What is pot calling the kettle black? Where does it come from? What do you mean?

An article "I am to the country" from Mencius Liang Hui Wang Shang means: I only ran 5 steps and laughed at others for running 1 steps.

excerpt from the original text:

Mencius said to him, "Wang is belligerent, please use war as a metaphor. Fill in the drum, the weapon is connected, and the armor is abandoned. Or stop after a hundred steps, or stop after fifty steps. What about pot calling the kettle black? "

Translation:

Mencius replied, "Your Majesty likes to fight. Let me use war as an analogy. Drumming the drums, the two armies began to fight, and the defeated threw away their armor and dragged their weapons to escape. Some people escaped a hundred steps and then stopped, while others escaped fifty steps and then stopped. What if you laugh at others for running a hundred steps just because you only ran fifty steps? "

Extended information

Writing background:

During the Warring States Period, many countries competed for supremacy, and frequent wars led to mass migration and casualties. At that time, there was neither a nationality system nor immigration restrictions, and the people were free to find their own paradise. Which country is more stable, prosperous and happy, move to that country as a subject. The number of people in a country is also one of the signs of a country's stability and prosperity.

Therefore, all the suppliers are the best, and all want their country's population to increase. Liang Huiwang is no exception. My country is also selected from Mencius Liang Huiwang, which is the third chapter of the upper part of this article.

About the author:

Mencius (about 372-289 BC) was born in Zou Guo (now Zoucheng City, Shandong Province) during the Warring States Period.

A famous philosopher, thinker, politician and educator in the Warring States period, one of the representatives of Confucianism, was second only to Confucius, and was also called "Confucius and Mencius" with Confucius. Advocating "benevolent government", he first put forward the idea that "the people are more valuable than the monarch".

Han Yu's The Original Way listed Mencius as a figure who inherited the Confucian orthodoxy in the pre-Qin period. In the Yuan Dynasty, Mencius was posthumously named "Ya Sheng Gong Shu Chen" and honored as "Ya Sheng". The book "Mencius" is a collection of quotations and essays, which was compiled by Mencius and his disciples, and advocated "benevolence-oriented".

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