In the three regimes that stood at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the three founders all had very obvious personal characteristics, Cao Cao of Cao Wei was obviously the highest level among the three people in terms of cultural level, and his famous work "Short Song Line" was selected into the middle school textbook and became a must-memorize text for the majority of middle school students, while Sun Quan, although he often appeared in various texts, did not have any famous works on the textbook.
Liu Bei is sandwiched between the two, although he does not have a masterpiece like Cao Cao, but he is also stronger than Sun Quan, he not only has a famous saying in today's primary school textbooks, but also a well-known gangster mantra.
The former is what we all recited when we were in elementary school, "Don't do it with evil and small, don't do it with good and small", which sounds like a special "benevolence". At first glance, people can't believe that this is what a leader who lives in a chaotic world and kills decisively, but on the contrary, he will think that it is said by a gentle elder, and it is even more difficult to believe what Liu Bei, who is considered "hypocritical" by many people, said.
In fact, when Liu Bei said this, it was at the beginning of Zhang Wu's third year (223), when his life was nearing its end, and he still kept writing letters to his son Liu Chan, teaching him some principles of how to behave in the world. At this time, Liu Bei was not the general and emperor who was determined to kill, but a man who knew that time was short and wanted to pass on all the life experiences he thought were good and necessary to his son.
And "don't make mistakes because you think they are small, don't don't do them because you think that good deeds are small", is an old father, to his young son, the last and most important life message, and later facts show that Liu Chan obviously failed to live up to Liu Bei's instructions.
The latter is in many classic Hong Kong films, there are "women like clothes, brothers like brothers and sisters", this is in the first year of Jian'an (196), Liu Bei led a large army to the front line to resist Yuan Shu's attack, let Zhang Fei guard the city and family at home, but Zhang Fei because of drinking mistakes, let Lü Bu sneak attack the city successfully, only he led more than a dozen relatives to break out.
When Zhang Fei saw Liu Bei and complained bitterly that he had thrown the city pool and his sister-in-law to Lü Bu, he was so ashamed that he wanted to commit suicide with a horizontal knife, at this time it was Liu Bei who snatched the knife from his hand and said: "Women are like clothes, brothers are like brothers and sisters, brother, how can you bear to abandon me for such a thing?" After hearing this, the soldiers present were all very moved, and since then they have served their death.
Liu Bei's 2 famous sayings, the former reflects the "benevolence and kindness" in his bones, the latter reflects his emphasis on brotherly righteousness, and it is precisely because of these two qualities that he can establish a career from scratch in such a chaotic world.