Chapter 28 spring

In the past, during the Chinese New Year, adults would paste a lot of red paper with the word "Spring" on rice urns, water tanks, sugar bowls, stoves, and even wardrobes.Once, I asked my father suspiciously: "Why are spring characters posted everywhere?" He said: "I hope there will be spring every year." In Taiwanese, the word "chun" in spring and the rest of "chun" are homophones, and the characters for spring are pasted everywhere, which means to hope that there will be surplus every year.My father also often said: "If there is spring in your heart, you are rich, and if you have no spring in your heart, you are poor." It means that a person who is content in his heart and always has room to spare is a rich person; poor people.

In Taiwanese dialect, those rich people are called "good amount people" or "good business people". It can be seen that rich people do not need to have a lot of money, but have a tall and broad forehead, which means wisdom; rich people do not have the most things people, but people who continue to create good karma.The standard of being rich is not how much property you have, but whether you have wisdom and a generous heart.The standard of being rich is not how many things you can possess, but whether you can give and care. The standard of being rich is not how much fame and power you have, but how much happiness and affection you have.Whenever I think of the word "spring" pasted on rice vats, I think of my father's words, hoping that my heart will always have spring and have more space to accommodate more wisdom and love.