How can a sparrow know the ambition of a swan? In contrast, ordinary people know the ambition of a hero. )

In the Qin Dynasty, there was a man named Chen She in Yangcheng (now Fangcheng County, Henan Province). When he was young, he was employed with others to farm for a rich family. One day, he put down his farm work and rested on the ridge of the field. He was indignant at the unscrupulous forced labor and the increasing oppression and exploitation of the people in the Qin Dynasty, and was determined to get rid of oppression and exploitation and change his current social status.

And said to his companions, "If any of us is rich in the future, we must not forget each other." His companion laughed at him: "How can you get rich when you are hired to farm for others?" Chen She said with a sigh, "Where do sparrows know the great ambition of swans?"

In July of the first year of Qin Ershi (209 BC), Chen She and Guangwu launched a peasant uprising and established the first peasant regime in China history. Although the regime did not last long, it finally overthrew the harsh rule of the Qin Dynasty.

2. Tao Yuanming: Don't bend your back for five buckets of rice.

Tao Yuanming was a great poet and celebrity in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, and his great-grandfather was a famous Eastern Jin. When Tao Yuanming was young, he had the ambition of "benefiting people all his life", but in the turbulent era when the country was on the verge of collapse, his ambition could not be realized at all. In addition, his personality is honest and frank, honest and honest, and he doesn't want to grovel and cling to the powerful, so he has a sharp contradiction with the dirty and dark real society and has a feeling of being out of place.

In order to survive, Tao Yuanming first became a small official in the state, but because he didn't like the bad style of officialdom, he quickly resigned and went home. Later, in order to make a living, he also worked in some low-ranking official positions one after another and lived an anonymous life. Tao Yuanming was an official for the last time in the first year of Yixi (405). That year, Tao Yuanming, who had passed the "year of no doubt" (4 1 year old), was persuaded by his friends to serve as Pengze county magistrate again.

On one occasion, the county sent Du You to understand the situation. Someone told Tao Yuanming that those people were sent from above, so they should dress neatly and greet them respectfully. Hearing this, Tao Yuanming sighed: "I don't want to be humble enough to pay attention to these guys for the five salaries of a small county magistrate." Say that finish, just quit his official position and went home. Tao Yuanming became Pengze county magistrate, but it was only more than eighty days. He left his job this time and left the officialdom forever.

After that, he took part in agricultural labor while studying as a writer. Later, due to the continuous disaster of farmland, the house was burned down and the family situation deteriorated. But he didn't want to be an official any more, and even refused to accept the rice and meat sent by Jiangzhou assassins. The court once called him a writer, but he refused.

Tao Yuanming died of poverty and illness. He could have lived comfortably, at least with food and clothing, but at the cost of his personality and integrity. Tao Yuanming won the freedom of mind and the dignity of personality because he didn't bend his back for five buckets of rice, and wrote a generation of poems with eternal poetic style.

While leaving valuable literary wealth to future generations, it also left valuable spiritual wealth. He became a model of China's later generations for people with lofty ideals because of his lofty integrity.

3. Qu Yuan said, "The world is muddy, and I am alone. Everyone is drunk, and I wake up alone. "

Everyone is corrupt, everyone is intoxicated, and I am a clean and sober person.

Qu Yuan's "splashing mud" and "feeding bad things" have taken a road of self-protection that is ups and downs with the world and far harms the whole body. There is no high standard of independence from thought to behavior, which leads to exile.

Qu Yuan's conversation with fishermen after his exile showed his lofty qualities of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism. Everyone was drunk, and I was the only one awake. That's why I was exiled. This may sound strange, but when you think about it, it is really an eternal truth.

Imagine that everyone is corrupt and intoxicated. How can you tolerate an honest and sober person? Excluded, exiled, and accused of adultery. In just two sentences, the fatuity and decay of Chu state are summarized incisively and vividly; On the other hand, it shows Qu Yuan's loyal and noble Suiji.

4. Zhu Ziqing: I would rather starve to death than accept American relief food.

Zhu Ziqing is a professor in the Chinese Department of Tsinghua University. At the beginning of 1948, the people's liberation war entered the final stage. In June, Peiping students launched a movement against American support for Japanese militarism. At that time, Zhu Ziqing was seriously ill and had no money for medical treatment, but he did not hesitate to write: "In order to show the dignity and integrity of the people of China, we categorically rejected all charity from the United States, whether it was purchase or gift." . Sign his name on the statement.

In early August, Zhu Ziqing became seriously ill and died on 12. He was only 50 years old then. Before he died, Zhu Ziqing urged his family in a weak voice: "One thing to remember is that I signed a document rejecting American flour, and our family will never buy American flour from Party X again!"

5. Li Bai: Oh, how can I bow and scrape to those high officials whose sincere faces will never be seen?

I can't grovel for the powerful, so I can't have a comfortable smile. )

Origin: Li Bai dreamed of climbing Tianmu Mountain in Tang Dynasty.

It shows the poet's pride and unyielding, and of course it also shows contempt for dignitaries as their agents. He and Tao Qian's moral concept of not bending over five buckets of rice is the same strain.