"There are many brothers with tea and wine, so how can you ever meet anyone in an emergency?" It means that when there is tea and wine to entertain everyone, there are many people who call you brothers. In case of emergency or trouble, these brothers and sisters all disappeared.

This sentence is from Augmented Xianwen. On the surface, it seems disorganized, but as long as you read the book carefully, it is not difficult to find its inherent logic. The book's understanding of human nature is based on the Confucian Xunzi's "theory of evil nature" and gives a cold insight into social life. Affection is polluted by money. "No one asks if you are poor in downtown, but you have distant relatives if you are rich in the mountains"; Friendship is just a lie. "There are many brothers with wine and meat, so you have never met anyone in an emergency.".

Extended materials:

The contents of Augmented Xianwen are roughly as follows: first, talk about people and interpersonal relationships; second, talk about fate; third, talk about how to behave; and fourth, express views on reading. In the world described in Augmented Xianwen, people are hypocritical. People are fickle for their own selfish interests, and they love the poor and love the rich, which makes the world full of traps and crises.

There is a lot of emphasis on fate and retribution in this article. It is believed that everything of human beings is arranged by fate, and people should do good deeds to have a good chance. There is a lot of space in Augmented Xianwen to describe how to treat people, which is the core of the full text. In this paper, there are many descriptions of tolerance, and it is considered that tolerance is the way to eliminate troubles and evils.