Richness and wealth can't be lewd, poverty and meanness can't be moved, and power and forbearance can't be bent, which are the words in the works of Mencius, the representative of Confucianism in the Warring States Period.
Money status can't confuse and corrupt you, poverty can't change your ambition, and power and force can't make you yield and defect.
annotation obscenity: chaos.
The source of "Mencius' literary works" says: "Wealth can't be lewd, poverty can't be moved, and power can't be bent. This is a gentleman."
About the author: Mencius (about 372 BC-about 289 BC), whose name was Ke, the word Ziyu, was born in Huaxia, a native of Shandong today. He is a disciple of Kong Ji, the grandson of Confucius.
Mencius was a great thinker, educator and politician in the Warring States period, and a representative of the Confucian school. Also known as "Confucius and Mencius" with Confucius. The representative works "I want what I want", "I get more help from the Tao, but I get less help from the Tao", "Born in sorrow and died in happiness" and "Wang Gu talks about him around" have been compiled into junior middle school Chinese textbooks, and "I am to the country" has been compiled into senior high school Chinese textbooks.
Politically, Mencius advocated that the law should precede the king and be benevolent. Theoretically, he admired Confucius and opposed Yang Zhu and Mo Zhai. He advocated benevolent government, put forward the people-oriented thought of "valuing the people and neglecting the monarch", and traveled to Qi, Song, Teng, Wei, Lu and other countries, following the example of Confucius to carry out his own political views, which lasted for more than 2 years. However, Mencius' theory of benevolent governance is considered to be "circuitous and broader than things" and has not been implemented. Finally, he retired to give lectures, and together with his students, he "prefaced Poems and Books, described the meaning of Zhong Ni (that is, Confucius) and wrote seven pieces of Mencius".
Later generations posthumously named Mencius as "the sage of Asia" and honored him as "the sage of Asia". His disciples and re-disciples recorded Mencius' words and deeds into a book, Mencius, which is a collection of recorded prose and a compilation of Mencius' remarks, and was compiled by Mencius and his disciple Zhang Wan.
please refer to article 24 for the introduction of Yuzi. The background of the above words is: once, a man named Jing Chun talked with Mencius. Jingchun thinks that Gongsun Yan, a famous lobbyist of Wei State during the Warring States Period, and Zhang Yi, a famous strategist of Wei State, can "be angry and afraid of the vassals, live in peace and extinguish the world", and they are real men of courage. Mencius said that these people "can't be men of courage", and then put forward their own opinions. The three sentences mentioned by Mencius are the standards of men of courage: wealth is envied by people, poverty is hated by people, and power is feared by people, but they can't be moved by it, which shows a person's noble character of adhering to integrity and righteousness. This neat arrangement of sentences is magnificent and powerful. Later, these three sentences became famous sayings of determination and discipline, and became the motto of many heroes and people with lofty ideals.
Mencius says: "Zhang Yi and Gongsun Yan are men of courage! When you are angry, the princes are afraid, and the world is extinguished. "Mencius said," Is evil enough for a gentleman? A gentleman stands in the right position in the world and follows the right path in the world. If he succeeds, he will follow the people's will. If he fails to succeed, he will go his own way. Wealth cannot be lewd, poverty cannot be moved, and power cannot be ignored. This is called a gentleman. "