——Quoted in "Zhijiang New Language: The Relationship between Master and Servant Should Not Be Reversed" and other articles

■Interpretation

A person must be moral, and an official must be virtuous. For officials, the highest moral standard is to love and serve the people. Vice versa. Leading cadres are public servants of the people, and the people are the masters of leading cadres. This relationship cannot be reversed at any time. If you do not regard the masses of the people as masters and are unwilling to bow down to be "servants," then you are not worthy of being a leading cadre. If on the surface it is said that he is a public servant of the people, but in his heart he wants to be the master of the people, envy the feeling of being on top, and even harm the interests of the masses, alienate the "relationship between fish and water" into "oil and water relationship", and let the harmony between the government and the people evolve into confrontation and conflict, which is the biggest corruption of official morality.

To establish official morality, it is necessary to get rid of the idea of "being an official as the standard," overcome and correct the feudal habit of "being an official and being a master," always adhere to the party's fundamental purpose and the line of mass work, maintain flesh-and-blood ties with the masses of the people, dedicate wisdom to the people, root strength in the people, and integrate emotions with the people, put solving the problems of the people's livelihood in the first place in all work, and do our best to come up with ideas, think of methods, and seek benefits for the masses.

■Original text

Uncle Xiang asked Yan Zi: "Which is the highest meaning?" Which is the thickest? He said: "Nothing is higher than loving the people, and nothing is better than being happy with the people." Then he asked, "What does it mean?" Which is cheap? He said: "Don't be inferior to the people, and don't be cheap to harm the body." ”

——(Warring States to Qin) "Yanzi Spring and Autumn Period, Inner Chapter, Ask Next"

■Definition

"Yanzi Spring and Autumn" is made by later generations relying on and embellishing Yanzi's words and deeds. Regarding the above paragraph, Liu Shipei, a master of modern scriptures, added: "The four 'meaning' words in this section are all false to the word 'virtue'. The orthography of "De" is "惪", which is similar to the shape of "meaning", so it is falsely called "meaning". Therefore, "which means is high" should be "which is high"; "Meaning is higher than loving the people", when "Virtue is higher than loving the people"; "Meaning is the next", when it is "virtue is the next"; "Meaning Mo is inferior to the carved people", when "Demo is inferior to the carved people". The meaning of this passage is that Shu Xiang asked Yanzi for advice: "What kind of virtue is noble?" What kind of behavior is generosity? Yan Zi replied, "There is no nobler virtue than loving the people, and there is no more generous behavior than making the people happy." Then he asked, "What kind of moral character is inferior?" What kind of behavior is despicable? Yan Zi replied: "There is no worse moral character than mistreating the people, and there is no more despicable behavior than harming the people." (Regarding "not doing anything is cheap to harm the body", Wu Zeyu's "Yanzi Spring and Autumn Collection Interpretation" presses: "body" is a mistake in the word "people".) ）

Yan Zi's words profoundly explained the duties of officials. The righteousness and love of the people for officials has always been a highly respected official demeanor; And the behavior of the remnants of the people has always been opposed and criticized by the world.