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Xu Heng doesn't eat pears.

Xu Heng once passed Heyang (now mengzhou city) in midsummer. He is thirsty, ie because he has walked a long way and it is hot. There is a pear tree on the road, and everyone is scrambling to pick pears to eat. As usual, Xu Heng sat upright under the tree alone. Someone asked him (why not eat) and (Xu Heng) said, "You can't take it if you don't have it." The man said, "The situation is chaotic now, and this pear tree has no owner." (Xu Heng) said, "If the pear tree has no owner, will my heart have no owner? What others lose is unacceptable (even immoral). There are fruit trees in the yard. When the fruit ripens and falls to the ground, the (educated) children pass by it and leave without squinting. That's his family's education, so that's it. " Yuan Shizu wanted to appoint Xu Heng as Prime Minister, but Xu Heng declined politely because of illness. After Xu Heng's death, scholars from all over the world gathered to cry, and some people came from thousands of miles away to cry under the tomb. Emperor posthumous title "Zheng Wen".