More than 10 ancient maxims about thrift and frugality and more than 3 short stories about this kind of ancient thrift and frugality

1: A gentleman uses thrift and virtue to ward off difficulties. Zhouyi-No

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

2: Be diligent in the state and frugal in the family. 尚书-大禹谟

大意：to be industrious in state business and frugal in family life.

3. Thrift is the **** of virtue; extravagance is the greatness of evil. Zuo Zhuan - The Twenty-fourth Year of Duke Zhuang

The general idea is: Thrift is the great virtue among good deeds; extravagance is the great vice among evils.

4. People's livelihood lies in diligence. Zuozhuan (左传-宣公十二年)

大意：The livelihood of the common people lies in hard work, and only if they are diligent in their work will they not be in want of goods.

5. Thrift and frugality lead to prosperity, while obscenity leads to death. Mozi - Resignation

Large idea: thrift will prosper, obscene enjoyment will be defeated.

6. The day of the hoe is noon, sweat drops under the soil.

Who knows what's on the plate, all grains are bitter. Li Shen's "Compassionate Farming"

Large idea: farmers hoeing under the hot sun at noon, drops of sweat droplets fall in 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?

7, the former sages of the country and home, into by hard work and thrift broken by luxury. Li Shangyin's "Wing History"

Meaning: Throughout history, as big as the state, as small as the family, are all rise in hard work and thrift, died in extravagance.

8. Worrying and laboring can make a country prosper, while idleness and hesitation can kill one's body. Ouyang Xiu, "New History of the Five Dynasties - Preface to the Biography of Lingguan"

The general idea is that worrying about the affairs of the country can make the country prosperous and developed, while pursuing ease and pleasure can bring about one's own demise.

9. It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. Ma Guang wrote "Ziji Tongjian" - <訓俭示康>

大意：从节俭变得奢侈容易，从奢侈转到节俭则很困难。

10: If you take with moderation and use with moderation, you will always have enough. Ziji Tongjian, Volume 234

Large meaning: If you take in a planned way and consume in a moderate way, you will always be rich.

11: Only frugality can help honesty, only forgiveness can make virtue.

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

12, a porridge and a meal, when thinking of the place is not easy;

half silk and half a wisp, always think of things difficult. Zhu Bailu "husband's family maxims"

Large idea: even a porridge, a meal, should think of it is not easy to come;

Even half a silk, half a thread, but also think of the hardships of labor.

Praise thrift, against luxury, hard work has always been the traditional virtues of the Chinese people. Historically, there have been numerous stories of thrift and frugality.

1, Zhu Yuanzhang

Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown of Fengyang, is still circulating the song of four dishes and a soup: 'The emperor's treat, four dishes and a soup, radish leeks, really sweet aroma; onions and bean curd, meaningful, clean, corrupt officials panic.'" Zhu Yuanzhang to the Empress on her birthday, only with carrots, leeks, two bowls of greens, small onions and tofu soup, feast officials. And the covenant: in the future, no matter who set up a banquet, only four dishes and one soup, who violates, severely punished.

2. Ji Wenzi

Ji Wenzi came from a family of three ministers, was a nobleman of the state of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period, a famous diplomat, and served as an official for more than 30 years. He lived a frugal life, taking thrift as the foundation of his life, and asked his family to live a frugal life as well. He only wore simple and neat clothes, except for his court dress, and whenever he went out, the carriages and horses he rode on were extremely simple. Seeing that he was so frugal, a man named Zhongsun Qi advised Ji Wenzi, "You are a highly respected minister, but I heard that you don't allow your wives and concubines to wear silk clothes at home, and you don't use grain to feed your horses. You yourself don't pay attention to your appearance and dress. Doesn't this make you look too shabby and make people from other countries laugh at you? This is also detrimental to the honor of our country, and people will say what kind of life the Minister of Lu is leading. Why don't you change your lifestyle? This is good for yourself and your country, so why not do it?"

Ji Wenzi smiled lightly and said seriously to the man, "I would like to make my home luxurious and elegant, but when I look at the people of our country, many of them are eating food too coarse to eat, wearing shabby clothes, and others are freezing and starving; how can I bear to think of these things and buy more property for myself? If the common people are all clothed in coarse tea and rags, while I dress up my wives and concubines, and raise my grain and horses, how can I have any conscience as an official! Moreover, I have heard that the strength and honor of a nation can only be shown by the noble conduct of its people, and not by their having beautiful concubines and fine steeds.

This made Zhongsun look ashamed, and made him respect Jiwenzi even more.

Then he followed the example of Ji Wenzi, and emphasized the simplicity of his life. His wives and concubines only wore clothes made of ordinary cloth, and the horses in his family were only fed with grain chaff and weeds.

3, Su Shi

Su Shi, one of the eight great Tang and Song dynasties, was 21 years old, before and after *** do 40 years of official, during the official period, he always pay attention to the thrift, often careful calculation of life. A.D. 1080, Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou, due to the salary reduced a lot, he was too poor to live, and then in the help of friends, to get a piece of land, they plowed up. In order not to spend a penny, he also practiced planned expenditures: first of all the money calculated, and then divided into 12 equal parts, one per month; each divided into an average of 30 small parts, every day only a small part. After all the money was divided, it was hung on the beam of the room according to the portion, and a packet of it was taken down early in the morning every day as the whole day's living expenses. Get a small part of the money, he also carefully weigh, can not buy things resolutely do not buy, only the remaining, not allowed to overspend. Accumulated money, Sushil kept them in a bamboo tube, in case of unexpected needs.

4, Zhao Kuangyin

Zhao Kuangyin taught his daughters to be frugal "heavenly fairy house, the emperor's home on earth". As a country's emperor should be said to be the richest on earth, gold and silver treasures to enjoy. But the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin is not only frugal life, against luxury and waste, but also strictly educate their children to live frugal.