Listen to the loyal minister.

Source (Song) Sima Guang's "The First Year of Zi Zhenguan": (Taizong) tasted the Communist Youth League:' If you want to see your own shape, you must cast a mirror; If you want to know its mistakes, you must be loyal first. If his monarch remonstrated with himself and his ministers obeyed his orders, how could he be the only one who lost his country? " "

Remonstrance: Be opinionated and refuse to accept what others say. Be stubborn. Self-cultivation: White is considered as self-cultivation.

Describe Sima Guang (10 19- 1086), a minister and historian of the Northern Song Dynasty. The word Junshi was born in Sushui Town, Xia County, Shaanxi Province (now Shanxi Province), and was known as Mr. Sushui in the world. After Baoyuan entered the Jinshi, he was awarded the title of Lord protector. In the third year of Zhiping (1066), it was written into eight volumes of Tongzhi, and Yingzong called it good and ordered a bureau to continue its research; Zong Shen titled the book "Zi Tong Zhi Jian" and personally prefaced it. Yuanfeng wrote a book in seven years. There are other works such as Sima and He Lu.

History as a Mirror, a general history of chronological style. 294 volumes, and another 30 volumes are used for textual research and cataloging. The book began in the 23rd year of Zhou Weilie (403 BC) and ended in the sixth year of Zhou Shizong's showing virtue after the Five Dynasties (959 BC). The content is mainly political and military, slightly less than the economic and cultural B book, which runs through the history of 1362, providing more systematic and complete information for historical research.

The original intention of the sentence is that the flatterer flatters the monarch blindly, and the monarch can't hear honest and straightforward words. So you mainly want to know your fault, and you must rely on the advice of loyal subjects. It is further pointed out that excessive flattery is in danger of "national subjugation". Later, it is often used to mean that leaders at all levels should do a good job, reduce mistakes and listen to opinions and suggestions from all sides with an open mind.