晚明名臣于慎行清廉人生考述

The Incorruptible Career ofthe Famous Minister Yu Shenxing in the Late Ming Dynasty

于慎行一生清正廉明,品行高洁,堪称一代廉臣,其清廉人生具有典型意义。优美的家风以及良好的教育、深厚的乡邦文化共同起作用,有力地促成了于慎行清廉品格的养成。于慎行淡薄荣禄,知足知止,对腐败之风深恶痛绝。他严于交际辞受,屡屡拒礼拒贿,甚至因此影响到自己的仕途发展,亦在所不惜,清白之节,终生不易。于慎行笃修躬行,自奉甚俭,廉而不刿,平居生活处处体现出其清廉品格。秦淑人是于慎行的贤内助,助成其清廉之志。

Yu Shenxing was an incorruptible person with very good morality all his life.He could be called as the honest and upright official of his time,whose incorruptible career was typically instructive.His excellent family tradition,good education and deep native culture strongly contributed to the cultivation of the incorruptible character of Yu Shenxing.As he was content with his lot and indifferent to fame and profit,Yu Shenxing regarded corruption with great aversion.He insisted on strict adherence to the rules of rejections and acceptance,and rejected bribes over and over again,for which his official career was likely to be influenced.He maintained this integrity throughout his life.As a frugal and incorruptible man,Yu Shenxing was assiduous in putting ethical principles into practice and always showed such an honest and upright character in his ordinary life.Qin Shuren was his virtuous wife who helped to achieve his life's ambition to be free from corruption.