Everyone will meet all kinds of people in life, including honest and kind people, optimistic and friendly people, and narrow-minded, thoughtful people who only care about their own interests. It can be said that what kind of people you usually live with, what kind of people you will meet.
People often say that a person's heart and stomach are separate. Many times, only when you have dealt with some people do you know what kind of people they are and whether you can continue to associate. It is impossible to know whether a person is a good person or a bad person, a villain or a gentleman from his appearance, so people often say not to judge a person by his appearance.
However, in real life, there are still many people who judge a book by its cover. For example, many times some people say that people from rural areas are vulgar and despicable, and then look down on them, or think that they are nobler than poor and uneducated people, and those people are vulgar.
There have been many such situations before! But many times, it is these people who are kind and upright. The ancestors left a sentence, "Every time you kill a dog, you are a scholar." The meaning of this sentence is that many times those butchers are honest and just, but those intellectuals who study can easily disappoint others.
This sentence of our ancestors is not just nonsense. There is a true historical story about this proverb!
In the Ming dynasty, it was very popular for those dignitaries to keep dogs. Sometimes some dogs are fierce and like to bite, but those rich people let their dogs bite others regardless. Anyway, they have power and influence, and those who have no power and influence have no right to resist.
One day, a poor scholar was bitten by a rich man's dog. Seeing that the scholar was about to be killed by a dog, those onlookers dared not come forward to help, because no one wanted to offend the rich man. Just then, a butcher passed by. He immediately picked up the butcher's knife, killed the evil dog and saved the scholar.
Rich people naturally don't want to let go when they learn that their dogs have been killed. They want to unite the government to arrest the butcher and buy off the scholar saved by the butcher with money. As a result, the scholar really reversed the facts and slandered the butcher in court for money. Fortunately, the magistrate at that time was an honest official. He had already found out the truth and was not bought by the rich man. The county magistrate was very angry when he heard that the scholar slandered the butcher, so he beat the scholar away with a stick and cleared the butcher.
Since then, there has been a proverb I mentioned above, saying that people who study are the most ruthless. For a long time, in the impression of many people, those butchers are insidious and ruthless, while those literati are knowledgeable and honest, so many times those butchers will be regarded as villains, but real life tells us that this is not the case.
Therefore, when you communicate with others, don't judge what kind of person they are from their appearance and identity. This proverb left by our ancestors is very telling, especially the second half sentence is the essence of the whole sentence, which shows human nature.