一生清操如冰雪;五世励节似苍松。这是后人为明代廉吏夏原吉写的一副楹联。夏原吉,字维,祖上是德兴(今河北涿鹿)人。因发愤攻读,被荐入太学。由明太祖朱元璋选拔为户部主事,后历建文、成祖、仁宗、宣宗等五世,官至太子少傅,一生廉洁清正。永乐元年,浙西发大水,有司治理无效,成 Her life as ice and snow; This is the descendants of the Ming Dynasty Xia Li Ji wrote a couplet. Xia Yuanji, word dimension, the ancestor is Dexing (now Hebei Zhuolu) people. Due to angry study, was recommended into too learning. Selected by the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang as the head of the household, the post-Li Jianwen, Cheng Zu, Renzong, Xuanzong and other V, officials to the Prince less Fu, life clean and honest. The first year of Yongle, Western Zhejiang flood, Department of governance invalid, into