Idiom: virtuous and virtuous.
Pronunciation: hòu dé zài wù
Explanation: In the past, it meant that people with high morality could undertake important tasks.
Source: There is a Kun hexagram in the Book of Changes, whose image says: "The terrain is Kun, and the gentleman carries things with kindness."
General idea: people are smart and stupid, just like uneven terrain and fertile and barren soil. Farmers will not stop farming because the land is barren, and gentlemen will not give up education because of stupidity. There is nothing more tangible between heaven and earth than the earth, and there is nothing that is not borne by the earth. Therefore, a gentleman should imitate the meaning of Kun and be kind to others. Whether they are smart, stupid or mean, they should be tolerant and tolerant.
"Carrying things with virtue" means educating people and benefiting things with profound virtue. Now it is mostly used to train students with high moral character and profound knowledge.
The hexagrams in the Book of Changes: "Heaven is healthy, and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement; The terrain is Kun, and the gentleman carries things with morality. " Heaven (that is, nature) is just strong, accordingly, a gentleman should be resolute and hardworking; The potential of the earth is thick and slippery, and the gentleman is tolerant. In ancient China, people thought that heaven and earth were the largest, and it contained everything. The understanding of heaven and earth is: the sky is above and the earth is below; The sky is yang and the earth is yin; The sky is gold and the earth is earth; Strong and soft. It is believed that heaven and earth combine to create everything, and the four seasons are different. Without heaven and earth, there would be nothing. Heaven and earth are the universe, and the universe is heaven and earth. This is China's simple materialistic cosmology in ancient times, and it is also China's cosmology. Therefore, in the gossip, the dry hexagrams are the first, followed by Kun hexagrams; Dry on the top, Kun is next; Northern dry, southern Kun; It's Gao Xingjian. It is thick and heavy. Then the philosophy of life is further extended from the explanatory attributes of the two hexagrams (that is, heaven and earth), that is, life should be as tall, resolute and independent as the sky, as thick, broad and virtuous as the earth.
"Good as water" is Laozi: "Good as water, water conservancy, everything is indisputable." In other words, the highest realm of good deeds, like the nature of water, does not dispute fame and fortune and is favored by all things.
"Good water" and "virtuous to carry things" have the same meaning, so people often use these two words together.