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Qinggao is a Chinese word with the pinyin qīng gāo, which means pure and noble in character, not being a conformist. Sometimes it also refers to a person who is arrogant and does not fit in. From Han Dynasty - Wang Chong, "On the Balance - Determining the Virtues": "The righteousness of Hong Zhuo originated in the dynasty of upheaval; the behavior of Qīng Gāo was apparent in the world of decay and chaos."

In the long feudal society, Qinggao used to be a positive word, and people with a clear conscience were generally said to be honored. The meaning of "qing" in Qinggao is relatively clear, which is nothing more than being clean and upright and not engaging in evil, crooked and unseemly activities.

As for the meaning of "high", it seems to be different from the high moral character, high moral standing, but always with a little lonely and even isolated meaning, or can be interpreted as lonely. Therefore, the reputation of the high first always fall on the head of the hermit of the world of silence.

The first person in the legend, I'm afraid. It was said that Tang Yao was going to cede the world to him, and he thought the words polluted his ears, and thus ran to the edge of the Ying water to wash his ears. This incident is not known to be true or false, but it was rumored to be a beautiful story in ancient times. This beautiful story also reflected the rather confused values of the ancient scholars. Tang Yao was a saint who was praised by everyone, and the saint was praised because he did good things for all the people in the world; however, his chosen successor was unwilling to do things for all the people in the world, and he was praised for his unwillingness to do things, so I really don't know what kind of reasoning is behind this.

The reasoning is not clear, but the beautiful story about Xu Yu has in fact set a pattern for the noble, that is, it is unlikely that anyone who is noble will be able to get the name of noble; and later, the noble will be expanded to the rich, that is, the noble is not related to the rich. For example, Zhuge Liang, when he was "lying high in Longzhong", he could be called noble.

Later, he assisted Liu Bei and became the prime minister of Shu Han, and in the minds of future generations, he was highly respected and almost perfect, but no one said he was noble. Ji An, Su Wu, Wei Zheng, Yan Zhenqing, Shi Kefa, etc., are all known in history for their high moral character, but they are also not rated as noble because of their official work. Of course, the historical evaluation of these people is much higher than the word "noble".