What does it mean that the wind blows the eggshell and wealth scatters happiness?

"The wind blows the eggshell and wealth makes people happy" means that wealth is as fragile as an egg. People will naturally be happy if they don't take wealth so seriously.

"The wind blows the eggshell" is a figurative sentence. There is nothing in egg yolk and egg white, which is a metaphor for losing property, and there will be no more troubles (caused by financial disputes) from now on.

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It comes from Augmented Xianwen in Ming Dynasty, which is an enlightening bibliography for children in Ming Dynasty. The story goes like this: "In ancient times, there was a very poor and stingy man who spent more than three months traveling by boat. In order to save money, he only brought a salted egg, which is a gray egg, but after several days, his salted egg has not been eaten. "

One day, he was eating salted eggs on the boat when a gust of wind blew his salted eggs off and fell into the water. He felt very sorry and said, "The wind blew away the eggshell, and wealth lost people's happiness."

There is this sentence in Stephen Chow's version of "Tong Pak Hu Dian Qiu Xiang". Zhu Zhishan lost all his property because of gambling and begged Tang Bohu to draw 30 paintings for him to pay off his gambling debts. Tang Bohu made fun of him and said, "The wind blows the eggshell, and wealth destroys people's happiness.".

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