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关于财富

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财富

Wealth

the word wealth always reminds people of money and the

sayings

or

concepts

related

to

money.

for

example,

“

money

talks

”

;

“

money

makes

the

ghosts

turn

the

mill

”

;

“

as

birds

die

for

food,

so

men

die

for

wealth

”

;

“

the

poor

have

no

friends

even

though

they

live

in

the

noisy

downtown, while the rich have remote kinsfolk even if

they live in the deep mountains

”

;

“

poverty chills

ambition

”

“

one

cent

short

may

put

a

hero

in

an

awkward

situation

”

etc, etc..

in the 1980' s, all shops were state-owned with

marked prices. you couldn't buy what you wanted with

even

one

cent

short,

so

one

cent

could

indeed

embarrass

a hero. a popular song at that time started

“

i picked

up one cent at the roadside, and i handed it over to

the policeman

…”

but now no one cares to pick it up

even if it were ten cents.

people's

reverence

for

money

is

expressed

in

varied

ways.

the

names

of

companies

or

stores

are

often

“

beer

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of

wealth

and

honor

”

,

“

restaurant

of

wealth

and

rank

”

“

store

of

the

aristocrats

”

“

hotel

of

fame

and

prestige

”

etc. (even some people's names have the meanings of

“

full of gold

”

or

“

great fortune

”

). at new year's

time, the god of wealth is worshiped and the picture

of

the

god

is

covered

with

signs

of

money.

when

a

millionaire

is

walking

in

the

street,

people

will

show

their

profound

respect

even

though

they

know

very

well

that

they

can

not

get

a

cent

from

him.

the

english

film

“

the

million- pound

note

”

makes

a

most

vivid

revelation of this situation. with the million pound

note

in

hand,

the

hero

has

the

privilege

to

buy

on

credit,

or

on

loan

and

is

even

presented

money

from

others.

it's

an idealized end of the story that the hero is still

loved

by

his

girl

friend

even

after

he

lost

his

million-pound

note.

however,

without

the

million-pound

note, they couldn't have known each other. it's very

difficult

for

people

to

make

friends

directly

with

beggars.

the

song

of

“

all

good

things

must

end

”

in

a

dream

of the red mansions attacks the money worshipers by

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saying:

“

all men long to be immortals

yet silver and gold they prize

and grub for money all their lives

till death seals up their eyes

”

but when chen shih-yin tries to expound this song

by

analyzing

the

inconstancy

of

human

relationships

and

the incomprehensible human heart, he has to say:

“

while men with gold and silver by the chest

turn beggars, scorned by all and dispossessed

”

the conclusion is that it doesn't work without

money.

in

spite

of

the

human

civilizations

over

thousands

of years, people can not deny the function of money.

this

shows

how

important

money

is.

money

plays

a

decisive role to individuals, to families and even to

countries

or

nationalities.

otherwise,

why

is

everyone,

from

doorkeepers

to

presidents,

trying

to

earn

as

much

as possible? why does every country need chancellors

of the exchequer, who keep formulating and revising

financial

laws

and

regulations?

how

different

it

is

to

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be a creditor nation and a debtor nation! the united

states

is

playing

the

tyrant

just

because

it

is

wealthy

enough. a poor man may cherish lofty aspirations, but

will probably be beaten because of his poverty. the

afghanistan may have won a lot of sympathy, but how

difficult it would be to live solely on charity.

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of all ages and in every country, all kinds of

corruption

stem

from

money.

no

matter

how

rough

the

man

is, and in what despicable way he earned the money, he

can grease the palms of or buy over some very decent

officials

or

even

intellectuals.

can

you

see

how

crucial a role money is playing? (a case in point is

the bankrupt of the company)

some people or organizations like some religious

groups claim that they

have seen

through the

human

vanity and

can

take

money

lightly, but

to people's

puzzlement, they are also accumulating money, either

to

renovate

the

temples,

or

to

regild

buddha's

statues,

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in

whatever

pretexts.

they

are

not

engaged

in

production, so they can only depend on the donations

from the devout believers. sometimes your sincerity

relies on whether you donate and how much you donate.

do

the

monks

care

about

money?

the

answer

is

affirmative.

what's more, many monks are already provided with a

salary.

we are living in a material world, and it's really

difficult to deny the function of money or wealth. we

need

money

for

food,

clothes,

education,

hospital,

housing

and

transportation,

etc.

there's

rarely

anything that doesn't need money. what we can discuss

now is not the importance of money, but whether money

is almighty and whether more wealth can bring us more

happiness.

we must say that money is not almighty, and there

are

many

things

which

money

can't

do.

for

example,

many

emperors

like

qin

shihuang

longed

for

elixirs.

as

wealthy

as

they

were,

and

as

mighty

as

they

were

to

take

every measure to search for long life medicine, they

still could not avoid the sad denouement that

“

their

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graves are a covered with

weeds

”

.

many great men suffered from fatal illness. even

though they were treated with the best medical means,

they had to suffer as much as the ordinary people, and

met

with

the

same

inescapable

fate.

rich

or

poor,

great

or ordinary, we come and go with nothing belonging to

us.

huang

shiren,

the

cruel

hearted

landlord,

was

rich

but xi'er would rather hid in the deep mountains and

turn into a white-hired girl than marrying him;

wang baochuan wouldn't give up her marriage with

xue

pinggui

even

though

she

had

to

live

in

the

cold

cave

for over ten years;

emperor

shunzhi

of

the

qing

dynasty

owned

the

whole

country,

but just because

of

the

death

his

beloved

concubine,

he

eventually

became

disillusioned

with

this world and spent the rest of life in the temple as

a monk (it's all right even if it is a legend).

many love stories can never be bought with money.

the

ever-lasting

folktale

of

liang

shanbo

and

zhu