"It is not easy to think about a porridge and a meal; Half a silk and half a wisp, it is difficult to save material resources. "
This famous saying in Zhu Zi's Family Instructions by Zhu Bailu in the Ming Dynasty should be engraved in everyone's heart forever.
"Looking at the country and home of the previous dynasty, it changed from diligence to extravagance."
Li Shangyin, a graceful and restrained poet in the Tang Dynasty, not "graceful and restrained", but summed up the great significance of saving the country and the people in one sentence. Da ji, the favorite concubine of the Meat Forest Wine Pool, was laughed at, and a thousand silks of tears hurt Yin. Emperor Yang Dixiu built the Grand Canal to Jiangdu to see Qionghua, exhausted people's efforts to build a palace, provoked 36 roads of smoke and dust, and rebelled against the king 72 roads; After the Western Empress of the Qing Dynasty, a meal cost several thousand taels of silver, which "measured China's material resources and won the favor of the country". How to keep the people from rebelling and the Qing Dynasty from dying?
General Fang Zhimin, the producer, has handled millions of dollars, but his property is only a few sweaters and broken socks; Zuo Quan, a brave anti-Japanese general, told a story about a "general mending shoes". Xiang Jingyu is also known as the "big bowl of coarse porcelain".
"If you use it, you will not hesitate to use it. If you use it improperly, it will be worthless."
Li Ka-shing, he once said, "If you want me to spend a billion dollars at once, I won't change my face. But whoever drops a penny on the ground, I will pick it up immediately. " However, in real life, we have seen too many opposite examples: Hu Xianfu, who is swollen in the face and pretends to be fat, has money and luxury, but the money he should spend on the cutting edge is stingy. For example, you can spend a lot of money on eating, drinking, gambling and smoking, but you are timid and cut corners on cultural and educational consumption, building bridges and roads, and helping the poor. The idolized secretary Wanyuan of Sichuan, wearing a poverty hat, used huge public funds as a good example. In addition, image engineering and bean curd residue engineering emerge one after another, which not only destroys production, but also wastes people's money and even endangers people's lives!
"A piece of coal, not too much, a thousand pieces of coal piled into a slope; A drop of oil, not too much, drops into a river. "
It's not that I don't know, it's shock. If everyone saves 1 cent every day, China's population of 654380+03 billion will save 654380+03 billion, about 5 billion a year, 5,000 hope schools will be built, and nearly 1000 million dropouts will return to school. This shows how important it is for a great country to advocate thrift.
Although China is a big country, the following data is enough to show that China is still a poor country: China has nearly 30 million poor people, 1 1 10,000 low-income recipients and hundreds of millions of migrant workers. I believe everyone is familiar with their poor living conditions. The basic national conditions of a large population and a weak foundation determine that we should be diligent in all undertakings. "The country gains by thrift and loses by luxury."
Thrift is not only beneficial to the country and family, but also closely related to personal gains and losses. For example, "frugality can make a family and frugality can make a living." Wang Anshi has a saying that "after luxury, happiness is safe, and disaster is double." However, sometimes warning words can't overcome greed. Wang, Cheng, and Li Zhen are all leaders of arrogance and extravagance. If they can learn from Zhu Gekongming, a sage in Shu, and "be quiet and frugal", why did they end up like this? Similarly, "Biography of Empresses and Concubines of Ming Taizu" said: "Pride is born in luxury, and danger begins in smallness." Xu Rong in Qing Dynasty said: "The temples in the street are dilapidated, and half of them are extravagant people." They all point out the harm of extravagance and waste and the importance of thrift from the opposite side.
Diligence is not stingy, but a civilization, which should be widely spread.