Selfish, profit-oriented, practicing favoritism, benefiting oneself at the expense of others, and refusing to save others.
1. Selfishness
Vernacular definition: only plan for oneself and seek benefits for oneself, regardless of others and the collective.
Source: "Jin Shu·Panni Biography": "The connection between sorrow and disaster must be born from selfishness and thrive from desire."
Dynasty: Tang
< p>Author: Fang XuanlingTranslation: The collision between worries and worries will inevitably lead to only planning for oneself first, and then generate benefits.
2. Profit-seeking
Vernacular interpretation: also referred to as profit-seeking. Focusing on profit and not caring about anything else: benefiting oneself at the expense of others, ~ is the nature of a capitalist.
Source: · "Baopuzi": "Being greedy and only seeking profit."
Dynasty: Jin
Author: Ge Hong
Translation: The heart is greedy and dirty, focused on profit and not caring about anything else.
3. Favoritism
Vernacular meaning: favoritism: to follow music; dance: to dance, to play tricks. Using deception to do illegal and disorderly things for the sake of personal relationships.
Source: "Water Margin": "Who would think that this group of officials is greedy and cheats for personal gain."
Dynasty: Ming Dynasty
Author: Shi Nai'an
4. Benefit oneself at the expense of others
Vernacular interpretation: causing others to suffer losses and benefiting oneself.
Source: ·The first 50% of "Chenzhou Rice": "What you do is not upright, and you only want to benefit yourself at the expense of others and make people hate you."
Dynasty: Yuan
p>Author: Anonymous
Translation: Everything you do is unfair, causing others to suffer losses and benefiting yourself.
5. Seeing death without rescuing someone
Vernacular meaning: Seeing someone in danger but not going to the rescue.
Source: · "Save Feng Chen": "You are so stubborn that you don't want to save someone, but you are not ashamed to kill the white horse and the black cow in the peach orchard.
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Dynasty: Yuan
Author: Guan Han