reading comprehension
The famous saying "eat whatever you have" comes from this story, which means to show your backbone and never condescend to accept charity from others, even if you starve yourself to death. Our tradition attaches great importance to being a man with backbone. To put it bluntly, a person's life is a breath, and even if he suffers, he can't do without a breath. There are some similar sayings, such as people who are not poor, for example, they would rather die than surrender, all of which illustrate the importance of honesty, human dignity and human spirit. Even today, this traditional concept still has its value and rationality. Between personality spirit and body, between spiritual pursuit and material pursuit, between human dignity and servility, the former is higher and heavier than the latter. If you can't have it both ways, you'd rather give up the latter and sacrifice the latter than make yourself a walking corpse and a devil incarnate. The reason why people are people, not walking dead, is probably the difference here. The enlightenment of "eating without food" comes from Mencius. Because Qi Xuanwang did not adopt Mencius' benevolent policy, Mencius was angry and wanted to leave, and the King of Qi sent messengers to keep Mencius. Mencius made a generous statement: "wealth can't be lewd, poverty can't be moved, and power can't be bent", and then he told the story that beggars don't eat what they get. It embodies the backbone and independent personality of intellectuals in the Warring States period. The original intention now is to keep the original intention, which means that a person with backbone refuses to accept insulting charity. What kind of humiliation is more humiliating than stepping down? Personally, I think the humiliation of stepping down is even worse. It is precisely because Han Xin can endure the humiliation of crossing the border that it can finally achieve great things and return home with clothes on. Therefore, a person has ambition, the food he has eaten is not inedible, and eating the food he has eaten does not mean that he must have no backbone. Besides, Qian Ao finally realized his rudeness and apologized. Even Ceng Zi said, "I'm afraid it shouldn't be like this! When Qian ao is rude, of course he can refuse, but after apologizing, he can eat. " A gentleman can bend and stretch, save today's life first, and then achieve great things!
Key points guide
1, The Book of Rites is also called The Book of Little Wear or The Book of Little Wear. As one of the Confucian classics, it is an anthology of various etiquette works before Qin and Han Dynasties, and it is an important reference book for studying the ancient social situation in China and Confucianism. 2. The image of Qi people, who would rather starve than maintain personal dignity, has always been respected by future generations.
example sentence
Southern dynasties? Song? Ye Fan's Once? "Le Yangzi's wife biography": "The wife said:' I heard that benevolent people don't drink water from stolen springs, and honest people don't take food from stolen springs. How about picking up money and polluting them?' "