Where does it come from that it is easy to invite gods but difficult to send them away?

There is a popular saying among the people, "It is easier to invite a god than to send him away." The original meaning is that if you invite a god into your home, he should be grateful to you for eating your offerings; but as time goes by, ordinary people will inevitably There was negligence.

If one day you neglect your offerings, the gods will maliciously harm you, which goes far beyond the issue of eating. Later, the meaning was extended to mean that it is easy to invite someone to your home, but it is difficult to send them away. Don't invite some people and forces to help you unless absolutely necessary, for fear of causing more trouble.

Typical example: The Tang Dynasty invited the minority Uighurs to put down the rebellion:

During the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the central government wanted to quell the rebels of An Lushan and Shi Siming, but its own military strength was not enough, so it The Uighur army, a minority ethnic group in the north, was invited to help quell the rebellion. Ethnic minorities see China's huge profits and are happy to come. But after the rebels were pacified, they were unwilling to retreat to the north.

He reached out to the Tang Dynasty to ask for money, food, military expenses, women, etc. Since the Tang Dynasty was exhausted by the Anshi Rebellion, it could not satisfy their many unreasonable demands. As a result, the Uighur soldiers slaughtered Chang'an again, killing and looting less, making the Tang capital a mess, and the emperor had to flee again. In order to quell the internal chaos, Uighur soldiers from outside were invited, but the result was disastrous. It was "it is easier to invite gods than to send them away".

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Examples in today’s society, it is easy to ask God to send away the refugees, but it is difficult for Germany to “spend money” to send away the refugees:

December 2017 by the German Ministry of the Interior On March 3, it was stated that if those who fail to apply for asylum status voluntarily return to their home country, the German government will provide them with financial subsidies of up to 3,000 euros (approximately 23,600 yuan) to help them return home and settle down.

According to Germany’s Die Zeit, the Alliance Party reached an agreement on the refugee policy issue at a meeting between the party’s top leaders in October, agreeing that Germany should accept no more than 200,000 refugees per year. In fact, since 2015, Germany has accepted more than 1 million refugees. How to deal with the number of refugees that far exceeds the planned number has become an urgent problem to be solved.

A report released by the German RV insurance company in September this year stated that the “three major fears” of Germans are almost all related to the refugee crisis, namely terrorist attacks, violence and “the tension caused by foreign immigrants” ".

Statistics released by the German Federal Criminal Investigation Office in November showed that in the first nine months of this year, refugee camps across Germany were attacked 211 times by far-right elements, including arson and other vicious methods. In 2015, there were 1,031 such attacks, and in 2016 there were nearly a thousand. The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany also received significant support in September's general election.

Suente, a small village in northern Lower Saxony, Germany, has only more than 100 residents, but it once accepted more than 700 refugees in accordance with government requirements. The villagers were already very disgusted. They heard many refugees criticize that "German food is not delicious" and it was inconvenient for several people to live together, which increased their resistance. An 80-year-old widowed woman who did not want to be named angrily told reporters that she was not opposed to refugees, but the government should have a "measure" and should first take care of the people in need in the country.

Not only the poor, but also many middle-class people have many complaints about Germany's refugee policy. Robert, an engineer who lives in Hannover, told reporters that dealing with the refugee crisis seems to have become the top priority of the German government, while Germany's own problems have been put aside. For example, German taxes are the second highest in Europe, many roads have not been repaired for decades, and primary and secondary school facilities dilapidated. He believes that the income of Germans lags far behind that of the United States, Switzerland and other countries.

Robin Alexander, a reporter for German newspaper Le Monde, published "The Driven: Merkel and Refugee Policy - A Report from Inside the Power" in March this year, and the book quickly became a bestseller. First place. In the author's writing, "Merkel's refugee policy is not a masterpiece of loving policy, but an accidental and expanding disaster."