Confucius said: living in a kind and harmonious environment is a great beauty of life. Can you be considered wise if you don't know how to choose benevolence?
In ancient China, we attached great importance to choosing our neighbors. When choosing a place to live, you should first look at who you are neighbors with. There is a saying in Zuo Zhuan: "No room for divination, only neighbors for divination". Choosing a good neighbor is more important than choosing a good house.
Living environment has a vital influence on people's growth. The ancients said: near Zhu Zhechi, near Mexico is black; In the bitter fleabane bitter fleabane, don't help yourself straight; Good is good and evil is evil. People's growth has both congenital factors and acquired factors. The influence of environment on people is more important than nature. Confucius said: "Sex is similar, learning is far away", which is what it means.
In ancient times, there were many beautiful legends about choosing neighbors, among which Meng Mu's three tricks were the most popular. Monk lost his father when he was three years old, and Meng Mu brought him up. In order to give Monk a good study environment, Meng Mu moved three times and finally settled near Gong Xue. Monk accepted his mother's words and deeds from an early age and learned from the students in the Forbidden City. He finally achieved something and became a master after Confucius.
There is also a story of "Millions Buy Neighbors", which is also very touching. In the Southern Dynasties, there was a duke named Lu Sanzhen, who was a general of the auxiliary country. This man is knowledgeable, honest and clean, and has high prestige in the court and among the people. At that time, an official named Ji Ya made a little mistake and was punished. He was demoted as the chief of Nankang (now Ganxian County, Jiangxi Province). He bought a house separated from Luseng Town by a wall. Once monk Lu asked him how much it would cost to buy this house, and Gia replied, "Eleven million." Lu Sanzhen was surprised. How can it be worth so much money? Gia said: a house1100,000, a neighbor1100,000! The two men laughed at each other.
As the saying goes, a distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor. People around the age of 60 should have good memories of their neighbors in their minds. When I was a child, besides my family, the most trustworthy and reliable people were my neighbors. If there is a happy event at home, I will take the initiative to share it with my neighbors; Whoever has difficulties will take the initiative to help; Whoever has a guest will always find a few villagers to accompany him to drink.
Where there are good neighbors, there are bad neighbors. If you are unlucky to have a strong neighbor like Trump, you are out of luck. Either compromise or invulnerability, there is no good life anyway. Tracing back to the source, it may be that there is something wrong with your feng shui. Otherwise, Gia wouldn't spend10 million to buy neighbors.
Last year, I went to Dubai and visited Palm Island, which is called the eighth wonder of the world. Palm Island is a reclamation project. There is a high-grade villa area on the island, and the price of a villa is hundreds of millions. The developer gave David Beckham a set with the advertisement: Would you like to be a neighbor with David Beckham? It seems that foreigners also attach great importance to their neighbors. But this advertisement doesn't appeal to me. Beckham is only famous, and he doesn't help me at all.
I come from a poor family. When I was young, my family often had the last meal, and there was no next meal. One day, the whole family didn't get any rice from morning till night. After dark, two neighbors came to my house quietly. One of them held a handkerchief in both hands, and Parry wrapped a handful of flour in her little hand. My family cooked a pot of boiling water, and poured this flour into the pot to cook. Everyone drank a big bowl. This flour seems nothing today, but it was a life-saving thing at that time. You know, at that time, every family didn't have overnight dishes, but they were forced out of their mouths! Sixty years have passed, and the two aunts have already passed away, but the scene at that time is still vivid.
Now the times are different, every household's life is better, neighborhood contacts are less, and feelings are alienated. Especially urban residents live in high-rise buildings, security doors, electronic eyes, and neighbors take elevators. A few years later, they still don't know their names. It's hard to find the feeling of being a neighbor in the past!
Nowadays, buying a house pays attention to feng shui, and no one cares who the neighbors are. In fact, good neighbors are the best feng shui. When I met COVID-19 during the Spring Festival this year, the community was closed. A family is an isolated unit, neighbors are close at hand, but they don't communicate with each other. If there is more trust and less indifference between neighbors, they will visit each other, chat, drink idle wine and crack eggs together, and their hearts will be much easier.
No matter how good the house is, you can buy it with money; As close as a neighbor, where can I buy it if I have money!