The Biography of China s Four Great Misers 5

China's four major misers are Li Meiting, Lu Zhi, Jianhehou, and Yan Jiansheng.

1. Li Meiting is from Qian Zhongshu's "Siege". Li Meiting's personality is very gray, there is the obscenity of carrying a medicine box and dreaming of making a fortune, and the stinginess of taking out a small pill to give away, but the most expressive stroke is expressed through Li Meiting's sunglasses.

Second, Lu Zhi is from Xu Fuzuo's "A Penny of Money". Lu Zhi thinks that the cherishing of money is reasonable, although others think that it is miserliness and delusion. Lu Zhi's family Chen Wanguan, but let his family starve.

On the Alan Festival, Lu Zhi calculated to go to his friend's place to eat, in order to save his own food, and found a penny on the way, when he saw all the beggars enjoying their income together, drinking and laughing at himself, Lu Zhi greatly hurt his self-esteem, decided to spend a penny, bought sesame seeds, and hid on the top of the mountain to eat alone.

3. The Marquis of Jianhe is from Zhuangzi's "Foreign Objects". When others are in difficulty, we must sincerely do our best to help, and we must not be stingy, talk big, write empty checks, and unrealistic good words are useless.

Fourth, the strict prison student is from Wu Jingzi's "Confucianism and Foreign History". The stingy side of the strict prison is stingy with himself, and he has a bit of a masochistic tendency. But there are also those who believe that this is not the whole story of Yan Jiansheng's life, and it is a bit biased to call him a miser for this alone.

1, Li Meiting (source: Qian Zhongshu "Siege of the City").

Li Meiting dreamed of making a fortune with a box of medicine, but refused to give Miss Sun, who was sick with her peers, a pack of Rendan to treat her illness, and stingily took out the small pills that had been opened before she was willing to give them away; reluctant to wear a new raincoat and borrow Miss Sun's umbrella; In the small town, the funds were not enough, Li Meiting pretended to confiscate the money but privately saved money to buy cigarettes and buy sweet potatoes, and hid in the corner to eat alone, which was discovered by Fang Hongji.

2, Lu Zhi (source: Xu Fuzuo's "A Penny").

Lu Zhi's family Chen Wanguan, but let his family starve. On the Alan Festival, Lu Zhi calculated to go to his friend's place to eat, in order to save his own food, and found a penny on the way, when he saw all the beggars enjoying their income together, drinking and laughing at himself, Lu Zhi greatly hurt his self-esteem, decided to spend a penny, bought sesame seeds, and hid on the top of the mountain to eat alone.

3, Jianhe Hou (source: Zhuangzi "Foreign Objects").

Jianhehou's stinginess was reflected in Zhuang Zhou's borrowing of rice, which was something that Jianhehou could help, but he was extremely stingy, saying that he was going to collect rent, and when he received it, he would lend Zhuang Zhou 100 gold.

4, Yan Jiansheng (source: Wu Jingzi, "The History of Confucianism").

When Yan Jiansheng was dying, he stretched out two fingers and refused to breathe, the eldest nephew, the second nephew and the nurse and others all stepped forward to guess and persuade, but they didn't say anything, and finally Zhao stepped forward and said: "Master, what others say is irrelevant, only I know what you mean!" You are lighting two stalks of lamp grass in the lamp, don't worry, I'm afraid of wasting oil.

I'm going to pick off a stem now. It wasn't until Zhao picked out a lamp grass that he nodded and swallowed.

Introduction to foreign miser characters.

Shylock. From the comedy "The Merchant of Venice" by the English dramatist William Shakespeare.

He was a Jew, a usurer, greedy, miserly, ruthless, and vicious; Although he has a lot of money, he never enjoys it, and he is bent on usury. tried his best to restrict her daughter Jessica from interacting with the outside world, so that she eloped with her lover with money; mercilessly abusing and withholding servants, and not even giving people enough to eat; He hated Antonio, a Venetian merchant, because of his generosity and helpfulness, and his hatred of usurers.

Li Meiting--Qian Zhongshu, "The Siege" Xu Fu--Lu Zhi, "Yiwen Qian" Jianhehou - Zhuangzi, "Foreign Things" Yan Jiansheng - Wu Jingzi, "The Outer History of Confucianism" The World's Four Misers Shylock - Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice" Abagon-Molière, "The Miser" Old Grande - Balzac, "Eugenie Grande" Pryushkin - Gogol, "Dead Souls".