A 50-word clean story

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the son of Cheng Si in Song Dynasty was not simple and honest, and was deeply loved by people. Someone got a piece of Baoyu and asked someone to identify it and gave it to Zi Han. Zi Han refused to accept it, saying, "You value gems, but I value greed. If I accept your jade, then we all lose our treasure. Why don't we each have our own baby?

Yang Zhen refused to pay.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yang Zhen passed by Changyi on his way to his post. Wang Mishan, the magistrate of Changyi County, visited him and gave him ten catties of gold as a gift. Yang Zhen said, "An old friend knows a gentleman, but you don't know an old friend. Why? Wang Mi didn't know that Poplar really blamed him and said, "It's getting dark, and no one knows. Yang Zhen said, "God knows, God knows, you know, I know, what is ignorance? Hearing this, Wang Mi was ashamed and went away disgruntled. "。

One dollar is too conservative.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, a man named Liu Chong was appointed as the prefect of Huiji. He reformed graft and abolished exorbitant taxes, which made the lawsuit very clean. Later, he was transferred to the post of master craftsman by the imperial court. Before leaving, the local people took the initiative to chip in money for Liu Chong who was about to leave? Liu Chong is not affected. Later, it was really hard to refuse, so I took a copper coin from it and accepted it symbolically. Because of this, he is called "a dollar is too defensive".

4. Peach trees return to fish

Tao Kan, a famous minister in Jin Dynasty, was a collector in Xunyang County when he was young. Once, he sent someone to send a can of fish with Chinese sauerkraut to his mother. After his mother Zhan received it, she returned it to him intact and wrote to him: "As a county official, it is not good for you to give it to me with public property, but it increases my worries." Tao Kan was deeply educated in this matter.

Wu Yinzhi is not afraid to drink greedy spring water.

Wu Yinzhi, a native of Jin Dynasty, was appointed as the magistrate of Guangzhou. Outside Guangzhou, he saw a pool of spring water called "Chanquan". According to local legend, if you drink from the fountain of greed, you will become greedy. He believed it and drank it correctly. After drinking it, I wrote a poem: "The ancients said: This water is a thousand penetration. It is not easy to try to get Qi Yi to drink. " During his tenure, he was honest and self-disciplined and adhered to his own integrity.

Honesty is the eternal value pursuit of society.

Don't be greedy for cheap, don't be dirty. As a social value orientation, honesty always leads the society forward and forms a benign pursuit. This pursuit of value appeared as early as the Warring States period. See Qu Yuan's Songs of the South. "Evocation": "I am young and honest, loyal to my duties." It has been used ever since.

In the process of development, it has also developed from personal cultivation to moral requirements for officials, which has already become today's social value orientation and social value pursuit. It has been deeply rooted in people's hearts, recognized by people, formed a binding moral code, and now it has risen to a higher level-legal code.

Extended data

Honesty first appeared in Qu Yuan, a great poet in the Warring States Period, "Chu Ci Evocation": "I am young and honest, and I am loyal."

Wang Yi, a famous scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, commented in The Songs of the South: "Don't be honest, don't be dirty, be clean", that is, don't accept money and gifts from others, and don't let your innocent character be defiled. This 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.

Integrity: do not harm the public interest; Not corrupt. Etymologically, the word "honesty" is interpreted as "fairness and non-corruption".

There is a saying in Wang Chong's Lun Heng in the Han Dynasty that "the minister who made up the case in the past looked at the innocent person".

Cihai is interpreted as "clean and innocent". There is a poem in Qu Yuan's Songs of the South called "I am an honest young man". Wang Yi commented that it was "not cheap and not clean". During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lujiang was a satrap and had his own brilliant ideas about political integrity. He hung the fresh fish bribed by his subordinates under the eaves of the lobby and dried it in a few days.

Then someone gave him fresh fish. He pointed to the dried fish and said to the visitor, "Do you still want me to hang the fish?" The fish delivery man had to leave angrily. Yu Qian of the Ming Dynasty appreciated the persistence of sheep, refused to corrode and never touched them. He wrote a poem praising: "It is better to have no guests in front of Xisheng than to hang fish under the kitchen. The breeze sleeps in the south window and reads some books at the bedside. "

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Honesty-Baidu Encyclopedia