What does it mean to cross the well alone?

1. In the Song Dynasty, a family named Ding didn't have a well at home, so they had to go out to water the land and send a family to fetch water. I often stay outside alone. When his family dug a well, Shi Ding told others, "My family dug a well and got a man." The listener sent a message: "Shi Ding dug a well and dug a man." People in the capital are talking about this matter, so that the monarch of Song State can know about it. Song Guojun sent someone to ask Shi Ding about the situation. Shi Ding replied: "Saving the labor of an idle person is not digging a living person in a well." It's better not to listen to such rumors.

Second, the original text: Qin? Lv Buwei's "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals", Volume 22 "On Caution and Research"

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." The person who heard about it said, "A man has gone down the well in Shi Ding." The people of China know that they have heard from Song Jun. Ding asked. Shi Ding said to him, "If you want to be alone, you have to be alone in the well." Smell it if you want, and don't smell it if you don't smell it.

Extended data:

I. Basic information

The allusion of this article: It means that after digging a well, you can get a surplus manpower, so you don't have to send people to fetch water from far away.

This article is selected from the book volume 22, The Spring and Autumn Annals of Lushi, The Theory of Deliberate Thinking and Investigation? . Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, also known as Lu Lan, is the representative work of pre-Qin sage written by Qin Prime Minister at the end of the Warring States Period, with 26 volumes and 65,438+060 articles. It was included in the first volume of the seventh grade Chinese textbook of Hubei Education Publishing House, renamed as "A Man Driving Through a Well", and was included in the new Chinese textbook of People's Education Publishing House (version 20 16).

Second, enlightenment.

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.