Seeking training and thrift to show Kang words summary? The original text and translation of Xun Jia

Teachings: TeachingsTeaching thrift: thrift: to see, to "Shi'er" Kang: Sima Kang.

The original text and translation of Xun Jian Shekang are as follows:

I am a poor family, and the world is innocent. I don't like to be glamorous, I am a nurse, and the elders wear gold and silver and beautiful clothes, and abandon them with shame. Twenty family names, hearing the wedding banquet does not wear flowers.

In the same year, he said: "The king's gift cannot be violated." "It's a hairpin.

Wear clothes to protect from the cold, and eat to fill the stomach; I don't dare to accept the bad and use the vulgar name, but I just obey my nature.

Everyone is proud of extravagance, and my heart is only frugal. Everyone scorns me for being stubborn, and I don't think I'm sick. Ying Zhi said:

Confucius said, 'It is better to be better than inferior.' He also said, "Those who fail to make a covenant are rare." He also said, 'Scholars are determined to the way, and those who are ashamed of clothes and food are not enough to discuss.'

The ancients regarded thrift as a virtue, and today people criticize each other with thrift. Hey, weird! ”

Translation: I was born into a humble family, and I have inherited from generation to generation a family style of incorruptibility. I don't like luxury by nature.

From a young age, my elders put gold and silver ornaments and gorgeous clothes on me, and I always felt ashamed to throw them away. At the age of twenty, I was the only one who did not wear flowers at the wedding banquet. In the same year, the person who raised it said:

The Emperor's gift cannot be disobeyed. ”

So I put a flower on my head. For the rest of my life, I can take enough clothes to keep out the cold, and enough food to satisfy my hunger, but I don't dare to deliberately wear dirty and torn clothes to show that I am different and seek a good reputation, I just follow my nature and do things. Most people are proud of extravagance and waste, but I am only beautiful in my heart for frugality and simplicity, and people laugh at me for being stubborn and ugly, and I don't think there is anything wrong with that.

They said, "Confucius is saying, 'It is better to be simple and shabby than to be arrogant and indulgent.'

There are very few people who make mistakes because of frugality,' and he said: 'A scholar who is ashamed of not being well dressed and eaten well is not worth talking about in the search for the truth', and the ancients regarded thrift as a virtue, but today people ridicule each other because of frugality, alas, how strange it is! ”

Background of creation

In Sima Guang's time, social customs and habits became more and more extravagant and corrupt, people competed to talk about pomp and grandeur, and extravagance prevailed—the pawns on errands wore clothes similar to those of scholars, and the peasants who went to the fields wore silk shoes on their feet, and many people often "camped for months" to entertain their friends.

This kind of decay in habits made Sima Guang, who was familiar with history, feel deeply anxious, and he knew very well that that kind of social atmosphere had a great effect on the thinking of young people. In order to prevent future generations from being influenced and corroded by that bad social atmosphere, Sima Guang specially wrote the family motto "Discipline and Frugality" for his eldest brother Sima Dan's son Sima Kang, in order to educate his son and future generations to inherit and carry forward the frugal family style and never be extravagant and corrupt.

After reading "Discipline and Thrift", I was quite touched, because of Sima Guang's education method, he used his own "thrift is beautiful" to warn the younger generations, advocating thrift, inheriting the frugal family style. The reason why Sima Guang was able to "see his tolerance by the people on the way, although he didn't know everything, knew Sima Shizi" is inseparable from his husband's words and deeds. When Sima Guang taught the first son of the code, he said that he "only regarded thrift as beauty", which was not empty'preaching, he "doesn't like luxury", "doesn't wear flowers when he hears the wedding banquet", "clothes to cover the cold, and food to fill his stomach".

All the time, everywhere, everything you do is enough to convince the younger generation, and in fact, you will learn from your father. Reminiscent of real life, although many parents continue to instill the idea of thrift and thrift in their children, the effect is not very good. The root cause of this lies in parents.

While educating their children, some people are arrogant and talk about large sums of money--- spending 280,000 yuan on a pair of crocodile leather shoes" and "350,000 yuan for a meal" ......How can you teach people?If you want to educate your children, you must first "be thrifty". Otherwise, the opposite effect can only be taken.

Only by being frugal can you teach others, and there is no shortage of people who can argue and know. Although the American oil magnate Rockefeller is famous and famous, he seems to be particularly "stingy" with money. He kept a detailed record of all the comings and goings of financial figures, even if he bought a stamp.

At home, the children will not receive a penny more from him than the necessary expenses, he told them.