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Philosophical truth contained in Carving a Boat for a Sword and its enlightenment to you
Carving a Boat for a Sword is a widely circulated fable, and it is also regarded as one of the classics of China's ancient philosophy. This story is about a man who fell his sword into the water while crossing the river by boat. He left traces of his whereabouts on the ship. When the ship landed, he looked for the sword that fell into the river according to the trace, but he didn't realize that the sword had disappeared with Shui Piao. Although the people next to him told him that it was meaningless to do so, he stubbornly insisted on his own method. This story gives us a lot of inspiration.
Don't stick to the rules. The hero in the story is bent on finding the sword, carving a boat for the sword according to the original method, and lacks enough observation and thinking about the surrounding environment. Doing so will only waste time and energy, and ultimately nothing will be gained.
Similar examples are also common in our daily life. Many people are often unable to look at problems from a new angle and miss opportunities because of habitual thinking or lack of flexibility. Therefore, when dealing with problems, we should pay attention to avoid falling into fixed thinking, flexibly use various methods and means, get rid of the shackles, and constantly broaden the scope of thinking and understanding. Ability to judge and analyze is required.
People around the story are aware of the mistake of the protagonist's behavior, but they can't convince him. This also reflects an important issue: the importance of judgment and analysis ability. Only with sufficient analytical and judgment skills can we better understand, analyze and solve problems.
The implication of the idiom carving a boat for a sword
It is common sense that a sword will sink only when it falls into the water. It's ridiculous to look under the bottom of the boat for a sword that has long fallen into the water when it's far away. If the ship is stationary and the sword sinks to the bottom of the water, mark the place where the ship fell, and you can naturally find the sword. But the sword sank to the bottom of the water and stopped, but the ship moved on.
This objective fact is not reflected in the mind of the sword seeker. He is bent on finding the sword where it fell, and he will find it. His understanding is inconsistent with the objective facts, and the result is naturally failure. It is very powerful to use such a metaphor to satirize people who cling to dogma.
This idiom has two meanings. One is that if people's ideological understanding does not conform to the objective reality, they will not succeed in doing things. On the other hand, objective reality is constantly developing and changing. If we regard the old rules and regulations as a magic weapon to solve new problems, we should also make jokes. The author's thoughts are simple materialism and dialectics.
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