How to interpret the ancient Chinese saying, rich but three generations, poor but three generations?

In fact, in ancient times, people were poor, most of the reason was that the level of education was too low, a large number of rich people could afford to go to private schools, and rich families invited tutors, and scholars accompanied their sons to study. As a result, a large number of people can't read a single word and can only do some simple things. He has no insight or mind to think about all sorts of strange things.

They could only work for landlords and merchants, or serve as soldiers. In addition, they reclaim wasteland and plant for a living. Life is simple, and there is no way to rise.

As a result, the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer. And most of the poor people today are just not born well, and they can still live a rich life through their own efforts, here is an introduction to a book, introducing the ancient private school culture, interested readers can take a look.

In the past, in rural areas, everyone's first impression was that they were poor, most people had little education, and the education of their parents' generation was also very backward. In the hearts of most rural parents at that time, as long as they had a mouthful of food for their children, it was enough, resulting in many children being raised free-range, free-range, and "poor" from an early age. It is still popular to say that "the poor raise their children, and the rich raise their daughters", but it has not changed until the last ten years, and people have slowly emancipated themselves from the idea of "preferring sons over daughters".

The parents of the children of the rich have accumulated a lot of capital and connections, while the children of the poor have to struggle on their own. To give a simple example, even if the children of poor families graduate from college, they need to rely on their own ability to find a job and buy a house, if they are in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, they will either not be able to afford a house for a lifetime, or they will not be able to repay the mortgage for a lifetime. After graduation, children from wealthy families can rely on the connections accumulated by their parents to find jobs or start businesses, and it is relatively easy to succeed.

There was some truth to this sentence in the past. The main reason is that in the past, China was dominated by agricultural production and its economic development was backward, and as long as the children of poor families were willing to endure hardships and stand hard work, be diligent and thrifty, they could slowly accumulate wealth, and they could get rid of poverty through the efforts of several generations. The children of rich families are generally pampered, lazy and lazy, and sooner or later the family will be ruined.

However, with the development of economy and society, this sentence is not particularly applicable now. Modern society has seen class solidification, the channels for the bottom to rise are getting narrower and narrower, and the chances of the children of the poor families wanting to achieve a counterattack are becoming more and more slim. And the children of wealthy families have been attending aristocratic schools since they were young, hiring private tutors, and growing up to study abroad, and they have received an elite education.

Due to the difference in living environment and education level, there is still a big difference in ability between children from poor families and children from rich families when they grow up.

It is very reasonable that there are no more than three generations of poor people in the countryside and no more than three generations of rich people. There are many reasons for poverty, the previous generation is poor, the next generation is not willing to be poor, they will work hard, hard work to get rich, to the third generation may become rich, of course, this needs a good family style, the inheritance of virtues, the cultivation of children's good character, children have a future. There is also a saying in my hometown, the poor have roots, the rich have no seedlings.

Feng Shui takes turns, coming to my house next year. As long as there are people who are not afraid of being poor, they will think about change. A distant relative of mine, my father's generation was frail and sickly, and he couldn't earn centimeters in the era of the big collective, and the family was poor and couldn't even afford a flashlight, and when it came to his son's generation, the family had undergone earth-shaking changes, and his son was very promising, although he didn't read much, he dropped out of school at the age of 16, because he couldn't pay the tuition, he was both capable and courageous, and he ran a greenhouse farm, raising chickens and ducks.

Now he is the richest man in the village, and there are two cars. The son's son is the third generation of master's and doctoral studies at Harbin Institute of Technology, and will graduate next year, and I believe that the third generation will be richer.

Because of the property inheritance system, the rich will always have many children who are separated from each other, one generation is close, the second generation is sparse, and the third and fourth generations are enemies. The rich are separated into the third generation, and the family infighting intensifies, and I am afraid that if someone else can't clean it up, they will collapse first. If the rich do not have power, no matter how rich they can make a fortune, they are nothing more than fat pigs waiting to be slaughtered.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, there will indeed be some rich people who are overwhelmed by the bigger rich, blackmailed by officials, robbed and kidnapped by bandits and robbers.

There are no more than three generations of poverty, and no more than three generations of wealth. This sentence, if the poor say, is either not enough brains, or self-comforting. If this sentence comes out of the mouths of the rich, it is either a sense of crisis or a criticism of the separation system.

These two sentences, which are not tried in any era, may embody some dialectics, but they are more of a view of the impermanence of the world. It's like when someone says that the sea may become a mulberry field, it sounds very reasonable.

The previous generation was rich, the conditions were superior, the children were often pampered, afraid of hardship and tiredness, idle, unable to keep the family business, the second generation is okay, the third generation will sit on the empty mountain, lose the family business, and become poor. There is a family surnamed Yan in my village, who has thousands of acres of land at the beginning of the last century, and hires long-term and short-term laborers'A large group of girls and maids, in modern terms, are local tyrants. The second generation of children kept the family business, and in the third generation, it began to decay, the son did not take the ramp of the outer door, gambling became a nature, the daughter had an affair with a short-term worker, gave birth to a child and buried it in the horse manure heap, and the family business failed again and again.

Now the surname Yan is gone. Therefore, the rich and the poor are not absolute, and the poor are not more than three generations and the rich are not more than three generations.

There are no more than three generations of wealth, and there are both subjective and objective factors. Inferior root nature is indeed an important factor, and it is easy to be lazy when you have money. But throughout China's history, there have been few times when stability has been maintained for a hundred years, which also shows that external factors are also important.

Poor for no more than three generations, when people are so poor that they can't get by, they will definitely be stimulated to survive and struggle. However, it is not certain that they fought on their own, and there were many people who gained wealth from the revolution.

People are poor for no more than three generations, that is, the first generation is poor, and the second generation is also poor, but the poorer the more ambitious, the poor will work hard, do not accept fate, after several generations of efforts, there will always be a day to change the status quo. And the last sentence is that the family is very rich, has saved a lot of wealth, and cannot eat it in two lifetimes, but their children and grandchildren will not want to forge ahead, lose, no matter how much wealth is not created, there will always be a day when they will sit and eat nothing.

This statement makes sense, according to the law of conservation of energy, everything will have an extreme, and then there will be a backlash, so it can't exceed a value.

There is no truth to this statement. Such a statement is just a folk rumor, without any scientific basis and no credibility.

There is no reason, such a statement is incorrect, there is no relevant scientific basis, and it may be a fallacy. So don't believe it all.

Because it was difficult for the poor to survive in ancient times, if the third generation did not know how to change the status quo, then the family would almost not survive, so the ancients said that "poor but three generations" In fact, this sentence is based on the life experience of ancient people, so it has a certain basis, but this statement is only applicable to ancient life, and modern life has long been rid of this law.

In fact, there is another half of the sentence "poor but three generations", that is, "rich but three generations", the meaning of this whole sentence is that whether you are poor or rich, you will be changed after three generations at most, and the ancients are not talking nonsense when they say this, this sentence is also for a reason, it is the life experience found by the ancients in many years of life, and the law summarized.

The reason why there are only three generations of rich and poor people is because the family situation of ancient people will change within three generations. For example, in the imperial court, there are very few more than three generations that are still soaring, and many families will decline in the glory of the dynasty for three generations, which is because "the back of the big tree is good to enjoy the shade". And the same is true for rich families, generally speaking, the descendants of many big officials and rich people are not enterprising, and they are used to living a life of sitting back and enjoying their success, how can they know how to work hard?

Therefore, in the change of three generations of children and grandchildren, the wealthy family will slowly decline.

And the same is true for being poor for only three generations. The life of ancient people is not like that of modern people, ancient people were too poor to even marry a daughter-in-law, so after being poor for three generations, there are no descendants, so there is a saying that "poor is not more than three generations".

Another reason for the "poor for three generations" is that after a family has gone through two generations of poverty, the third generation of children and grandchildren will definitely change this status quo, because the children and grandchildren living in poor families know from an early age that they must work hard and work hard to change the status quo of the family, so in the third generation, the poor family will definitely change.

<>This phrase is interpreted literallyThat is, the time that people are poor and rich will not exceed three generations.

However, in my opinion, such an explanation is too superficial and not yet accurate。It is not necessary that people are poor and rich within three generations, but it may be a year, or it may be four years, five years, or more. In other words, people's wealth and poverty cannot be determined by time, but varies from person to person, and there are variables at any time.

The true meaning of "no more than three generations of poor, no more than three generations of rich".It is to talk about a philosophy of "change" and have philosophical thinking. This sentence is actually about a philosophical thinking of "change".

This sentence is a warning to people:Poverty is not terrible, wealth is unspeakableOtherwise, both the poor and the rich will lose their motivation to move forward, causing the poor to become poorer and the rich to decline, causing both to go to the end of their rope.

The poor are destitute, and the rich are destitute. It turns out:The outcome of the poor and the rich is not measured by time, but by the thinking of "change".

Since ancient times, people's attitudes towards the poor and the rich have been different。Some of the poor are striving to move forward; Some poor people are lazy and lazy, do not want to make progress, and are willing to be mediocre. Some rich people are low-key, humble, and never publicized; Some rich people are arrogant, arrogant, and degenerate.

The attitudes, thoughts, words and deeds of the poor and the rich towards the realities of life are changing, and they are changing all the time。And this sentence tooIt is a warning to the poor and the rich, whether they are poor or rich, to face the reality correctly。The poor should not be discouraged and discouraged, and the rich should not be stagnant; The poor should brace their spirits and forge ahead in a pioneering spirit, while the rich should be prepared for danger in times of peace.

Only with a sincere mindset and facing the reality can we change ourselves. As long as we correctly understand the truth of "change" in "no more than three generations of poor, no more than three generations of rich", then it is not a dream to become rich from poor, and it is reasonable for the rich to become poor.

In summary,Both the poor and the rich survive in the midst of "change".

Being poor for no more than three generations means that one generation cannot change their lives through hard work, but several generations working together may become different. The first generation is difficult to start a business, the second generation is difficult to keep a business, and in the third generation, many people have lived in a honeypot since childhood, and they have not experienced the hardships of society at all, and they do not know the difficulty of making money.

Poor people will work hard to make money and work hard for three generations when they are poor, and rich people will not be rich for three generations because they have always had no worries about food and clothing, and they are not prepared for danger in times of peace.

If the children and grandchildren indulge in pleasure and soaring, then even a mountain of gold will be lost; If the children and grandchildren can not be afraid of hardships and self-motivated, no matter how poor the life is, it will slowly change, as the so-called "30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi".

That's just one way of saying it. No accurate statistical data are available. There have always been all kinds of rumors among the people, everyone can take what they need, choose some words they like, comfort or inspiration, and seek psychological balance.

Words of self-consolation.

If the poor do not struggle, they may not even have descendants, what do they say for three generations.

The reality is that the rich tend to be highly educated, high-quality, and money-conscious, but they will not spend money indiscriminately, but in the eyes of the poor, it seems that people have more money, but they can't see that they earn more, and the probability of falling into the middle of the family is very small.

Most of the poor are because they have no concept of financial management, more money has more money and more money, less money has less money and less money to live, most of the moonlight people think that they have advanced consumption concepts, but they are actually irresponsible to themselves, and the poor are just a self-consolation word for three generations.

This is not absolute, it probably means that three generations of poor people are also poor, and the children of the poor are in charge of the family early. It doesn't matter if you're rich for three generations, you can sit and eat.

Poor families will not be able to produce talents in three generations. A rich family is rich, but three generations will produce a loser.

It means that your grandson's generation will be rich.

<>1. Explanation: Wealth is generally passed on to less than three generations, and the monarch is the richest person throughout the five thousand years, but many of them are passed on to the second generation and then gone. It is impossible to be poor for five generations, because poverty inspires people to struggle.

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising was also because of poverty and unmasking, and they were among the princes' families.

2. The purpose of this sentence is to warn people to be self-sufficient, and all things are developing.

3. The moral of this poor sentence is: everything follows a law, there are ups and downs, it is impossible to be so lucky forever, and the will is to stimulate a person's fighting spirit.