Go through the well and get one person's rhythm division

The Ding family of the Song Dynasty did not have a well, but had a water source, and often lived alone outside. And / his family / crossed the well, and told people / saying: "I penetrated the well / and got a man." Someone / heard about it and passed it on: "Ding's / crossed the well / and got a man." The people of the country / said it, and heard about it. /Song Jun. Song Jun/asked/about/the Ding family. Ding said to him: "To get a person's envoy, you don't get a person in a well." If you want to hear it, it's not as if you haven't heard it.

Translation:

A family surnamed Ding in the Song Dynasty had no well at home and needed to go far away to fetch water to irrigate the fields. They sent a member of the family to fetch water. There is a man staying outside. When his family dug a well, Ding told others: "My family dug a well and found a man."

People who heard it spread the news: "Ding dug a well and found a man." "Everyone in the capital is talking about this matter, so that the king of Song Dynasty knows about it. The monarch of the Song Dynasty sent someone to ask Ding about the situation. Ding replied: "Saving the labor of an idle person does not mean digging a living person in the well." Hearing such rumors, it is better not to listen.

Extended information:

It is an allusion, which means that after digging a well, you can still have free manpower, and you no longer need to send people to carry water far away.

This article is selected from Volume 22 of "Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals", "Lun on Caution·Cha Zhuan". "Lu Shi Chun Qiu", also known as "Lü Lan", is a representative work of pre-Qin miscellaneous writers written by Qin Prime Minister Lu Buwei at the end of the Warring States Period, organized by his disciples. It has 26 volumes and 160 articles.

It was included in the first volume of the Chinese language textbook for seventh graders published by the Hubei Education Press, and was renamed "Crossing the Well to Find Someone". In 2016, it was included in the new Chinese textbook of the People's Education Press (together with two "Aesop's Fables" and Liezi's work " "Alarmed People" belongs to the "Four Fables", and this recording is read by Zi Jun.

Inspiration: Everything must be investigated and carefully discerned to find out the truth. Only by careful observation, research, and rational measurement can we get the real answer. Don't believe in rumors and blindly follow others' opinions. Otherwise, it will lead to false rumors and false rumors, and the truth of the matter will not be spread. Unrecognizable

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