Mencius said: "Life is what I want, and righteousness is what I want. You can't have both. Those who give up their lives for righteousness are also. " In other words, "righteousness" is above everything else. For the sake of "righteousness", "benevolent people don't drink water from stolen springs, and honest people don't take food from stolen springs"; For the sake of "righteousness", wealth can't be lewd, poverty can't be moved, and powerful people can't bend.
Throughout the ages, things have emerged one after another. For this supreme "righteousness", countless people are "sincere and happy".
The story of Su Wu herding sheep is well known to all women and children. After Su Wu was detained in Xiongnu, Xiongnu nobles first lured him with fame and fortune, and then threatened him with torture. But Su Wu always righteously, would rather die than surrender. The Xiongnu nobles could do nothing, so they "moved their family to Beihai". Su Wu is "digging wild rats and pulling weeds to eat". In such a difficult environment, he still leans on the shackles of the Han dynasty and refuses to surrender the shackles to disgrace his life. When he went to China, he was in his prime. When he returned to Han, his hair and beard were all white. He became a famous figure who insisted on national integrity in the history of our country.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao was regarded as a national thief. There was a famous doctor in Luoyang named Ji Ping, who was loyal to the Han Dynasty and conspired with his uncle Dong Cheng and others to punish Cao. He intended to poison Cao Cao when delivering medicine, but he accidentally let the cat out of the bag. Cao Cao ordered someone to beat Ji Ping, forcing him to tell him who to order. Ji Ping's blood flowed to a higher level, only scolded cao thief, and then he bumped into the steps and died. In Luo Guanzhong's works, he is a famous loyal minister.
In the late Qing Dynasty, after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao fled to Japan. Tan sitong is "willing to kill thieves, unable to return to heaven". He firmly believes that "without walkers, there is no future; No dead, no reward for the Lord, calmly died, leaving a famous sentence "I laugh at the sky from the horizontal knife, leaving courage." "