A classic story of thrift

Sometimes there will be some waste in our life, which is very inappropriate. We should vigorously advocate thrift and form good habits. The following is what I arranged for you, for reference only. Welcome to reading.

Classic Story of Diligence and Thrift 1 Su Shi, one of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, was a scholar at the age of 2/kloc-0 and served as an official for 40 years. During his time as an official, he always paid attention to thrift and often lived carefully. In 1080, Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou. Because his salary has been reduced a lot, he is too poor to live. Later, with the help of friends, he got a piece of land and cultivated it himself.

In order to save money, he also plans to spend it like this: first, calculate all the money, and then divide it into 12 shares on average, and use one share every month; Each serving is divided into 30 small portions on average, and only one small portion is used every day. After all the money is paid, hang it on the beam according to the amount, and take a bag every morning as the living expenses for the whole day. After getting a small amount of money, he should weigh it carefully. If he can't buy it, he will definitely not buy it. Only surplus is allowed, and overspending is not allowed.

Su Shi keeps money in a bamboo tube in case something goes wrong.

Classic Story of Diligence and Thrift 2 The third son of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was named Jaz Li, who later succeeded to the throne, which was later Tang Suzong.

His name is Xiang. Although his name is like this, he actually doesn't know how to enjoy it at all. Unofficial history Zhongzai, it is precisely because of his frugality that he successfully stepped into the peak of power. When Jaz Li was a prince, he often accompanied Tang Xuanzong to dinner. On one occasion, the chef prepared some cooked meat with the cooked leg of lamb, and Xuanzong asked Jaz Li to cut the leg of lamb. Li enjoys parting the leg of lamb with his hands. His hands are covered with oil. Jaz Li picked up a piece of cake and slowly wiped the oil off her hands. Xuanzong felt very uncomfortable and thought that Li Xiang was too wasteful. But to Xuanzong's surprise, Jaz Li wiped the oil cake clean and ate it with relish. Xuanzong saw it and was very happy. Praise Jaz Li: "A happy life should be cherished."

Because of his thrifty character, Jaz Li became emperor. This frugality is not a "disguised personality". During the years when Jaz Li was in power, after the "An Shi Rebellion" and the political struggle of the imperial court, he did not have a good life at home and abroad. During his administration, superstars like Guo Ziyi appeared. Coincidentally, Guo Ziyi is more frugal than Jaz Li.

Guo Ziyi often lets people cut off the extra paper on the edge of the book cover, which accumulates over time; As for official documents, they are all put away and bound after reading. "At the end of each year, I will be scattered with the chief officials to do a year's book." Let them turn it over and continue to use it. One day, the paper cutter broke down and "there was not enough space". Instead of throwing it away, the paper-cutting clerk cut off two small pieces of wood, "adding it to the broken edge to expose the front" and continued to use it to cut paper. Guo Ziyi said happily, "You are really my subordinate in Guo Ziyi."

Guo Ziyi contributed a lot, and once lamented: "Although the home country was actually recreated by the Qing Dynasty." Such a great achievement, in fact, a little carelessness, may bring fatal disaster. The famous play The Golden Branch tells a story about Guo Ziyi's family. Because of Guo Ziyi's great contribution, Princess Shengping married his son Guo Wen. Guo Wen asked Princess Shengping to salute her parents, but Princess Shengping was the daughter of the emperor and thought that she could not salute Guo Ziyi. For this matter, Princess Shengping often quarrels with Xu. After a family dinner, Ai Guo returned to her room and accused Princess Shengping again. After drinking, Ai Guo finally got angry and raised his hand to slap his wife. He said, "Do you bully others because your father is the emperor? I tell you, my dad doesn't want to be an emperor at all, otherwise, he will get your house? " The princess went to the palace to complain, and Guo Ziyi was afraid. But in the end, the emperor didn't punish Guo Wen.

However, Guo Ziyi experienced three dynasties. Thrift is an important factor in Guo Ziyi's "saving evil" every time. It is said that the door of Guo Ziyi's mansion is always open and anyone can enter. In doing so, Guo Ziyi not only catered to the frugality advocated by the emperor, but also proved that he was not greedy or rebellious.

Thanks to thrift, Guo Ziyi can save himself.

Thrifty classic story 3 Ji Wenzi was born in a prime minister's family in it runs in the family. He was a famous minister of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period and served as an official for more than 30 years. He lives a frugal life, based on frugality, and requires his family to live a frugal life. His clothes are simple and neat, and he has almost no decent clothes except imperial clothes. Every time he goes out, the horses and chariots he rides are extremely humble. Seeing that he was so frugal, a man named Wang advised his son, "As a minister, you are highly respected, but I heard that your wives and concubines are not allowed to wear silk clothes at home, and you don't have to feed horses and food." You don't even pay attention to your appearance and clothes. Is it too shabby to let people in other countries laugh at you? This is also detrimental to the dignity of our country, and people will say what kind of life Lu Shangqing leads. Why not change this way of life? It's good for you and your country. Why not? "

Hearing this, Ji Wenzi smiled indifferently and said to the man seriously, "I also hope to decorate my home luxuriously and elegantly, but look at the people in our country. There are still many people eating coarse grains, wearing shabby clothes, and others are freezing and starving." Considering this, how can I have the heart to add property to myself? If ordinary people are poor in tea and clothes, and I dress up as my wife and concentrate on raising food and horses, it will be heartless to be an official! Besides, I heard that the strength and glory of a country can only be expressed by the noble behavior of its subjects, not by their beautiful wives and horses.

In that case, how can I accept your suggestion? This sentence made Zhong Sun look ashamed, and at the same time made him respect Moon Hee more.

After that, he took Ji Wen Zi as an example and paid great attention to the simplicity of life. His wives and concubines only wear clothes made of ordinary cloth, and the horses at home are only fed with chaff.

The classic story of thrift In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was an official named Wu Yinzhi. He lost his father when he was a child, and struggled with his mother to form the habit of frugality and simplicity. After becoming an official, he still hated luxury and refused to move into the government office prepared for him by the court. For many years, the whole family lived in only a few thatched houses. Later, when his daughter got married, people thought he would take good care of her, but on the big day, the Wu family was still deserted. General Xie Shi's housekeeper came to congratulate him and saw a servant coming out with a dog. The housekeeper asked, "Your young lady is getting married today. Why are you not prepared at all? " The servant frowned and said, "You're welcome. My master is too frugal. My young lady is getting married today, and my master just ordered the preparation last night. I thought the owner should spend some money this time, but the owner asked me to go to the market this morning to sell the dog and use the money to buy things.

Tell me, how much can a dog sell? I think ordinary people marry their daughters more gracefully than my grandfather! "The housekeeper sighed." Everyone says that Mr. Wu is a rare official, and it seems that he really likes his reputation.

A Classic Story of Diligence and Thrift An English proverb often used by Queen Elizabeth II is "If you save pennies, you will get pounds". Every night, she will personally turn off the lights in the small halls and corridors of Buckingham Palace, and she insists that all toothpaste used by the royal family should be squeezed. Japan's Toyota Company, known as "there is always a road, and there must be a Toyota car in the road", started from bit by bit in cost management. Work gloves are broken and need to be replaced one by one. If office paper is used in the front, it needs to be used in the back. Put a brick in the water tank of the toilet to save water. One is the respect of the country, and the other is a world-famous multinational company. It is amazing that the awareness of saving is so strong.

Once upon a time, at the foot of Funiu Mountain in the Central Plains, there lived a farmer named Wu Cheng. He lived frugally all his life and lived a carefree and happy life.

Legend has it that before he died, he set up a horizontal plaque for his two sons, which read "thrift" and warned them: "If you want to be free from hunger all your life, you must be like these two families." Later, the two brothers separated and saw the plaque in half. The eldest brother got the word "thrift" and the second got the word "frugality".

The boss respectfully hangs the word "diligence" at home, and "works at sunrise and rests at sunset" every day, with a bumper harvest every year. However, his wife lives in luxury, and children often eat two bites of white steamed bread and throw it away. Over time, there is no surplus grain at home.

Since he gave the second half a plaque, he also took the word "frugality" as nave's "Oracle", but forgot the word "thrift". He neglected farming and refused to intensively cultivate, so he didn't get much food every year. Although a family scrimps, it is difficult to last. This year's drought, the home of the eldest brother and the second child has been empty.

In desperation, they tore off the plaque and put the word "diligence and thrift" on the ground. At this time, suddenly a piece of paper flew into the house from the window, and the two brothers quickly picked it up-look, it said: "Diligence is like carrying a bottomless bowl, but always full of dissatisfaction!" "If you are frugal and don't work hard, you must be poor and hungry!" The two brothers suddenly realized that the words "diligence and thrift" cannot be separated, complement each other and are indispensable. After learning the lesson, they posted the words "Diligent Housekeeping" on the door to remind themselves, warn their wives and children and live on their own. Life has been getting better and better since then.

One Sunday, Wang Dali, a comrade-in-arms of Lei Feng, washed all the soldiers' socks and clothes. Lei Feng found his old socks missing when he was hanging clothes, so he looked everywhere.

At this moment, Wang Dali said, "Lei Feng, you have so much savings, but you are reluctant to buy a pair of socks. Look, isn't it uncomfortable to wear these socks on your feet? "

Lei Feng said, "As long as it doesn't delay my work!" Wang Dali added, "Don't you think it's ugly? We soldiers don't wear socks for others to see. " These words have embodied Lei Feng's frugal spirit.

He only gets 6 yuan's bonus every month, but he keeps it in the bank. Year after year, Lei Feng donated all the money he saved to the people in the disaster area, but he was reluctant to buy new socks. How frugal Lei Feng is!

/kloc-In the summer of 0/950, Lei Feng wore the clothes given to him during the struggle with the landlord, put on his schoolbag, and walked at a brisk pace to school-something he never dreamed of in the past, but now it has become a reality.

The brand-new life reminds Lei Feng of many past events. In the old society, children from poor families could only watch the children of landlords go to school. At that time, schools were for children from rich families, so how did children from poor families get into the school gate?

Liberated, only under the leadership of the * * * production party did Lei Feng have the right to go to school straight.

On the first day of school, the teacher gave him two books and a notebook. He saw many children pay books and tuition fees, and also took out some money given to him by the villagers and gave it to the teacher. The teacher said kindly:

"You are an orphan, and the school doesn't charge you tuition, so you can study for free."

Lei Feng opened the first page of the new book with gratitude and gratitude to the party, and his kind face came into view. He held the new book in his hand and stared at it for a long time. He made up his mind silently: "I must study hard and be a useful person to the country when I grow up."

What the company commander said without his name, like a seed, has begun to sprout in his young heart.

As soon as Lei Feng learned to write, he wrote the five characters "Long live the Party" in his notebook with the pen given by the company commander. This is his heartfelt cheer.

School life has brought infinite joy to Lei Feng, and his face is full of smiles all day. No matter who says that he is an orphan again, he will say, "Don't say that I am an orphan in the future, and the party is my biological parents?"

Every morning, when Lei Feng comes to school, he cleans the classroom, cleans the table, chairs and blackboard, and then sits down to read and write. He listens carefully in every class and never misses a small question. His exercise books are always written neatly and finished on time according to the teacher's arrangement and requirements.

One day after school, the bell rang, and Lei Feng still had an arithmetic problem to solve, so he just sat there and continued to write and calculate. A classmate greeted him and said, "Let's go, we haven't finished the exercise yet. Why don't we go back and do it? "

Lei Feng said, "This is the only remaining problem. I always make mistakes. "

That classmate came over and looked at it: "I have finished this problem, please take a look." He took out his exercise book from his schoolbag and handed it over.

Lei Feng smiled and said, "Thank you, let me think again."

He calmed down, pondered the examples in the textbook, carefully recalled the teacher's explanation, and finally solved the problem. He called the classmate and said, "I'm finished." Come, let's pair up. "

This pair doesn't matter, but the number of two people is different. The classmate said, "I don't know if I am wrong or you are wrong." Lei Feng said, "I checked it several times and it can't be wrong. Maybe you are wrong. "

"Then borrow yours and copy it for me."

"No," said Lei Feng, "don't copy it either. Do it yourself Spend more time on yourself and you won't have to work hard on arithmetic problems in the future. "

The students sat down and did it again. It turned out that it was careless in operation, so the number was wrong. At this time, both of them smiled happily, then they packed their schoolbags and left school happily hand in hand.

Classic story of thrift 8 Vladimir ilych Lenin, Russian, world proletarian revolutionary mentor and leader. Simplicity accompanied his legendary life. He was often seen wearing a faded old coat at that time. There are three bullet holes in this coat.

19 18, Lenin wore this old coat to give a speech at the factory. He was assassinated by opposition forces, leaving three bullet holes in his coat. He refused to change his new coat after leaving the hospital, and patched up his old coat before wearing it until he died in June 1924+0.

His motto is: "Save every penny for the socialist revolution and construction."

Classic story of thrift 9 Li Ka-shing, a Hong Kong tycoon, once came out of a hotel and was about to get on the bus. He dropped a coin and it rolled down the drain, so he bent down to catch it. An Indian security guard saw it and immediately came to help him pick it up and handed it to him. Li Ka-shing put the coin in his pocket, then took out 100 Hong Kong dollars from his wallet and gave it to the security guard as a reward. It is not worthwhile to spend one yuan 100. When someone asked Li Ka-shing about it, he explained, "If I don't pick up the coin, it will disappear in this world. I will give the security guard 100 yuan and he can spend it. I think money can be used, but not wasted.

The classic story of diligence and thrift, 10, the spirit of the Chinese Emperor's honesty and love for the people, and the practice of making great efforts to govern, have created a prosperous era of "the rule of cultural scenery."

Wear sandals to work in the temple.

According to historical records, China's emperor Liu Heng "never walked to see North Korea". Because the main materials for making straw sandals are grass and hemp, they are very economical, inexhaustible and can be owned by ordinary people, which was called "not borrowing" in the Han Dynasty. When Emperor Wendi had cloth shoes and straw sandals, they were worn by the poor, but Emperor Wendi also wore straw sandals to court, setting an example of thrift. Not only sandals, but also his robes are called "silk clothes". "Silk clothing" was a very rough and dull silk at that time. This is the dragon robe. Emperor Wendi wore it for many years, but it was broken, so he had to patch it before he could wear it. The concubines in the harem are also plain clothes, and the long hem is not allowed to mop the floor. Curtains and curtains have no embroidery or lace.

No ostentation and extravagance

Most of the palaces where ancient emperors lived had to build large and beautiful balconies. Emperor Wen of Han also wanted to build a terraced field, so that craftsmen could figure out how much it would cost. The craftsmen said, not too much, 100 Jin of gold is enough. Emperor Wen of Han was surprised and quickly asked, How many middle-class families are these 100 Jin of gold? A: Ten households. Emperor Wendi shook his head, waved his hand and said: Now the money in the imperial court is very small, so save it.

"Historical Records" contains: Wendi "ascended the throne for 30 years, and the palace has no income from dog and horse service." Palace' is a palace building,' Garden' is a royal garden, and it is a place for the royal family to hunt and play.' Dogs and horses' refer to animals and facilities for the emperor's entertainment, and' serving the emperor' refers to clothes, vehicles, rituals and so on. These are all necessary for the emperor to talk about ostentation and extravagance, show majesty and have fun, and most of them attach great importance to it. However, during his twenty-three years in office, Emperor Wendi did not build palaces, gardens, vehicles or even dogs and horses. He cared about the sufferings of the people. Soon after he became emperor, he ordered the state to support the elderly over 80 years old and give them rice, meat and wine every month. For the elderly over 90, we will distribute more linen, satin and silk cotton to make clothes for them.

Arrange one's own funeral

Before he died, Wendi finally arranged a frugal activity-his funeral. In his testamentary edict, he denounced the custom of thick burial, demanding that the funeral be simple for himself and treat his family "Baling". He clearly demanded: "All earthenware utensils should be used, not decorated with gold, silver, copper and tin, and graves should not be treated. If you save, you will save, and if you don't work, you will benefit the people." Because of it, the mountains and rivers of Baling should not be changed, that is, a simple cemetery should be built according to the original appearance of the mountains and rivers, without large-scale construction and without changing the original appearance of the mountains and rivers.

It is rare in history for an emperor to serve the people all his life, be diligent and thrifty, constantly improve policies, and work hard for strengthening the country and enriching the people. At that time, there was too much money in the national treasury to count, and the rope for stringing money was rotten; The grain in the granary is rising year by year and piled outside the granary. Later, the Red Eyebrow Army invaded Chang 'an, and all the emperors' tombs were dug up, except Wendi's tomb, because we knew there was nothing good in it.