Five Typical Examples of Honesty

Keeping promises means keeping promises, stressing credibility and keeping promises. Honesty, that is, loyalty and honesty, means being true to things and not hiding your true thoughts or feelings.

The origin of honesty 1, the promise of 1000 pounds

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, there was a man named Ji Bu. He kept his word and had a very high reputation. Many people have established a strong friendship with him. At that time, there was even a proverb: "It is better to get a hundred pounds of gold than to keep a promise." This is the origin of the idiom "a promise is as good as a thousand dollars".

2. Ceng Zi kills pigs

Once, Ceng Zi's wife went to the fair, and the children left crying. The wife coaxed the child and said, don't go, I'll come back and kill the pig for you. When she came back from the market, she saw that Zeng Zi really wanted to kill pigs, so she quickly stepped forward to stop him. Ceng Zi said that if you cheat children, they won't trust you. Say that finish, he killed the pig. Ceng Zi didn't cheat children, but also cultivated their character of keeping promises.

3. Shang Yang established a tree as a letter

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Shang Yang presided over the political reform with the support of Qin Xiaogong. At that time, at a time of frequent wars and panic, in order to promote political reform, Shang Yang ordered a 30-foot-long wood to be erected outside the south gate of the capital, and made a promise in public: whoever can move this wood to the north gate will be rewarded with 10 Liang. None of the onlookers believe that such an easy thing can get such a high reward, so no one is willing to try.

Therefore, Shang Yang raised the reward to 50 Liang. There must be a brave man under the reward, and finally someone carried the wood to the north gate. Shang Yang immediately rewarded him with fifty taels of gold. Shang Yang's move established prestige in the hearts of the people, and Shang Yang's next reform was quickly popularized in Qin State.

Classic case, honest story, Nepalese teenager

In the early years, few foreigners set foot in the southern foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal. Later, many Japanese people came here for sightseeing, which is said to be because of the honesty of a teenager. One day, several Japanese photographers invited a local teenager to buy beer, and the teenager ran for more than three hours. The next day, the boy offered to buy them beer. The photographers gave him a lot of money this time, but the boy didn't come back until the afternoon of the third day. As a result, photographers talked about it and thought that the boy cheated the money away.

On the third night, the boy knocked on the photographer's door. It turned out that he only bought four bottles of beer. Later, he climbed a mountain, crossed a river and bought six more bottles. When he came back, he broke three bottles. He took the broken glass in tears and returned the change to the photographer. All the people present were moved. This story deeply touched many foreigners. Later, more and more tourists came here.

Han Xin repaid his kindness.

Han Xin, the founding hero of the Han Dynasty, lived with his brother and sister-in-law when he was a child and lived on leftovers. Little Han Xin helps his brother during the day and studies hard at night, but his mean sister-in-law still hates his reading, and thinks it is useless to read. So Han Xin had to sleep on the street, hungry.

An old woman who works as a servant sympathizes with him, supports him to study and gives him food every day. Facing the sincerity of the old woman, Han Xin was very grateful. He said to the old man, "I must repay you when I grow up." The old woman smiled and said, "I'll bury it when you grow up." Later, Han Xin became a famous soldier and was named King of Chu by Liu Bang. He still remembers the old man who helped him. So he found the old man, took him to his palace and treated her like his mother.