On the Calligraphy Works of Clean Brush
Integrity: do not harm the public interest; Not corrupt. Etymologically, the word "honesty" is interpreted as "fairness and non-corruption". There is a saying in Wang Chong's Lun Heng in the Han Dynasty that "the minister who made up the case in the past looked at the innocent person". Cihai is interpreted as "clean and innocent". Qu Yuan's "Songs of the South" contains a poem of "uniting the young and being clean". Wang Yi commented that it was "not cheap and not clean". During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lujiang was a satrap and had his own brilliant ideas about political integrity. He hung the fresh fish bribed by his subordinates under the eaves of the lobby and dried it in a few days. Then someone gave him fresh fish. He pointed to the dried fish and said to the visitor, "Do you still want me to hang the fish?" The fish delivery man had to leave angrily. Yu Qian of the Ming Dynasty appreciated the persistence of sheep, refused to corrode and never touched them. He wrote a poem praising: "It is better to have no guests in front of Xisheng than to hang fish under the kitchen. The breeze sleeps in the south window and reads some books at the bedside. "
Clean brush calligraphy works
"Chu Ci Evocation": "I am young and clean, and I am loyal and righteous." Wang Yi's Note: "Dishonesty is cheap." "Han Gong Yuchuan": "When it comes to filial piety to Emperor Wen, it is expensive and inexpensive, greedy but not corrupt." Tang Cui and Qin Ling's "Teaching Ji Fang": "The husband is sincere, but the road is few; What is the ugliness of arrogance and lewdness, and those who are trapped? " "The Biography of Prince Depei in the Qing Dynasty": "Depei has served as a border guard for many times, and he is honest and clean. He never took anything, accumulated a lot of money, and ended up with an old capital. "
Bao Zheng's "Honesty Discipline"
In the Northern Song Dynasty, Bao Zheng was known as an upright official, and the people called him "Bao Qingtian".
Bao Zheng lived in a high position all his life and was selfless. He hated corrupt officials. In his later years, he was worried about the corruption of future generations, so he set up a stone tablet at home, engraved with the famous "Family Training and Integrity" to warn future generations. It means something like this: "All the descendants of the Bao family who embezzle and accept bribes cannot be called descendants of the Bao family, and even cannot be buried in their family's cemetery after death. Those who do not follow this instruction are not descendants of Bao Gong. "