“换位思考”的说法似乎是近几年才流行,其做法则古已有之。唐代白居易的名篇《观刈麦》,写他看到农妇抱着孩子拾麦穗,一问情况,原来她家地里收的粮食全交了税,只好拾一些麦穗充饥。白居易听了很难过,对比自己“吏禄三百石,岁晏有余粮”,感到愧疚不已。在封建社会,能这样“换位思考”的官是极少的。 The idea of ​​“empathy” seems to be prevalent in recent years, and its approach has existed for a long time. In the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi’s famous article “View Macking,” wrote that when he saw peasant women picking up their children’s ears and asking questions, the grain received in her house was totally taxed and had to pick up some ears to fill the stomach. Bai Juyi heard very sad, compared to their own “three hundred stone officials, old Yan with more than grain,” I feel endless guilt. In feudal society, there are very few officials who can “think emphatically.”