What does Zheng people tell us about buying shoes (the shoes Zheng people buy are actually wooden clogs)

The story of "Zheng Ren Buys Shoes" appears in "Han Feizi's Foreign Reserve Story", which took place at the end of the Warring States Period. At that time, clogs were becoming more and more common, so the witness bought clogs.

I remember when I was a child, I was required to recite the full text of "Zheng Ren Shou Lu", but because I couldn't understand its meaning, I always made mistakes when memorizing it by rote. Now that I have a baby, I discovered that there is actually a very good book that makes ancient Chinese prose no longer so boring and difficult to understand. This book is "Interesting Readings of Comics and Interesting Essays".

Since the emergence of comic characters, it has been a very favorite way of reading for children. "Interesting Reading of Ancient Chinese Classics with Comics and Interesting Miscellaneous Talks" uses comics to bring out the boring ancient Chinese prose, so that children can learn classical Chinese happily and better.

"Interesting Comics and Ancient Stories" tells many ancient stories. I like a few of them, interesting and meaningful.

01 Chicken Eats Black Donkey

This is a joke caused by the change of the referent.

The thing is like this, there is a child who likes to fight crickets. Because in those days, fighting crickets was equivalent to beating the king, and the winner had to be determined. This child heard that there was a cricket in the third archway and it would win every game, so he wanted to dig up the cricket.

When we arrived at Sanpailou, when people heard that they wanted to buy the victorious general, they would definitely not give him a discount. If you want a cricket, give me the black donkey you're riding on.

Ordinarily this was a rip-off, but the kid really liked that cricket so much that he gritted his teeth and closed his eyes: Change! So a black donkey was exchanged for a cricket. He rode the donkey and walked back. Not only that, the excitement is yet to come.

As soon as the child came home, he couldn't wait to take out the box with the cricket in the yard and wanted to tease it. Unexpectedly, the cricket "jumped" out of the box. Soon enough, a chicken passed by. With its sharp eyes, it spotted the cricket and ate it in one mouthful.

The child's happiness was too sudden, and his departure was too sudden. He yelled: "The black donkey was eaten by the chicken, hateful, hateful!" He cried sadly, but others were stupid after hearing this sentence. Laughing endlessly.

People lose their morale by playing with things and are too addicted to games, and people will become stupid. Therefore, don’t trade a black donkey for a cricket, and don’t trade a book for the King of Glory.

02 The Cook Ding Jie Niu

The principles explained by the Cook Ding Jie Niu and the Oil Seller are similar but have the same purpose.

It is said that during the Warring States Period, there was a chef who slaughtered cattle for the King of Liang. Originally a boring butchery, the butler turned it into a show with music, which was very interesting.

After the song "Mulberry Forest" ended, a piece of beef was meat and bones were bones. Not only that, the cut meat is the hanging dragon, the five-flowered toe is the five-flowered toe, and the chest oil is the chest oil.

King Liang couldn’t help but sigh: All my subordinates are talented people. The cook is not humble either: he can only be familiar with you.

Actually no, Pao Ding said that he encountered a lot of setbacks in his first year in the industry. At that time, he was slaughtering cattle by himself and didn't know where to start. However, in his third year in the industry, he was able to slaughter cattle very skillfully. Now, he has been in the industry for nineteen years, and practice makes perfect.

Modern people, especially young people who want to resign whenever they feel aggrieved, please refer to this example: a cow-slaughterer worked for nineteen years, and he loved what he did and made a fortune in it. , don’t you have anything to express?

03 A blessing in disguise

We are all familiar with the story of a blessing in disguise, so instead of telling the story, we will talk about the chaotic era when it happened.

The story of a blessing in disguise happened in the "Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms" era, which was very chaotic in ancient history.

As the name suggests, the "Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms" meant that during this period, sixteen political regimes were established in the Central Plains!

Coupled with the constant wars between the Hu people, led by the five major tribes of Xiongnu, Xianbei, Jie, Di and Qiang, in the following three years, this land never stopped for a moment.

Nowadays, peace seems so rare.

04 Conclusion

Well, that’s it this time.