If you are not ashamed of your work, you
will be adequately rewarded(一日不害羞，三日吃飽飯)
In China's Yuan Dynasty, there was a famous
playwright called Wang Ye.
He wrote a play. The summary of the story
of this play is that there is a woman who knows Taoist magic. This woman is
called (Peach Blossom Girl). The story between her and another man named (Zhou
Qian) who is very familiar with Taoist magic.
Part of that story follows.
There is a small village. In this village
there is a fortune teller who has been in business for 30 years. His name is
Zhou Qian.
Zhou Qian knew the Book of Changes. He was
a very hardworking man and opened his shop every day.
In the 30 years since he opened his shop,
Zhou Qian has never made a mistake, so he is proud of himself.
There was a sign on the door of his shop
that said
I guarantee that the results of my
fortune-telling are very accurate.
If a customer comes for a fortune telling
and later finds out that the fortune telling is inaccurate, I am willing to
compensate the customer with 500 grams of silver.
This was a large amount of compensation. In
those days, the salary of a clerk was about 250 grams of silver a year.
One day a woman came to Zhou Qian's shop
and said to him
My son has been in the capital on business
for several months, and I have not heard from him.
I would like a fortune telling to confirm
whether my son is safe.
Zhou Qian said to the woman after the
divination.
Your son is safe so far, but I have found
out through divination that your son will die in an accident tonight.
After hearing this, the woman sadly left
his shop.
Zhou Qian didn't expect the woman to return
to his shop the next evening.
The woman was accompanied by a young man.
The woman said to him
It turns out that your prophecy was wrong,
my son has returned home safely. This young man is my son.
After investigating, Zhou Qian discovered
that the young man was indeed the woman's only son, who had been away on
business for more than half a year.
Zhou Qian compensated the woman with 500
grams of silver.
Zhou Qian was very frustrated. This was the
first time in his life that he had made a mistake.
he said to a worker who was cleaning his
shop.
From today, I am closing my shop, I am no
longer open for business.
This incident hit me so hard that I lost
faith in my own fortune-telling abilities.
The hired man said to Zhou Qian.
Fortune telling is not a profession with a
high social status. But I think we should be proud of our profession.
I have heard a saying that if you are not
ashamed of your work, you will be adequately rewarded.
I don't think you should lose confidence in
yourself, you've only failed once in 30 years.
We all make mistakes and you shouldn't be
discouraged or disheartened by that.
You should remember the lessons of this
failure and be more careful the next time you do your fortune telling.
You should continue to open your shop and
do business as usual.
The meaning of this proverb is that if you
are not ashamed of your work, you will be adequately rewarded.
Dear friend, what inspiration or thoughts
do you have after listening to this story?
Have you ever experienced great failure?
How long did it take you to regain your confidence after a failure?
I hope this story can give you some new
insights.
一日不害羞，三日吃飽飯(If you are not ashamed of your
work, you will be adequately rewarded)
中國的元王朝，有一個著名的劇作家，他的名字叫做王曄。
他寫過一齣戲劇，這齣戲劇的故事概要是有一個精通道家法術的女子，這個女子的名字是(桃花女)。她與另一個會很熟悉道家法術的名字叫做(周乾)的男子之間發生的故事。
這個故事的部分內容如下。
有一個小小的村莊，這個村莊中有一個已經開業了30年的一個算命師，他的名字叫做周乾。
周乾精通易經，他是一個很勤奮的人，他每天都會開店營業。
周乾開業30年來沒有失誤過，因此他為自己感到自豪。
他的店舖門口張貼著一張告示，這張告示上面寫著。
我保證我算命的結果非常的準確。
如果顧客來算命，結果事後這個顧客發現算命結果不準確，我願意賠償這個顧客500公克的銀子。
這是一筆金額很大的賠償數字，當時的雇工的薪資大約是一年可以賺到250公克的銀子。
有一天，有一個婦人來到周乾的店裡，這個婦人對他說。
我的兒子到首都去做生意好幾個月了，這段期間內我都沒有他的消息。
我想要透過占卜來確認我的兒子是否平安。
周乾占卜後對這個婦人說。
你的兒子到目前為止都平安，但是我經由占卜的結果發現，你的兒子今天晚上會因為意外死亡。
這個婦人聽到這話後悲傷的離開他的店裡。
周乾沒有想到，這個婦人第二天的傍晚又來到他的店裡。
這個婦人的身邊還跟著一個年輕人。
這個婦人對他說。
事實證明你的占卜是錯的，我的兒子已經平安回家。這個年輕人就是我的兒子。
周乾經過查證後，發現這個青年男子的確是這個婦人出外經商半年多的獨生子。
周乾賠償這個婦人500公克的銀子。
周乾覺得很沮喪，這是他這輩子第一次失誤。
他對在他店裡負責打掃的一個雇工說。
從今天起我樣結束我的店舖，我不再營業了。
這件事情對我的打擊太大了，我對我自己的占卜技術失去了信心。
這個雇工對周乾說。
算命的工作並不是一個很社會地位很高的職業。但我認為我們應該以自己的專業為榮。
我聽說過一句諺語，這句諺語的意思是你不對你的工作感到羞愧，你就可以得到充足的回報。
我認為你不應該對自己失去信心，30年來你只失敗了這一次。
人難免會犯錯，你不應該因此而覺得灰心與沮喪。
你應該記取這次失敗的教訓，下次占卜時更加謹慎。
你應該如同往常一樣繼續開店做生意。
這句諺語的意思是你不對你的工作感到羞愧，你就可以得到充足的回報。
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。
你曾經經歷過巨大的失敗嗎?你在失敗後你多久可以恢復信心呢?
我期待這故事能讓你產生一些新的收穫。
出處為元-王曄-桃花女破法戰周公
