But to make all who have no face can be rich;
If it were not for the bones, it would not be poor.
——Written by Qing Xu Shilin (see Notes on the Couplet selection of ancient honest government)
"But if there is no face, one can be rich, and if there is no bone, how can one be poor?" Eyes do not stain gold and silver, is the hero generation. This is a poem written by Xu Shilin, a minister during the Qianlong period, who encouraged people. Later generations plucked out two exquisite sentences, often as couplets, and pasted them on the wall as an encouragement.
"But to make everyone rich without face, if you don't have bones, you can be poor" is to say that you have gone to corruption and done that faceless deed, and today you have already "made a fortune", as for today's still poor, it is because there is still that bit of integrity and backbone. Just as the so-called "dwell in the body do not make Bai Guixuan; determined to be straight and qingyun qi", as long as you are as innocent as jade, you should be a qi yuntian. Xu Shilin, as an official, often warned his subordinates that "as long as this snack is clean", he will be worthy of the heavens. As a provincial inspector, he is very self-disciplined, never put up a ceremonial guard when he goes out, often a bicycle, two or three retinues, "just a bag of luggage.". Later, when he died of illness and illness, the belongings he carried with him were not enough to take care of the aftermath. Who would have thought that at that time he was still in the position of the richest two rivers. Xu Shilin, with his words and deeds, fulfilled the words in the poem, "Is the hero of the generation".
Zhang Boxing, who was known as the "first Clean Official in the World" in the Qing Dynasty, famously said: "Who is often in communication, honest and really hurt; if it is not ill-gotten wealth, where does this thing come from?" Who said that "courtesy exchanges" are just simple daily communications, and that some officials have money in their hands that are obviously not normally available, and if they are not ill-gotten gains, where do they come from? If you don't get it right, your eyes are stained with "gold and silver qi", and you dare not be a hero in the face of temptation.
(Jia Nan)
Author: U.S. Bunsa
(Calligraphy works provided by Gansu Calligraphers Association)
Editor: Mi Yuan Review: Wang Bin