Famous examples about money

1, Tao Yuanming "not for five buckets of rice folded"

Tao Yuanming is a famous ancient Chinese writer, he is not only very famous for his poetry, but also very famous for his disdain for fame and wealth, and refused to tend to the trend.

Born in 365 A.D., Tao Yuanming was China's earliest idyllic poet. Tao Yuanming lived in a time of changing dynasties and social unrest, when people lived in great hardship. In the fall of 405 A.D., Tao Yuanming came to Pengze, not far from his hometown, to be the county magistrate in order to support his family. In the winter of that year, his superiors sent an official to inspect him, a vulgar and arrogant man who, as soon as he arrived at the boundaries of Pengze County, sent someone to call the magistrate to come and pay him a visit.

Tao Yuanming got the news, and although he despised in his heart this kind of person who gave orders under the name of his superior, he had no choice but to move at once. Unexpectedly, his secretary stopped Tao Yuanming and said, "See this official should pay great attention to the smallest detail, dress neatly, and be modest in attitude, or else he will say bad things about you in front of his superior."

Tao Yuanming, who had always been upright and noble, could not hold back any longer, and said with a long sigh, "I would rather starve to death than bend my back to such a poor person because of an official salary of five buckets of rice." He immediately wrote a letter of resignation and left the post of county magistrate, which he had held for only eighty days, and has never been an official again.

There is one less bureaucrat in the officialdom, and one more writer in the literary world. Tao Yuanming's story of "not bowing down for the sake of five buckets of rice" has become a portrayal of the Chinese intellectuals who are upright and unyielding, not attached to the trend. In daily life, if a person is not willing to sacrifice their integrity in exchange for some kind of material benefits, also often say "not for five buckets of rice".

2. Yang Xu Hanging Fish

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yang Xu, the governor of Nanyang, abhorred the corruption and extravagance of the bureaucrats and the powerful at that time. He was a modest and clean person, living a simple life, usually wearing shabby clothes, covered with a quilt with patches, riding in a worn-out carriage. Tableware is crude tiles, eat a crude tea. Jiao Jian, the government minister, was his subordinate, and he was also a decent person, and he was on good terms with Yang Xu. He saw that his superior was living too poorly, and when he heard that Yang Xu liked to eat raw fish, he bought a piece of fish and gave it to Yang Xu. Jiao Jian was afraid that Yang Xu refused to accept it, so he smiled and said: "Your honor has not been in Nanyang for a long time, so you may not know that this is the famous carp in this place, so I specially bought one for you, usually you treat me as a brother, so this fish is just a bit of respect from my brother, and as you know, I'm not a flatterer. one who flatters and greets, so by all means, please pen it in!" Seeing Jiao Jian saying this, Yang Xu felt that it would be out of place not to accept it, so he smiled and said, "In that case, respectfully, I will do as I am told." After Jiao Jian had left, Yang Xu hung the fish outdoors and never touched it again. In March of the next year, Jiao Jian bought another carp, thinking that it was okay to give one a year, knowing that if he bought more than one, he would not want it. To the sheep continued to the house, jiao jian just explained the intention. Sheep continue to point to the dry "March look forward to pay carp", said: "You sent last year is still here!" Jiao Jian froze, shook his head and sighed, taking the live fish with him.

3, Bao Zheng's "commandments clean family training"

Bao Zheng of the Northern Song Dynasty, he is a clean and fair official is known to women and children, the people called "Bao Qingtian". Bao Zheng life, in a high position, clean and selfless, hate corrupt officials, to the late years, worried about the descendants will be out of the ungrateful, so it is at home in the center of a monument, engraved with the famous "commandments of honest family training" to warn the descendants. The meaning is roughly: "Where the descendants of the Pao family descendants of corruption and bribery, can not be called the Pao descendants, and even after death, can not be buried in the family cemetery. Those who do not follow this injunction are not descendants of the Duke of Pao at all."

4, Ma Yinchu refused to pay a bribe

China's modern famous economist, social activist Ma Yinchu before liberation had served as Zhejiang Provincial Director of Finance. One day, a person who wanted to be the governor of Deqing County entrusted a thousand yang to Ma Yinchu, asking him to open the back door and let him become the governor of a certain county. Ma Yinchu was furious, scolded: "shameless things, this kind of people today can use money to hit the joints, really when the governor, must be a corrupt official. With this one, he can't be the governor. Immediately ordered the man to return the money. Premier Zhou Enlai's clothes Premier Zhou's pajamas have been worn for more than twenty years, broken and patched, patched and patched again, has been worn without velvet still can not be discarded. A shirt has been old enough to change the cuffs collar, a dress mending color has been different, he was wearing, when others asked him to change the new, he always said: "the old can wear."

5, Madame Curie's view of money

Radium inventor, two Nobel Prize winner Madame Curie life devoted to science, aversion to money and honor, she received the vast majority of the prize money used for scientific experiments and gifts to poor students and friends in need of help. She gave up the huge sum of money for the "Radium Patent" and resolutely publicized the technology of refining radium, and donated the world's first gram of radium, valued at 1,000,000 francs, to the Institute for the Treatment of Cancer.

6, Li Siguang "I want to go back to China, do not want dollars"

1948, Li Siguang accepted the invitation of the International Geological Society came to the United States, published "the birth of the new Huaxia sea, a sensation in Europe. Early one morning, Li Siguang in the newspaper to see a message: "...... December 2 Shenyang liberation,......," he was so excited tears, years of dreams are coming true, the new China New China was born! At the annual meeting held by Chinese students at Cambridge University, he said excitedly, "Although I am 60 years old and my health has not been good, I must return to my motherland and contribute the rest of my life to the new China!" But this move offended the Kuomintang authorities. The secretary of the Kuomintang embassy in Britain approached Li Siguang, pulled out a check for $5,000, and said, "You make a public statement to the world, denying the Chinese People's **** and State." And threatened, "If you refuse, I will take the necessary measures to detain you abroad"." Li Siguang was furious at hearing this, and immediately rebuked harshly, "Can my heart to return to my country be bought with money? I want to return to my country, not dollars!" After a thousand hardships, Li Siguang finally set foot on the land of the motherland, realizing his desire to serve China.