An example of celebrity honesty

One: the origin of "a promise is worth a thousand dollars"

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".

Second: 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.

Three: Shang Yang stands firm 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.

Four: Soong Ching Ling visits pupils in the rain.

Soong Ching Ling once made an appointment with a primary school to visit primary school students, but on the appointed date, it rained heavily, and the students thought that her grandmother could not come, but Soong Ching Ling went to the appointment in the rain, which made the students very moved.

Five: Guo Moruo and Banana Flower?

Guo Moruo was naughty when he was a child, but he was very filial. Once, his mother got carsick. Guo Moruo heard that plantain flower can cure this disease. This kind of flower is very expensive and seldom blooms, so he and his brother ran to a garden to look for it. It happened that the plantain in that garden had a big yellow flower, and Guo Moruo and his brother secretly picked it and gave it to their mother. Although the mother knew that Guo Moruo was filial to her, her son's behavior made him sad. Since then, Guo Moruo has never stolen anything from others.

The word "sincerity" first appeared in Shangshu. But as a notional word, it was first seen in Zuo Zhuan: "Ming Du Yuncheng" and Shu Yun: "Honest people are also practical." See also the classical Chinese of the Book of Changes: "Be idle and evil, and keep your honesty", "Be sincere in words" and "Honesty means honesty".

The combination of "sincerity" and "faithfulness" has formed a vocabulary with rich connotations. Its basic meaning refers to honesty and loyalty. For thousands of years, honesty has been regarded by the Chinese nation as its own code of conduct and moral cultivation, forming its unique and rich concept of honesty. This concept of honesty plays an extremely important moral role in today's market economy and socialist core value system construction.