The meaning and spirit of honesty

What is honesty? Integrity is not greedy for ill-gotten gains; Cleanliness is whiteness, which means an open and aboveboard attitude towards life; To be clear, honesty means having honest behavior and an aboveboard attitude.

This kind of honest moral education should start from childhood, because children are innocent and their hearts are pure, like a blank sheet of paper, without any color: at this time, it is most appropriate to give honest moral education; Otherwise. Let him come into contact with bad environment, and when he meets treacherous and evil people, he will get dishonest bad behaviors and bad habits.

What is a bad behavior of dishonesty? For example, robbing people's property, stealing things, encroaching on people's property and exploiting people's financial interests are all dishonest; Moreover, it is also dishonest to pick up something lost by others on the road and secretly put it away and not return it to others.

Some people do things for personal gain, thicker than this and thinner than that; Dealing with official duties and accepting bribes, as long as people have money to give, just give benefits; If you don't have money to give him, you shouldn't give him what he deserves. This is called corruption, which means you are dishonest. We know that an honest civil servant should be as clear as a mirror.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty in China, there was a man named Yang Zhen who was very knowledgeable. Later, the government sent him to be an official. One night, a man named Wang Mi came to his house. Wang Mi brought him a bag of gold. Of course, this is not unreasonable. He has some requirements for Yang Zhen; But Yang was such an honest official that he refused to accept his bribe on the spot. Seeing that there was no one else around, Wang Mi whispered to Yang Zhen, "No one knows at night. Why don't you dare to accept it?" Yang Zhen was very angry with this sentence and thought it was an insult to his personality. He immediately replied solemnly: "Heaven knows the earth, you know me, how can no one know?" Seeing that he was not a corrupt official, Wang Mi had to take back the gold. "Heaven knows, earth knows, you know and I know", that is, the so-called "four knowledge"; It has been nearly two thousand years since the Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to commemorate the virtue of their last generation's "clean heirloom", people surnamed Yang now name their guild hall "Sizhitang". There is no doubt that Yang Zhen's honest style is really worth learning!