Essay Materials on Thriftiness

Thrift is hard work and frugality, including hard work and saving two important aspects. Since ancient times, our country has taken diligence and thrift as the virtue of cultivating oneself and governing one's family, and "Shangshu" says: "But the day is hard work, and there is no dare to hesitate". The Zuo Zhuan quotes an ancient saying: "People's livelihood lies in diligence, and diligence is not scarcity." Zhouyi" put forward: "thrifty virtue and difficult", "Mozi" has: "thrifty is prosperous, obscene and anonymous is dead" theory. Ancient people believed that the ability to be thrifty and diligent was a matter of survival and failure, and should not be ignored. In today's society, the concept of economic growth and material consumption has changed a lot, but thrift as a virtue, as a work attitude, life style or governance, or to be strongly advocated.　　

There are many historical figures who practiced diligence and thrift to cultivate themselves; they were not only industrious in their national endeavors, but also very thrifty in their family life. Keqin and thrift are the traditional virtues of our people. Legend has it that the ancient sages did so. For example, Yao was particularly concerned about the people, believing that it was his own fault that others were starving and freezing because he had not done his job properly. His own life, however, was very frugal, often wearing coarse clothing, eating coarse rice and drinking wild vegetable soup. It was because of Yao's diligence and frugality in his career and life that he won the love of the people and became a sage.

Su Dongpo, a famous writer, calligrapher and painter during the Northern Song Dynasty in China, also made frugality his habit of life and improved his own cultivation by being thrifty, and he was resolutely against extravagance and wastefulness in his life. One year, he was relegated to Huangzhou and his salary was reduced, which brought many inconveniences in his life. In order to tide over the difficulties, he not only dismissed all the servants around him, but also made himself more frugal, he made a complete and detailed expenditure plan for himself, gathered all the income and money at hand, and then divided the money into twelve portions, one for each month, and each portion was divided into thirty portions, and only one portion was used every day. This is how he got through the hard times, "taking in moderation and using in moderation". "The gentleman was frugal, and that's what Su Dongpo did.

Luxury and waste are small enough to destroy a harmonious and happy family, and large enough to destroy a strong country. Since ancient times, there have been many emperors who, at the beginning of their careers, cultivated themselves with diligence and thrift, and were embraced by the people, but then they gradually gave up diligence and thrift in favor of the pursuit of comfort and enjoyment, and as a result, brought about their own demise. Castrol Li Cunxin, the Zhuangzong of the Later Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, initially tried to rule with vigor and vigor, and defeated all his enemies to become the emperor. But later indulged in music and opera, every day in the court with a lot of money to invite people to perform, good performance, with a lot of money reward, and all day to build a large music palace, band, resulting in the loss of gold, and ultimately led to the ministry of the rebellion, the actors in trouble, three years on the throne died in the chaos of war. Ouyang Xiu in the writing of the "biography of the actor", feeling this history, explaining the "worry can be prosperous country, can be killed by the Yiyu" reasoning.

China has a strong sense of worry, especially when the country is in turmoil and the people are suffering. Confucius said, "If you don't have far-flung worries, you will have near worries," and Mencius said, "If you are born in worry, you will die in peace and happiness," which emphasizes the importance of maintaining a sense of worry from the perspective of the individual and the country, respectively. Wei Zheng, even in the Tang Dynasty, also advised the emperor to "think of danger in peace and security, and abstain from extravagance and thrift" in order to achieve long-term peace and security.

There is also a reminder that "it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality". This means that it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but hard to go from extravagance to frugality. This is what Sima Guang quoted from others and used to admonish his children and grandchildren. It emphasizes the need to consciously maintain frugality and prevent extravagance, and contains the meaning of self-motivation and warning to the world. People all want to live a good life, which is not wrong. But too much luxury is not desirable. Shang Zhou used a pair of ivory chopsticks, and his ministers had to flee because they saw that King Zhou's greed would be unstoppable once it was developed. So sticking to frugality requires self-discipline.

Now, with the development of science and technology, the improvement of material living standards. People gradually indifferent to the lessons of the ancients, a great deal of extravagance and waste. Our country then formed a common disease - "thrift indifference". The small things around us are enough to see the seriousness of this disease. Bright classrooms during the day have to turn on the lights, restroom faucets "long flow", the computer is always on standby, simply "do not know what frugality is like". According to Shanghai energy management department statistics, according to an average of 15 watts of power consumption per household, Shanghai 4.8 million households in the daytime peak on the increase of 2.5 million kilowatts or so of the power load; a computer standby energy consumption of 30 watts, if Shanghai 150,000 cadres after work do not turn off their computers, this alone will increase the daily power load of 4,500 kilowatts, if coupled with the enterprises and institutions of the computer standby waste, it is simply "do not know what it is like to be frugal. If we add the enterprises and organizations of the computer standby waste, the number is very alarming. If this waste continues, how much energy will be wasted in vain. How much economic loss will be caused for the country. If this continues, even if our country is strong, I'm afraid we won't be able to support it for much longer.

Throughout history, the big state, small to the family, are all rise in thrift, forgetting the extravagance. Throughout history, most successful entrepreneurs have gone through a period of hard struggle, so they are very diligent and thrifty. But for those who keep the business, it is just the opposite, they have not experienced the hard work of entrepreneurship, easy to crave luxury and pleasure, the ultimate fate is bound to be the cause of the decline of the country's demise. This is the truth of thousands of years of history.

In today's world of great material abundance, abstaining from extravagance and thrift, not wastefulness of wealth, recognize the virtues we revere