Allusions and enlightenment of gratitude

1, peach returns plum

From The Book of Songs: Vote for Mu Tao and repay me with Qiong Yao. From "Mu Tao" to "Qiong Yao", it is just a seed of gratitude-because of love and being loved. The connection between them is just a heart. Perhaps, for him, Mutao is already the best product. If you repay it with Qiong Yao, it may not be all you have-for example, it is a heartfelt "thank you".

2, the grace of dripping water, the spring is reported.

The original text is "a trickle should enjoy spring." Written records first appeared in the Qing Dynasty. Family Instructions in Zhuzi was originally a folk proverb, which was edited by Zhu Yongchun in the late Qing Dynasty to teach children to wake up.

3. The kindness of a loving mother

Meng Jiao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem "Wandering Son": The thread in the hands of a loving mother makes clothes for her wayward son. Before leaving, I had a stitch for fear that my son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged. Who can say that a filial child like the weak can repay his mother's love like the sunshine in spring?

4, the sheep has the grace of kneeling, and the crow has the meaning of feeding back.

From the book Zeng Xian Wen in the Ming Dynasty, it means: the lamb kneels down and suckles, and the crow can feed the old crow in turn to repay the kindness of its parents.

5, bit ring grass, repay.

Knotting grass and inscribed rings are ancient legends of gratitude, which come from Zuo Zhuan. The former is about a scholar-bureaucrat who married his father's concubine alone in order not to be martyred. The father of the dead concubine thanked his daughter for the tangled weeds on the ground and tripped over the benefactor's opponent. The latter said that a child saved the life of a trapped yellowbird, and the yellowbird got four white rings, claiming that this ring could make the benefactor's children white for generations and occupy a high position. After that, the two allusions are combined into one sentence, which means that if you are loved by others, you will get good results, and life and death will remain the same. Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty wrote in Awakening the World: Your great kindness is not reported, but engraved in your arms. Title ring grass, life and death do not bear.

6, floating mother's grace of a meal

When Han Xin was a teenager, his family was poor and his parents died. Although he studies hard and practices martial arts hard, he still has no life. As a last resort, he had to go to other people's homes to eat for free, which was often ignored by others. Han Xin swallow not to descend this tone, went to the Huaihe River to fish, fish for food, and often had a hearty meal. There is an old woman who washes yarn wadding for others by the Huaihe River. She is called "floating mother". Seeing Han Xin's pity, she gave him her own food. Every day, without interruption. Han Xin was deeply moved. Han Xin, who was named the marquis of Huaiyin, never forgot the kindness of his wandering mother, sent people to look around and finally gave it to him as a gift.

7, know the grace of the encounter

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Yu Boya was good at playing strings, while Zhong Ziqi was good at listening to sounds and distinguishing meanings. Once, when Boya visited the northern part of Mount Tai, he was caught in a rainstorm and stayed under a rock. When he is lonely, he takes out his guqin and plays it. Zhong Ziqi, a woodcutter who also sheltered from the rain nearby, couldn't help crying, "Good song! What a beautiful song! " Later, every time Boya played a piano piece, he could hear its meaning and interest in the early stage, which surprised Boya. So they became bosom friends and made an appointment to meet again next year to discuss the piano. But when Boya came to the meeting the next year, he learned that the little chef hippo had died of illness not long ago. Boya lamented his sadness and broke the guqin. From then on, she stopped playing the strings to thank her for her rare bosom friend.