A short story about integrity (celebrity or great person)

Zihan is not greedy for treasure

Lexi, named Zihan, was a wise minister of the Song Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period. During the reign of Duke Ping of the Song Dynasty (575 BC - 532 BC), he served as Sicheng (i.e. Sikong, renamed "Sicheng" because of the name Sikong of Song Wu Gong. He was in charge of construction projects, manufacturing vehicles and clothing equipment, and supervising handicraft slaves), and ranked among the six ministers.

Someone in the Song Dynasty got a piece of jade and presented it to Zihan, a high official in power. Zihan did not accept it. The man who offered the jade said, "I have shown it to the jade master and said it is a treasure, so I dared to offer it." Zihan said, "I regard not being greedy as a treasure, and you regard precious jade as a treasure. If I accept this from you, A piece of jade (if you give me the jade), we have all lost our own treasures, it is better for each of us to keep our own treasures!" After hearing this, the man knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "I am a small commoner. It is not safe to hide such a precious treasure. It is for the sake of my own safety that I offer it to you." Zihan placed the jade in the village where he lived and sent jade men to carve and process it for him. After the person who presented the jade became rich, he was allowed to return to his residence.

"Hands Don't Stretch" was written by Chen Yi in 1954.

In mid-spring of 1954, when I returned to Ningbo from Beijing, I was filled with many emotions and wrote with great emotion. I haven't written poetry for a long time. Observe the infinity of the universe, think about the moments of life, and repeat his words to encourage you in the evening.

Don’t stretch out your hands, otherwise you will be caught.

The party and the people are supervising, and it is difficult to escape in full view.

You say you are afraid of being caught but don’t stretch out your hand, but others can realize it if they don’t stretch out their hands.

In fact, if you want to reach out, you don’t dare to stretch out. The people shrink their hands when they are close.

Don’t you love power and position, which towers over the mountains?

Don’t you love Fendai? Even if you drink the river of love, you will still be hungry and thirsty.

Wouldn’t you love to praise him and sing his songs to fill your ears with divine music?

The first thing that comes to mind is not forgetting the roots, coming from the people and not doing evil.

The second thought is about party training. How can we achieve anything without the party?

The third thing is to think about food, clothing and shelter. How can people live without it?

The fourth thought is that although one has merit, there is no fault and one should gradually become embarrassed.

Sigh, don’t boast even a little bit, pride and complacency will lead to overturning.

Looking at many things in ancient and modern times, success has resulted from humility and failure from extravagance.