说到清廉,人们往往将它与清贫挂上钩,似乎清贫就是清官的必然生活状态。在有关清官的故事中也多会着力渲染其是如何地“身无长物”。这里不想排除一些清官清贫的可能性,只是觉得除了在所用汉字上都有一个“清”字外,二者并无必然联系。“两袖清风”不一定要穷困潦倒,生活富足者未必就不是清官。 When it comes to cleanliness, people tend to link it with poverty, it seems that poverty is the inevitable state of life of honest government. In the story about the honest government, we often try our best to render it “without substance.” We do not want to rule out the possibility of mercilessly cleanning the poor here, except that there is no necessary connection between the two except that there is a “clear” character on the used Chinese characters. “Two sleeves breeze” does not have to be destitute, rich life may not be honest government.