Xue Qin: "How can you sweep the world if you don't sweep a room?"

Biography from Chen Fan

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a young man named Chen Fan, who was pretentious and only wanted to do great things. One day, his friend Xue Qin came to visit and saw that the courtyard where he lived alone was filthy, so he said to him, "Why don't you clean up for the guests?" He replied, "A gentleman should sweep the world and settle down in a house?" Xue Qin immediately asked, "If you don't sweep a house, how can you sweep the world?" Chen Fan was speechless.

It is true that Chen Fan wants to "sweep the world", but what is wrong is that he doesn't realize that "sweeping the world" begins with "sweeping a house", which includes "sweeping a house", and it is absolutely impossible to realize the ideal of "sweeping the world" without "sweeping a house".

—— Lao Tzu said, "The folded wood is born in the last minute; Nine-story platform, starting from tired soil; A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. "

-Xun Kuang said in "Persuasion" that "if you don't accumulate steps, you won't reach a thousand miles, and if you don't accumulate small streams, you won't be able to become a river."

-Lenin, the revolutionary teacher of the former Soviet Union, also said, "If you want to achieve a great thing, you have to start with small things."

All these words of wisdom fully reflect the philosophical relationship between "sweeping the world" and "sweeping a house", and show that any major event is accumulated by small things. "Don't be small and not do it", no matter how small the "goodness" is, only by accumulating goodness can you become a virtue. Comrade Lei Feng is the best example from "sweeping a house". In his ordinary post, he silently contributes and does every little thing around him that he can.