After decades of life and hundreds of years of family life, no one can be sure that their family can endure and always stand at the top of the food chain.
So the old saying always teaches us to think of danger in times of peace and take precautions. So at this moment you may be rich and invincible, but the next moment you may fall to the bottom and be poor. But sometimes reality tells us that the poverty in the eyes of the rich may not mean the same as the poverty in the eyes of the poor.
We know that in this life, it is easy for people to move from frugality to luxury, but it is more difficult to enter frugality from luxury to frugality. When you get used to the mountain treasures overseas and suddenly become a daily meal, you feel that you have begun to have a hard life, but in fact, for the real poor, your life may be a luxury.
Just like Lu Xun's words, in the eyes of others, it seems that Lu Xun at that time was completely clean and had nothing. However, in Lu Xun's moving record, it also allows Lu Xun to truly understand the difference between "poor" in the eyes of the poor and the rich: the poor are really poor, poor and white, and there is nothing, but the rich people are poor and can eat for three years if they sweep the cracks in their own land.
The home of a generation of prosperity
Those who know Lu Xun know that Lu Xun was born in a large family in Shaoxing. At that time, his family lived in Xintaimen, a famous rich area in Shaoxing, and at that time it was one of the three Taimen of the Zhou family, one of the largest families in it, and a disciple like Lu Xun who lived in Taimen was called "Taimen Disciple".
At that time, the Zhou family could be said to be a prosperous family, and Lu Xun's grandfather Zhou Fuqing was a jinshi at that time, although the rank was not high, but it could also be said that it was the title of the golden list, and the lintel was shining.
At that time, Lu Xun's grandfather stayed in the Hanlin Courtyard for several years, and became the Zhi County of Jinxi, Jiangxi, although he was only a low-ranking petty official, but basically no one dared to provoke. For the Zhou family at that time, it may only be a well-off family among the Taimen people, but for those poor people, such a Zhou family can also be regarded as a prosperous family.
If you want to maintain the longevity of the family, you must not only be an official, but more importantly, you must be an official and maintain interpersonal relations, but Lu Xun's grandfather is extremely lacking in this regard, which also indicates that this prosperous family has gradually entered a time of loneliness.
The beginning of the decline of the family was subjected to great changes
Zhou Fuqing did not pay attention to his own personal connections when he was an official, his temper was very fast, his mouth was poisonous, basically it could be said that his words were unscrupulous, and he didn't even care who the other party was. Such a clear personality and unscrupulous work have led to offending many people in the official arena. Therefore, not long after being a Zhi County, he was taken by Shen Baozhen and did not keep the black gauze hat on his head.
But how can such a person idle? A few years later, Zhou Fuqing donated a cabinet secretary, although he could not have a certain amount of extra money like Zhixian, but his salary was also enough for Zhou Fuqing's overall expenditure.
But I don't know if Zhou Fuqing is not suitable for being an official, shortly after becoming a cabinet secretary, fate played a joke with him, his mother died suddenly, in that era, the death of his parents was to keep filial piety for three years, not to participate in the government, so that after three years, if you want to return to the official field, it is basically impossible.
When he saw that his family had no successor in the official arena, in order to make his family prosperous for a long time, Lu Xun's grandfather had a thought. In 1893, Zhou Fuqing heard that the person who presided over the township examination in Zhejiang was his old friend Yin Ruzhang, and he wanted to bribe the people of the Zhou family to pass the examination. However, this news was leaked for some reason, and Zhou Fuqing was sentenced to beheading and waiting. In this way, the home of a generation of prosperity began to decline.
The former Hanlin Mansion became a prisoner overnight, making the Zhou family instantly become the talking point after the tea and dinner, which made people feel self-conscious. In order to save their grandfather's life, they sold land, pawns, and activities to save their grandfather's life.
Although his life was saved, for the Zhou family, he was also greatly implicated, and the scenery was no longer beautiful. Because there was no one available in the family at that time, in order to make a living, the whole family could only rely on pawns to survive.
Classes are different, the concept of poverty is different
At this time, the Zhou family, in the eyes of many outsiders, should have reached the end of the road. But at that time, the Zhou family was not sentenced to raid the family and exterminate the clan, and Zhou Fuqing had been a Zhixian for many years, so even if it seemed that this family had failed, this was only in the eyes of the Zhou family, as the saying goes: the skinny camel was bigger than the horse, and there were three thousand nails in the broken ship.
For the former Zhou family, the poverty in their eyes is completely different from the "poverty" of the real poor.
At that time, the zhou family of Nuoda needed to spend money in any way, and in order to be able to maintain the family's livelihood, the pawnshop became their main place of exchange for money. In this way, I spent a few years in this way.
But what people did not expect was that the family, which basically relied on pawns, would be able to pawn out items that ordinary people could not take out after a few years.
This is also enough to show that the poverty of the rich is really different from the poverty of the poor, and the poverty of the poor is really nothing, but for the rich, they just have no way to live a prosperous and rich life, but the family inheritance for many years is still much better than that of ordinary families.
The house of prosperity, sweeping the floor and sewing for three years
We all know that for such a large compound, quarrels, calculations, and conspiracies can be said to be commonplace, even in the current civilized society, such a situation is very common, so in 1911, the former big family finally could not maintain, they chose to separate. And it is because of this move that I finally see how rich a large family that has lasted for several generations can be.
At that time, the Ancestral Home of the Zhou Family sold more than fifteen thousand oceans, and for that time, this money was a huge amount of money. And the scene of their moving house is also lamentable.
Eager to move, they sold some calligraphy and paintings to the old bookstore as a unit, and these calligraphy and paintings are the calligraphy and paintings of Xu Wenchang, Chen Laolian, Zhao Zhiqian and others.
So, how can such a person say that he is poor? This is really in response to the old saying, some people, a little thing leaking out of the fingers, can be an ordinary family for a lifetime.
The end of the Zhou family's heyday also means that the era that was once there is over, which means that a new era will begin. In fact, from the experience of Lu Xun's family, what Lu Xun said is indeed correct, the poor say that they are poor is really nothing, but the poor of the rich may find it from other places, sweep it, and eat for three years.
But whether it is rich or poor, if you want to maintain the prosperity of the family, you must work hard and develop steadily, which is the most important thing. Only when everyone works together can we hope for a family to prosper.