The story of Zheng people buying shoes

Once upon a time, there was a Zheng man who wanted to buy a new pair of shoes. He measured his feet in advance and put the measured size on the seat. (Zheng Guoren) When I arrived at the market, I forgot to take measurements. (Zheng Guoren) Picked the shoes, only to find: "I forgot my size." Just go home and get the measurements. When he returned to the market, the market had already dispersed, and no one bought shoes at last.

Someone asked, "Why don't you try on your shoes with your own feet?"

He replied, "I would rather trust the measured size than my own feet."

Introduction to the story:

Buying shoes by Zheng people is a fable in the pre-Qin era, which comes from "Han Feizi's Foreign Reserve is Left". It is not only an idiom, an allusion, but also a fable. It mainly tells the story that Zheng people can't buy shoes because they believe in "scale" too much. It reveals Zheng people's habit of sticking to dogma and relying on data. This fable satirizes those dogmatists who stick to the rules and shows that if you don't consider flexibility, you will eventually achieve nothing.

Original text:

If Zheng people want to buy shoes, they should put them on first and then sit on them. Go to town and forget to fuck it. When he finished his duty, he said, "I forgot my endurance!" " "On the contrary, take it. On the contrary, the city, hence (Su) shall not be fulfilled.

People will say, "Why not give it a try?"

Yue: "? ng (? ng) is reliable and has no confidence."

Moral:

This story tells people to be flexible in handling things, not to stick to the rules, not to stick to the rules, to pay attention to objective reality, and to proceed from reality in dealing with people.

Revelation:

This Zheng man only believes in the size of his own feet, not his own. Not only did he make a big joke, but he couldn't afford to buy shoes and became a laughing stock. In real life, people who buy shoes only believe in the size of their feet and don't believe in anything about them. They only know how to stick to the rules and don't know how to be flexible. People without brains don't necessarily have them, do they? But such people do exist, and there are not many.

Some people talk, do things and think 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 written in the book is truth, and what is not written is not truth. In this way, of course, thinking will be rigid, and actions will easily hit a wall.

About the author:

Han Fei was born in Zhou Nanwang in thirty-five years. Han Fei is the son of the Korean monarch, Han nationality, and a Korean at the end of the Warring States Period. Learning from Xunzi is a famous philosopher, thinker, political commentator, essayist and one of the representatives of Legalism in ancient China. Later generations, known as "Zi Han" or "Han Feizi", are the representatives of China's famous legalist thoughts in ancient times.