Joke Collection Website - Cold jokes - Illustrated version of Aesop's fables for fifth grade primary school students, Zhejiang Publishing House

Illustrated version of Aesop's fables for fifth grade primary school students, Zhejiang Publishing House

Fable 1

Blocking Wood and Bronze Bell

A asked B: "Make a big bell out of copper, and make a knocking wood out of wood. If it hits the bronze bell, it will It makes a clanging sound. So, is the sound coming from the bell or the wood?" B said: "If you hit the wall with a wooden stick, it will make no sound; If there is a sound, then the sound comes from copper."

A said: "If you hit the stacked copper coins with a wooden stick, there will be no sound. So does the sound really come from copper?"

B said: "The copper coins piled together are solid, but the middle of the bell is empty. The sound should come from the empty utensils."

A said: "Use If a clock is made of wood or mud, it will not make any sound. So, does the sound really come from an empty object? "

......

(Adapted from Ouyang Xiu's "June 1st Notes") ·Zhong Ju said")

Inspiration

This fable tells us such a truth: Don't be satisfied with your existing understanding of anything, and you must have the spirit to break the casserole and ask the truth. . In the text, A asked a question, and B answered; A asked again, and B answered again; A asked three times, and B had no answer. It can be seen that only by asking a few more "whys" can we gain real knowledge.

Fable 2

Sun Metaphor

A man was born blind. He didn’t know what the sun looked like, so he asked people with good eyesight.

Someone told him: "The sun is like a big copper plate."

The blind man went home and knocked on the copper plate, and the copper plate made a jingling sound. Then one day he heard the sound of a clock and thought it was the sun.

Another person told him: "The sun shines like a candle."

The blind man touched the candle and knew its shape. Then one day, he touched a piccolo and thought it was the sun.

The sun is very different from a clock and a piccolo, but the blind man doesn’t know the difference between them. This is because he has never seen the sun, so he only learned about it from others.

(Adapted from Su Shi's "Collection of Su Dongpo·Riyu")

Impressions

This fable is very vivid. It vividly points out the importance of practice for understanding - only through practice can we understand things correctly. If, like a blind person, you don't feel and understand yourself and rely solely on others' explanations, you will only create misunderstandings and make jokes. This fable was summarized by later generations and became the idiom "Quan Pan Meng Zhu".

Fable Three

The Short Bench

The old man has a bench in his house that is extremely low. Every time he sits on it, he has to find some bricks to pad his four legs. stand up. Later, he felt it was too troublesome, so he came up with a "cool plan": let the servants move the bench upstairs to sit on.

When he sat down again, the bench was still as short as before, so he said, "People say the building is tall, but I think it's nonsense!" After that, he asked the servants to tear down the building.

(Adapted from "Ya Jie·Short Sitting Head" by the master of Fubai Zhai)

Impressions

The shortness of the bench is determined by its own nature . It is short downstairs and equally short upstairs. It does not change its nature. No matter where it is moved, it will remain short. The deceitful man is that he cannot find the cause from the thing (i.e. the bench) itself, but insists on finding the cause from the objective environment that has no intrinsic connection with the thing itself. How can he not make a joke like this?

Conclusion

Do you have any insights and understandings in life and study? Also learn from the ancients and express your insights and understandings in the form of fables.