Up to now, many people have heard of such a police station, showing its great influence on traditional culture and ideas, which has been unanimously recognized by countless generations of China people, and almost everyone knows it. But do you know that this is only half a sentence? In fact, the following half sentence is also wonderful. Together, it is a complete motto, and the truth revealed in the second half sentence is more real and the essence of the whole sentence. Let's feel it together.
In fact, this sentence comes from our Confucian classics. The original text is "wealth can't be lewd, poverty can't be moved, and power can't be bent." This is called a gentleman. " Later, with the progress of the times, people gradually extended this standard of judging a gentleman to a moral code that everyone should abide by, that is, "wealth cannot be immoral." Now, however, people have further expanded its scope of application and become the current "food, clothing and lust".
In fact, this sentence is mainly used as a warning, exposing the insatiable inferiority of human desire. In fact, this point was not only known by our ancestors, but also formed a special theoretical theory aimed at this point in modern foreign history, namely Maslow's demand theory. It divides people's needs into three levels. The first level is physiological needs such as food and clothing. After being satisfied, people want to fight for emotional and desire needs, which is what the ancients called "lust."
However, what happens if a person can't even satisfy the most basic problem of food and clothing? In fact, the ancients also gave us a good practical reply. Every dynasty thrives because when it reaches its peak, the rulers will be too complacent and arrogant, so that later they will be arrogant and extravagant, and then the world will be in chaos. At this time, ordinary people just can't meet the basic needs of food and clothing. Their most direct performance is to rise up and resist, which will set off a peasant uprising.
Speaking of peasant uprisings in the course of ancient history, I believe many people can casually name a few, such as the Red Scarf Army Uprising in the late Yuan Dynasty and the Taiping Army Uprising in the late Qing Dynasty, all of which were triggered under such a social background. Therefore, whether a ruler can effectively govern the country depends on whether it is stable under his rule, and if it is reduced to a region or even an individual, its stable performance is whether bandits are rampant in the territory and whether there are crimes in a family.
Having said that, many friends may have guessed that the second half of the sentence is "hungry and cold"! At worst, this is a warning to the ruling class not to be complacent, not to neglect government affairs, and to pay attention to people's livelihood and public opinion. At worst, it is to warn civilians to pay attention to their words and deeds at all times, and not to make a big mistake that they regret for life because of temporary confusion. Unfortunately, this sentence has been extended to some one-sided and inappropriate meanings by many people, especially the first half of the sentence, which is also a great misunderstanding and distortion of traditional culture.