What is the truth in the fable of Zheng people buying shoes?

This story tells people: We should be flexible in dealing with things, not stick to the rules and dogmas, pay attention to objective facts, and proceed from reality in dealing with people. This native of Zheng only believed in the size of his feet, but not his own, which not only made a big joke, but also made him unable to buy shoes and became a laughing stock.

In real life, people who buy shoes only believe in the size of their feet and don't believe in the things about their feet. People who stick to dogma and don't know how to be flexible may not exist, but there are indeed many people like this. Some people talk, do things and think about problems only from books, not from reality.

he believes what is written in books, but he doesn't believe what is not written in books but actually exists. In this kind of person's view, only what is in books is truth, and what is not written is not truth. In this way, of course, thinking will be rigid, and action will easily hit a wall.

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Han Feizi's Stories on the Left is an essay written by Han Fei, a thinker at the end of the Warring States Period. This article mainly explains that a monarch should have a way to govern the country. The full text is divided into six chapters, which are discussed from the aspects of "advice when most needed is least heeded", "benefit for the people/reputation for scholars", "lead by example" and "honesty", which is also of great significance so far and is worth learning from later generations.

Han Fei is a master of legalism. He combined Shang Yang's "Fa", Shen Buhai's "Shu" and Shen Dao's "Shi", and integrated Lao Zi's dialectics, simple materialism and Fa, leaving a lot of speeches and works for later generations. His theory has always been the ideological basis of governing the country by the feudal ruling class in China.

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