Famous Quotes:

Be born in sorrow and die in happiness - Mencius

Be prepared for danger when you are in peace, and be prepared when you are thinking - "Zuo Zhuan"

A gentleman is safe but does not forget danger, survives but does not forget death, governs but does not forget chaos, so his body is safe and his country can be protected - King Wen of Zhou

Care and hard work can rejuvenate the country, and leisure can destroy his body - Ouyang Xiu

Example:

1. King Wen of Zhou was restrained and performed the "Book of Changes", Zhongniee wrote "Spring and Autumn", Qu Yuan was exiled, and then wrote "Li Sao". Zuoqiu lost his sight and passed away. There are "Guoyu", Sun Tzu's Bifei, the Art of War, Bu Wei's move to Shu, "Lu Lan", Han Fei's imprisonment in Qin Dynasty, "Shuo Nan", "Lonely Anger", and three hundred poems, mostly written by sages and sages. Cao Xueqin's family ate porridge and wrote "A Dream of Red Mansions"

2. The story of boiling a frog in warm water

Someone has done such an experiment, and accidentally threw a frog into boiling oil. In the pot, the frog can unexpectedly jump out and escape the trap. Then the same frog was placed in a pot of gradually heated water. This time it felt so comfortable that when it realized the danger was coming, it was too eager to jump and eventually died at the bottom of the pot. This is the frog effect. The absence of a sense of crisis does not mean that the crisis does not exist. People who lack a sense of crisis will eventually be stumped by the crisis.

3. Sheep and Lions

Sheep and lions on the African grasslands follow this rule: run fast. The sheep thinks he must run faster than the fastest lion, and the lion thinks he must run faster than the slowest sheep.

4. Gou Jian suffered hardships

After the Yue King Gou Jian surrendered, he went to the State of Wu with his wife. The couple lived in a stone house next to Fu Chai's father's tomb, working as tomb guards and horse breeders. matter. Whenever Fu Chai went on a trip, Gou Jian would always follow him respectfully with a riding whip. Later, King Wu Fu Chai fell ill. In order to show his loyalty to Fu Chai, Gou Jian went to taste Fu Chai's stool himself in order to judge the date of Fu Chai's recovery. The date when Fu Chai recovered from his illness coincided with Gou Jian's prediction. Fu Chai believed that Gou Jian was respectful and loyal to him, so he sent Gou Jian and his wife back to Yue. After Gou Jian, the king of Yue, returned to his country, he was determined to take revenge. In order not to forget the national humiliation, he slept on firewood, and gall hung on the place where he sat and lay, indicating that he would not forget the national humiliation and hardship. After ten years of accumulation, the country of Yue finally turned from a weak country into a strong country, and finally defeated the country of Wu. King Wu committed suicide in shame

How could Gou Jian avenge his shame if he did not maintain the sense of crisis of national subjugation?

5. Li Zicheng lost the world

After the king of Chuang Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, he thought that the world was settled and he was done. The new bureaucrats who were born from peasants have lost all their all-powerful spirit in conquering the world during the uprising. They only want to enjoy peace and happiness in Beijing and "celebrate the New Year every day." Li Zicheng wants to become emperor as soon as possible, Niu Jinxing wants to be the prime minister of peace, and the generals want to create Mansion, everyone thought there was no longer a threat. However, soon after the Qing troops entered the pass and the Ming Dynasty armed forces came back, the rebel army was unprepared and was defeated.