Get cheap and don't go again
Cheap is a common saying that often hangs on people's lips, but the meaning of ancient and modern is very different.
In ancient Chinese, cheapness has three meanings: it refers to matters of discretion, informality, and discretion;
Today's cheap meaning generally refers to low, benefit, cost-effective, affordable, smooth, upwind, advantage, convenience and so on. In a word, the small profit of the fly's head that should not be possessed.
To be cheap refers to the use of improper methods to obtain non-dividend benefits.
Love greed and cheapness, folk also known as flattery, trickery, is a kind of problem that many people often make, or it is the inferiority of people.
The world hates people who "get cheap and sell well", and what is more annoying than this kind of person is that after picking a small bargain somewhere, they still don't know how to give it up, and they have to go a second time, in vain to ask for greater cheaper. The result of obtaining LongWangshu was often to lose his wife and fold his troops.
The ins and outs of the golden sentence
That year, Chen Zhuo, a 118-year-old Taoist scholar and health caretaker, was summoned by Emperor Taizong of Song. During his stay, court officials rushed to visit him, hoping to hear the witty words of jin admonishing him.
Chen Xuan said: "Don't fall in love for a long time in a good place, and don't go to the place where you have ambitions." "The hearers think it's the most reasonable quote. More than three hundred years later, Fu Shan, a medical scientist and thinker in the early Qing Dynasty, praised this philosopher in his "Collection of Frost and Red Niches": "True famous words, true master! ”
Shao Yong, a famous theologian and poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, interpreted Chen Zhuo's golden sentence to mean: Things that take advantage of things can no longer be done, and places that are cheap should not be done again, and regarded as the standard for people to deal with things.
According to the History of the Song Dynasty, Chen Zhuo passed on to his disciples "if you get cheap things, you can't do them again; if you get cheap, you can't go any further" as a holy word.
During the Ming Dynasty, the politician Wang Xiangjin taught this Wise Language to the world as a wonderful method of enlightenment, cultivation of the mind, and cultivation of nature in the book "Small Words of Death" composed at the age of 93.
Should I "revisit the place where I got cheap"? Folk proverbs are the wind and rain of the world. Two proverbs reflect two very different outlooks on life:
One kind of person believes that in the world of life, it is difficult to be proud, and it is good to take advantage of the time, "to be cheap and cheap, to be happy and happy." This philosophy is rooted in the timely acting.
Feng Menglong, a literary scholar of the Ming Dynasty, portrayed such people into three points: "Laugh and giggle when you have to be cheap, and secretly feel sad when you don't have your heart." Whoever knows the heavens and the public is reversed, gets cheap and loses cheap. ”
Another kind of person believes that when it is good, it is necessary to harvest it, and don't wait for the rabbit to often want to take advantage. They pursue the creed of "cheap do not go again, good things are better than nothing", and know that all things in the world have been priced early, and now it seems that they can easily get it without paying, and will be repaid in another way in the future. As it is said in the Cai Gen Tan: "If you take advantage of personnel, you will suffer the loss of the heavenly way; if you covet the taste of the world, you will be damaged by the division of sex." ”
Feng Menglong praised such people with a peaceful attitude in an appreciative tone: "You have to be happy and happy when you are cheap, but your heart is sullen and worried." No bargaining, no discount, no joy or worry. ”
Get cheap where you lose
There are flukes in the world, and there must be no luck in them. There is nothing stupid about being shrewd than being greedy.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the strange encounter of Gongye Chang told people a basic truth: the greedy idea of "digging up the golden doll and looking for his mother" is not good.
Gongye Chang, compound surname Gongye, name Long. For Confucius disciple and son-in-law. The fifth chapter of the Analects contains a text introducing Gongyechang, one of the "Seventy-two Sages" of Kongmen, and the twentieth seat is ranked in order.
Gongye Chang grew up in a poor family, and often followed his father up the mountain to cut firewood, and the birds in the forest competed, which aroused his great interest. As the saying goes: "Near the water knows the nature of fish, in the mountains to know the sound of birds." Over time, Gongye Chang understood the bird language. The history books say that "it can solve the language of a hundred birds".
On this day, a harrier eagle hovered down from the sky and reported to the chief of gongye: "Chief Gongye, chief gongye, there is a dead roe deer in Nanshan; you eat meat, I eat intestines, go and get Mo Wanwan." The chief of the gongye listened to the harrier eagle's words and picked up a fat roe deer from Nanshan. When I got home, I called on friends and had a beautiful meal of wild game.
The effortless effort of gongye chang to earn such fragrant roe meat was an unexpected gain, and he was overjoyed. I don't know whether I was reluctant or forgot, in short, he disobeyed the instructions of the "Engong" Harrier Eagle who guided him to get the roe deer, and fed the remaining intestines to the big black dog in the family.
As for what kind of retribution he would bring to his own deeds of forgetting the fish, the chief of the gongye never thought about it, and only hoped that the more good things such as the "pie" that came down from heaven, the better.
A few days later, the harrier eagle reported to the chief of gongye again: "Chief Gongye, chief gongye, there is a sheep that bites to death in Nanshan, you eat meat, I eat intestines, go and get Mo Wanwan." Gongye was overjoyed after hearing this, and rushed to Nanshan to pick up bargains.
Gongye Chang came to Nanshan, and in the distance, there was a group of people talking about something around them. Gongye Chang thought it was the dead sheep mentioned by the Harrier Eagle, lest it be taken away by others, and shouted loudly: "Don't move, I killed it, I killed it!" Gongye Chang squeezed into the crowd to take a look, and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, Mom, it turned out to be a dead man's corpse!
The people sent Gongye Chang to the official palace, and the county grand master ordered him to confess to the murder. Gongye shouted that he understood bird language and was deceived by harrier eagle lies.
The county grand master didn't believe it at all, believing that he was making up nonsense, and he was shocked and clapped, and drank: "Come, put him in prison, and the torture equipment will be served!" "Poor Gongye was beaten all over the body, but he had a hard time arguing.
Gongye Chang was imprisoned before he repented and realized that he could not choose cheap things and should not do them a second time, otherwise he would be deceived and suffer a big loss.
"When the cheap are taken, the disaster is coming." Greedy and cheap fishing is a small profit, but what is lost may be a larger pattern of life and unlimited possibilities.
Where the cheap is cheap is cheap
The ancients said: "Eat a point of loss is immeasurable blessing, and the cheap place is cheap." In short, to suffer is to suffer.
The chief of the gongye suffered from imprisonment because of greed, grew a memory, understood the principle of "taking advantage of the cheap and losing the cheap, taking advantage of small profits and suffering great harm", and from then on tempered greed, knew how to advance and retreat, and good luck came uninvited.
Confucius understood gongyechang, he was intelligent and studious, diligent and thrifty, knowledgeable and polite, and had both moral integrity and ability. Although there is a problem of loving to take advantage of small things, it will not lead to the act of killing people and killing people. So Confucius pleaded with the government that his disciple Gongyechang was innocent and guilty, and the judicial official said that his words were unfounded.
The Analects recounts that the son is the chief of the Gongye: "But the wife is also in the midst of the rope, but not his sin", and his wife is also his wife.
Translated as a popular word, Confucius said: "Although gongyechang was sent to prison, he did not commit any serious crimes, and he can make my daughter (Kong Jiao) a wife." ”
The idiom "Gongye is not a crime", and the phrase "Gongyechang is not a sin" in the Analects. It refers to the innocence of the person in prison and was falsely accused, and later it was often used to describe the innocence of being wronged or imprisoned. Just as Qin Ju framed Yue Fei and said, "there is no need to have" has a meaning. In the poems of Liu Yuxi in the Tang Dynasty, there is a good sentence that "Gongye ben is not a crime, pan lang is a citizen".
So, how did the chief of the prison wash himself up? It can be said that sin is a bird language, and liberation is also a bird language.
One day, two months after gongyechang's imprisonment, several sparrows chirped on the prison windowsills. The jailer saw that the chief of the gongye was smiling while listening to the sparrow, and asked what was going on? The chief of the gongye replied: "The sparrow is saying that at the edge of the white lotus water, an ox cart carrying corn overturned, and the cattle pulling the cart broke a horn, and the corn was scattered on the ground, and the sparrow beckoned everyone to go and peck." ”
The jailer reported the county order, and the county order sent someone to test the falsehood, and it was true. Only then did the county grand master believe that Gongye really understood bird language, so he released him.
The heavenly path is reincarnated, and life is impermanent. Gongye Chang was imprisoned for coveting insignificant food, and because of small losses and big losses, it was clear that he "lost the cheap where he lost the cheap"; when he became a prisoner but married the daughter of a famous teacher, he was blessed by misfortune, and it was clear that "where he lost the cheap is cheap.".
Gongye gave birth to two sons after marriage, the eldest son was called Zi Plough, who died early, and the second son was called Zi Geng. Gongye was a lifelong scholar, and the king of the State of Lu repeatedly recruited him as a scholar, but he should not inherit Confucius's legacy, teach and educate people, and become a famous scribe.
"Get cheap and don't go again", the advice of the sages is simple and profound, simple and practical. Things in the world have always depended on each other for misfortune and blessing, and grace and harm have come from each other, so where can they be cheap for no reason? To borrow a verse from the Water Margin, it is said: "Rest and rejoice in the cheap place, and be far away from the children and grandchildren."
Those who covet cheap are usually clever and think of small people, and they are not ashamed of the gentlemen of the big pattern and great wisdom. Collector Ma Weidu's words are thought-provoking: "If you take advantage of it, then you should think about it!" ”