What does it mean for Zheng people to buy shoes?

Meaning:

1.: pronoun, it, here refers to the measured size.

2.: verb, to...go, to go.

3.: Pronoun, representing good size.

4. Arrival City: Wait until you go to the market.

5 Why not try it with enough: The pronoun refers to the shoe he wants to buy. It is an inversion sentence in a special sentence pattern. The normal word order should be "Why not try it with enough?" Meaning Yes: why not try on the shoes with your feet?

Original text:

If a Zheng person wants to buy shoes (some books say "Zheng people want to buy shoes"), they should first touch their feet and then put them on their feet. . Go to the market and forget to operate it. When he had already gained the foothold, he said, "I forgot to maintain it!" Instead, he returned to fetch it. When he rebelled, he was dismissed from the market and could not carry out his duties.

People say: "Why not give it a try?"

Say: "It is better to have faith than to have confidence."

Vernacular translation:

Once upon a time, there was a man from Zheng who wanted to buy a new pair of shoes, so he measured the size of his feet in advance, and then put the measured size on his seat. When I arrived at the market, I forgot to bring my size. After choosing the shoes, I realized: "I forgot to bring my size." So I returned home to get the size. When he returned to the market, the market had closed and he ended up not buying any shoes.

Someone asked: "Why don't you try the shoes on your own feet?"

He replied: "I would rather believe in the measured size than my own feet. ”

Source: From "Han Feizi·Wai Chu Shuo Upper Left" written by Han Fei at the end of the Warring States Period.

"Han Feizi" is a collection of works by Han Fei, a famous thinker and legalist during the Warring States Period. ?"Han Feizi" was compiled by descendants after Han Fei's death.

According to "Hanshu·Yiwenzhi", fifty-five chapters of "Han Feizi" are recorded, "Suishu·Jingjizhi" records twenty volumes, Zhang Shoujie's "Historical Records Zhengyi" quotes Ruan Xiaoxu's "Qilu" (or it is thought that Liu Xiang's "Qilu") also said that "Han Feizi has twenty volumes." The number of chapters and volumes are consistent with the current version, which shows that the current version is not incomplete. Many of the folklore and fables of the time in the book have also become the sources of idioms and allusions.

Extended information:

Story inspiration:

This Zhengguo man only believed in the size obtained by measuring his feet, but did not believe in his own feet. Not only did he cause a big fuss A joke, and he couldn’t even buy shoes, becoming the butt of the joke. In real life, when buying shoes, you only believe in foot size and not in foot matters. You only know how to stick to dogma but don’t know how to adapt. Maybe there are no brainless people, right?

But there are indeed people like this, and there are not many of them. Some people speak, do things, and think about problems only from books, not from reality. He believes what is written in books, but does not believe what is not written in books but actually exists.

In the eyes of such people, only what is in books is the truth, and what is not written is not the truth. In this way, thoughts will of course become rigid and actions will easily hit a wall.

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