09．土【士】部 soil；earth
安peace土homeland乐happy业career
安土乐业means living and working in peace and contentment.
During the Warring States Period 战国时期(BC 722-481), there was a man named Li Er李耳. It was said that he had grey hair and a long beard from the day he was born; therefore people called him Laozi 老子(old man). Actually this story is not true.
Laozi is simply an honorific title the people of that time gave Li Er because of their great respect for him. Laozi was a great scholar. He was dissatisfied with the society in which he lived because it was rife with war and poverty. He was nostalgic for the golden age of the Sage Kings. He proposed the “small contry lower population” idea. He thought if the population of a small country is small, the society will have sufficient resources to support its people, and there would be no need to fight for resources and food. Then people can 安土乐业—live a prosperous and contented life.
【拼音】ān tǔ lè yè
【含义】意思是安居本土，愉快地从事自己的职业。
【出处】汉·扬雄《连珠》：“吏不苟暴，役赋不重，财力不伤，安土乐业，民之乐也。”
