The man was speechless and said, "The donkey will give it back to you, and Jiang will give birth to a tree." What do you mean?

The man was speechless, pale and said, "The donkey is yours, and the ginger still grows on the tree." Excerpted from "The Sound of Jiang Series", the original text is as follows:

Chu was born without knowing ginger, saying, "This is made of trees." Or: "From the soil." The man insisted and said, "Please take your son and ten people as hostages and put them on the donkey you are riding." I asked ten people repeatedly, and they all said, "Come out of the soil." Dumb and pale, the man said, "The donkey will return it to you, and Jiang will be reborn."

Translation:

There was a man in the state of Chu who didn't know Jiang from birth. He said, "This thing must grow on a tree." Someone told him, "It grows from the soil." The man insisted on his opinion and said, "Please ask ten people with me and put them on the donkey."

Asked ten people, they all said, "Ginger grows from soil." The man was speechless, pale and said, "The donkey is yours, and the ginger still grows on the tree."

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Related meaning

A person's real knowledge lies in knowing what he knows and what he doesn't know. If you don't know, you will make jokes and be laughed at. The knowledge in the world is endless, but the individual's cognitive ability is limited. Only by learning with an open mind can we gain true knowledge.

The life of irony lies in truth. This short story not only follows the truth of life in plot conception, but also lies in the fact that the practices and performances of Beijingers are extremely universal and representative in real life.