Gong sighed, saying, although my family has plenty of food and clothing today, why not? It is difficult to take care of human nature, from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift. Can my salary and health last today? Once it is different from today, my family has been extravagant for a long time, and if it can't be frugal, it will lose money. If I am alive, gone, alive and dead, it is often like a day.

Alas, a great sage's vision is beyond the reach of a mediocre person. As Sun Yue said, frugality is a virtue, luxury is a great evil, and so is it. All those who talk about virtue come from thrift. If the husband is frugal, he will have less desire; A gentleman wants less, does not serve, and can go straight; If a villain has little desire, he will be careful and make good use of it, and he will stay away from sin.

The life of the character

In the third year of Song Zhenzong Tianxi (10 19), Sima Guang was born in Guangshan, Gwangju (now Guangshan County, Henan Province). At this time, his father Sima Chi was appointed as the magistrate of Guangshan County, so it was widely sealed.

At the age of six, Sima Chi taught Sima Guang to read. At the age of seven, he could not only recite Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals, but also understand its main ideas. Made a shocking Luo Jing's "Hit the Cylinder to Save Friends".

In the ninth year of Tiansheng (103 1), Sima Guang started from Tokyo with his father Sima Chi, passed through Luoyang, Tongguan, Baoji and Qinling, and went to Guangyuan, Sichuan, where he served as a transshipment ambassador. He met a python on the plank road. He calmly held the sword and plunged into the python's tail, which made the python feel a shock and rolled unfathomable.