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Today, Wuxi mandarain education Chinese Bumengfei Teacher helps us understand the story of Six-foot Lane in detail:

In the Qing Dynasty, there was a famous family in Tongcheng, Anhui Province. Father and son were the prime ministers of the two generations and had great power. These were Zhang Ying and Zhang Tingyu's father and son.

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, Zhang Ying was a Bachelor of Arts at Wenhua Palace and a minister of rites. The old house in Tongcheng is adjacent to the Wu family. There is a space between the two houses for traffic between the two sides. Later, neighbours Wu family built a house to occupy this passage, Zhang family disagreed, the two sides will overthrow the county Yamen lawsuit. County officials consider that both sides of the dispute are prominent officials and well-known families. They dare not easily break the dispute.

During this period, Zhang's family wrote a letter to Zhang Ying, a senior official in Beijing, asking Zhang Ying to come out and interfere in this matter.After receiving the letter, Zhang Ying thought that she should humble her neighbours and wrote four sentences to her home in reply:

Thousands of miles of books are only for walls.

What's wrong with making him three feet?

The Great Wall still exists today.

Haven’t see Qin Shihuang in these year

Family read it, understand its meaning, take the initiative to give up three feet of space. The Wu family, deeply touched by the situation, also sent out the three-foot housing base, thus forming a six-foot lane. The two courtesy concessions and the Zhang family's non-oppressive approach were passed on to be good talks.From this story, we learn to be modest, tolerant in life. Mutual humility can avoid many contradictions and reduce disputes between people. Mutual understanding and tolerance can help people get along harmoniously, and can greatly improve people's happiness index. As the saying goes, "endure calm wind and waves, step back to the vast sea and sky". We should all learn from the characters in the story. We should not strive for the best in everything, but be modest and tolerant. What's wrong with three points of courtesy?