Summary of Carving a Boat for a Sword

This Zheng Guoren made a dogmatic mistake. He only believes in the size of his feet, not his own, and not only makes a big joke, but also can't buy shoes. In real life, buying shoes only depends on the size of the feet, not the feet. It may not happen. But there are such people. Some people, speaking, doing things and thinking, only start from books, not from reality; He believes what is written in the book, but he doesn't believe what is not written in the book but actually exists. In this kind of person's view, only what is written in the book is the truth, and what is not written is not the truth. In this way, of course, thinking will be rigid and action will hit a wall.

Carving a boat for a sword is an idiom evolved from a fable, which means sticking to dogma, sticking to the rules and being stubborn. The phonetic notation in the idiom dictionary is (

victorious

Zhu

uniform

ginger

), from Lu Chunqiu Cha Jin by Lv Buwei in the Warring States Period: "The Chu people waded into the river, and the knife fell into the water from the boat, saying,' My knife fell from this. "The ship stopped at the destination, and the Chu people jumped into the water from the marked place to find the sword. The boat works, but not the sword. If you want a sword, isn't it confusing? "

This story tells us that things in the world are always changing, and people should take this change into account when thinking about problems and doing things, and adapt to this change. It is impossible to be rigid and inflexible.

This is a fable, satirizing one-sided, static, rigid and conformist people.