2. Keep your sleeves clean and upright, and be enthusiastic about the people.
3, the sleeves are clean and upright, and the five lakes are bright and bright.
4, the two sleeves are cool and upright, and a bloody punishment is fierce.
The clothes worn by the ancients had no pockets. Most people's skirts are covered to the right, tied around their waist, and all the scattered things they bring can be held in their arms. Officials wear robes with wide sleeves, which are convenient for putting some silver coins, poems and articles.
In ancient times, corrupt officials put bribes in their sleeves. If an official is clean and does not take bribes, of course, his sleeves are empty, and there is only "breeze", so "keeping two sleeves clean" has become a loan word for an official to be clean and honest.
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First, in fact, as early as the Yuan Dynasty writer Wei Chu's "Farewell to Yang Jihai", there was already a poem "parting temples like silk, leaving cold hands". Wei Chu, whose initial name is Elegant, is the author of five volumes of Elegant Collection. He used to be the provincial official of Zhongshu in the Yuan Dynasty, the official of supervising the imperial history and the official of Nantai. He has a clean and honest personality and a good political voice.
Second, there is also a saying in the poem "Two Rhymes of Wujiang Road" by Chen Ji in the Yuan Dynasty: "Two sleeves are cool and breezy, and the battle is long with the moon." However, at that time, the word was not associated with the meaning of honest and upright officials.
The idiom "remain uncorrupted" written by Wu in the Ming Dynasty was once used to express the meaning of poverty: "When the time comes, it ends with remain uncorrupted. If you want to send your mother back to Chu, there is no cure. "
Since then, "remain uncorrupted" (also known as "remain uncorrupted") has gradually evolved into the meaning of being honest and upright. For example, Kuang Zhong (1383 ~ 1443), another honest official in the Ming Dynasty, wrote a poem rejecting gifts from the masses when he went to Beijing for performance appraisal at the end of his term as a magistrate in Suzhou: "The breeze will fly in the air with two sleeves, without an inch of cotton in the south of the Yangtze River. Shame men and women send each other, and horses sprinkle wine like a spring. "