Understanding Stories about Friendship

1. Guan Bao's friendship

Guan Zhong, a famous politician during the Spring and Autumn Period, and his friend Bao Shuya were called Guan Bao's friendship. When they were young, Guan Zhong and Bao Shujia did business together. Bao Shujia knew that Guan Zhong's family was poor, and every time he did business, he put up two-thirds of the capital but only one-third of the revenue, which might have made his family unhappy.

Bao Shuya explained that Kuanzhong's family was poor, so he should give him a little bit more, so he would give him a part of the money every time, and he was always thinking about his friends. Sometimes when Guan Zhong didn't do things properly, Bao Shuya didn't think he was stupid. At that time, Guan Zhong became a big official and took his soldiers out to fight, but he always dared not be the first one to fight himself, and he was often ridiculed for his cowardice and cowardice.

Bao Shuya, however, explained that his family had an old mother to support, and that it was not that he himself was timid and cowardly, but that he felt constrained by his condition. Guan Zhong had been an official and was often expelled, but Bao Shuya was also convinced that his friend was not incapable, but just lacking in timing and luck. Later, Guan Zhong exclaimed that the one who gave birth to me is my parents and the one who knows me is Bao Shuya.

Later, Bao Shujia promoted Guan Zhong to be the prime minister of Qi. He helped Qi establish its hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period. Nowadays, people often use the term "Guan Bao's friendship" to describe a deep friendship.

2. Yu Bo Ya and Zhong Ziqi are a pair of exemplary friends who have been recited through the ages. Yu Bo Ya was good at playing and Zhong Ziqi was good at appreciating. This is the origin of the word "soulmate". When Zhong Ziqi died of an illness, Yu Bo Ya was y saddened, thinking that his soulmate had died and that there would be no one else in the world who could appreciate his music as much as Zhong Ziqi did. He thought that no one else in the world would be able to appreciate his music as much as Zhong Ziqi did, so he "broke his zither and stopped playing" for the rest of his life.

3. Yang Jiao Sheng and Zuo Bo Tao

Yang Jiao Sheng and Zuo Bo Tao were scholars during the Spring and Autumn Period, and because of their similarity of purpose and hatred for each other, they became brothers of the opposite sex. Later, when King Ping of Chu was recruiting, the two of them wanted to go to Chu and do something great.

But because both of them were relatively poor, halfway to the road, they lacked food and clothing. Zuo Bo Tao knew that Yang Jiao Sheng was more capable than he was, so he gave up all his clothes and food to Yang Jiao Sheng, but he himself froze to death.

After arriving in the state of Chu, Zuo Bo Tao became successful and went to the peak of his life. At his request, the king of Chu buried Zuo Bo Tao with the honors of a minister. One day, Yang Jiao Sheng dreamed of Zuo Bo Tao, who said he was bullied by others in the netherworld.

Yangjiao Mian woke up from the dream with hot tears. In order to go to the netherworld to help Zuo Botao, Sheep Horn Woe even committed suicide.

Expanded Information

True friendship, because it seeks nothing and depends on nothing, is always both pure and fragile. All the lonely people in the world have also encountered friendship, but they do not know how to identify and maintain it, and one by one it has been broken. In order to prevent brokenness, the predecessors have thought of many ways. One of the harder ways to tie up friendships is to gang up.

No matter how grand the ceremony or how powerful the force, ganging up is still, in the end, motivated by a distrust of the solidity of friendship, and so a blood oath and heavy punishment are used to prevent deviation. The gangs alienate friendship into a kind of organizational violence, which is exactly the opposite of the original meaning of freedom and autonomy of friendship. I think that friendship begins to deteriorate once it is tied up, because no one can tell how much of a partner's loyalty comes from the heart and how much comes from the rules of the gang.