"The people will not fight with the officials, and the poor will not fight with the rich" is an ancient Chinese folk proverb without the following sentences.

It used to mean that the poor will not fight with the rich, and the common people will not fight with the government.

From contemporary Li Khan's "New Green Forest Biography" 5: "In hindsight, since ancient times, the poor have not fought with the rich, and the people have not fought with the officials. Now they have offended the father and son of the Qian family, who are number one in the mountains. , trouble will inevitably follow."

The late Ming and early Qing Dynasty writer Chu Renhui also quoted it in "The Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties". The original sentence is: "'It is a mistake for our country to suppress thieves and accidentally hurt your master. . Now I have fifty taels of silver with you, and you will send me back to my hometown from Houguan. When I return home, I will send an official to Luzhou to pay my respects. "Since ancient times, the poor should not fight with the rich." , The rich will not fight with the officials. 'The situation is on the road, and everyone has to endure it and take care of themselves."?

Extended information:

"The people will not fight with the officials, and the poor will not fight with them. "Struggle for Wealth" highly summarizes the legal relationship between people's personal lives and property and ruling power.

In the late Ming Dynasty Ling Shuchu's "Surprise", the general social principle summarized is: "The rich are afraid of seeing the official." This is also highly summarized in folk proverbs in many novels : "Since ancient times, the poor have not fought with the rich, and the rich have not fought with the power." ("Pearl Fate" by Li Yu of the Ming Dynasty).

Another example is Feng Menglong's "Warning Words: Lu Dalang Returns the Money to the Bones and Flesh" written by Feng Menglong in the late Ming Dynasty. When a businessman went to the toilet in the county town, "an official passed by on the street by chance", which frightened him so much that he "got up in panic" and ran away. In panic, he left the bag of money in the toilet.

An official passing by a wall would scare a businessman out of his wits. This is because in the two thousand years since the Qin and Han Dynasties, rulers often encouraged the people to spy on wealthy households and have their property confiscated by the government. In the Ming Dynasty, " This system became even more violent when the "factory guards" spies were rampant. It can be seen that the general social rule of "the rich are afraid of seeing officials" contains the tragedies of countless businessmen and people going bankrupt and destroying their families.