What joke is "chop and change"? what did you say ?

This story originated from Zhuangzi's homology theory.

One year, when the harvest was not good, the monkey owner said to the monkey, "There is not enough food now, so we must save some food." How about eating three acorns every morning and four at night? The monkeys were very angry and shouted, "Too few! Why didn't you eat more in the morning than at night? " The monkey keeper quickly said, "How about eating four in the morning and three at night?" The monkeys are very happy to hear this. They think they ate more in the morning than in the evening and won.

In fact, the total number of acorns has not changed, but the distribution method has changed, and the monkeys have turned anger into joy. Theorists who pursue fame and wealth and reality always try to distinguish different attributes of things, but they don't know that things themselves are identical. Finally, like a monkey, I can't help being blinded by fickle and fickle.

The original intention of changing one's name is to make people fall for it. The Song Dynasty's "The Complete Book of Two Cheng, the Suicide Letter18 Mr. Yichuan's Language": "If the saints don't know, is the heart of the saints the skill of later generations?" Unfortunately, people who used this idiom later did not know the origin of chop and change, and confused it with "chop and change". The latter means that during the Warring States period, two great powers, Qin and Chu, were opposed, and some weak countries fell to Qin and Chu for a while. Just like during the hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union ten years ago, some African countries sometimes turned to the United States and sometimes to the Soviet Union. It has nothing to do with this, but after a long time, everyone is used to understanding "chop and change" as unprincipled and willful.