--Li Shangyin "Winged History"
Looking over the history of countless learned men, countries and families, their success is because of diligence, thrift, and when they are extravagant and corrupt, it is the time of their ruin and decline. From this, we can see that "success comes from hard work and thrift, and ruin is due to extravagance", which is an unchanging truth from time immemorial.
The ancients believed that the ability to achieve savings, is related to a country, a family, a person's survival of the major events, can not be ignored.
But in modern times, with the development of science and technology, the improvement of material living standards. People have gradually ignored the lessons of the ancients, a great deal of extravagance and waste. The concepts of economic growth and material consumption have changed greatly, and the sense of saving has slowly faded.
Many people believe that to be economical, neither can bring money to themselves and their families, nor can they bring material enjoyment to themselves and their loved ones; to be wasteful, neither will bring losses to themselves and their families, nor will they bring harm to themselves and their loved ones.
Unbeknownst to us, the earth, the home on which we depend for our survival, can no longer afford to feed us, and we are still in the luxury of waste. One day, the earth will abandon us, and the world will abandon us!
There are many examples of waste, we can imagine in our minds: bright classrooms during the day must turn on the lights, water faucets are "long flow", computers are always on standby, we have been "I do not know what it is like to be thrifty.
The examples beside us are all over the place ......
One Sunday, I finished my homework and took a copy of "Ancient Celebrities":
Yao was especially concerned about the people, and thought that it was his own fault for not doing a good job of starving and freezing the others. He himself, however, lived a very frugal life, often wearing coarse clothing, eating coarse rice and drinking wild vegetable soup. It was because of Yao's diligence and frugality in his career and life that he won the love of the people and became a sage.
Su Shi, one of the eight greats of the Tang and Song dynasties, was 21 years old when he won the first prize, before and after *** do 40 years of officialdom, during the official period he always pay attention to the thrift, and often live a life of careful calculation. A.D. 1080, Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou, due to the salary reduced a lot, he was too poor to live. Later, with the help of his friends, he got a piece of land and plowed it by himself. In order not to spend a penny, he also practiced planned expenditures: first of all the money calculated, and then divided into 12 equal parts, monthly with a; each part is divided into an average of 30 small parts, every day only a small part. After all the money was divided, it was hung on the beam of the house according to the portion, and a packet of it was taken down early in the morning every day as the whole day's living expenses. Get a small part of the money, he also carefully weigh, can not buy things resolutely do not buy, only the remaining, not allowed to overspend. Accumulated money, Su Shi stored them in a bamboo tube, in case of unexpected needs.
Zhao Kuangyin taught his daughter frugality. "Heavenly fairy house, the emperor's home on earth," as a country's emperor should be said to be the richest on earth, gold and silver treasures to enjoy. But the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, but not only live frugally, against luxury and waste, but also strictly educate their children to live frugally.
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