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15 Traditional Virtues Stories

Traditional Virtues Story 1

Chinese Traditional Virtues Story of - Love for the Country and the People

"The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of all men. " This is a famous quote by Gu Yanwu, a patriotic scholar during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Patriotism is understood and practiced differently in different historical periods, and every era has its own patriotic and patriotic aspirants and national heroes. As long as we honor and carry forward this excellent national tradition, unite as one and unite as one, we will make our country stronger and put out a more eye-catching luster in the forest of the world's nations-

Lin Zexu's ban on smoking

Lin Zexu was a famous national hero in the late Qing Dynasty. During his tenure as Governor of Hunan and Guangdong, due to the corruption of the Qing government, British robbers smuggled a drug into China to poison the Chinese people.

Lin Zexu responded to all this, very anxious. He wrote to the emperor many times, stating the harm. Emperor Daoguang understood Lin Zexu's recommendation and appointed Lin Zexu as the Minister of Qinzhi, in charge of the anti-smoking.

In March 1839, Lin Zexu came to Guangzhou, the anti-smoking campaign quickly launched. June 3, people seized all the cast into the nitrate pool. In a moment, all destroyed. Lin Zexu did a great thing for the country and the nation. The feat of Humen smoke, to the British invaders with a heavy blow, opened the first page of the Chinese people's anti-imperialist struggle.

Traditional Virtues Story 2

Lin Zexu's Smoking Ban

Lin Zexu was a famous national hero in the late Qing Dynasty. During his tenure as Governor of Huguang, due to the corruption of the Qing government, British bandits smuggled a drug called opium into China in a steady stream, poisoning the Chinese people.

Lin Zexu responded to all this, very anxious. He wrote to the emperor many times, stating the harm of opium. Emperor Daoguang understood Lin Zexu's recommendation and appointed Lin Zexu as the Minister of Qinzhi, in charge of the anti-smoking.

In March 1839, Lin Zexu came to Guangzhou, and the anti-smoking campaign began rapidly. on June 3, people threw all the seized opium into the nitrate pool. In a few moments, all the opium was destroyed. Lin Zexu did a great thing for the country and the nation. The feat of Humen smoke, to the British invaders with a heavy blow, opened the first page of the Chinese people's anti-imperialist struggle.

Traditional Virtues Story 3

Yue Fei was fifteen or sixteen years old when the Jin people in the north invaded from the south, the Song dynasty powers that be were corrupt and incompetent, losing ground, and the country was at a critical juncture of life and death. Yue Fei (岳飞) was a soldier in the army 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 that the country is in trouble, what are your plans?"

"Go to the front line to kill the enemy and serve the country with loyalty!" Mrs. Yao was very satisfied with her son's answer. "Serving the country with loyalty" is exactly what a mother wants for her son. She decided to tattoo these four words on her son's back so that he would always remember them. Yue Fei unzipped his shirt, revealing his thin back, and asked his mother to put the needle on his back. Mrs. Yao asked, "Son, the needle prick is very painful, are you afraid?"

Yue Fei said: "Mother, a small steel needle is nothing, if even the needle is afraid, how to go to the front line to fight!" Mrs. Yao first wrote words on Yue Fei's back and then stabbed it with an embroidery needle. After stabbing, Mrs. Yao applied vinegar ink. From then on, the four words "Be loyal to the country" remained on Yue Fei's back forever. Yue Fei was inspired by his mother. Yue Fei joined the army, and soon rose to the rank of Bingyilang for his bravery in battle. At this time, the Song capital Kaifeng was besieged by the Jin army, Yue Fei with the vice marshal Zongze went to the rescue, defeated the Jin army many times, by Zongze's appreciation, praised him for his "wisdom, courage and talent, the ancient generals can not be over", and later became a famous anti-Jin heroes, by the people of the past generations of admiration.

Zi Lu Borrows Rice

Zi Lu was a native of Lu at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. Among the disciples of Confucius, he was known for his politics. Especially known for his bravery. However, when Zi Lu was small, his family was very poor, and he lived on coarse grain and wild vegetables for many years.

Once, his elderly parents wanted to eat rice, but there was no rice at home. Zi Lu thought that if he could borrow some rice from his relatives over a few mountains, he would be able to fulfill his parents' request.

So, Zi Lu walked over the mountains and mountains for more than ten miles, and carried back a small bag of rice from his relatives' home. The neighbors praised Zi Lu as a brave and filial good boy.

Traditional Virtues Story 5

Patriotism and Love for the People

"The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of all men." This is a famous quote by Gu Yanwu, a patriotic scholar during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Patriotism is understood and practiced differently in different historical periods, and every era has its own patriotic and patriotic aspirants and national heroes. As long as we honor and carry forward this excellent national tradition, united and united, we will make our country stronger and put more eye-catching luster in the forest of the world's peoples.

Traditional virtues story 6

Yue Fei loyal to the country

Jin soldiers attacked the city and plundered the land, killing and looting of the news continues to reach the Xiangzhou yinyang (now belongs to Henan Province) Yue Fei's hometown. Yue Fei, who has been practicing martial arts and studying military books since he was a child, could no longer restrain his heart to serve his country and kill the enemy, and joined the anti-Jin team.

The only thing he couldn't worry about was his mother, who had worked hard all her life. On his way out, Yue's mother, who had a deep sense of justice, stabbed Yue Fei's back with the words, "Be loyal to the country" to reassure her son to kill the enemy.

"Your life's ambition is in these four words," said mother-in-law, "my expectations are also in it. I only hope that you will soon send the good news of killing the enemy and making a success of it."

Yue Fei quickly became a young general in the anti-Jin army, thanks to his bravery and strategy.

In 1127, Yue Fei led the Yuejia army to cross the Yellow River and attacked the Jin army in conjunction with the righteous Bajia army. During the battle, Yue Fei captured the general of the Jin army, Tuoba Ye'u, off his horse, which shocked the Jin army to abandon their armor and fled.

In 1129, in order to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin general Wuzhu led a large army across the Yangtze River, and Jiankang (now Nanjing), Zhenjiang, Hangzhou, Yuezhou and Dinghai were captured. Song Gaozong, who was greedy for life and fear of death, fled all the way, and wanted to negotiate peace with Jin on the way to death. Yue Fei could not bear the hatred of his country, and led the Yue Family Army to fight with the Jin soldiers, winning six battles in a row and driving the Jin soldiers to the Yangtze River. Then, Yue Fei cooperated with Han Shizhong, who surrounded 100,000 Jin soldiers in Huangtiandang, Zhenjiang, and Yue Fei defeated the Jin soldiers on the outskirts of Jiankang and recaptured Jiankang. From then on, the Jin soldiers were frightened when they heard the name of Yue's army.

In 1140, in order to recover the lost land in Jiangnan, Yue Fei and his son Yue Yun led the army across the Yangtze River to Henan Place, ready to fight with the Jin army.

This duel is not trivial, the Song army victory, the Jin army will be driven across the Yellow River; Jin army victory, the Song army will be defeated south of the Yangtze River, the Southern Song dynasty will be in danger.

Jin Wuzhu rate of 100,000 troops to the battle, but also the training of many years of battle formation "Iron Floating Figure", "abduction horse" to the placebo. "Iron Futu" is the iron armor cavalry, soldiers and horses wearing iron helmets, double armor, horses connected to the leather rope, on the battlefield to kill, swords and spears are invincible, like an iron wall sweeping the enemy line. The "abduction horse" is light cavalry, equipped with the "Iron Floating Figure" on both sides, when the "Iron Floating Figure" rushed to mess up the enemy, "abduction horse" will be in the chaos of the army. "will be in the chaos of the army galloped to kill.

Golden Woodruff's strange battle array did not scare Yue Fei, he used a very short period of time to train a team using a long axe and hook and sickle gun, to deal with the "Iron Float" and "abduction horse".

The duel began. Jin Wuzhu confidently made the soldiers blow the horn of attack. In the sound of the horn full of murderous spirit, "Iron floating map" like a mountain pressed towards the Yue family army.

Yue Fei ordered his soldiers to beat the war drums, which shook the ground and turned the golden army's horns into disturbing cicada sounds. An army of infantry appeared in front of Yue's army, holding long-handled axes and hook and sickle spears, bowing angrily and waiting for the Jin army's "Iron Float" to rush in.

The moment the two armies collided, Yue army soldiers agilely into the enemy line, quickly swinging the axe to cut the horse's legs, with the hook sickle hook horse cavalry armor. Leather rope connected to the iron horseback riding a horse's legs are cut off will fall a piece; wearing thick armor of the gold soldiers were hooked hook sickle gun off the horse can not stand, just waiting for the Yuejia army to cut their heads. On the battlefield, the gold army was killed in a river of blood, bones into a mountain.

Soon after this battle, Yue's army defeated the Jin army again in Zhuxianzhen. The Jin army fled to the north bank of the Yellow River. The Song army on the south bank of the Yellow River, the flag hunting. Yue Fei pointed to the north bank and encouraged his soldiers: "We will fight all the way to Huanglongfu, the lair of the Jin people, and drink there."

The Jin army up and down lamented: "shake the mountain is easy, shake the Yue family army is difficult." Yue Fei became an insurmountable obstacle for Jin to destroy Song.

But in the recovery of the lost territory of the Central Plains is just around the corner, Song Gaozong Zhao Ju is afraid of Yue Fei high threat to his throne, it is in the treacherous Qin Hui's encouragement, and sent twelve gold medals, urged Yue Fei "division".

This is where the victory "division", is clearly the withdrawal of the army, the arch will be recovered to give the lost land to the Jin people again. Yue Fei grief, indignation: "Ten years of efforts, once put into the East, recovered the states, a total loss. Jikji (ji) rivers and mountains, it is difficult to revitalize, Qiankun world, there is no reason to recover."

Yue Fei returned to Lin'an (the temporary capital of the Southern Song Dynasty) soon, was Qin Hui to "unwarranted" charges framed into prison, 1141 lunar December 29 late at night, Yue Fei poisoned to death in the Windstorm Pavilion. Together with his son Yue Yun, general Zhang Xian was also killed.

Yue Fei's heroic resistance to the patriotism of the spirit of thousands of years inspired generations of people, for the rise and fall of the country and the nation to take righteousness into benevolence. "Being loyal to the country" has become a virtue that every Chinese person pursues all his life.

Humility and courtesy

China is known as the "State of Manners". As a specific behavior, "etiquette" refers to the polite behavior of people in dealing with others, which is also called politeness at this moment. The essence of politeness is to show respect and kindness to others, a psychological need that transcends time and is everlasting. However, a person who only understands the form of politeness, but not the heart of humility, then he will not really know politeness, humility is also a manifestation of modesty and equality, an important connotation of politeness. Modesty and politeness contains the pride and honor of our ancestors in their natural culture, and is one of the fundamental characteristics that make Chinese people Chinese.

The Seven-Year-Old Master

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius and his students traveled around the world to promote their political ideas.

One day, they were driving to Jin. One day, they were driving to Jin, and a child was blocking their way by piling up rubble and tiles in the middle of the road. Confucius said, "You shouldn't play in the middle of the road and block our car!" The child pointed to the ground. The child pointed to the ground and said, "Old man, what do you see here?" Confucius looked at it and saw that it was a city made of broken tiles. The child added, "Do you think it should be the city giving way to the car or the car giving way to the city?" Confucius was stumped. Confucius thought that the boy knew how to be polite, so he asked, "What is your name? How old are you?" The boy said, "My name is Xiang Zu, and I am seven years old!" Confucius said to his students, "Xiang Zu is seven years old and knows how to be polite, he can be my teacher!"

Traditional Virtues Story 8

Pestle and Pestle Sharpen the Needle

Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, did not like to read when he was a child. One day, taking advantage of the teacher is not in the house, quietly sneak out the door to play.

He came to the side of a small river under the mountain, and saw an old woman, grinding a mortar and pestle on a stone. Li Bai was puzzled, and went up and asked, "Granny, what are you doing grinding the pestle?"

The old woman said, "I'm sharpening a needle." Li Bai was surprised and asked, "My goodness! The mortar and pestle is so thick, how can you grind it into a needle?" The old woman said with a smile: "As long as the daily grinding pestle and mortar can always be more and more thin, still afraid of grinding into a needle?"

After listening to the smart Li Bai, thinking of themselves, ashamed of their hearts, turned and ran back to the study. From then on, he kept in mind that "as long as the work is deep, the pestle grinds into a needle", and studied hard, and finally became a famous poet.

Study hard

If you study hard, you'll find a way to get there, and if you study hard, you'll find a way to get there. The `spirit' of the Chinese people to strive for self-improvement is particularly prominent in studying hard. Whether it is a politician who is good at governing the country, or a military man with a bosom of tactics; whether it is a quick-thinking thinker, or a scientist with superior wisdom, the reason why they are extraordinary in their careers is that they are inseparable from their ambitious ambitions since they were young. As the saying goes, "those who have the will to set up a permanent will, those who do not have the will to set up a permanent will", set up a will, the noble in the young.

Traditional Virtues Story 10

Hai Rui is a famous Ming dynasty Qing official, he was in Chunan county magistrate, when the treacherous Yan Song is gaining power, the flames are very arrogant. Hai Rui's top boss is the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang Hu Zongxian, this person is Yan Song's favorite disciple, he relied on a big backer, unbeatable.

Hu Zongxian has a son of no evil, relying on his father's power, everywhere non-human behavior. One day, Hu Zongxian's son with a gang of wandering male scurry to Chunan wandering, and sent someone to call Hai Rui to arrange food and lodging. Hai Rui has heard of the notoriety of Hu Gongzi. He thought for a while, cared for the reception of the post official said: "They are not in the public service, according to the rules can not receive. But since they came, let them stay, three meals a day can be. If they do anything wrong, report it to me promptly." After Duke Hu's group stayed in Chun'an for a day, news came in that the group was looting things, molesting women, and making a mess of the city. Hai Rui's face did not move, but in his heart a plan was born. In the evening, Mr. Hu and other people at dinner, the table only three dishes and one soup, and no wine. Mr. Hu cursed. The postman defended a few words, Mr. Hu ordered his attendants to tie him up and beat him up.

Hai Rui was furious, and ordered the magistrate to bundle Hu Gongzi's gang to the public hall for trial. Duke Hu saw Hai Rui, refused to kneel, shouting: "I am the son of Governor Hu, to let my father know, light dismissal, heavy life!" Hai Rui laughed out loud and said, "I know the Governor General, but he is the person who has been praised many times by the court Yan Taishi for his honesty and integrity." "Good to know, quickly untie him and make amends to me!" Duke Hu said condescendingly.

Hai Rui suddenly sank his face and said, "Lord Hu is a great Qing official, you are his son, how can you be so reckless? Which bit of you is like Lord Hu's family! Whose wicked young man are you that you dare to pretend to be Lord Hu's son and tarnish Lord Hu's reputation?" Saying this, he asked the magistrate to heavily beat Duke Hu with 40 big planks.

One of Hu Gongzi's house slaves was busy kneeling down and said, "Lord rest assured, we traveled with the master's personal letter, not impersonation." Hai Rui ruthlessly slapped the shock wood: "Bold little thief, how dare you forge the letter of Lord Hu, and then hit 40 big board." Mr. Hu's group, scared out of their wits, kowtowed and begged for mercy. Hai Rui immediately wrote an official letter to the Governor's Office, saying that there is a case of impersonation of Lord Hu's relatives, and asked to be dealt with severely, and then sent people to escort the prisoner to the Governor's Office overnight. People escorted away, the county officials were very worried for Hai Rui, because they all knew that Lord Hu is indeed the son of the Governor, Hai Rui said, "It is precisely because it is true that I said he is false, not to take the truth as a falsehood, how can we beat him 40 big board?" The crowd suddenly realized. Hu Zongxian looked at the official documents submitted by Hai Rui, and look at the beloved son was beaten all over the body Lin injury, really mute to eat Huanglian, there is no way to say the bitter.

Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trust

Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trust" should be put forward from the time of Confucius, thousands of years. Loyalty is the foundation of a nation; filial piety is the foundation of a family. The words "loyalty and filial piety" support the "building" of the country, the nation, and even the entire family, just like the "four pillars", which are immovable; otherwise, the building of the family and the nation will fall. "Benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith are called the "Five Pillars" (Three Pillars: the king is the head of the court, the father is the head of the son, and the husband is the head of the wife; and Five Pillars: benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith). This is the basis for establishing oneself. At the moment it is necessary to learn to carry forward.

Advocating "loyalty" is to love the motherland, loyal to their duties. The original meaning of loyalty is that people should continue to be solemn and respectful attitude during the sacrifice. Afterwards, the derivation of people to be loyal to the monarch and the country and so on a variety of meanings, generally referred to as "loyal to the country", as Confucius said, "the king to make ministers to the courtesy of the ministers to serve the king to loyalty. In this regard, Yue Fei, a famous general who fought against the Jin Dynasty, is regarded as an example of "loyalty". At present, there is no need to be "loyal to the king", but to extend loyalty to patriotism is the minimum requirement for people in the new era. Loyalty to duty means loyalty to your organization, loyalty to the work you are engaged in. At least, you can't be a monk for a day without banging the bell for a day, you can't occupy a latrine without shitting, and you can't be like what Deng Xiaoping said about some people, picking up chopsticks to eat meat and putting down chopsticks to curse your mother.

Advocating "filial piety" means honoring one's parents, respecting the elderly and honoring the wise. The upper part of the word "filial piety" is half of the word "old", the lower part of the word "son" in full form, the previous generation and the next generation of people into one, the son inherited the old son, the son can undertake its relatives, and can follow its will, so Confucius put "good parents" people, called "good parents", and "good parents". Therefore, Confucius called those who "serve their parents well" "filial piety". "The Chinese culture of filial piety has a long history and occupies an important place in traditional culture. People who are not loyal or filial cannot stand between heaven and earth. The most typical one is the story of "Twenty-four Filial Piety". The ancients placed great emphasis on filial piety and had absolute ideas, such as "a father's order cannot be disobeyed" and "a father's call to his son to die will lead to his son's death", etc. These are not desirable. However, filial piety is the basic bond that maintains the family, the smallest cell of society. If the children and grandchildren are unfilial, the family will be in chaos and the country will be in disarray. Therefore, Confucius advocated that "when parents are present, one should not travel far, and one should always travel in the right direction". The key to treating parents, in particular, is to love and respect them sincerely. Lacking love and respect and not supporting parents is no different from raising a pig and a dog. Another derivation of filial piety is to honor the old and respect the wise. A society can only progress politely if the old are supported and the wise are honored. An unfilial person, he can fool people for a while, but can not fool the world must be abandoned by society.

Advocating "benevolence" is to be people-oriented and compassionate. Confucius said, benevolence is "love of man". "Benevolence" embodies the noble feelings of people, is second only to virtue, a perfect sentiment unique to human beings. Ancient monarchs made the implementation of a benevolent government a goal to be pursued diligently. The core of benevolence is to be people-oriented, all from the goal of caring for people, loving people, and developing people, so that the country and the nation can reach the optimal state of harmony, the Book of Rites says, "The upper and lower levels are close to each other, which is called benevolence", and to be able to achieve the upper and lower levels are close to each other, the society must be very harmonious. The idea of benevolence is also embodied in the state of equality of all living beings, Confucius' concept of education is "teaching without discrimination", social equality can reflect love, if you treat others, not out of a concept of equality, then the good will become pity, it is not the ultimate care for people.

Advocating "righteousness" is to adhere to the justice, continuous integrity. The original meaning of righteousness is moral behavior or reasoning, and sacrificing one's life for righteousness proves that one can sacrifice one's life for the sake of faith and righteousness. In ancient times, Guan Yu was the first and foremost figure of righteousness. When it comes to the word righteousness, we will think of the righteousness of friends, "for the friends of both sides of the knife", in fact, this is a small righteousness. What we want to talk about is the great righteousness, a kind of 'goodness above self, a kind of goodness beyond self. Anyone, at the critical time can not do things that jeopardize the country, the nation; in front of the enemy, the difficulties, can not defect to the enemy. In society, one must uphold justice, dare to fight against ugly forces, and not be complicit with evil forces. Of course, as a concrete, living person, treat friends to be righteous, can not betray friends, can not damage friends, this is the basic requirements of being a person, but also in the community based on the basic quality. As we say, it is the heart to maintain the interests of the company, can not be shady, in front of a set behind a set, and can not do the proverbial eating out of things.

Traditional Virtues Story 12

Strict and merciful

Mrs. Hou, the mother of Cheng, was the wife of Dazhong Gong Cheng, the mother of Cheng (Roy) Mingdao and Cheng (Yi) Yichuan. She was filial to her in-laws and governed her family with rules and family law. She was modest and obedient, respected her husband, and made sure to report even minor matters to Dazhong Gong before acting. She never beat her servants, and if she saw her children scolding them, she would always say, "People may be different, but they are all human beings!" She treated the maidservants and servants very generous, everywhere afraid of hurting them; and to the children, a fault, a small reproach criticism, the big ask the Grand Duke, must be corrected before giving up.

She once said, "The reason why children are unfilial is because the mother's concealment of their faults, the father can not be informed, and therefore can not be taught in time to him." Cheng mother gave birth to six sons, four died, leaving only two brothers, Mingdao and Yichuan, how not to be extremely cherished! When the child was only a few years old and stumbled while walking, the servants rushed to support him, but Mother Cheng always rebuked the child, saying, "If you had walked slowly, would you have stumbled?" At meal time, she let the child sit beside her, if the child wanted to taste the expensive soup, Mrs. Cheng scolded to stop, saying: "Hourly to satisfy his request, how can it be when he grows up!" If the child argues and quarrels with others, although the son is right, she does not take sides, saying: "I am worried that he can not be wronged when he grows up, not worried that he can not stretch ah!" So the two Cheng Fuzi, from the childhood of the food and clothing at all picky, and never bad language scolding. The two grew up, became a great scholar in the Song Dynasty.

Respect for the elderly and love for the young

There is an old Chinese saying: "filial piety is the first of all good things". It means that filial piety and respect for parents is the first of all virtues. If a person does not even understand filial piety and respect for parents, it is hard to imagine that he will love his country and people.

Ancient people say: "honor the old, as well as the old; young, as well as the young". We should not only honor our parents, but also respect other old people, love and care for young children, in the whole society to create a respect for the elderly and love the young, this is our new era of students' duties.

Zhao rail cup of water

Zhao rail pay value. The first time I saw him, I was in the middle of the night, and he was in the middle of the night. The old man waved his tears. The water was a cup of farewell.

During the Sui Dynasty. The first is a man named Zhao Guan. The first time I saw him, I was in the middle of the night, and he was in the middle of the night. He was an official under the governor of Qi Zhou. The neighboring house on the east side. There was a mulberry tree that bore seeds. When it was ripe, it fell on his house. They fell on his house. Zhao Kui picked up all the seeds and sent them to the neighbor's house to return them to him. He took them to his neighbor's house and returned them to him. Later, he became an official in charge of the army in Yuanzhou. He became an officer in charge of the army. He rode a horse at night. The horse went into the field. It trampled the rice in the field. Zhao Rail stopped the horse. He waited until morning. He interviewed the owner of the rice. He paid him the value of the rice before he left. Later, Zhao Kui was summoned to the court by the emperor. The fathers and elders who saw him off They said with tears in their eyes. My lord is as clean as water. So we dare not send you off with a jug of wine. Please farewell you with a cup of clean water. Can it be good. Zhao Rail smiled and drank the cup of water.

Traditional Virtues Story 15

Respect for Teachers and Elders

"The spring silkworm is not finished until it dies, and the wax torch turns into ashes and tears begin to dry." Teachers, like burning candles, illuminate students' minds with the light of knowledge until the end of their lives. We should apply our own practical action to write a good sequel to history, so that it is worthy of the hard work to train our teachers, worthy of our great age.

Mao Zedong is the great leader of the Chinese people, but always respect their own teachers. 1959, Mao Zedong returned to his hometown of Shaoshan, after a 32-year absence, and invited the old people of Shaoshan to dinner. Mao Zedong personally let his teacher in the chief, toasting him, to express his respect for his teacher.

Mao Zedong listened to Mr. Xu Teli's class in his youth. When Xu Teli 60 birthday, he wrote a letter to congratulate Mr. Xu. The letter said, "You were my Mr. 20 years ago, you are still my Mr. at this moment, and you will certainly remain my Mr. in the future."

Ching Gao was an ordinary merchant in the state of Zheng during the Spring and Autumn Period, who made a living as a cattle trader. Once he went to the State of Slip to do business, and ran into his old friend Jian (jiǎn) who had just come from the State of Qin. When the two men were eating together, Ching Gao asked, "Are there any recent wars in Qin?" Jian he asked in return, "Don't you know? Duke Mu of Qin has appointed Meng Ming as his general, and has selected 3,000 elite soldiers and 300 chariots. A large group has already set out to attack Zheng! You'd better take your family out for refuge!"

Although Jian Gao was a commoner, he had a loyal and patriotic heart. He said to Jian, "If I don't try to help my country when it's about to be attacked by war, but think of escaping instead, how can I face going back to my hometown in the future?" So Ching Gao sent his men on fast horses to inform Duke Mu of Zheng of the enemy's situation and prepare for the battle, and on the other hand, under the banner of rewarding the Qin army, he chose twelve fat oxen and bought many gifts to comfort the army, and came to the Qin army and shouted: "The envoys of the Zheng state have come to reward your army, and Ching Gao begs to meet the lord general!"

Ching Gao's arrival surprised the Qin general Meng Ming Si, so he said to his men, "Our army has traveled thousands of miles just to surprise and attack, so that we can win by stealth. Now Zheng is aware of our army's actions and has prepared for defense. If we attack them, the city is strong and difficult to break through; if we besiege them, our troops are not enough, and there is no follow-up reinforcement. Now that the State of Slip is unprepared, it would be better to attack the State of Slip and capture its treasures, so that we can also repay our lord." So they destroyed the State of Slip, and then returned to their country with the spoils of war.

In this way, Ching Gao used a small scheme, with a little expense, but accomplished a great thing: saved his country and avoided a war.

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