Impressions after reading "Two Ancient Fables": Zheng Ren Buying Shoes and Carving a Boat to Seek a Sword, classical Chinese version, put forward your opinions

I read "Two Ancient Fables" very closely and was filled with emotion. Both stories revolve around change, which is a metaphor for not understanding that things have developed and changed but still looking at problems statically. It still has a strong influence today Educational significance.

When a Zheng man bought shoes, a quote from "Han Feizi·Wai Chu Shuo (top left)": There was a Zheng man who wanted to buy shoes. He first measured the size of his feet, and then put the measured The size was placed on his seat. When he was preparing to go to the market, he forgot to bring the measured size. When he was buying shoes, he remembered that he had forgotten to bring the measured size. So he went back to get the size. When he returned, By that time, the market had closed, and in the end he didn't buy any shoes. Someone asked him why he didn't just try it on his feet. He said he would rather believe in the measured size than his own feet. This Zheng Guoran made the mistake of dogmatism. .He only believed in the size obtained by measuring his feet instead of his own feet. Not only did he make a big joke, but he couldn't even buy shoes and became the butt of the joke. In real life, when buying shoes, he only believes in the size of his feet and not his own feet. Maybe there is no such thing as feet? But people like this do exist. Some people speak, do things, and think about problems only from books, not from reality; what is written in books, He believed that things that were not written in the books but existed in fact, he did not believe.

Carving a boat to seek a sword was cited in "Lu Shi's Spring and Autumn Period·Cha Jin", which said that there was a man from Chu who was riding a boat. When crossing the river, he accidentally dropped his sword into the river. He carved a mark on the boat and said, "This is where my sword fell." When the boat stopped, he followed the mark and jumped into the river to look for the sword. No gain. This story tells us: things in the world are always changing, and we cannot do things subjectively. People cannot stick to dogma. When the situation changes, the methods and means of solving problems must also change accordingly, otherwise it will Will fail. Warn people not to look at problems one-sidedly, statically, and narrowly.

As society has developed to this day, we must accept the lesson of Zheng Ren’s buying shoes and carving a boat to seek a sword. When encountering things, we must proceed from reality and develop from the perspective of development. Based on the changing reality, determine countermeasures. Only in this way can we handle our own affairs well.