What are the exact words of a monk and a scholar staying on a night boat?

The original words are "Wait for the young monk to stretch his feet", which comes from the preface of Zhang Dai's book Sailing at Night in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

The original text is:

Once upon a time, a monk and a scholar sailed together all night. Scholars talk a lot, monks are scared, and their fists are sleeping all over the floor. The monk heard that there was a flaw in his speech and said, "Excuse me, Mr. Xiang, is Mrs. Tan one or two people?" The scholar said, "It's two people." The monk asked, "Is this Yao Shun one or two?" The scholar said, "Nature is lonely!" The monk smiled and said, "We'll see. Let's wait for the young monk to stretch his feet. "

Translation:

There was a young monk who took a boat with a scholar at night. The scholar has been talking loudly. The young monk thought the scholar was very talented, so he curled his feet all night. He dared not stretch out his hand for fear of disturbing the scholar. He overheard a flaw in the scholar's words and asked him, "What are the names of several people?" The scholar replied, "Two people". The monk asked again, "How many people are there in Yao and Shun?" The scholar actually replied: "One person." So the young monk's awe of the scholar disappeared, and he quipped, "Let's put it this way, let the young monk stretch his feet."

This short story satirizes the scholar who likes to show off, "one bottle is less than half a bottle", and is finally despised for exposing flaws and making jokes. People who read the books of sages don't know that Yao and Shun are two sages, and they are compound surnames.

Extended data

Night Flight is an encyclopedia written by Zhang Dai. Is a small encyclopedia, from astronomy to geography, three religions and nine streams, a hundred schools of thought contend, ethics politics, the imperial examination of rites and music, flowers and trees, weird ghosts and gods ... * * It is divided into 125 subcategories, with more than 4,000 entries.

Zhang Dai named his book "Night Boat" because the night boat is a symbol of the long journey in the southern water town. People must take a boat when they go out. During the slow voyage, they sat bored and relaxed by chatting. There are scholars and wealthy businessmen among the passengers. There are officials in their positions and people who vote for relatives. All kinds of people have everything, and the content of the conversation is all-encompassing.

Zhang Dai said: "There is learning in the world, but night boats are the most difficult to deal with." Therefore, Zhang Dai wrote a book about China's cultural knowledge, named "Night Sailing Boat", so that people would not lose face on similar occasions.

"Night Flight" narrates more than 4,000 cultural common sense in plain classical Chinese, and most of these items must be familiar to a literate person. Although it also contains some absurd contents now, as an ancient joke, it helps to understand some ancient cultural conditions.

Brief introduction of the author

Zhang Dai (A.D. 1597 (25th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty) ~ 1679 (18th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty)) was an essayist in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, whose real name was Jian Nan Tao An. Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) was born. Zhang Dai is regarded as the greatest essayist in Ming Dynasty, and the author of nirvana in fire, Dream of Tao An, Dream of the West Lake and Three Immortals.

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