Famous Quotes

If diligence is the mother of good luck, then laziness, on the other hand, means having empty ambitions and failing to achieve anything.

——(Spain) Cervantes

Talking about housework is a very practical topic. You must know that many children are like little emperors at home. Not only do they not do housework, , even things like dressing, eating, and washing that should be done by oneself must be done by parents! This situation is really worrying. In the growth process of children, independence is a very important step. Everyone’s hands are born for labor. Learning to take care of ourselves is also a kind of labor.

In fact, people who are unwilling to do housework, or disdain to do housework, have existed since ancient times. The person mentioned below lived in ancient times very far away from us!

In the Eastern Han Dynasty in ancient my country, there was a very famous person named Chen Fan. Although his talents are well known, he was a very lazy person in his youth.

It is said that one time, Xue Qin, a friend of Chen Fan’s father, came to the place where Chen Fan lived. When he saw that the house was dirty and the courtyard was covered with fallen leaves and overgrown weeds, he criticized Chen Fan and said: "Why don't you clean the house to welcome the guests?"

This sentence means: Why don't you clean the house to welcome and entertain the guests? What do you think Chen Fan answered? He said: "A real man should clean up the world and make peace in his house?"

Chen Fan was certainly defending himself by saying this. What he meant was that people who do great things should clean up the world. Why? Can you clean a house?

Xue Qin did not agree with Chen Fan's words. He retorted: "If you don't sweep one house, how can you sweep the world?"

Chen Fan was speechless. Yes, people who don’t clean even one room probably won’t have the patience, care and ability to clean the world.

This story vividly tells us that all great successes are built up from small accumulations, just like countless drops of water can form a river and countless bricks and tiles can build a tall building. If a person can't even do small things well, what capital does he have to negotiate big things and achieve great things?

Through this incident, Chen Fan suddenly woke up. Not only did he clean his house, but he also corrected his tendency to ignore small things and despise details. Later, Chen Fan became successful in his studies and became an official in the imperial court. He would not let go of any illegal behavior he saw, even if it was a small thing. He really did many great things to clean up evil in the world. It has to be said that after passing this lesson, Chen Fan started working with partners with the mentality of sweeping the whole house and then the world.

Chen Fan treats his work with meticulous attention to detail. Even if the emperor made some trivial mistakes, or even did things that he thought were natural, he would still be merciless and speak out to give advice.

Once, the emperor recruited thousands of maids for his harem. Chen Fan advised the emperor: "With so many palace maids, the daily food and clothing expenses are too high, so some of them should be released."

The emperor had no choice but to follow Chen Fan's suggestion and release some of them. With half of the palace maids out, the expenses in the palace will be reduced, and the exploitation of the common people will also be reduced.

During the Yanxi period, peasant uprisings occurred in some places. The officials wanted to suppress these peasants by force, but Chen Fan did not agree to do so. He wrote to the emperor: "The people are the emperor's subjects. Their rebellion was caused by the corruption of the local officials. As long as these irresponsible corrupt officials are strictly investigated and those officials who love the people and act in accordance with the law are put into office, riots will be natural." It will stop, there is no need to suppress it at all." Facts have proved that Chen Fan's idea is correct. Since then, there have been fewer peasant uprisings and society has become more peaceful.

Some of the things Chen Fan did after becoming an official were trivial, but most of them were running for the people and contributing to the country. These can be called great undertakings and great deeds. Chen Fan integrates every bit of accumulation into his actions, which is exactly the big feeling of "sweeping a house and sweeping the world" from small to large, from myself and others.

Thoughts after reading:

No matter how ambitious you are, if you cannot do the simplest things around you well, you will not be able to become a rigorous person. It is difficult for a person who is not rigorous in doing things to achieve great things.