What do the words "widowed", "widowed", "lonely", "lonely" and "abandoning illness" mean respectively?

Widow: A widower is a man who has no wife or has lost his wife.

Widow: A woman whose husband is dead is a widow.

Orphan: a child whose father or parents are both dead, that is, an orphan or an orphan girl.

Abandoning illness: refers to people who are disabled and unable to do things, such as deaf, dumb, blind, disabled, crazy and chronically ill.

This sentence is selected from The Book of Rites and Liu Yun. The original text reads: "The old friend is both a relative and an only child, so that the old can have an end, the young can be used, the young can have a strong point, and the ashamed, widowed and disabled can be supported."

People should not only support their parents and children, but also let the elderly enjoy their old age. Middle-aged people can serve the society, children can grow up smoothly, and society can reach an ideal state, so that elderly people without wives, husbands, children who have lost their fathers since childhood, elderly people without children and disabled people can be supported.

In modern semantics, "the old have a proper end, the strong have a good use, the young have a strong point, the lonely and the disabled have a good care", that is, caring for the disadvantaged groups in society, improving various social insurance and welfare systems, helping the disabled and saving the orphans, caring for the lonely and elderly, etc. , so that the society is harmonious, stable and beautiful, and everyone has ample food and clothing.

Extended data:

"Widowhood and loneliness" later evolved into an idiom story. It first came from Mencius, Hui Liang and Wang Xia. The original text is "Old without a wife, widowed, childless and fatherless; These four are the poor people who have no regrets in the world. "

In other words, Mencius believed that kings should try benevolent policies, and besides giving preferential treatment to officials, they should also take special care of widowers, widows, single husbands, orphans and other helpless people, because these four kinds of people are helpless and desperate people in the world.

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