisions of each person can receive two sets of single uniforms, two shirts, two pairs of shoes, and Lei Feng only received a copy, said it is "enough to wear".

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