The famous sayings about "Hai Rui" are as follows:

1. Read the books of sages and do things in the world.

2. The husband’s ambition is to establish a kingdom, and he hopes to make the world prosperous.

3. If you don’t plan for the overall situation, you can’t plan for a corner. If you don’t plan for the whole life, you can’t plan for a moment.

4. A gentleman should refrain from deceiving himself and strive to be self-effacing.

5. Beauty is called beautiful, and there is no false beauty; excellence is called excessive, and there is no shame in it.

6. You will not change your temperament in three lives, but you will always remain in the country if you die.

7. If you want peace and order in the world, you must conduct wells and fields, and limit the fields as a last resort.

8. Treat the country as a home, rule by one person, take everything from others, leave hundreds of officials as empty posts, and ignore the people of the world.

9. In order to speak frankly about the first thing in the world, to uphold the principles of the monarch and clarify the duties of ministers, and to seek peace and security for all ages

10. The monarch is the master of all things in the world and his subjects. However, he is the master of all his subjects and everything in the world, and his responsibilities are of the utmost importance.

11. If the people's livelihood is benefited and ill, if something is not suitable, it will be ignored.

12. This is the story of a king who should be prepared for everything and assign his responsibilities to his ministers so that they can be fully explained.

13. The ministers and workers have done their best to speak, but the king has done his best. In the past, the task was to please people, to flatter and obey, which led to the isolation of disasters and the absence of the Lord. There is nothing to say.

14. If the husband is in the world, it will be cured, and if it is not cured, it will cause worry; if the master is clear, if it is not clear, it will be dangerous: if it is not done, it will be dazzled, and it will be abandoned! Not a general theory.

15. There are too many examples of promotion in several lines. The two kings did not meet each other, and people thought they were inferior to father and son. He kills and humiliates his subordinates with suspicion, slander, and others think he is inferior to the ruler and his ministers.

Extension of knowledge:

Hai Rui (January 22, 1514 - November 13, 1587), courtesy name Ruxian and Gangfeng, was born in Qiongshan, Hainan (now Haikou City) )people. A famous upright official in the Ming Dynasty. Hai Rui experienced the four dynasties of Zhengde, Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli in his life.

In the twenty-eighth year of Jiajing (1549), Hai Rui passed the provincial examination and was first appointed as the Jiaoyu of Nanping, Fujian Province. Later, he was promoted to the magistrate of Chun'an, Zhejiang and Xingguo County, Jiangxi. Wrong cases and crackdowns on corrupt officials have won the hearts of the people. He has successively served as the prefectural judge, the head of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the head of the Ministry of War, Shang Baocheng, the general manager of the two capitals, and the censor of Youqiandu. He cracked down on tyrants, dredged rivers, built water conservancy projects, advocated severe punishment of corrupt officials, prohibited accepting bribes for personal gain, and implemented a whip law to force corrupt officials to return their fields to the people, thus earning him the reputation of "Haiqingtian".

In the fifteenth year of Wanli (1587), Hai Rui died of illness in his official residence in Nanjing. He was given the title of Taibao of the Crown Prince and was given the posthumous title of Zhongjie. After Hai Rui's death, legends about him were widely circulated among the people.

Hai Rui’s ancestors were originally from Fujian. During the Southern Song Dynasty, a man named Hai Qiu moved from Fujian to Guangzhou. Hai Xunzi, Hai Qiu’s great-grandson, was the commander of the Guangzhou Guards (fourth grade) at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. military attache's name). Hai Xunzi's son Hai Da'er joined the army and came to Hainan Island in the 16th year of Hongwu (1383), and settled in Qiongshan County. Haida'er's son Haikuan served as the magistrate of Songxi County in Fujian Province after passing the imperial examination. There are five nephews, Haicheng, Hailan, Haihan, Haipeng and Haimai. Among them, Haicheng is the official supervisor of Sichuan Road, and the other three have passed the imperial examination. Only Hai Rui's father, Hai Han, did nothing. He was just a junior student (a student who received government meal subsidies).

Reference materials

Hai Rui. Hai Rui Collection [M]. (Ming Dynasty): Zhonghua Book Company, 1962