What does it mean to be poor but not rich for three generations?

The purpose of this sentence is to warn people to be self-sufficient and everything is developing.

Explanation:

1, wealth is generally not passed on to three generations. Throughout five thousand years, the monarch was the richest man, but many of them disappeared in the second year.

Poverty can't last for five generations, because poverty will inspire people to struggle. Because of poverty, Chen Sheng in Guangwu Uprising rose up and became a vassal family.

The moral of this sentence is:

Everything follows a rule, there will be ups and downs, and you can't be so lucky forever. The purpose is to inspire a person's fighting spirit.

Related content explanation:

"Mencius Leaves Louzhang Sentence": The gentleman's grace was beheaded in the fifth world; The benefit of the villain is cut in five. If you can't become a disciple of Confucius, you will become a private scholar.

This passage of Mencius, which means the legacy of a gentleman, was interrupted after five generations; The legacy of villains is gone after five generations.

The wisdom of the sages, there is a popular interpretation among the people: "Rich but not three generations, poor but not five generations." Mencius' explanation of this proverb is actually both popular and profound, and it has a wide recognition.

Rich and poor, to a large extent, belong to the value scale, or a test standard. In real life, both individuals and groups have a process of rise and fall. The rich and the poor, the former represents the rise and the latter represents the decline, which is actually not a concept with poverty or wealth.

In the secular world, there is neither eternal wealth nor eternal poverty. In traditional society, family is often more important than individuals. This family strives for progress, and generation after generation of entrepreneurship can often be promoted to a higher class. If you succeed in starting a business and enjoy it from generation to generation, you will naturally decline and fall to the next class, and the cycle of rich and poor will come as scheduled.

To break this cycle, solidify the class, or maintain a higher class, children often study in traditional society. The view of "being an official by reading" is secular, but it is actually very important to maintain the class status of the family and strengthen the spirit and psychology of children's progress through reading. The wealth at home is completely different from that of corrupt officials' children, and it is more on the spiritual level, which is called cohesion.