According to the "Five General Records", a local official in the Northern Song Dynasty thought that Wang Anshi, the prime minister of the dynasty, was good at poetry and would naturally like the "Four Treasures of the Study". To suit his liking, he sent an inkstone and showed off to his face. Said: This jade "can get water"! Wang Anshi refused and said with a smile: "Even if you get a load of water, how much is it worth!"
When Bai Juyi, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, was serving as an ambassador in Hangzhou, he never accepted bribes or asked for valuables from the local government. , when he left office and returned to his hometown, he found two exquisite and lovely rocks in the box, so he wrote a poem to regret his past.
Served as a thorn envoy for three years, drinking water and eating leaves.
Go to Tianzhu Mountain and get two pieces of stone.
This is worth a thousand gold, but if you don’t have it, your innocence will be compromised.
The poem "Cold Spring Pavilion" written by Lin Zhen, a poet of the Song Dynasty, uses the meaning of spring, which is quite distinctive: "A stream of clear water can refresh the poetic spirit, and you can only feel free in the cold and warm years. When you flow out of the West Lake to sing and dance, you will not look back when you are here. "Mountain time." This poetic meaning talks about the spring water flowing out of the mountain to the West Lake, carrying the boat and boat, which is stained with dust and grease and is no longer as clean as it was in the valley. It means that people should pay attention to keeping themselves clean and not do things they shouldn't do. Pursuing undeserved wealth
There is also the famous Ming Dynasty politician Yu Qian's anti-bribery poem "Enter the Capital": "Silk handkerchiefs, mushrooms and incense sticks, capital for civilian use but disaster. The breeze blows with both sleeves toward the sky. , to avoid Lu Yan's short words. His "thousands of hammers struck out from the mountains, and the fire burned them as if it were nothing." "I will not hesitate to break my body to pieces, but leave my innocence in the world" is a popular quatrain in praise of integrity
Kang Zhong in the Ming Dynasty was released from Beijing to the prefect of Suzhou in the fifth year of Xuande (1430 AD). After taking office, he punished corrupt officials. He redressed injustices, built schools, carried out water conservancy projects, released grain for disaster relief, and cared about the sufferings of the people. He was called "Kuang Qingtian" by the people of Suzhou and Hangzhou. In the 5th year of Zhengtong (1440 AD), he returned to Beijing after his term of office was over, and wrote poems and poems before leaving. The people of Suzhou said goodbye to each other, which reflected his openness and openness in front of the people:
Pick up some luggage and it is light to carry,
How far it is to see Beijing.
Stop whipping and quietly recall the days of being an official.
Everything can be upheld by the Tianri Alliance.
Hu Shou'an, the magistrate of Xinyang in the Ming Dynasty, was very self-disciplined and believed that officials wanted to earn more than their salary. Every cent and every penny is harmful to the people. From the "Ren Man Gao Cheng Huang Poems" written by Ren Man, we can see his ideological outlook:
I have been here for many years.
As expected of heaven and the people.
The gods should know me.
When I left, I seemed to be poor.
Zheng Banqiao was a scholar of Kangxi. Yongzheng Juren and Qianlong Jinshi were also famous poets, epigraphers, calligraphers and painters in the Qing Dynasty. When he was the magistrate of Weixian County, Shandong Province, he was an honest official, concerned about the suffering of the people, and was deeply supported by the people, as evidenced by his poems:
I lie down in the Yazhai and listen to the rustling bamboos,
I suspect they are the sounds of suffering in the world.
These little officials from Caozhou County,
Every branch and leaf is always related to love.
It is said that when Wu Yinzhi was appointed as the governor of Guangzhou in the Jin Dynasty, he passed by Shimen and heard that there was a "greed spring" here, which was quite efficacious. Turning into a greedy person, Wu disobeyed everyone's advice and went to the spring to drink. Later, he wrote a poem:
When the ancients went to this water, they thought about it.
Try it. Let the barbarians drink together, but they will never change their minds.
In the fourth year of Daoguang reign in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1824), Cai Xinfang, a Shanhua native from Hunan, served as the county magistrate in Pucheng, Shaanxi Province. He was upright and honest, valued scholars and loved the people, and served as an official diligently. When he left office, the people blocked his way to stay. Magistrate Cai was deeply moved and wrote a poem to express his feelings:
I left the county and returned to Jiangnan in a light boat,
without any cotton from Guanzhong.
Looking back at the crowd, I finally felt guilty.
When I saw Changting, I felt sad.