This is a folk saying that I have interpreted in detail before. It can be seen that the way of "being poor and rich" is an irreconcilable contradiction in the hearts of ancient people. After all, whether it is "poor" or "rich", it is full of humanity. Whether it is brilliant or dark, it is difficult for people to make the right choice when facing the poor and the rich. Therefore, the ancients summed up various refined sayings to warn the world to take the right path.
Today, let's talk about the morality of the poor and the rich, another folk saying: the poor don't take water, and the rich don't engage in prostitution.
Too poor to walk.
When the proposer asked what "running water" meant when he was poor, he was actually wrong. These four words should be read like this: poor, not walking, water, which means fire in ancient times, poor, not walking water has nothing to do with killing and arson.
Literally, it means that the poor should not go by water, which is the original intention of the poor not to go by water.
The ancients liked to watch feng shui when building houses. It's a good place for feng shui to sit by the mountains and rivers, and the water inside should be right in front of the courtyard gate, not the backwater bureau. It is not that the ancients liked the "waterway", but because the bow of the boat faces the river, which means that the financial resources are rolling. In fact, the ancients were very taboo about taking the water. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "the poor don't drink water".
In ancient times, there were no planes and spaceships, so we couldn't take air transportation. We can only choose land transportation by horses and chariots and water transportation by ships (basically no one dares to try sea transportation), so water transportation is more risky than land transportation.
Although there were robbers in ancient times, pedestrians can be seen everywhere on the official road, which is relatively safe. Unless you want to cut corners and cross mountains, it will be smooth to walk far away from the road. If all the scholars on the road could meet robbers casually, there would be no imperial examinations in ancient times, which would be tantamount to self-destruction.
The waterway is different. First of all, there are risks in the waterway itself under objective conditions, such as strong winds and waves, vortex reefs, ships in disrepair and so on. Basically, it's a once-in-a-lifetime encounter in the vast Yangtze River, Yellow River and Huaihe River, and it's hard to save your life.
Secondly, the waterway is prone to water bandits and river thieves. On the vast river, there are no people in the four fields, and there are natural criminal conditions. Therefore, there are not a few people who rob people by boat. In Jiangnan area, the river transport is developed, the water system extends in all directions, and all kinds of water bandits and river thieves haunt, so every time I travel by water, my heart is always in my throat.
The poor can't afford to rent a relatively safe big boat, so they can only choose some small boats to cross the river, which adds a little risk. Therefore, they are poor and do not take water. Sometimes they prefer to walk long distances and avoid convenient but dangerous waterways.
Moreover, the ancient "waterway" also has the derivative meaning of "taking advantage of people's danger" Most traders and businessmen in waterways live a life of licking blood. Therefore, even if you are poor, you should work hard to get rich, and don't covet some unscrupulous opportunistic business, which is similar to being poor and humble.
Money does not involve prostitution.
It is easier to explain that wealth has nothing to do with prostitution. After all, since ancient times, the root of all evil has led to the decline of developed people, which is basically inseparable from the word "obscenity".
The word "sex", with wealth unrelated to sex and evil sex as the head, is not a matter of men and women that we think of when we mention "sex" today.
In ancient times, "lewdness" refers to desire, and the first of all evils refers to indulgence and doing whatever you want, which is the source of all evils in the world, so self-cultivation has always been before the rule of the home country and the world.
Money doesn't involve whoring, that is to say, even if you have money, you should keep it true and don't be confused by various desires:
1, don't have greed, or you will fall into the abyss of sin;
2, don't have lust, otherwise the body will go from bad to worse;
3, don't have an appetite, otherwise it will be obese and difficult to suppress;
4. Don't be extravagant, or you will lose countless possessions;
This is also the meaning that wealth itself cannot be lewd. It's not simply that we should find a little wife if we have money, but that we should never lose our original conscience, and frugality is king at any time.
Being poor and not whoring is the advice given to young people by the older generation. Guard against arrogance and rashness, and integrate knowledge with practice. Even in today's highly developed science and technology, the meaning behind it is still out of date. Young people should learn one or two tricks to be upright and comfortable.