What is the full text of Zheng Renyou (General and) Shoppers?

Meaning: There is a man in Zheng who wants to buy shoes.

from: Han Fei, a famous thinker and legalist in the Warring States Period, Han Fei's "Han Feizi's Foreign Reserve says left", the original text:

If Zheng people have shoes, they should first measure their feet and sit on them. To the city and forget to fuck it. Having fulfilled his promise, he said, "I forgot to stick to it." Instead, take it. And the anti-city strike, then can not be fulfilled. People say, "Why not try it?" Yue: "Ning reliability, no self-confidence. "

Translation:

There was a man in the state of Zheng who wanted to buy shoes. He first measured his feet and put the measured size on his seat. When I went to the market, I forgot to bring a good size. I have already got my shoes, only to remember that I forgot my size.

He said to the shoe seller, "I forgot to take my measurements." So I went home to get my measurements. When he returned to the market, the market broke up and he didn't buy any shoes.

Someone asked him, "Why don't you try on the shoes with your feet?" He said, "I would rather trust the measured size than my own feet."

Extended information:

Moral:

This story tells people: We should be flexible and improvise when dealing with things, we should not stick to conventions and dogmas, we should pay attention to objective facts, and we should proceed from reality when dealing with people.

Revelation:

This Zheng national only believed in the size obtained by measuring his feet, but did not believe in his own feet. Not only did he make a big joke, but he could not even buy shoes and became a laughing stock. In real life, buying shoes only depends on the size of the foot, but not on the foot.

people who only know how to stick to dogma without flexibility may not have brains, right? But people like this do exist, and there are not many. Some people talk, do things and think about problems only from books, not from reality.

he believes what is written in the book, but he doesn't believe what is not written in the book but actually exists. In this kind of person's view, only what is in books is truth, and what is not written is not truth. In this way, of course, thinking will be rigid, and action will easily hit a wall.

Author's introduction:

Han Fei (about 28-233 BC) was born in Xinzheng (now xinzheng city, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province), an outstanding thinker, philosopher and essayist, son of Han Wang, student of Xunzi and classmate of Li Si.

The legalist theory founded by Han Feizi provided a theoretical basis for the birth of the first unified and autocratic centralized state in China, and was regarded as one of the two people who got the essence of Laozi's thought the most (the other was Zhuang Zhou).

Han Fei loves his motherland deeply, but he is not valued by the king of Han, while the king of Qin attacked South Korea in order to get Han Fei. After Han Fei entered Qin, Chen Shu's strategy of weakening Qin to protect Han could not be used by Qin. Han Fei impeached Shangqing Yao Jia.

Yao Jia retaliated, so he went to prison, and then Reese went to prison to poison him. Han Fei-ren died, but his legalist thoughts were re-used by Ying Zheng, the king of Qin, who regarded Han Fei-zi as an important guide for the state of Qin, helped the state of Qin to enrich Qiang Bing, and finally unified the six countries.

Han Fei integrates Shang Yang's "Fa", Shen Buhai's "Shu" and Shen Dao's "Shi", and is a master of Legalism. It integrates Laozi's dialectics, simple materialism and law.

He is the author of Han Feizi, with 55 articles and more than 1, words. He is unique in the prose of pre-Qin philosophers, showing that he attaches great importance to materialism and utilitarianism, and actively advocates the theory of autocratic monarchy, with the aim of providing autocratic monarchs with the idea of enriching Qiang Bing.