Castles in the Sky into Classical Chinese

1. The Sky Loft of Classical Chinese

Original text:

In the past, there were rich fools who were ignorant and ignorant. When I arrived at Yu Fu's house, I saw the three-story building, which was tall, magnificent, spacious and bright. I felt longing for it, and immediately thought: "I have money, and I will not be less than that. How come I didn't build a building like this?"

He called the carpenter and asked, "Does that mean his family is upright?"

The carpenter replied, "I did it."

He said: "Now you can build me a building like that."

At that time, the carpenter was building the building through the ground.

When a fool sees him building a house, he still has doubts and cannot understand, so he asks: "What do you want to do?"

The carpenter replies: "Build a three-story house. "

The fool replied: "I don't want to build a second-story house. You can build the top house for me first. "

The carpenter replied: "There is nothing wrong with it! How can I build a second-story house if I don’t build a second-story house? ”

The fool replied: “I don’t want to build a second-story house. You can build the top house for me first."

When people heard about it, they laughed strangely and said: "How can you get the top house without building the first house?"

For example, the disciples of the fourth generation of the World Honored One are unable to diligently cultivate and respect the Three Jewels, and are lazy and want to seek the path and fruit, so they say: "I will not use the remaining three fruits now

, but only seek to obtain the Arahant fruit." This is also the case. At that time, people laughed at him as if he were a fool.

Translation:

Once upon a time there was a rich man who was stupid and ignorant. Once, he went to another rich man's home and saw a three-story building. The building was tall, large, magnificent, spacious and bright. He was very envious and thought to himself: "My money is not less than his, why didn't I think of it before?" How about building a building like this?" He immediately called the carpenter and asked, "Can you build a beautiful building like that house?" The carpenter replied, "I built that building." Said: "Then you can build me a building like that now."

So the carpenter began to measure the foundation, lay bricks, and build the building. The rich man saw the carpenter stacking bricks and was confused. He didn't know what was going on, so he asked the carpenter: "What are you planning to build?" The carpenter replied: "Build a three-story building!" The rich man added: "I Instead of building the second floor below, you build the top floor first."

The carpenter replied, "There is no such thing! How can I build the second floor instead of the bottom floor?" How can we talk about building a third floor if we build a second floor?"

The stupid rich man said stubbornly: "I just don't want the second floor below, you must build the top one for me? Floor!"

The others laughed at him when they heard this.

The verse says: Without a foundation, there is no building, and nothing will happen by chance.

If you want to realize the Tathagata fruit, you should cultivate the fundamentals.

Appreciation:

From the "One Hundred Parables: The Three-story Tower": It is said that there was a rich man in the past who wanted to build a three-story tower. The carpenter followed the instructions and began laying bricks on the ground. The rich man was surprised and asked why? The carpenter replied: "Build a three-story building!" The rich man hurriedly said: "I don't want the lower two floors, only the top floor!" The carpenter was surprised and explained that he couldn't build the top floor without building the second floor. However, the rich man still persisted in his persistence, which attracted everyone's ridicule. Buddhism uses this metaphor to illustrate the principle that practitioners should build a good foundation and proceed step by step. Today it is often used to describe illusory things or fantasy. For example, Chapter 21 of "Flowers of the Sea of ??Evil": "But this "Flower of the Sea of ??Evil" is different from other novels. Castles in the air can rise and fall at will." Another example is Liang Qichao's "Refutation of a certain newspaper's theory of state-owned land": "The castles in the air are castles in the air." The ideal is sincerity enough." 2. Classical Chinese "Castles in the Sky"

There once was a rich man who was stupid and ignorant.

Once, he went to another rich man's home and saw a three-story building. The building was tall, large, magnificent, spacious and bright. He was very envious and thought to himself: "My money is not less than his, why didn't I think of it before?" How about building a building like this?" He immediately called the carpenter and asked, "Can you build a beautiful building like that house?" The carpenter replied, "I built that building." Said: "Then you can build me a building like that now."

So the carpenter began to measure the foundation, lay bricks, and build the building. The rich man saw the carpenter stacking bricks and was confused. He didn't know what was going on, so he asked the carpenter: "What are you planning to build?" The carpenter replied: "Build a three-story building!" The rich man added: "I Instead of building the second floor below, you build the top floor first."

The carpenter replied: "There is no such thing! How can I build the second floor instead of the bottom floor? How can we talk about building a third floor if we build a second floor?"

The stupid rich man said stubbornly: "I just don't want the second floor below, you must build the top one for me? Floor!"

The others laughed at him when they heard this.

The verse says: Without a foundation, there is no building, and nothing will happen by chance.

If you want to realize the Tathagata fruit, you should cultivate the fundamentals. 3. Classical Chinese "Castles in the Sky"

What a question! Return from the ideal "castle in the sky" to the real world and return to the hustle and bustle of the city without any loss.

Ideal and reality are far apart, but very close. "Castles in the air" are quiet and beautiful, but they are not realistic after all.

I don’t quite believe that the author would really live in such a world. It is just a place for the soul to rest. There is no need to rack your brains, no need to stay away from reality, no need to escape, no need to isolate from the world (if that is the case, "the castle in the air will lose its beauty"), and there is no need to yearn for it.

The reality that the castle lacks Sex is its real beauty. It is very simple. Put the beauty in your imagination into one, and then build it into your heart. When you are tired, walk along the mountain road. After taking a rest, you can't help but return to reality. Sigh: The scenery here is unique.

4. Translation of the classical Chinese text "Castles in the Sky"

Translation:

The story of building only the third floor.

In ancient times, there was a very rich man, but he was extremely stupid. He came to a rich man's house as a guest, and saw a three-story building that was spacious, tall, solemn and gorgeous, open and airy, and he was very envious. I thought to myself: "I have no less money than him, why haven't I been able to build a building like this before? So he immediately called the carpenter and asked, "Do you know how to build a three-story building as beautiful as his house?" "

The carpenter replied: "I built the building in his house. "

The rich man said: "Please build me a building now! "

So the carpenter cleared the foundation, measured the land, made bricks, and prepared to build the building. When the fool saw his arrangements, he was suspicious and couldn't understand, so he asked him: "What are you doing? "

The carpenter replied: "This is the material to build a three-story building.

The fool said: "I don't want to build the lower two floors. You build the top floor for me first." "

The carpenter replied: "How can there be such a thing! How can you build a second floor without building a bottom floor! How can we build the third level without building the second level! "

The fool said stubbornly: "I just don't want the bottom two floors. You must build the top floor for me.

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When some people heard this story, they laughed at him: "It's ridiculous. How can you build the second and third floors above without building the lower one! ”

This is just like among the four generations of disciples of Sakyamuni Buddha, some do not practice religiously and respect the Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, and are lazy and lazy, but they want to achieve positive results, so he said: “I don’t need the three fruits of Sotapanna, Stagam, and Anagam now, I just want to achieve the highest level of the fourth Arahat. "This was also ridiculed by people at the time, and was no different from this fool. 5. Please help by translating the ancient text "Castle in the Sky"

Castle in the Sky

Castle in the Sky (kōng zhōng lóu gé)

Explanation of the attic appearing in the air, the building and pavilion hanging in the air. It refers to the theory, plan or fictitious thing that is divorced from reality.

It comes from the poem "Visiting Fahua Temple" written by Zhiwen of the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty: "The building of the temple in the sky represents the clouds and clouds. "

Usage: More formal; used as subject or object; derogatory meaning

Example: Mao Dun's "Midnight": "I have inherited my father's celebrity temperament, and I have set up many~. "

Synonyms: ethereal, mirage

Lantern Riddle Heavenly Palace; Moon Palace; Guanghan Palace

Allusion

This idiom comes from "Hundred Yus" Sutra "The Parable of the Three-Storied Tower", when a fool sees the man standing on the ground and making a house, he still has doubts and cannot understand, so he asks: "What do you want to do?" The carpenter replied: "Build a three-story house." The fool replied: "I don't want to live in a second-level house. You can first make me the top room." "

A long time ago, there was a rich man in a mountain village. He was very rich, but he was dull by nature and always did stupid things, so he was often laughed at by the villagers.

One day, the stupid man The rich man visited a rich man's house in a neighboring village. He saw a three-story new house, which was spacious, bright, tall and magnificent. He was very envious and thought: I am rich too, and it is not less than him. There was a building but I didn’t have one. What does that sound like? As soon as he got home, he immediately sent for the craftsmen and asked, “Do you know who built that new building in the neighboring village? "

The craftsmen replied: "I know, that building was built by a few of us. "

When the stupid rich man heard this, he was very happy and said: "Great, you can build it for me again like this. Remember to have a three-story house exactly like that one. "

While the craftsmen agreed, they murmured in their hearts; I wonder what stupid things he would do this time. But no matter what, they had to do as they were told, so everyone went about their business.

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One day, the rich man came to the construction site, looked around, and felt very puzzled, so he asked the craftsmen who were laying the foundation: "What are you doing? ”

“Building a three-story house is based on your instructions. ”

“No, no. What I want you to build is the third story house. I only want the top layer, but I don’t want the lower two layers. Let’s tear them down quickly. Build the top layer first. "

After hearing this, the craftsmen laughed and said, "As long as we don't build the top layer, you can build it yourself! ”

The craftsmen left, and the foolish rich man looked at the foundation of the house in a daze. He didn’t know that as long as the top floor was built, not the two floors below, no matter how skilled the craftsman was, he couldn’t build it. 6. Castles in the Air What is the classical Chinese version of

The metaphor of the three-story building

In the past, there were rich fools who were ignorant. When I went to Yu Fu's house, I saw the three-story building, which was tall, wide, beautiful, spacious and spacious. Feeling thirsty in his heart, he immediately thought: "I have money, but I don't want to lose it. How come I don't build a building like this?" Then he called the carpenter and asked, "Does that mean his family is upright?" "

The carpenter replied: "I did it. ”

Even words: “You can build a building like that for me now.” ”

At that time, the carpenter even built the building through the earth.

The fool replied: "I don't want to build a house with two floors, so you can build the top house for me first."

The carpenter replied: "There is no such thing! Why not build the bottom house?" How can we build a second-story house? If we don’t build a second-story house, how can we build a third-story house?”

The fool said: “I don’t need to build a second-story house now. The best."

When people heard this, they laughed strangely and said: "How can anyone get the best without building the first house?"

For example, the World Honored One! The fourth generation of disciples, unable to diligently cultivate and respect the Three Jewels, are lazy and want to seek the path and fruit, so they say: "I don't need the remaining three fruits now, but only seek to obtain the Arahat fruit." They were also ridiculed by people at that time, like those fools who have no There are differences. 7. The original text and translation of the ancient text "loft in the sky"

Once upon a time there was a rich man who was stupid and ignorant.

Once, he went to another rich man's home and saw a three-story building. The building was tall, large, magnificent, spacious and bright. He was very envious and thought to himself: "My wealth is not as good as that of the rich man's house." "Why didn't you think of building a building like this before?" He immediately called the carpenter and asked, "Can you build a beautiful building like that house?" The carpenter replied, "That's the building." I built it." The rich man said, "Then you can build me a building like that now." So the carpenter began to measure the foundation, lay bricks, and build the building. The rich man saw the carpenter stacking bricks and was confused. He didn't know what was going on, so he asked the carpenter: "What are you planning to build?" The carpenter replied: "Build a three-story building!" The rich man added: "I Instead of building the second floor below, you build the top floor first."

The carpenter replied: "There is no such thing! How can I build the second floor instead of the bottom floor? How can we talk about building a third floor when building a second floor?" The stupid rich man said stubbornly: "I just don't want the second floor below, you must build the top floor for me!" Others! When they heard about this, they all laughed at him. The verse says: Without a foundation, there is no building, and nothing will happen by chance.

If you want to realize the Tathagata fruit, you should cultivate the fundamentals.