As the old saying goes, all bets are off, but humility benefits. The semantics of Shangshu Dayu Mo —— Complacency attracts losses and humility benefits. Later, Chairman Mao made the past serve the present in his article, that is, "Modesty makes people progress, while pride makes people lag behind".

That is to say: modesty will make people progress, and pride will make people fall behind "(hehe, like nonsense, in fact, the meaning is obvious).

Political theory:

Dialectically looking at things, everything has two sides, and things are determined by the main aspects of their main contradictions. When quantitative changes accumulate to a certain extent, qualitative changes will occur, so we have humility to make people progress and pride to make people lag behind.

Examples are:

A painter came all the way to Famen Temple and told the abbot monk Shi Yuan, "I want to learn from painter Dan Qing, but I haven't found a satisfactory master yet. Many people are nominal, and some painting skills are not as good as mine. " Monk Shi Yuan smiled faintly and asked for "live broadcast". The painter asked what to paint, and Shi Yuan said that the old monk's greatest hobby was to drink tea with tea, so the benefactor drew me a teapot and a teacup. The young man finished the painting in a few strokes, and an inclined teapot was slowly spitting out a vein of tea and pouring it into the teacup, which was vividly painted. I didn't expect the monk to make a mistake and put the cup on the teapot. The young man said that the master had made a mistake. There is no cup to fill the teapot with water. Shi Yuan smiled and said, "So you know this truth! You are eager to fill your cup with the painter's fragrant tea, but you always put your cup higher than those teapots. How can you fill your cup with fragrant tea? Only by lowering yourself can you get a stream of water, and only by lowering yourself can you learn the wisdom and experience of others. " The young man suddenly realized after listening.

During the Warring States Period, King Zhao of Wei asked for a sage, and Guo Kun, a senior counselor, seemed to imply that if you treat others as teachers, people who are a hundred times better than yourself will come. If you treat others as friends, then people ten times stronger than yourself will come; If you treat others as subordinates, then people with similar abilities will come; If you bosse around and shout, you will only attract servants and slaves.

Modesty, whether for itself or for a country's cause, is both beneficial and harmful. Mao Zedong once said that modesty makes people progress and pride makes people lag behind.