清朝康熙年间文华殿大学士兼礼部尚书张英,老家在安徽桐城县。有一年,他的家人因修筑围墙之事而与邻居互相争夺地界,矛盾十分激烈,闹得不可开交。当地官员感到很棘手,觉得很难调停处理。其家人便从桐城写信寄到北京,请求张英出面处理,希望凭借他的高官地位和权势把邻居压下去。张英接信以后,非但不采纳家人的意见,反而主张退让,宁肯自家吃些亏,也要和邻居搞好关系。他提笔赋诗,以诗代信,劝导家人。他在诗中写道:“千里修书只为墙,让他三尺又何妨?长城万里今犹在,不见当年秦始皇。”诗的意思是说:家人从千里之外的安徽桐城寄来书信,不过是为了修围 During the reign of the Qing Emperor Kangxi years Wenhua Hall Bachelor and ceremony book Zhang Ying, his hometown in Tongcheng County, Anhui Province. One year, his family members compete with their neighbors because of building walls. The conflict is so fierce that they can not be successful. Local officials felt it was tricky to find it difficult to mediate. His family sent a letter from Tongcheng to Beijing asking Zhang Ying to come forward and look forward to pressing down his neighbors by virtue of his position of senior official and power. After Zhang Ying received the letter, he not only failed to adopt the opinions of his family members, but advocated a concession instead of eating at his own expense and doing good with his neighbors. He penned poetry, to poetry, to persuade his family. He wrote in the poem: “Thousands of miles of books only for the wall, let him three feet and why not? The Great Wall Wanli this still, but then the first Qin Shi Huang.” The poet’s meaning is to say: the family from a thousand miles outside of Anhui Tongcheng sent letters, But to repair Wai