What is the original text, translation and appreciation of A Man Crossing a Well?

There was a man named Ding in Song State. There was no well at home and he needed to go out to fetch water. He often sends a man outside to fetch water. When his family dug a well, he told others, "My family got a free manpower to dig a well." Someone heard this and said, "The Ding family dug a well and a man."

People all over the country tell each other that "one person can dig a well", and it has reached the ears of Song Guojun. Send someone to ask about Ding. The man surnamed Ding replied, "To get a free man is to dig a living person in a well." Spreading rumors and hearsay like this is better than hearing nothing.

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Song family, there is no well irrigation at home, and they often live alone. His family crossed the well and told people, "I crossed the well alone." People who have heard of it; "Shi Ding had to cross the well alone." People in China knew it and heard it from Song Jun. Song Jun was asked by Shi Ding, and Shi Ding said to him, "You have to be in the well alone to get a job." Smell it if you want, and don't smell it if you don't smell it.

"One person opens a well" comes from Lv Chunqiu, which means that after digging a well, you can get a person's manpower without sending someone to fetch water from the well outside; But outsiders misunderstood the meaning and thought that "crossing a well means getting a living person", so they spread rumors everywhere.

This article is selected from Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, Volume 22, Theory of Caution and Textual Research on Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals. Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, also known as Lu Lan, is the representative work of pre-Qin philosophers written by Qin Prime Minister at the end of the Warring States Period, with a total of 26 volumes and 65,438+060 articles.

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Lv Buwei (? ~ about 235 years ago), at the end of the warring States period, he was from Puyang, Weiguo. Originally from Yangzhai (now Yuzhou, Henan). Lv Buwei is a big businessman in Yangzhai. He ran around, buying at low prices and selling at high prices, so he accumulated thousands of dollars of wealth. Forty years after the death of King Qin Zhao (267 BC), the prince died.

In the forty-second year of Zhao Haoqi (265 BC), he married his second son, a Guo Jun and a prince. A Guo Jun has more than twenty sons. An Guojun has a very favorite concubine named Mrs. Huayang.

Mrs. Huayang has no son. Ann Guojun has a middle-ranking son named Allen (later renamed Zi Chu), and his mother's name is The Last Month Of Summer. Nobody loves him. These aliens were sent to Zhao as hostages of Qin. Qin attacked Zhao many times, and Zhao did not treat Chu with courtesy.

Everything must be investigated and carefully identified before we can find out the truth. Hearing is empty, seeing is believing. Rumors are often untrue, and only by careful observation, research and reasoning can we get the real answer. Don't believe in rumors and blindly follow others, otherwise you will make jokes and the truth will be spread beyond recognition.

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