What is the story and moral of Zheng people buying shoes?

Buying shoes by Zheng people is a fable in the pre-Qin era, which comes from "Han Feizi's foreign reserves say left"; It is an idiom, an allusion and a fable.

Once upon a time, there was a A Zheng man who wanted to buy a pair of shoes in the market. He first measured the length of his feet and made a ruler. But when he left, he accidentally left his ruler on the stool at home.

He went to the market and found a place to sell shoes. I was about to buy shoes when I found that I left my ruler at home. I said to the shoe seller, "I left my shoe size at home, so I will buy it when I get home." With that, he hurried home.

He ran home in a hurry, took a ruler and ran to the market in a panic. At this time, it was getting late and the market had already dispersed. He made two trips for nothing and didn't buy shoes.

Others know this, feel very strange, ask him; "Why don't you try on your shoes with your own feet instead of going home and getting a ruler?"

Zheng Guoren, who bought shoes, said, "I would rather trust a measured ruler than my feet."

The moral of buying shoes by Zheng people is that if what they do is more in line with the actual situation, they can't rely on the so-called standards, but should be based on the latest actual situation. Therefore, the standards we set are not static, but should be adjusted, revised and improved at any time according to the actual situation. The criteria for adjustment, revision and improvement are objective facts.

To adapt to the changing situation, we can't be as rigid and stubborn as Zheng people buying shoes.

People nowadays are like people who buy shoes. They always remember the ruler instead of trying it with their feet.

You are really a typical shoe buyer.

Up to now, there are still many people who don't believe in themselves and just follow the dogma, like Zheng Ren who buys shoes.

We should handle everything flexibly according to the actual situation, otherwise we will make jokes about buying shoes.