The home of the official is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to return to thrif

Meaning: It is easy for anyone who is an official to go from frugality to luxury, and it is difficult to return from luxury to frugality.

Excerpt from the original text: The house of Fan Shieun, from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift. You are still young, you must not be greedy for luxury, and you must not be accustomed to laziness.

Regardless of everyone's small family, Shinong industry and commerce, hard work and thrift, no unprosperous, arrogant and tired, not undefeated. Reading and writing, uninterrupted, get up early in the morning, Mo fell high great-grandfather since the family style. My father and my uncle, they all rise at dawn, and you know it.

All wealth, fame and fame are predestined, half by manpower, and half by heaven. However, learning to be a sage is entirely up to oneself and does not interfere with the mandate of heaven. I have the ambition to learn to be a sage, and when I was young, I owe respect the work, and I still can't help but have occasional jokes.

Tact. It is advisable to behave dignified and not speak rashly, and then enter the foundation of virtue.

This article is from "The Book of the Family of Zeng Guofan".

Translation: Most of the people in my family who come to the barracks say that you are generous, and I feel a little comforted. Most ordinary people hope that their children and grandchildren can become great officials, but I don't want (my own children and grandchildren) to become big officials, I just want you to become gentlemen who read and understand things.

Diligence and thrift, accustomed to hard work, can be in both happiness and frugality, this is a gentleman.

I have been an official for 20 years, and I have never dared to be contaminated with the slightest bureaucratic habit, and I still follow a simple family style in my diet and daily life, and I can be very frugal or slightly rich, and I dare not enjoy excessive abundance. It is easy for all officials to move from frugality to luxury, but it is quite difficult to move from luxury to frugality.

You are still young, you must not be greedy for luxury, you must not be used to laziness. You must not stop studying, get up early in the morning, and do not lose the family tradition that has been passed down from my great-grandfather, great-grandfather, grandfather, and my father.

Original text: Those who come to camp with jujube at home are mostly said to be generous, and the rest are less comforting. Mortals want their children and grandchildren to be great officials, and they don't want to be big officials, but they want to be gentlemen who read and reason.

Be diligent and thrifty, practice hard work, be happy, and be contracted. This gentleman also. Yu served as an official for 20 years, and he did not dare to dye the habits of the official eunuch a little, eating and living, still keeping the cold and vegetarian family style, extremely thrifty, and slightly rich.

Taifeng I don't dare either. The house of Fan Shieun is easy to enter luxury from thrift, and it is difficult to return to thrift from luxury. You are still young, you must not be greedy for luxury, and you must not be accustomed to laziness. Reading and writing can not be interrupted, get up early in the morning, Mo fell since the ancestor of the family style.

From Zeng Guofan's "Zeng Guofan's Family Letter".

1. Original text. It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift. Food and clothing, if you think about it, you don't dare to spend it easily.

A meal of wine and meat can be coarse for a few days; A piece of yarn silk can make a few pieces of coarse clothes. It's enough not to be hungry or chilling, so why bother trying to eat good? There will always be days and no days, and there will be no time to think about them, so that children and grandchildren will always enjoy food and clothing.

2. Translation. It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Food and clothing, if you think about the difficulty of getting these things, you will not spend money easily.

Eat meat and drink wine at every meal, and you can buy coarse tea and light rice for a few days; A piece of silk can buy a few ordinary clothes.

It's enough not to be hungry or cold, so why bother to eat and dress well? Always think about what you don't have when you have it, and don't wait until you lose it to think about what you have, so that your bearded children and grandchildren will often enjoy food and clothing.

3. Source. Encouragement to the children".

From thrift to luxury is the feeling of being easy to be accepted, and from luxury to thrift is the feeling of being rejected or resisted, so it is said that "it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift!"

At the beginning, the life was very poor, and then the family gradually became rich, which made people feel better and better, which is from thrift to luxury. But many times everything is not as people want, it may be good at the beginning, but it will slowly deteriorate later, which is from luxury to frugality.

At the beginning, if you can't spend money gradually, save for each other and save for yourself, if you can't support it and can't continue to increase it, it will eventually lead to unhappy couples. Or scare the man away, or make the woman angry.

It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.

(Song Sima Guang's "General Guide to Governance") From thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift.

It means that the living environment has changed from frugal to abundant, which is easy; If the abundance of food and clothing becomes a shrinking diet, it will be difficult to face.

From thrift to luxury is the feeling of being easy to be accepted, and from luxury to thrift is the feeling of being rejected or resisted, so it is said that "it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift!"

The explanation of the difficulty of thrift is that when you enter the life of a rich person from a poor life, you will easily enter that life, but when you suddenly change from a very prosperous and rich life to a poor life, it is difficult for you to enter this very frugal poor life.

In the relationship between father and son, we emphasize the kindness of the father and the filial piety of the son, and this kindness also contains wisdom. And parental love first of all, his own thinking must be correct, so that he can lead his child to have a correct outlook on life, including his attitude in the world, so that he is educating his child to have a correct concept? This is crucial.

For example, if his parents think what kind of life is happy, whether they can have a sense of responsibility to benefit others and benefit the society, or whether the life that values pleasure is happiness, the direction of the whole life is very different.

And in the whole utilitarian society, it is generally felt that it is good to make a child happy when he is young, you make him very happy, and he will give him whatever he wants, and Western education is a paradise for children. When he reached adulthood, because he was often full of pleasure and desire, the ancestors said that it was easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it was difficult to go from luxury to thrift, and it was very difficult for him to become thrifty. Because he already has so many desires, and he wants to satisfy them, he has to work hard to make money, so his middle-aged life is like a battlefield.

We see that many young people have not yet worked, and they spend a lot of money on credit cards, and as a result, they are in debt and repay loans all their lives, and there are more and more such young people. But for 5,000 years, people have understood that living within their means is a shameful thing to enjoy without money, and the whole concept is very different.

Let's think about it, the root cause of the entire financial turmoil is **? That is, people do not pay attention to frugality, they pay attention to pleasure, spend too much money, and finally the entire economic system can not bear it and collapse. So now I heard that there are several nobles among young people, and there is a nobleman called the Moonlight Goddess, who spends it all every month, and has to go back to ask his parents for money.

When I asked for money, my father was very angry: How many times have I told you, I'm so angry that I don't listen, how much do you want? Or give it to him!

I knew today, why bother in the first place, I was spoiled. There is also a kind of gnawing old people, who specialize in gnawing their parents' money; White-collar workers, pensions for white-collar parents.

Really, now many children have no sense of responsibility and want to enjoy themselves, they are spending the family's money, and they are young. When you become an adult, you just make money to repay the loan there, do you have the energy to take care of your children and take care of your family? No.

Therefore, in a utilitarian society, the next generation is not taught well, and the divorce rate is particularly high, because he has not managed the family well. In the end, when a person is old and has no family happiness, the child does not listen to him, and the husband and wife may also divorce, count the days in the nursing home, sit and wait for death.

If people really want to be happy in their old age, they still have to have the joy of shouting sleepiness in their families. Many elderly people are reluctant to live in nursing homes, why? Because every day I heard that the twenty-third was gone and the fifty-fifth was gone, because too many people couldn't even call their names, and their names became numbers.

He watched every day that people were leaving, people were leaving, and he wondered in his heart which day would it be my turn? is still filial piety to grandchildren and filial piety every day, that's too different. Therefore, it should be that children should know how to have filial piety and a sense of responsibility from an early age, which is to know how to accumulate blessings.

And he has a sense of responsibility, he knows how to benefit when he goes out of society, he is very enthusiastic, loyal to his duties, and he will be blessed in old age. Therefore, parents must be correct in these ideas of life in order to have a good influence on their children.