Examples of frugality are as follows:

Su Dongpo: How can we have enough to satisfy our appetites?

Everyone knows that Su Dongpo is a gourmet, and he invented the famous "Dongpo Pork".

But if you like delicious food, you don’t have to be extravagant and wasteful. Mr. Dongpo is delicious, but he eats very sparingly.

He once wrote in a letter to a friend: "There is no limit to the appetite for food and drink. Every time you add frugality, it is also a way to cherish blessings and extend your life." Cherish blessings and prolong life. )

When he was demoted to Huangzhou due to the "Wutai Poetry Case", his life was very embarrassing. He racked his brains and calculated carefully: on the first day of each month, he took out this month's living expenses, divided them into 30 strings, and hung them on the roof beams. Pick out a bunch every morning and use it. If there is any leftover, put it in a big bamboo tube and use it to entertain guests. Even though he lived frugally in this way, Su Shi still lived his life happily.

It was precisely because he was accustomed to a frugal life that Su Shi was able to face the ups and downs of life calmly and had the broad-minded mind of "taking care of everything in the rain".

Fan Zhongyan: Only by being able to endure poverty can we avoid disaster.

Fan Zhongyan grew up in a poor family. When he was studying at Yingtian Academy, a classmate and friend saw that his food was poor, so he asked his family to bring an extra portion when delivering meals, preparing to give it to Fan Zhongyan.

Fan Zhongyan declined repeatedly: "I have been accustomed to eating porridge for many years. If I suddenly eat the delicious food you brought me, I will never be able to eat porridge again. How can that be done?"

Fan Zhongyan has understood a truth since he was a child, "It is easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality."

By the time his son Fan Chunren got married, Fan Zhongyan was already in a high position and quite financially well off. But when he heard that his son wanted to use brocade silk and satin as the decoration of the wedding room, he immediately called him and lectured him: "My family is always simple and frugal. If you can ruin my family's law with brocade curtains, if you can Bringing the curtain into the house, I will burn it in public."

The frugal family tradition is evident.

When Fan Zhongyan looked back on his life in his later years, he once left a sentence: "I have experienced many turmoils in my life, but I can only endure poverty, so I can avoid disaster."

This sentence It is worth savoring carefully by each of us.