Friends of close friends

From "Liezi. Tang Wen", it is said that Boya was good at drums and harp, and Zhong Ziqi was good at listening. Boya's drum and harp aspired to high mountains, and Zhong Ziqi said: "It's so good, it's as tall as Mount Tai." His goal was to flow water, and Zhong Ziqi said, "It's so good, it's as vast as a river." What Boya thought about, Zhong Ziqi would definitely get. Of. When Ziqi died, Boya said that there would be no more music in the world. He would break the strings of his harp and never play the drum again for the rest of his life. "High mountains and flowing water" is a metaphor for close friends or bosom friends.

Bo Ya played the harp, and Zhong Ziqi listened to him. When he first played the piano, he showed his ambition to climb the mountain. Zhong Ziqi said: "I play the piano so well! It's as tall as Mount Tai." After a while, the sound of the piano showed his unremitting ambition to follow the flowing water. Zhong Ziqi continued Once he said: "You play the piano so well! It's like the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers." After Zhong Ziqi's death, Boya broke the piano and broke the strings. He stopped playing the piano for the rest of his life, thinking that there was no one else in the world worth playing for. It's not just the piano players who are like this, virtuous people are also like this. Even if a virtuous person is not treated with courtesy, how can a virtuous person be loyal? This is like a good horse that cannot run thousands of miles with him if it is not well controlled.

"Friend who sacrificed his life", one of the Eight Worshipers, also known as "Jiao Ai Bo Tao", comes from the allusion of "Yang Zuo". From "Selected Works. Liu Jun. Guang's Theory of Breaking Diplomatic Relations": "There is no debt without gratitude."玎, tie the knot, think about the pure dust of Huizhuang, and the fierceness of the common people on the left. Li Shan of the Tang Dynasty annotated: "The Biography of Martyrs" says: "Yang Jiao Ai and Zuo Bo Tao were dead friends. When they heard about the king of Chu, they went to look for them. When they encountered rain and snow on the way, they didn't have all the plans, so they gave up their clothes and food and Jiao Ai." , died in a tree. '"

It is said that during the Warring States Period, Zuo Botao and Yang Jiaoai met each other and went to Chu State to seek an audience with King Chuzhuang. They encountered heavy snow on the way, and the clothes they wore at that time were very thin. The food he brought was not enough to eat. In order to help his friends, Zuo Botao gave all his clothes and food to Yang Jiaoai and hid in an empty tree to commit suicide. Later generations called his close friend "Yang Zuo".

The friendship between Chu and Jiu comes from the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty. The Biography of Wu You": "When Gong Shamu came to visit the Imperial Academy, he had no money, so he became a servant and hired a pound for You. You Yuyu was shocked, so he handed him over to the pestle and mortar. "It means making friends without being too poor or humble.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a poor and studious scholar named Gongshamu. After studying hard for a period of time, he always thought that what he had learned was limited and wanted to enter the Imperial Academy in the capital. Gongshamu's family was poor and he did not have enough money to pay for his studies at Imperial College. So Gongshamu went to work as a rice pounder in a wealthy family of Wu You, who served as prime minister of Qi and chief minister. One day, Gong Shamu was pounding rice, and Wu You came to him. Wu You saw that Gong Shamu behaved politely and did not look like a rough worker at all, so he started chatting with him. During the conversation, Wu You found that Gong Shamu was very knowledgeable. , very insightful. Regardless of the wealth gap between them, Wu You became friends with him in front of Chujiu. In feudal society, where there was a strict hierarchy between rich and poor counties, it was rare for a rich man to condescend to make friends with a poor scholar. The incident has become a legend.