Do you drink poisonous alcohol to quench your thirst.(飲鴆止渴)
During the Han Dynasty in China, there was
a famous minister named (Huoxu).
There is a story about him in history
books.
His uncle is a governor.
His uncle was framed and sent to prison.
All the family members are worried.
He was only 15 years old, and he wanted to
help his uncle.
He wrote a letter to the chief of his
uncle.
The main points of the letter are as
follows.
My uncle has been in prison for a while
now, so I took the liberty to write this letter to you.
Each of us has a different body and face.
Some people are tall, some are short, some
are fat, some are thin, some are handsome and some are ugly.
But I think the part of human nature is the
same. Everyone seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages, and everyone is
greedy for life and fear of death.
My uncle has a very good family background,
and his career from his youth to the present has been very smooth.
He has achieved the position of governor.
He has managed the state very well, and he has not made any serious mistakes.
So I think it is impossible for him to
commit the crime of falsifying official documents, and doing this is completely
useless to him.
This is the first unreasonable point I put
forward.
If a person lives in a very comfortable
life, he is not faced with the desperate situation of starvation and cold, how
could he take poison because he is hungry, and drink poison when he is thirsty.
This is the second unreasonable point I put
forward.
From the perspective of human nature, I put
forward these two unreasonable points.
I ask you to find out the truth of the
matter. I think you are a reasonable and fair person.
I think if you help an innocent person not
to be persecuted, great blessings will surely come to you and your family.
Later the chief found out the truth of the
matter. His uncle was released from prison.
This idiom is used to describe a person who
only seeks to solve the immediate difficulties, regardless of the greater
disaster in the future.
Dear friend, what inspiration or thoughts
did you have after hearing this story.
Do you listen to slander casually? Do you
think about the rationality of anything you hear?
I hope this story will give you some new
gains.
飲鴆止渴(Do you drink poisonous alcohol to
quench your thirst.)
中國的漢王朝時代，有一個著名的大臣，他的名字叫做(霍諝)。
歷史書上記載了一個他的故事。
他的舅舅是一個州長。
他的舅舅被誣陷所以被下到牢中。所有的家人都很擔心。
他當時才15歲，他想要幫忙他的舅舅。
他寫了一封信給他舅舅的長官。
信中的重點如下。
我的舅舅現在在獄中已經一陣子了，我冒昧寫這封信給你。
我們每個人的身材與臉孔都不相同。
有的人高有的人矮，有的人胖有的人瘦，有的人帥有的人醜。
但是我認為人性的部分卻是相同的，每個人都是趨利避害，每個人都是貪生怕死。
我的舅舅他的家世很好，他從年輕到現在的仕途都非常的順利。
他已經做到州長的位置，他把這個州治理的很好，他沒有犯過嚴重的錯誤。
所以我認為他不可能犯下竄改公文這種罪行，做這件事情對他完全沒有好處。
這是我提出的第一個不合理的地方。
一個人如果生活過得非常安逸，他沒有面臨到飢寒交迫的絕境，他怎麼可能因為肚子餓就吃毒藥，口渴了就喝毒酒呢。
這是我提出的第二個不合理的地方。
我站在人性的角度，提出這兩個不合理的地方。
我請求你查清楚事情的真相，我認為你是一個明理又公正的人
我認為你如果幫助一個清白的人不受迫害，那一定會有極大的福氣的降臨到你與你的家人身上。
後來這位長官查清事情的真相。他的舅舅被釋放出獄。
這句成語被用來形容一個人只求解決眼前困難，而不顧將來更大的禍患。
親愛的朋友，你聽完這個故事有怎樣的啟發或有怎樣的想法呢。
你會隨便聽信讒言嗎?你聽到的任何事情，你都會思考其合理性嗎。
我期待這故事能讓你產生一些新的收穫。
出處為後漢書-卷48-楊李翟應霍爰徐列傳