It is not difficult to be diligent in curing laziness and being diligent in the world.
The ancients often said "three immortals", that is, a person can be virtuous, meritorious, and spoken.
Throughout the ages, there have only been three people who can do these three things, namely Confucius, Wang Yangming, and Zeng Guofan.
Zeng Guofan summed up his life and wrote a family letter to warn his children, the most important of which was:
"People lose because they are lazy, everything is because they are proud, and their family failures are all because of luxury."
This is the key to whether a person can become a talent, and it is also the root of the rise and fall of a family.
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Everyone loses because of laziness
As the saying goes: success is caused by thrift and thrift.
Whether it is self-discipline or family governance, the word "diligence" is the only way.
In the early years, Zeng Guofan was not smart, and he failed one after another in the imperial examination.
In a township examination, he was even publicly humiliated by Hunan Xuezheng, who repeatedly failed to pass the test and took the exam seven times before becoming a show talent, which can be described as a fateful end.
Zeng Guofan is the eldest son and grandson of the family, and he himself bears great family pressure, and his heart can be imagined.
Intelligence is not as good as others, he can only work a little harder, a little progress is a little, he always examines himself, books do not give up, daily classes do not quit, insist on decades.
Zeng Guofan said to his son: "After surviving this pass, you can make less progress." Go in and sleepy again, stay up again and work hard, and have the day of prosperity and improvement. ”
In the midst of difficulties, be diligent and diligent, step by step, slowly survive, and naturally you can continue to improve!
This is true not only for himself, but also for Zeng Guofan's education of future generations.
All the descendants of the Tsang clan must sweep the courtyard themselves and put an end to their bad habits of eating and doing lazy food from an early age.
A harvest of hard work, only by paying can there be a harvest, and only by working hard can there be a reward.
Just thinking about taking shortcuts and playing a little clever, you may be proud for a while, but you will eventually reveal the original form.
Opportunities are always left to those who are prepared, and they work hard to seize the opportunity and soar to the sky.
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Everything fails because of pride
The I Ching says: Humble and humble, humble and self-shepherding.
Among the sixty-four gua of the I Ching, there is only humility and full auspiciousness, and there is no disadvantage.
There are people outside the mountains, and there is heaven outside the sky.
One must remain in awe in order to avoid evil.
With no one in sight and an arrogant heart, the whole person will lose a sense of caution, from small mistakes to big mistakes. Slowly it will decay.
Zeng Guofan was credited with suppressing the rebellion and was promoted to erpin officer.
But he did not replace his blue palanquin with the green palanquin of a senior official.
Travel honor guard, everything from Jane.
After conquering Nanjing and pacifying the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he did not dare to take credit, but instead asked his brother to resign and return home.
He took the initiative to dismiss the Xiang Army, low-key and humble.
Full of losses, humble benefits.
Only by maintaining a humble heart can we be blessed and life can be smooth.
Only by maintaining a humble heart can life continue to progress.
When the Manchu Dynasty was a civil and martial artist who regarded himself as a heavenly kingdom, Zeng Guofan was not arrogant and arrogant, he humbly studied Western mathematics, physics and chemistry, actively established foreign affairs, and made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty Zhongxing.
Everything is constantly updated and iterated, always introspecting yourself, constantly improving, in order to become a better self.
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Family failures are due to luxury
Sima Guang said: Extravagance is more desire. Gentlemen who desire more are longing for wealth and nobility, and they are in vain and quickly bring misfortune.
A person, a family, once profligate and does not know how to be frugal, then it is not far from the disaster.
The Shang Dynasty King ordered the craftsmen to create a pair of exquisite ivory chopsticks.
The chancellor Miko felt very worried and advised the king.
He said:
"When you use ivory chopsticks, you must be accompanied by mountain treasures and seafood; when you eat mountain treasures and seafood, you need to wear silk and silk; when you wear Chinese clothes, you need to live in exquisite palaces; to build palaces, you must enlist a large number of dings, and the country will not be far from disaster."
Sure enough, five years later, Shang was destroyed by Zhou, and King Huan himself was burned to death in the Star Picking Building.
Man's desires are infinite, and once the mouth of luxury is opened, it can no longer be closed.
Greed will swallow people up little by little and plunge the whole family into the abyss.
Now many young people, obviously with a meager income, but have to buy luxury goods, they can't afford it, so they borrow money.
The desire is getting bigger and bigger, and the holes are also more and more, and finally the parents' pension money is all trapped before they stop.
Although Zeng Guofan was a heavy minister in the late Qing Dynasty, he still stood up for honesty and maintained his family with frugality.
He said: In Zeng Guofan's family training, "poor" is the way to "be kind."
In a letter to his eldest son, Zeng Jize, Zeng Guofan said:
"All the children of the family, all have the same food, clothing, and living as the Han soldiers, and they can become great instruments."
This means that the richer the children, the more officials and eunuchs, the more diligent and self-disciplined, the more able to take the initiative to be like the poor in material life, such a child may become a great instrument in the future.
Zhuge Liang said: Frugality is to cultivate morality.
In today's material abundance, frugality and simplicity have not become obsolete.
Once the family develops the habit of arrogance and luxury, the children will follow suit, and eventually the family will perish.
Do not let children develop the vice of arrogance and lavishness, and be diligent and frugal for a lifetime in order to be happy for a lifetime.
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Laziness, arrogance, extravagance, is the beginning of a human and a family scourge.
If we can always be alert, keep diligent, thrifty, and humble, not only can we get more and more smooth, but the family will slowly prosper.
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