Wang Yi, a famous scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, commented in The Songs of the South: "Don't be honest, don't be dirty, be clean", that is, don't accept money and gifts from others, and don't let your innocent character be defiled. This is honesty.
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Integrity is not greedy for ill-gotten gains; Cleanliness is whiteness, which means an open and aboveboard attitude towards life; To be clear, honesty means having honest behavior and an aboveboard attitude.
Integrity: do not harm the public interest; Not corrupt. Etymologically, the word "honesty" is interpreted as "fairness and non-corruption".
There is a saying in Wang Chong's Lun Heng in the Han Dynasty that "the minister who made up the case in the past looked at the innocent person".
Cihai is interpreted as "clean and innocent". There is a poem in Qu Yuan's Songs of the South called "I am an honest young man". Wang Yi commented that it was "not cheap and not clean". During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lujiang was a satrap and had his own brilliant ideas about political integrity. He hung the fresh fish bribed by his subordinates under the eaves of the lobby and dried it in a few days.
Then someone gave him fresh fish. He pointed to the dried fish and said to the visitor, "Do you still want me to hang the fish?" The fish delivery man had to leave angrily. Yu Qian of the Ming Dynasty appreciated the persistence of sheep, refused to corrode and never touched them. He wrote a poem praising: "It is better to have no guests in front of Xisheng than to hang fish under the kitchen. The breeze sleeps in the south window and reads some books at the bedside. "
Clean reference materials (Chinese words) _ Baidu Encyclopedia?