Chinese culture is broad and profound, has a long history, and is all-encompassing, and one of the branches is the colloquialism. Colloquialisms have two very obvious characteristics, one is that they are easy to understand, and the other is that they are concise and concise, because they are easy to understand, and the audience of the sayings is very wide, and in the case of the low literacy rate in ancient times, the sayings can also be passed on by word of mouth and show vitality, because the words are concise and concise, and the sayings condense the wisdom of the ancients' lives, which is the experience of the ancestors, and has certain practical and guiding significance.
In addition, there is another significant feature of the saying, that is, the fields involved are very extensive, food, clothing, shelter, philosophy of life, feng shui, metaphysics, architecture, phenology, etc., all-encompassing, the reason for this feature is that the saying is taken from life, acting on life, and the spirit it embodies is the ancients' love for life and yearning for a better life.
From ancient times to the present, people yearn for a better life, all pray for the glory of life, "the world is bustling, all for profit and profit", "gentlemen love money, there is a way to get it", reasonable and legal, hard-working pursuit of wealth, is a social activity that can be advocated, it can be exchanged for the overall economy of society, driving common progress, market prosperity. So, is there a law of wealth? As the saying goes, "Rich is not more than three generations, poor is not more than five generations", is this saying an objective law or nonsense?
First, the rich are not more than three generations
"Rich but not three generations" this mantra known to women and children, derived from a sentence "moral heirloom, more than ten generations, cultivation and reading heirloom, poetry and book heirloom is second, rich and noble heirloom, but three generations", the ancients also said, ploughing and reading heirloom for a long time, poetry books continue to live for a long time, in ancient times there has never been a rich and noble heirloom, rich and noble succession, it can be seen that the ancients believe that generations of glory and wealth, is not in line with the law, because there is no definite number of rises and falls, there are variables.
In "Mencius Li Lou", there is such a sentence: "The gentleman's Zeze, the fifth generation and the beheading", it refers to the virtues created by the gentleman, the creation of the cause, passed on to future generations, and will be consumed in the fifth generation.
It is worth noting that the rich are not more than three generations and five generations and beheading, and the "three" and "five" in the "three" are general numbers, which means many.
Why do you say that "rich is not more than 'many' generations"? There are two reasons, one is the internal factor and the other is the external factor.
1. Internal factors. People often say: "It is difficult to start a business, it is even more difficult to keep one's job", the former people planted trees and the people after the people were cool, the predecessors created a career through hard work, they came from the tribulations, they created comfortable conditions for future generations, and the future generations are likely to lose their enterprising and hard-working hearts due to the innate conditions are too rich, like boiling frogs in warm water, developing a bad disposition, and then the foundation is exhausted.
2. External factors. Many people's success, in addition to their own efforts, but also have to seize the opportunity. However, the opportunities in the outside world are constantly changing, and future generations are likely to stick to the old rules, cannot keep up with the changes in opportunities, and will eventually be eliminated.
Second, the poor are not more than five
In the same way, the "five" here is also a general number, but the poor is not five, there are two factors.
1. Internal factors. It is often said that the children of poor families have long been in charge, and in the process of coping with difficult living conditions, they will develop the spirit of bearing hardships and standing hard work, not being willing to fall behind, and being active and hardworking.
Laboring their bones and bones, starving their bodies, emptying their bodies, and messing with their deeds, they are moved to endure and gain what they cannot. The inner potential of people will be stimulated by harsh environmental conditions, and then transform the environment and change their lives.
2. External factors. The ancients once said: "Poverty is change, change is general", once people fall into a poor situation, they will think about change, will do whatever it takes to seize considerable opportunities in the outside world, and then achieve counterattack and change their lives.
summary:
Thirty years of river east to west, feng shui turns, things must be reversed, no pole Tai lai, the only constant in the world is change. The ancients believed that wealth was variable, and that "three generations of wealth is not rich, and five generations of poverty" is an objective law, not nonsense.
According to statistics, 1/4 of the world's richest people belong to the second generation of the rich, and the wealth inheritance can reach the third generation, and there are only 22. The actual data coincides with this judgment of the ancients, and people can't help but admire the wisdom of the ancients. Comments are welcome.