The pause rhythm of spear and shield in classical Chinese

1. How to break the contradictory sentence in classical Chinese? The spear and shield in the textbook have broken sentences and punctuation marks. If you divide the rhythm, you can draw it like this:

The Chu people/those with shields and spears praised/said, "My shield is strong, and things can't sink." He also praised his spear/said, "The benefits of my spear are all in things." Or: "What if I use my spear to cover my shield?" He/she can respond. Husbands/indestructible shields/and indestructible spears cannot stand side by side with the world.

To divide the rhythm, we need to fully understand the meaning of the text and master the broken and unbreakable places so as not to make mistakes. The principle is that fewer rows are better than mistakes.

Reference translation:

There was a man from Chu who sold both shields and spears. He boasted of his shield and said, "My shield is so strong that nothing sharp can penetrate it." He boasted of his spear and said, "My spear is so sharp that any solid can pierce it." Someone asked him, "What would happen if you stabbed your shield with your spear?" The man was tongue-tied and couldn't answer a word. A shield that can pierce nothing and a spear that can pierce everything cannot exist in this world at the same time.

2. The classical Chinese {spear and shield} {Zheng Ren buys shoes} should be detailed, thank you. Spears and shields.

Original text:

Chu people have shields and spears, praising: "My shield is strong and can't sink." He praised his spear and said, "The benefits of my spear are all trapped in things." Or, "What about a child's spear and a trapped child's shield?" He has the ability to respond.

Translation:

There was a man selling spears and shields in Chu State. He boasted of his shield and said, "My shield is so strong that nothing can pierce it." He boasted of his spear and said, "My spear is so sharp that anything can pierce it." Someone said, "How about stabbing your shield with your spear?" The man was asked nothing.

Main idea

Spears and Shields tells the story of a man who boasted about the spears and shields he sold, but was unable to justify himself because of self-contradiction, and warned people to seek truth from facts when speaking and doing things, and not to exaggerate and contradict themselves.

Brief introduction of the author

Han Feizi (about 280-233 BC) is Han Fei. China was a thinker and politician at the end of the Warring States Period. He was a student of Xun Qing, a famous thinker at that time. Han Fei inherited and developed Xunzi's legalism, absorbed his previous legalism and became a master of legalism. In the fourteenth year of Qin Shihuang (233 BC), he was killed by Li Si. His works were later called Everything is done wrong, and there are 55 existing works. He opposes the hierarchical system centered on bloodline, and advocates the equality of "nobility", "popularity" and "self-protection"; Oppose "cronyism" and advocate "meritocracy"; Oppose Confucian "rule by courtesy" and advocate "rule by law"; At the same time, it also puts forward that "technique" (the means by which the monarch controls his subjects) and "potential" (the power of the monarch) are the supplements to "law".

People who would rather believe their size than their feet when buying shoes.

Interpretation is used to satirize people who only believe in dogma and ignore reality.

Out of "everything is wrong, foreign reserves say left"

Use subject-predicate form; As an attribute or adverbial; derogatory sense

Synonyms are applied mechanically and dogmatically.

Dengmi Henan people buy shoes

suggestion

People who would rather believe their size than their feet when buying shoes.

If Zheng people had shoes, they would sit on them first. When they arrived in the city, they forgot to do it. They have shoes, but they say, "I forgot to take them." Instead, it is. The anti-urban strike cannot be realized.

People say, "Why not try? Holden: Holden reliability is better than confidence. 」

Translation:

Zheng has a man who wants to buy a pair of shoes. He measured his feet first, and then put the measured size on the seat. He hurried to the market and forgot to bring that size. He got the shoes, but said, "I forgot my size." "Go home and get it. By the time he came back, the market had already dispersed, and he finally didn't buy shoes.

Someone asked him, "Why don't you try on the size of your shoes with your own feet?" He replied, "I would rather believe in size than my own feet!" 」

To annotate ...

Zheng, the name of a small country in the Spring and Autumn Period, was in Xinzheng County, Henan Province.

Footwear-silver road, leather shoes, all shoes.

Degree-sound capture, reflection, used here as a verb, that is, the meaning of calculation and measurement. The word "du" at the back, used as a noun, is a ruler.

One-synonymous with classical Chinese, here refers to the measured size.

Sit-the same seat is a seat, referring to chairs, stools and other furniture.

Fuck.-Take it, take it.

Just-just, the end, here refers to the market has been dissolved.

Nihility-nothingness, nothing, here is the meaning of can't, can't.

Write comments on (literary works) and mark them with dots and circles to attract attention.

This Zheng Guoren made a dogmatic mistake. He only believes in the size of his feet, not his own, and not only makes a big joke, but also can't buy shoes. In real life, buying shoes only depends on the size of the feet, not the feet. It may not happen. But there are such people. Some people, speaking, doing things and thinking, only start from books, not from reality; He believes what is written in the notebook, but he doesn't believe what is not written in the notebook but actually exists. In this kind of person's view, only what is recorded in the notebook is the truth, and what is not recorded is not the truth. In this way, of course, thinking will be rigid and action will hit a wall.

Literary allusion: In ancient times, a man in Zheng bought a pair of shoes and measured his feet at home. He went to the shoe shop in the market and took a good look at a pair of shoes. When he was about to buy them, he suddenly found that he had forgotten to take a good size at home, so he said that he had forgotten to take a size, went home and bought another pair, and went back. The person next to him asked him, why don't you just try on the size and make it according to the original size when you buy shoes for yourself? "I'd rather believe that my size is right, but my feet are not necessarily accurate." Later, people used "honest people buy shoes" to describe and laugh at those who engage in dogmatism regardless of objective reality.