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Cheng Guanghai. In many parts of our country, there is a saying that "clean officials take off their boots and stolen officials take off their hats". Meaning, if you are a recognized clean official, you can take off your boots when you leave office and leave them in the place of office as a memento or hang them on your shoulders and carry them away. If it is a traitor and a common man, when he leaves office, he will take off his black gauze hat and hang it on the city tower, so that the people will spit on him, and use this as a warning to his successor**. Where does the legend come from?I read some materials and found that "Qing officials take off their boots" may originate from the legend of Confucius in the world.
When Confucius was 51 years old, he was invited by Lu Dinggong to become the head of the central capital. On his way to his post, Confucius met an old woman sitting on the ground and crying. It turned out that the old woman's family was very poor, and in order to give his mother a full meal, the son went to collect some wheat from other people's wheat fields when he was harvesting, but was caught by the official as a thief and sentenced to death (that is, the punishment of cutting off both feet). However, before the time for the execution, the old man of Zhongdu Zai was transferred, and when he heard that the new official was about to take office, the old mother cried here, wanting to intercede for her son. After Confucius learned the real situation, he promised to release the old man's son. From this, Confucius also knew that the reason why this place was poor was because of the government's inaction and disorderly actions.
After Confucius took office in Zhongdu, he touched people with virtue and taught people with propriety, and formulated various measures to develop production, purify people's customs, and eliminate all kinds of evil political torture; soon after, the social atmosphere in Zhongdu greatly improved, and the lives of the common people also changed greatly, and many places came here to visit and study Xi.
Because of Confucius's outstanding political achievements, he was quickly promoted, and after the common people knew the news, they sent each other off, resulting in one of his boots being stepped on. After that, everyone kept this boot, and also built a special floor of pavilion on the east gate of the central capital city for this boot to express their nostalgia and gratitude to Confucius. Later generations called this boot "Master's shoes", and taking off the boots and leaving office is also regarded as a symbol of righteousness and righteousness of clean officials, and a proof of noble personality.
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