What are some ancient Chinese stories of integrity?

1. Gong Yixiu, the prime minister of the state of Lu, refused to accept fish.

Gong Yixiu, a native of the state of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period, was the prime minister of the state of Lu, because of his honesty and integrity, and was not subjected to human fish and was passed down to future generations. Gong Yi Xiu liked carp very much, someone sent carp to him, he refused to accept. When asked by his son why, Gong Yi Xiu said, "It is because I like to eat fish that I cannot accept other people's fish. If I accept someone's fish and am removed from the post of prime minister, will I be able to eat fish again? Now that I am the prime minister, I can afford to buy fish and I can buy fish for myself. Therefore, I am absolutely unable to accept fish from others."

2 "New shoes tread on mud."

When Zhang Han, the author of Pine Window Dreams, was first appointed as a royal historian, he went to see Wang Yanshang, the governor of the capital. Wang Yanxiang did not talk about the way to be an official, but only told Zhang Han about his own sedan chair: one day, the sedan chair into the city, the road encountered heavy rain. A palanquin bearer, wearing new shoes, went from the gray factory to Chang'an Street, carefully choosing the ground to walk on for fear of dirtying his new shoes. After entering the city, the road is muddy and more, the sedan bearer was not careful, stepped into the mud puddles, which will be a foot high and a foot low to step on at will, no longer care about the ...... Wang Yanshuang said: "for the way of the official, but also like the ear, if a slip, will be nothing to carry out! Zhang Han listened to this "new shoes step on mud" story, "back and admire the words of the public, do not dare to forget". Since then many years, he is rigorous in politics, clean as an official, and later promoted to be known as "the first official" of the Ministry of the Ministry of Ministers, building a lot of achievements, the name of the history of the world.

3 "Zihan resigned from the treasure".

Zuo Zhuan - Xiang Gong 15 years of text: the Spring and Autumn Period, Song State, a person got a piece of jade, it will be offered to the minister in charge of engineering Zi Han. Zihan refused to accept it. The person who offered the jade said, "I once took this piece of jade to a jade worker for appraisal, and he thought it was a piece of precious jade, so I dared to offer it to you." Zihan said, "I regard this conduct of not coveting wealth as a treasure, and you regard the jade stone as a treasure. If you give me the precious jade, both of us lose our treasures; it would be better for us both to keep our respective treasures." In the story, Zihan adhered to the creed of "not greedy as treasure" and skillfully refused the jade, which has a profound meaning and truly educates and enlightens people.

4 "Extinguish the official candle and read the family book".

According to Song Zhou Zizhi's "Bamboo Slope Poetry", there was a state official in the Northern Song Dynasty who was extremely honest. One night, someone sent a letter from his superior from the capital. He guessed that it must be some important instruction from the court and immediately ordered his official to light candles to read it. Who knew that after reading half of it, he ordered to blow out the official's candle, light the candle he bought himself, and continue to read it. The official was puzzled, is not the official candle is not as bright as his own money to buy? Later, he realized that half of the letter was about the situation of his family members who stayed in the capital, and he thought that it was a private matter and he could not light the official's candle. In some people's opinion, in order to half a letter, even change the candle and then read, really a little "fuss". But it is such a small thing, but more details from the performance of a person's quality, more than enough to let today's existence of public "words" private fight, private use of public vehicles, public invitation to eat privately, private tours at public expense, and so on this kind of mooching public oil some leading cadres shame.