Seeking an essay of about eight hundred words on the topic "Traditional Culture in My Eyes,

1Without faith, a man cannot stand. Honesty is a topic that has remained constant since ancient times. With honesty, there is trust between people, and there are good stories of sincere cooperation.2 Once upon a time, a lucky man was taken by God to visit heaven and hell. They first came to hell and saw a group of people, gathered around a large pot of broth, but these people all looked malnourished, desperate and hungry. Upon closer inspection, each man was holding a spoon that could reach the pot, but the handle of the spoon was longer than their arms, so they couldn't get anything into their mouths. They looked very miserable. Immediately afterward, God took him into another place. This place was exactly the same as the previous one: a pot of soup, a group of people, and the same long-handled spoons. But everyone was happy and eating pleasantly. God told him that this was heaven.3 The visitor was perplexed: why did two places with the same situation turn out to be so different? Finally, after careful observation, he saw the answer: it turned out that everyone in hell was thinking of ladling the broth himself; while everyone in heaven was feeding the other person across the table with a spoon. As a result, everyone in hell was starving and miserable, while those in heaven ate well.3 Ancient people also cared a lot about honesty

Zeng Sen, a famous thinker and coward in the state of Lu at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, was one of the seventy-two scholars among Confucius' disciples. According to records, Zeng Guofan, a famous minister of the Qing Dynasty, is his descendant. He is learned and talented, and attaches great importance to the cultivation of character, moral integrity. Once, his wife had to go to the bazaar to do some business, and his young child clamored to go. Zeng Sen's wife did not want to take the child there, so she said to him, "You play well at home, and when mom comes back, she will kill the family pig and cook meat for you to eat." The child was very happy to hear this and stopped clamoring to go to the market. This was just a joke to coax the child, and afterward, Zeng Sen's wife forgot about it. Unexpectedly, Zeng Sen really killed a pig in the house. When his wife saw that Zeng Sen killed the pig, she said, "I said I would kill the pig and cook it for him when I came back from the market in order to let the child wait at home without worrying, how can you take it seriously?" Zeng Sen said, "A child cannot be deceived. A child is too young to understand the world, and has to learn only from the ways of others, and especially from his parents as an example of life. If you deceive a child today and taint his mind, tomorrow the child will deceive you and others; if you go back on your word in front of the child today, tomorrow the child will no longer trust you; you see how great the harm is." Zeng Zi's wife thought her husband's words made sense, so she heartily helped Zeng Zi kill the pig and remove the hair, pick the bones and cut the meat. It was not long before Zeng Sen's wife had prepared a sumptuous dinner for her son. Zeng Sen y understands that honesty, trustworthiness and keeping one's word are the basic rules of being a human being. If one breaks one's word and does not kill the pig, then the pig in the family is saved, but it leaves an indelible shadow on the mind of an innocent child. Zengzi told people with words and deeds that in order to do a good job, even to children, one should be true to one's word, honest and without deceit, and teaching by example is more important than teaching by words. All parents should be as honest as Mr. and Mrs. Zeng Sen, and set an example with their own actions to influence their children and the whole society. This shows how much the ancient sages emphasized the education of integrity!

Second, the story of Yanshu's credibility establishment. Yan Shu was a famous writer and politician in the Northern Song Dynasty. At the age of 14, he was recommended to the court by local officials as a "child prodigy". He could have been appointed to an official position without taking the imperial examination, but he did not do so and took the examination with determination. Coincidentally, the questions on that exam were ones he had done before, and he had been instructed by several famous teachers. In this way, he stood out from more than a thousand candidates without much effort and was appreciated by the emperor. But Yanshu did not feel complacent, on the contrary, when he accepted the emperor's re-test, he told the emperor the truth and asked for another question to test him in the classroom. The emperor conferred with his ministers and came up with a much more difficult topic for Yan Shu to write an essay on the spot. As a result, his essay was again praised by the emperor. Compared to some of our students who play favorites, copying, and peeking in order to get a better grade, we have to be ashamed of ourselves.

After becoming an official, Yanshu always returned home to study behind closed doors after his daily business. Later, the emperor learned about this and was so pleased that he named him as an official under the crown prince. When Yan Shu went to thank the emperor for his kindness, the emperor again praised him for being able to study hard behind closed doors. Yan Shu, however, said, "It is not that I do not want to go to banquets and fun, it is only because my family is poor and has no money that I do not go to them. I am ashamed of the emperor's praise." The emperor also praised him for his true talent and his simplicity and honesty, a rare talent, and after a few years he promoted him and made him the prime minister.

The story of Yanshu's appreciation and reappreciation by the emperor shows how important it is for a person to be honest, to be true to himself, and not to make false statements in order to gain the trust of others!

The third story is about Huangfu Jie's trustworthiness. Huangfu Jie was a famous minister of the Sui Dynasty. His father died when he was three years old, and his mother, who had difficulty supporting the family, took him back to her mother's home to live. His grandfather saw that Huangfu Jie was smart and clever, and that he had no father, so he loved him very much. Grandpa's name was Wei Xiaokuan, and the Wei family was a famous and wealthy family in the area. Since there were many children attending school at home, Grandpa hired a teacher to run his own school, which was called a private school at that time. Huangfu Jie and his cousins went to school in his own school. Grandpa was a very strict old man, especially to his grandchildren, but also strict discipline. When the private school started, he made it a rule that anyone who didn't finish his homework without a good reason would be beaten twenty times according to the family law. One day, after the morning class, Huangfu Ji and his cousins hid in an abandoned hut to play chess. They were so greedy that they didn't realize it was time for the afternoon lesson. Everyone forgot to do the homework left by the teacher in the morning. The next day, this incident was known to Grandpa, he called several grandchildren to the study, and severely reprimanded. Then, according to the rules, each of them was heavily beaten with twenty lashes. Grandpa saw that Huangfu Jie was the youngest and usually well-behaved, plus he didn't have a father, so he couldn't bear to beat him. So, he called him to the side, kindly said to him: "You are still young, this time I will not let you. However, you can't make this mistake again in the future. If you don't do your homework and learn your skills, how can you achieve great things in the future?" Huangfu Jie got along well with his cousins, and his little brothers loved him. When they saw that little Huangfu Jie was not punished, they were all very happy in their hearts. However, little Huangfu Jie was very sad in his heart, he thought: I made the same mistake as my brothers and delayed my homework. Grandpa didn't punish me, this is the heartache. But I can't indulge myself, I should also follow the rules of the private pad, be heavily beaten twenty big boards. So Huangfu Ji found his cousins and begged them to give him twenty lashes on his grandfather's behalf. Cousins heard, all giggled out. Huangfu performance said in a serious manner: "This is the rules of the private school, we have promised Grandpa that the rules are willing to be punished, or else we will not keep our word. You've all been punished according to the rules, and I can't be an exception." The cousins were all touched by Huangfu Jie's spirit of honoring the rules of the school and sincerely reforming his ways. So, they took out the ruler and beat Huangfu Ji twenty times. Later, Huangfu Jie became a big official in the imperial court, but this virtue of keeping promises and admitting mistakes, which was cultivated from childhood, was never lost, which made him enjoy a high reputation among the civil and military officials. Honesty and trustworthiness even a few years old children can take the initiative to consciously do, we secondary school students are not even a few years old children are not as good? I think the answer is no. We should do, we must do, we can do, we must do!

These stories, though small, reflect the truth that we have to abide by the principle of integrity in the world; the things we talk about, though very simple, reflect a guideline that we should adhere to everywhere - integrity; the stories we tell are very ordinary but tell us that we have to abide by the principle of integrity; the stories we tell are very simple but tell us that we have to abide by the principle of integrity everywhere. The story told is very ordinary but tell us in the human life must be firm a belief - to speak honestly. The story is ordinary, plain and simple, plain and simple, but it tells us that everyone should pursue the faith in his life, every nation should pursue the faith, every country should pursue the faith, the whole world should pursue the faith of all mankind, that is, to speak honestly.

Traditional culture is always beside us, and honesty is very important to our youth, and what we lack. After reading these three stories, we should understand the importance of honesty, let us from now on, a honesty, let us take action