What are some Chinese idioms and examples of traditional virtues?

1. Mother Yue Pricked Words, Pronunciation: [yuè mǔ cì zì]

When Yue Fei was fifteen or sixteen years old, the Jin in the north invaded from the south, and the people in power in the Song Dynasty were corrupt and incompetent, losing every step of the way, and the country was at the critical point of life and death. Yue Fei Yue's mother stabbed the word to join the army to fight against the Liao. Soon after his father's death, he was discharged from the army and returned to his hometown to observe his filial piety. In 1126, when the Jin soldiers invaded the Central Plains, Yue Fei joined the army again. Before his departure, Mrs. Yao called Yue Fei to her and said: " Now the country is in trouble, what are your plans?"

" Go to the front line to kill the enemy and serve the country with loyalty!"

2, chisel wall to steal light, pronunciation: [záo bì tōu guāng]

Kuangheng diligently study, but there is no candle lighting at home. The neighboring house had candles and lamps, but the light did not reach his house, so Kuang Heng cut a hole in the wall to bring in the light from the neighboring house, so that the light shone on the books to read. There was a big family named Wen Tizhi in his hometown, who was a rich man and had a lot of books at home. Kuang Heng went to his house to work as a hired laborer without pay. The master was surprised and asked him why he was like this, and he said, "I wish to get the books in your house and read through them." The master was so impressed that he lent him the books. Thus Kuangheng became a great scholar.

3. Hua Tuo cured greed, pronounced: [huà tuó zhì tān?]

During the period of the Three Kingdoms, Yang Xiu and Yang Dang, uncle and nephew, ****ed Cao Cao. Yang Xiu was the chief minister of the minister's office, and Yang Tang was the quartermaster. Yang Xiu was a smart and knowledgeable man, but he was a talented and liberal man, and he repeatedly violated Cao Cao's taboo. He was executed by Cao Cao for confusing the military. Fearing that Cao Cao would frame him for his crime, Yang Tang wanted to take advantage of the recent transportation of military rations and pay to try to get him out of the way, and then thank him for his service and return to his hometown. He was afraid of Cao Cao's authority, but also greedy for money, intense psychological conflict triggered a strange disease: neither fever, nor headache, just chest distension, restlessness, and asked a lot of doctors, but did not get better.

Please doctor Hua Tuo to diagnose, after looking, smell, ask, cut, Hua Tuo opened two prescriptions, asked him to take in turn. Yang Dang first read the first prescription, which reads, "Erwu, over the road yellow, fragrant adenosine, forsythia, Wang Buliuxing, Faxia, Bibai, vermilion sand." Yang Tang, who is familiar with the ancient chapter and verse, will be the first of these eight flavors of the name of the medicine Yu Lian, read: "two over the incense (phase) Lian, Wang Fah Bi Zhu (must be put to death) ." He was shocked, cold sweat on his forehead. So he dismissed the evil idea of making a big profit.

4, frugality became a habit, pronounced: [jié jiǎn chéng xí]

Su Dongpo was very frugal in his life.

When he was demoted to Huangzhou in 1080 AD, he was in dire straits. In order to survive, he devised a special way of planning and spending: he divided all his income into 12 portions, one for each month; then he divided each portion into 30 small portions, and used only a small portion each day. He hung each small portion of money on the beam of the house, and picked a bag of money to use every morning, and did not allow the surplus to exceed the amount. The rest of the money, he used another bamboo tube to save, in order to prepare for unexpected expenses.

Later, he was a senior official in the court, but still focus on thrift, never luxury. He ordered himself only one meal and one dish for each meal, and only two additional dishes for guests, not allowed to spread out, or else he refused to eat. Once, one of Su Dongpo's old friends reunited with him, invited him to dinner, he told his friend must not make a big fuss. However, when Su Dongpo went to his old friend's house for a banquet, he saw that the banquet was prepared quite lavishly, he politely refused to be seated, and took his leave. After Su Dongpo left, his friend said with emotion: "When Dongpo was in trouble, he lived a frugal life. I didn't expect that he would still be so thrifty now that he is in a high position."

5丶勤俭为荣， pronounced: [qín jiǎn wéi róng]

During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a very politically talented prime minister of the state of Lu, whose name was Ji Wenzi.

Ji Wenzi had been in politics for a long time in the state of Lu and held a high official position, but he was very frugal. In his daily life, he was most disliked by those nobles who took pride in showing off their wealth, and he was especially disgusted by the style of ostentation and pomp. His housing is extremely simple, the usual diet is always light. He not only seldom wore silk clothes, even the servants of his family, the clothing is much more frugal than the servants of the rich family. The horses of Ji Wenzi's family were never allowed to be fed more grain.

Because Ji Wenzi practiced frugality and disliked the extravagant and corrupt life of the aristocratic society, those who were wasteful and ostentatious also disliked him.