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The Spring and Autumn Annals of Yanzi

This article is based on "Yanzi Spring and Autumn Annals", which mainly tells the story of Yanzi, a doctor of Qi, who traveled to Chu at the end of Spring and Autumn, and fought with the king of Chu three times. Yanzi is a smart and witty person, calm in case of trouble, and also can speak well, he is so brave, in the face of the king of Chu's insults, he is not afraid; he is so smart, once and for all, to maintain their own and the country's dignity. The article satirizes the king of Chu's arrogance and praises Yanzi for his austerity, patriotism and his skillful language.

For the first time, he wanted to use Yanzi's physical deficiencies to make a fool of him and show off his power. But he didn't expect to be dismissed by Yanzi's wit. "Only visit the 'dog country' to enter through the dog hole", the king of Chu can not admit that his country is a "dog country". The word "only" shows the king of Chu's helplessness, and it also shows that the king of Chu will not give up, thus leading to the second battle of wits. The king of Chu said that Yanzi is useless, "sneer" wrote the attitude of contempt for Yanzi. Yan Zi replied wittily and skillfully, "If you visit an inferior country, send an inferior man." On the surface, Yan Zi belittled himself, but in fact he belittled Chu. If the king of Chu recognized Yan Zi's uselessness, he was also saying that Chu was an inferior country. The king of Chu lifted a stone and smashed his own foot, and Yanzi's reply left him speechless. The third time, the king of Chu had his soldiers bring in two thieves from Qi, and "smiled" at the king's deviousness. Obviously, it is a shame to hear the scandal of one's own country when one goes abroad, but Yanzi was calm and bold in the matter, and used the example of the difference of oranges due to the soil and water to illustrate that "the people of Qi can live and work happily and properly in Qi, but when they come to Chu, they become thieves", which satirizes the king of Chu's rule of the country. YAN Zi's reply to the question of "the king of Chu is not a good ruler of the country" is a sarcastic one. Yanzi's every reply was so skillful that he did not directly say what he was dissatisfied with the king of Chu, but politely and without loss of etiquette hit back at the king of Chu.

In fact, there is a modern example of a man who used his wisdom to defend his country's reputation.

In 1915, a world's fair was held in San Francisco, USA. In 1915, a universal exposition was held in San Francisco, U.S.A. When the wine evaluation was coming to an end, perhaps because of China's fragmentation, weakness and poverty, there was no status in the world, perhaps because of the simple packaging could not draw attention to the wine that China had sent to the exhibition was not a kind of evaluation. Worried Chinese representatives in a hurry, took out a bottle of Maotai pretending to miss, thrown on the ground, the rich aroma of wine immediately spread, so that the judges were amazed, after repeated tastings, unanimously agreed that Maotai is the world's best liquor.

Yanzi relied on his own wisdom to undermine the Chu king's arrogance and preserve his own and his country's dignity. That Chinese representative also utilized his wisdom to make Chinese liquor successful in the world. It can be seen that wisdom can help you out of the dilemma, wisdom can make you walk on the road to success, wisdom is the most valuable treasure of our humanity!

2 The Spring and Autumn Annals of Yanzi is an ancient literary masterpiece that recounts the thoughts, words, and deeds of Yanzi of Qi, and reflects Yanzi's political ideas.

We can learn from the legend of Yenzi's governance of Qi, Yenzi advised Jinggong good governance in the management experience and the art of leadership.

Leadership personal training: benevolence, thrift, modesty, righteousness and truth.

Benevolence is the love of man, specifically for leaders, benevolence is to love the people, is to have love, compassion, is anxious about the masses, think of the masses, always put the interests of the masses in the first place. Under his efforts, the man who hurt the acacia, the man who hurt the bamboo, the wild man who scared the birds, and the official who raised the horse were exempted from torture and saved their lives; the mother of Feng Yu He was buried, and the mother of Bei Guo Sao was able to enjoy her old age. ...... It is not an exaggeration to say that Yan Zi's strong consciousness of being a public servant, and his love for the people are obvious, and can be seen in his actions everywhere. The people exploiting people, people oppressing people, people's hearts are not ancient, the rituals are broken in the Warring States period is really rare and precious.

Yanzi is still frugal, but the suppression of their material desires is unbelievable. Not only wear ragged clothes, eat shoddy food, and do not talk about the occasion, not more than generous, and even at the expense of shabby and dirty, embarrassing.

Yanzi's frugality, I realized that a leader's frugality, not only about personal cultivation and public image, but also about the interests of the whole group; not only is a life attitude, but also a work style; not only is an economic aspect of the problem, but also a political aspect of the problem.

Humility, that is, modesty. A person is modest, it is polite, can treat people equally,

Vaciously, the sea, "the prime minister's belly can support the ship", probably every official must comply with the valuable principles.

Yanzi is modest and courteous, steady and generous, never arrogant, no one in sight, not to mention self-righteousness, egotistical.

Body upright is upright. If your feet are right, your shoes are not crooked. If you're not right, you're wrong. The so-called "positive", that is, decent style, concentration, business, do the right thing. Specifically to the leader, is a strong sense of enterprise, focus on the work, no bad habits. Analyze realistically,

Real, is to practice hard, solid work. Yanzi was quite critical of the leader's flashy and unrealistic work style.

Yanzi is very important to the rituals, Yanzi both hate aristocratic red tape, but also emphasize the need for etiquette, there should be certain boundaries and norms between people. Ancient and modern the same law, all things a reason. Although the nature of work, the work object is very different, very different, but the basic principles, the basic method is amazingly consistent, with a certain regularity. Ancient clouds, cultivate oneself and then Qi family; Qi family and then rule the country; rule the country and then the world, is quite reasonable.