What does it mean to cross a well alone?

The moral of "crossing the well by one person" is: trusting rumors, blindly following others, and listening to others' advice will make a joke of spreading false information, and three people will become tigers.

The truth of "one person crossing a well";

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.

A lie repeated a thousand times will be regarded as truth. There are no tigers in the street, which is beyond doubt. It is only because people say so that it becomes a real thing. In real life, we should not believe rumors, let alone spread them. We should be good at analyzing and thinking carefully from complicated social discussions and keep a clear head at all times. Only in this way can we make fewer mistakes or even no mistakes.

Original: Lv Buwei, the author of A Man Crossing a Well? Chunqiu dynasty

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 knew it and heard it from Song Jun. When Song Jun was asked by Shi Ding, Shi Ding said to him, "You have to be alone in the well to get a job." Smell it if you want, and don't smell it if you don't smell it.

Translation:

There was a man named Ding in Song State. There is no well at home, so he needs to go out to fetch water. He often sends a man outside to fetch water. When his family dug a well, Shi Ding told others, "My family dug a well and got a man." 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. Song Guojun sent someone to ask Shi Ding about the situation. Shi Ding replied, "To get an extra manpower is not to dig a living person in a well." Spreading rumors and hearsay like this is better than hearing nothing.