A short story about frugality in about 100 words!

Fan Zhongyan thrifty for his son's wedding

Fan Zhongyan is China's Northern Song Dynasty politicians, writers, childhood life in poverty so that he developed the habit of thrift and frugality. After joining the government, he still did so.

Once, his son, Fan Chunren, had a wedding. Fan Chunren on the wedding of the wedding ceremony naturally do not dare to think, he thought about it, and finally decided to buy only two slightly better clothes, so that the father, his wife on both sides can be justified. The first time I saw this, I was able to get the money to pay for it, and then I was able to get the money to pay for it.

Who knows Fan Zhongyan read the list, immediately boarded up the face, said: "Marriage is naturally a major event in life, but what is the contradiction with thrift? How can you excuse 'life events' and extravagant waste?"

The son listened to the aggrieved straight to tears, angry turned away. Fan Zhongyan called his son, said: "Children ah! Not can't afford to buy these things, not father can't afford. I am afraid that you are accustomed to the rich and noble days, once you live in poverty, you can not eat bitter ah! Besides, just because I am a big official, we should take the lead in frugality to do ah!" Listen to his father's words, Fan Chunren finally calmed down, revised the list, thriftily organized the wedding.

Comment: It is easy to accept that people can go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Extravagant behavior will run out of money, while frugal behavior will develop a good moral integrity. Thrift and simplicity are traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. We should all promote thrift and simplicity and oppose extravagance and waste. With the country's wealth and strength, now the individual places of luxury and waste, compare each other's culture is quite serious, young people must not be infected with this bad atmosphere, should be a thrifty, simple people.

Wang Coronation Learns to Paint

During the Ming Dynasty, a famous painter named Wang Coronation came out of Zhuji, Zhejiang Province. When Wang Coronation was a child, his family was very poor, and his father made him go to herd cows for the landlord.

There was a school in the township, and when Wang Guan heard the sound of reading in the school, he was envious. He often tethered the cattle on the tree, quietly into the school to listen to the teacher, and sometimes borrowed books from the teacher to read. Once, when he came out from the school, the ox was gone. When his father heard that he had lost the landlord's cow, he was so angry and afraid that he picked up the door latch and was about to beat him. Wang Coronation was so frightened that he fled and hid in a temple for the night. At night, he sat on the Buddha's knees, borrowing the light of the lamp hanging in front of the statue, reading a few broken books borrowed from the school.

Wang Coronation not only likes to read, but also likes to draw. One year in early summer, in a rainy evening, Wang Coronation went to the lake to herd cattle. At this time, the sun through the white clouds, illuminating the lake red. The hills around the lake were green and green, very beautiful. The leaves of the trees were washed by the rain, green and more lovely. Lotus flowers in the lake also bloomed extraordinarily bright, lotus leaves on the water droplets like pearls rolling around, really beautiful. Wang Coronation thought in his heart: if I could paint this scene, how good it would be! Yes, I will learn to paint the lotus first!

Wang Coronation, he asked the students for a few broken brushes, the leaves mashed, squeezed out the juice as green pigment; the red stone into powder, and water mixing, as a red pigment, and sat on the lake to paint the lotus.

At first, Wang Coronation painted lotus flowers and leaves, are like wings to fly like, not at all like. But he was not discouraged, painted a not like, then painted another. He drew, while carefully pondering over the lotus.

After he succeeded in painting the lotus, he went on to learn how to paint landscapes, cows and horses, and people, and then, no matter what he painted, he was very good at it.

Others include:

"As long as you are diligent, willing to seek knowledge, willing to innovate, thrifty to yourself, generous to others, and righteous to your friends, coupled with your own hard work, sooner or later, you will be able to achieve something, and live a carefree life." --Lee Ka-shing

The gentleman who is frugal and virtuous is difficult.

Sourced from "Zhouyi - No".

The general idea is that a gentleman uses frugal virtue to avoid danger.

HintsThe Zhouyi contains simple dialectical thoughts, and there are many places that expound the truth of the changes of things. This sentence has dialectical thoughts. On the one hand, it clarifies that the virtue of thrift and simplicity can help to prevent danger before it occurs, and to prevent behaviors such as extravagance and corruption; on the other hand, having the virtue of thrift and simplicity can help to overcome danger when faced with it, especially when faced with the difficulty of material scarcity. According to the author of Zhouyi, everything in heaven and earth has a time when it is smooth and not smooth, and when it is not smooth and not smooth, it is necessary to cultivate oneself and cultivate one's virtues, and not to manifest oneself excessively, in order to tide over difficulties.

Ke diligence in the state, ke thrift in the family.

Originally from Shangshu - Dayumu (尚书-大禹谟).

To the effect that one should be diligent in one's national endeavors and thrifty in one's family life.

HintsTo be diligent and thrifty is a traditional virtue of our people. Legend has it that all the ancient sages did so, and they were devoted to national affairs. Dayu worked diligently on the great cause of water control, and counted the number of times he passed through the door of his house without entering it. Yao was especially concerned about the masses, believing that it was his own fault that others were starving and freezing because he had not done his job properly. The ancient sages, however, lived a frugal life, often wearing coarse clothes, eating coarse rice and drinking wild vegetable soup. Because Yao, Shun and Yu were diligent and thrifty in their careers and lives, they won the hearts of the people.

Thrift is the **** of virtue; extravagance is the greatness of evil.

Originally from Zuo Zhuan (左传-庄公二十四年).

The general idea is that thrift is the great virtue of good deeds; luxury, the great evil of wickedness.

Hints Duke Zhuang of Lu ordered the pillars of the temple to be painted with red lacquer and the rafters to be carved with floral patterns, both of which were extravagant and unseemly. When he was admonished by the great doctor Yusun, he said this, and pointed out that this was actually injecting "great evils" into the "great virtues" of the ancestors, which not only failed to please the ancestors, but also humiliated them. It can be seen that the ancients viewed frugality from the height of the norms of etiquette and the magnitude of virtue, and regarded extravagance and wastefulness as a kind of evil behavior. In today's world of great material abundance, abstaining from extravagance and being thrifty, and not squandering our wealth, is still a virtue worthy of our reverence.

Man's livelihood is in diligence, diligence is not scarcity.

Source: Zuo Zhuan - Xuan Gong 12 years.

The livelihood of the common people lies in hard work, and only when they are diligent in their labor will they not be in want.

HintsThis is an ancient maxim. The ancients understood that as long as the common people worked hard, the society would be stable, and both the people and the country would be rich with it. We should still maintain the virtue of being diligent and work hard in our respective positions, so that the country will become richer and the people will live more affluent.

Thrift and frugality lead to prosperity, while obscenity leads to death.

Originally from Mozi - Rhetoric of Transgression.

The idea is that frugality and thrift will prosper, while lechery and pleasure will lead to defeat and death.

HintsAmong the pre-Qin sages, Mozi was famous for his willingness to lead a life similar to that of an ascetic. He hated the rulers' extravagance and waste of wealth, and advocated frugality. He preached his views everywhere and attracted a large number of people to be his disciples, making him unique among the pre-Qin sages.

Whoever hoes the grain, sweats the soil.

Who knows that the food on the plate is bitter.

From Li Shen's "Compassionate Farming".

The farmer is hoeing under the hot sun at noon, and drops of sweat fall into the soil where the seedlings grow. And who knows that every grain of the meal on the plate has been earned with such hard work.

HintThis poem is simple in language but deep in meaning. There is a story that the son of a rich man, who did not know the hardship of harvest, used to go to a restaurant to eat dumplings, but spit out all the dumpling skins and ate only the meat filling. Later, his family suffered a fire, and the beautiful building was razed to the ground overnight. He became a beggar and went to this restaurant to beg for food, and was y touched by the owner's offer of dumpling skins to entertain him. The boss said, "No thanks, this is all the skin you threw away at the beginning, I picked up and dried it in the sun. The son of the rich man was so ashamed that he worked hard and lived frugally, and his family became rich again. This story also proves the truth of "who knows what is on the plate, every grain is bitter".

The story goes, "The country and the family of the great sages of the past, the success of hard work and thrift and the destruction of extravagance.

From Li Shangyin's "Aria".

Throughout history, large states, small families, all rise in hard work and thrift, and die in extravagance.

HintsThroughout history, most of the successful entrepreneurs have gone through the stage of hard struggle, so they pay more attention to diligence and thrift. But for those who stay in business is just the opposite, they have not experienced the hardships of entrepreneurship, easy to crave luxury and enjoyment, the ultimate fate is bound to be the decline of the cause, the country's demise. This is the truth of thousands of years of history.

Worrying and laboring can make a country prosper, and idleness and hesitation can kill a person.

Sourced from "The New History of the Five Dynasties - Preface to the Biography of Lingguan".

The idea is that worrying about one's country's affairs can make it prosperous and develop, while pursuing comfort and enjoyment can bring about one's own demise.

Suggesting that Li Cun Castrol, the Zhuangzong of the Later Tang Dynasty in the Fifth Dynasty, initially tried his best to rule the country with vigor and vigor, and defeated all his rivals to become the emperor. However, he later indulged in music and opera, favored actors and actresses, did not think of making progress, his subordinates rebelled and the actors and actresses turned on him, and he died in the middle of the military turmoil in three years of his reign. When Ouyang Xiu was writing the biography of the actor, he was inspired by this history and explained the truth that "worrying about one's country can make one happy, and hesitation can kill one's body". Chinese culture has a strong sense of worry, especially when the country is in turmoil and the people are not happy. Confucius said, "If you don't have far-flung worries, you will have near worries", and Mencius said, "If you are born in worries, you will die in peace and happiness", which emphasized the importance of maintaining the awareness of worries from the perspective of individuals and the country respectively. Even in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, Wei Zheng advised the emperor to "think of danger in times of peace and security, and to abstain from extravagance and frugality" in order to achieve long-term peace and stability.

It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.

From Sima Guang's "Discipline and Thrift for Kang" ("训俭示康").

The idea is that it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.

HintsThis is a quotation from Sima Guang, used to admonish his children and grandchildren. It emphasizes the need to consciously maintain frugality and prevent extravagance, and contains the meaning of self-exhortation and warning to the world. People want to live a good life, which is not wrong. But too much luxury is not desirable, and this pursuit is never-ending. When King Zhou of Shang Zhou used a pair of ivory chopsticks, his ministers had to flee because they saw that King Zhou's greed would be unstoppable. Therefore, sticking to frugality requires self-discipline.

Take with moderation, use with moderation, and you will always have enough.

Source: Ziji Tongjian, Volume 234.

To the effect that if you take in a planned way and consume in a measured way, you will always be rich.

HintsThese are the words of Lu Zhi of the Tang Dynasty in a letter to the emperor, intended to emphasize the significance of thrift. From a country to a family, living within one's means is an important principle of financial management. By extension, resources and possessions are always limited and cannot be squandered recklessly. Only by "taking the right amount and using it sparingly" is it possible to develop sustainably.

Only frugality can help to keep corruption at bay, and only forgiveness can lead to virtue.

Fan Chunren (范纯仁列传), from "History of Song" (宋史-范纯仁列传).

Only thrift can make a person honest and clean, and only forgiveness can make a person develop a good character.

The concepts of "thrift" and "forgiveness" were commonly used by ancient Chinese politicians. Thrift was especially important in ancient societies because productivity was underdeveloped, food production was low, and it took several years of good harvests to make a year's worth of savings. For officials, corruption and bribery and lack of integrity were often due to insatiable greed and obsession with a life of luxury, and the virtue of frugality helped to curb such excessive desires. Therefore, frugality was an important national policy for a rich country, and an important way of preventing corruption and promoting honesty and integrity. As a Confucian ethical and moral category, "forgiveness" requires treating people with kindness and love. For officials, if they can always put themselves in the shoes of the people, they will surely be embraced by the people, so that they can govern the country well.

A porridge and a meal, when thinking of the place where it is not easy;

Half a thread and half a strand, always remember that things are difficult.

From Zhu Bailu's Aphorisms for Ruling a Family.

The general idea is that even if it is a porridge or a meal, one should think that it is not easy to come by; and even if it is half a silk or half a thread, one should think of the hardships of labor.

Tips Zhu Bailu is China's late Ming and early Qing educators, advocating family education. His Words for Ruling the Family, also known as Zhu Zi Family Trainings, is a collection of maxims specializing in educating people to be thrifty and diligent in ruling their families. Thrift, as a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, it begins with respect for labor and those who engage in it. Our food and clothes, which are hard-won and have to be produced through the many labors of growers, cooks, and weavers, cannot be easily wasted. Therefore, this passage has become our traditional "maxims of governance".