New shoes stained by mud

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When Zhang Han, the author of Song Chuang Meng Yu, was first appointed as the Censor, he paid a visit to Wang Tingxiang, the chief of the Count of Censors. Wang Tingxiang shared an anecdote1 with him. One day, Wang Tingxiang, in a sedan chair, encountered heavy rain on the way to the city. He noticed that from the ash factory to Chang’an Avenue, one bearer wearing a pair of new shoes paid special attention to the mud on the road for fear of staining his new shoes. However, after arriving at the city, the road became muddier and muddier. Carelessly, the bearer stepped on the muddy puddle, and then he continued, showing no more care to his stained shoes. Wang Tingxiang said that the way to be an official should be as cautious as the way the bearer treated his clean shoes. If you made a mistake, you would not care about other mistakes! On hearing these words, Zhang Han stepped back to show his great admiration. Bearing the instruction in mind, finally, Zhang Han became a good official of the Ming Dynasty.

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1. anecdote n. 轶事，趣闻