Original: If there is good thought, there must be good deeds. God will bless good thoughts and actions.
Vernacular translation: There must be Qing Yu in the house of good deeds. People who are kind-hearted and often do good deeds will be blessed by the Dragon God.
Teach people to always keep the idea of doing good, and what they do naturally is good. If they often do good deeds, they will be blessed by God and have a good result.
This article is from the Ming Dynasty's anonymous "Augmented Sage"
Extended data writing background:
A bibliography of children's enlightenment compiled by China in Ming Dynasty. The title of the book was first seen in the drama Peony Pavilion in the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, so it can be inferred that this book was written in the Wanli period at the latest.
"Glory and Contribution" is a collection of proverbs and aphorisms of China from ancient times to the present. Later, it was changed to this appearance after the continuous supplement of the literati in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was called "adding glory to the text" in history, commonly known as "adding glory to the text".
On the surface, augmented sages seem disorganized, but as long as you read the whole book carefully, it is not difficult to find its internal logic. This book's understanding of human nature is based on the Confucian Xunzi's "theory of evil nature" and gives a cold insight into social life. Feelings are polluted by money. "No one in the city asks you if you are poor, and if you have money in the mountains, you have distant relatives." .
Friendship is just a lie. "There are many brothers with wine and meat, and you have never met anyone in an emergency"; Honor is determined by money, "don't believe it, but watch the wine in the banquet, first persuade the rich"; Law and justice are manipulated by money, "the yamen is open, and no money can enter"; Human nature is distorted by interests. There are straight trees in the mountains, but there are no straight people on earth.
Sophistication leads people to guess. "It's hard to paint a tiger's skin but a bone, and people know its face but not its heart"; Good and evil are inseparable. "Going into the mountains is not afraid of hurting the tiger, but it is a double-edged sword." Augmented sages highly summarize the dark phenomena in many aspects of society and display them coldly in front of readers.