A farmer in the state of Song once got a piece of stone with jade1（翡翠，碧玉） in it.

　　He presented this stone to Prime Minister Zi Han. But Zi Han refused to accept it. The farmer explained, "It looks like just a stone, but there is jade inside. It actually is a piece of treasure and suitable for honorable men like you, not for us common people."

　　"I know there is jade inside," Zi Han said," but I disagree with you. I think to have the virtue2 of declining things that do not belong to oneself is the real treasure. "

　　宋國人有個農(nóng)夫得到一塊含寶玉的石頭后，將它獻(xiàn)給了相國子罕。

　　子罕拒絕接受這塊石頭，農(nóng)夫解釋說：“表面上它是塊石頭，但里面含有寶玉，是個寶物，適合您這樣的貴人使用，我們普通百姓用它就不合適了。”

　　子罕說：“我知道里面是寶玉。但我的觀點(diǎn)和你不同，我認(rèn)為具有不接受不應(yīng)得的東西的品德才是真正的寶玉。”