"Forgetting one's own interests for the sake of public affairs" means disregarding private matters for the sake of public affairs, and disregarding personal gains and losses for the sake of collective interests. It comes from Han Ban Gu's "Han Shu·Jia Yi Biography". In this article, I have compiled relevant knowledge. Welcome to read.

Public and selfless means

The idiom definition is to ignore private matters for the sake of public affairs, to ignore personal gains and losses for the sake of collective interests, and to not pay attention to personal grievances. Combined with the article, Guo Ziyi’s qualities are worth learning from.

The idiom comes from the "Book of Han·Jia Yi Biography" written by Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty: "Therefore, if it becomes a custom, the person who is a minister will forget his own body, the country will forget his family, the public will forget his private interests, he will be unscrupulous in his interests, and he will do harm to others. "Don't be stubborn, only righteousness lies."

Application example These two students' courage to put everything aside and forget their own interests makes me admire them from the bottom of my heart. (Guo Moruo's "Revolutionary Spring and Autumn Period: Sequel to the Ten Years of Creation")

Related lantern riddles: Public and forgetful of private interests (Type 1) Answer: Allusion to the idiom "Eight public and forgetful of private interests"

Spring and Autumn Period Duke Ping of Jin wanted to find a capable person to serve as the magistrate of Nanyang County, so he asked Qi Huangyang, a doctor, to recommend a suitable candidate. Unexpectedly, he elected his enemy Jie Hu regardless of past suspicions. Another time, Duke Ping of Jin was looking for a man who was brave and good at fighting to be the commander-in-chief of the army. When Qi Huangyang learned about it, he strongly recommended his son Qi Wu without worrying about other people's gossip.

Regardless of whether the relationship between the other party and him is good or bad, as long as it is a suitable candidate, he will generously recommend it, and the people he recommends are also very qualified, which proves Qi Huangyang's good vision. Later, Confucius heard about it and praised Qi Huangyang for recommending talents based entirely on a person's talents and virtues, regardless of whether the other person was a person who was hostile to him or a son who was related by blood. private. Sentences for public and private affairs

1. Be a good official with public and private affairs!

2. Treat others with honesty, sincerity, sincerity, fairness, justice, impartiality and forgetting selfishness.

3. His selfless spirit is worth learning from.

4. "The world is for the public, and the public should forget personal interests, and the country should forget family." This is an excellent traditional virtue of the Chinese nation.

5. We must learn from Premier Zhou’s lofty spirit of forgetting self-interest.

The above is the relevant content of "forgetting the public and forgetting the self" that I have compiled for you. I hope it will be helpful to you.