With the popularity of the resignation letter of female teachers in Henan Province, "The world is so big, I want to see it", the topic related to resignation has become increasingly popular, which once topped the headlines of public topics. Such an elegant and spontaneous "walk away" has envied many hard-working people who are tired of becoming dogs at work but have to submit to humiliation for mortgage, car loan and children's milk powder money, so this letter has been dubbed as "the most sentimental resignation letter in history".
In fact, there are countless sentimental resignation letters like this in history. Only when the ancients picked up a load, were they all chic and willful?
When it comes to the representative of the ancient people who resigned, you may be most familiar with Tao Yuanming, who "picked chrysanthemums under the hedge and saw Nanshan leisurely". This Tao Yuanming can be described as a "professional resignation household". He resigned many times in his life, and he simply regarded the government as a hotel. Every time he stayed for a short time, he hung up and left, and he was worthy of being a leader in the resignation field.
Tao Yuanming was also born in a noble family, and his great-grandfather Tao Kan was a famous soldier in the two Jin Dynasties with great military achievements. After his death, he was posthumously awarded Fu, ranking above the three fairs. Grandfather Tao Mao used to be a satrap of Wuchang and a local official, and his mother was the daughter of a celebrity Meng Jia. Unfortunately, in Tao Yuanming's generation, his family declined, so he first became an official to offer drinks to the state and became a civil servant in the state, which was forced by life, with the aim of earning wages to support his family. Soon, however, he couldn't stand the complicated paperwork and resigned and went home.
soon, the state may call him as the main book because he is the "official of three generations". He doesn't even bother to go to his post, so he just turns off the offer and lives at home. A year later, Tao Yuanming entered the Huan Xuan shogunate, but in the following year, he went home for his mother's funeral and resigned again. By the end of the three-year mourning period, Huan Xuan, the employer, had been punished for his rebellion, and Tao Yuanming's second official career was therefore ruined. Later, although he successively joined the army of Zhenjun and General Jianwei, his poems at this time, such as "My eyes are tired of seeing different places in Sichuan, but my heart is full of mountains and living in Zeju" ("I started to join the army in Zhenjun through Qu 'a Zuo") and "I dreamed of gardening and living in peace for a long time" ("I went to Qianxi to join the army in March for Jianwei at the age of four"), have revealed his boredom with politics. A few years later, Liu Jingxuan, his superior general Jianwei, "dismissed himself", and Tao Yuanming also went down the slope and resigned with his boss.
After several years of official career, people in power have heard more or less about Tao Yuanming's reputation. Not long after his resignation, Tao Yuanming received a letter of appointment from Pengze County Magistrate. After much hesitation, he decided to try to enter the officialdom again. Soon, however, the poet found that he still couldn't adapt to the complicated government affairs and strict hierarchy there. In an activity to receive Du You, a supervisor at a higher level, he made a grandiose statement that "you can't bend your back for five buckets of rice" because he didn't want to humble himself, and he willfully went to the county, and assigned a "farewell speech" to show his heart, expressing his denial and regret for his past career, and determined to return to the motherland and stay out of the world from now on. This is the last time that Tao Yuanming resigned, and it is also the most thorough resignation. Since then, Tao Yuanming has been living in seclusion in the countryside. Despite the recommendation of friends and the recruitment of the imperial court, he has never left the pine chrysanthemum again, and even if his life is embarrassing, he is happy.
If Tao Yuanming's resignation is to pursue an idyllic forest far away from mundane affairs, then Liu Zhiji and Wu Jing's resignation is to better fulfill their ideals in the political arena, because the darkness of politics hinders the display of their ambitions.
Both of them are outstanding civil servants who worked in the History Museum, the official historical editing institution in the Tang Dynasty. They have worked together to compile the records of Tang Ruizong, Wu Zetian and Tang Zhongzong, and they are like-minded colleagues and good friends. Liu Zhiji was born in a scholarly family. When he was a child, his father explained the History of Ancient Chinese Literature to him. Liu Zhiji was impatient with the boring way of governing the country, but he had a special liking for the historical book Zuo Zhuan. Knowing that his interest was in history, his father allowed him to have a comprehensive view of the history of the group, and guided him to read and think about the historical theories of famous ancient historians, so as to cultivate his literary and historical talents. This has created a young Liu Zhiji's rich academic upbringing and questioning style of study, which made him stand out quickly after he entered the official career and became a highly regarded Mitchell of the imperial court. Wu Jing, who is nine years younger than him, although lacking the unique family origin of Liu Zhiji, was determined to know the classics and study hard since childhood, and was appreciated by Prime Ministers Wei Yuanzhong and Zhu Jingze. He was recommended to work in the History Museum and became a colleague of Liu Zhiji.
originally, two young people who love history entered the authoritative historical editing organization of the state, and they should be full of ambition and hope to make great achievements here. Unfortunately, the history museum at that time was no longer a clean academic institution, and it had been contaminated with too many bad atmosphere in the officialdom at that time. The supervisor of supervision and repair points to the work of historians and demands that the compiled history books conceal evil and promote good for those in power, which violates the spiritual bottom line and the principle of recording history of upright historians such as Liu Zhiji and Wu Jing. High-level political struggle has also spread to the original clean history museum, where colleagues are cheating on each other, and the mediocre historical talents neglect their duties and take the job of gaining a job and getting promoted. Liu Zhiji and Wu Jing are getting more and more uncomfortable and bored by such a cigar smoke. The ideal of managing history that they once cherished was suppressed and buried here. The pen of Dong Hu, which should have been held by the public, had to obey the will of the ruler and shed hidden words. This reality made them desperate. When they looked back on their official career, they found that there was nothing worth noting. They could not help but feel sad and ashamed and resigned in anger. Both of them expressed their indignation and helplessness in their resignation letters, hoping to leave this polluted air and pursue their once clean and pure ideal of managing history.
However, both of them are rare talents after all, and the court did not approve their applications. Liu Zhiji hurt the interests of some dignitaries by enumerating many disadvantages in the history museum in his resignation letter, and the life became more and more difficult. He simply retired and wrote Shi Tong privately, completing China's first magnificent masterpiece of historical theory. Wu Jing, however, went to the table three times after his first resignation was not approved, and was finally allowed to resign as a historian on the grounds of his father's death. At the same time, Wu Jing, like his good friend Liu Zhiji, privately wrote the national history of this dynasty to realize his pursuit as a historian. His works became one of the main sources of historical materials for the later compilation of Old Tang Shu, which opened a window for future generations to understand the objective and true history of the Tang Dynasty.
Compared with Tao Yuanming's escape from the secular world and Liu Zhiji's and Wu Jing's pursuit of ideals, the resignation of Hai Rui, a great official in the Ming Dynasty, is quite angry. He was impeached for offending his colleagues, and resigned because of his dissatisfaction and anger in order to protect himself. But even in such a "strategic retreat", Mr. Hai did not forget to complain in his resignation letter, denouncing that "all those who raise the court are women" and scolded all the court officials and ministers.
Hai Rui was a famous official in Jiajing, Qin Long and Wanli dynasties, and was deeply loved by the people, but was feared by many officials. His resignation letter "Sue for Illness" was written in Qin Long for four years (157). At that time, he vigorously punished corrupt officials and cracked down on the rich gentry when he was appointed as governor of Yingtian, which harmed the interests of many powerful people. Everyone hated him and his teeth ached. Dai Fengxiang was one of those people who hated DaiVi Yu. He took advantage of his supervisory power by the competent officials to get rid of Hai Rui's "selling his name in disorder and being a big boy". Although Harry went to the throne to defend himself, he had no choice but to offend too many people at that time, and the court couldn't resist the pressure and had to order him to be appointed as Nanjing Grain Reserve. Harry couldn't accept the fact that he was demoted for being honest for the people, so he simply handed in a letter of resignation, saying that the officialdom was too chaotic, all the officials were mediocre, and his health was exhausted, and he had to go home to serve his old-age mother and stop playing with them.
This farewell manifesto of "talking nonsense" killed the upper class of the whole Ming Dynasty with one stroke, which seems shocking to the world, but it is not surprising to Hai Rui who has always dared to speak out. As early as the thirty-second year of Jiajing (1553), Harry worked as a teacher in Nanping County, Fujian Province, and his position was equivalent to that of a county-level middle school teacher. He was greeted by a superior inspector. When they saw the inspector, the other two people all bowed their heads and knelt down, but Harry stood straight. Facing the inspector's reprimand, he said humbly, "This is the place where teachers educate scholars. Teachers should keep their dignity and not kneel to their superiors." This incident earned him the nickname of "Dr. Pen Holder", but it also set a precedent for him to be hated for frequently angering his colleagues as an official.
Soon after, Harry was promoted, and then he was transferred to other posts several times. However, no matter what position he took, he was never afraid of power, and he often denounced the ugliness of politics, and he did not hide his crimes. The most famous time that he shocked the world was that he went to Emperor Jiajing's "Public Security", bluntly accusing Jiajing of worshipping Taoism, not doing political affairs, and being obsessed with cultivating immortality and alchemy, which led to the corruption of discipline and the people's suspension. Such naked criticism made Emperor Jiajing fly into a rage, and also put Harry in jail, and his life was in suspense. Fortunately, he was lucky to be released when the new emperor ascended the throne, and he got a life. However, this jail time didn't let Harry learn to judge the current situation. It's common for him to rise and fall in his official career because of the official honest and frank's direct admonition. It is this upright character that gave birth to the letter of resignation that cursed all over the government. Later, the court agreed to his resignation request, and Harry returned to his hometown in Qiongshan to wait for the transfer.
In the 13th year of Wanli (1585), Zhang Juzheng was liquidated, and 73-year-old Zhang Guo old man Hai Rui took this opportunity to step back on the political stage. He came back hopefully, hoping that the new king of Ji could support him to realize his long-cherished political wish of punishing rape and putting out evil fifteen years ago. Who knows that those in power are just "Wei Gong Zu has lived in the mountains for a long time, and he is just a label, a banner and a political vase for window dressing". Harry finally understood that he was out of place with the official world of mortals after all, so he resigned seven times. Resignation at this time is no longer the willful arrogance before, but the real despair of this decadent and dim dynasty. Ironically, when I really wanted to turn around, but I couldn't leave smartly, Harry's resignation application was answered without exception. Two years later, this old gentleman, who was once called "Hai Qingtian", died in loneliness and really left the official career that brought him infinite success and failure, grief and disappointment.
Some people quit their jobs because they can't adapt to the official life, some people quit their jobs to better realize their ideals and ambitions, and some people just want to be angry. In this way, ancient people resigned for the same reasons as modern people. However, it is not easy to go to work, and cherish it.