Vernacular translation:
Sending letters from thousands of miles to persuade family members not to haggle over the land of three feet, just like Qin Shihuang built the immortal Great Wall in Wan Li, but even if he were living in hell, what's the point of fighting for the land of three feet?
This article comes from a letter written by Zhang Ying in Qing Dynasty.
Extended information related stories:
During the reign of Kangxi, the scholar of Wenhua Temple and the minister of rites had a dispute with his neighbor Wu family about the homestead. His family flew to the capital and asked Zhang Ying to say hello to "solve" the Wu family. What Zhang Ying gave back to his family was a poem, "Paper books are only walls, why not let him be three feet?" . The Great Wall of Wan Li is still there today, but there is no Qin Shihuang. "
When the family saw the book, they took the initiative to give in three feet on the disputed line and built a wall. Wu, a neighbor, was deeply moved, and retired three feet to build a house and build a courtyard, thus forming Liuchi Lane.
He Zhang is a famous figure in Anhui history. In the early Qing Dynasty, they served as officials in the prosperous times of Kang, Yong and Gan for decades, and participated in the formulation and implementation of a series of major policies, such as pingfan, collecting Taiwan province, levying mobei, paving fields, returning home, weaving sheds to households and so on. It played a positive and important role in stabilizing the political situation at that time, unifying the whole country, eliminating the contradiction between Manchu and Han, and strengthening the national economy and people's livelihood. Both of them are honest officials, have good personalities, are officials and are first-class college students. They are famous sages and ministers in history. At the same time, they are scholars and scholars recognized by historians.