What are the allusions about eating fish in ancient times?

Fish and bear's paw

From Mencius:

Fish, what I want, bear's paw, what I want, you can't have it both ways, and you can take the bear's paw instead of the fish. Life, what I want, righteousness, what I want You can't have both, and you have to sacrifice your life for righteousness.

I want both fish and bear's paw, but I can't have both, so I want bear's paw. Life and righteousness are what I want, but if I can't have them both, I'd rather lose them.

Mencius' words warned people to pay attention to righteousness, preferring to give their lives for righteousness, but people often forgot the original intention, instead, they talked about that you can't have your cake and eat it. Although, this is also a truth.

People should not be too greedy. Things can't let a person take advantage of everything. What you gain, you lose. We should learn to give up the secondary and care about the important.

It's not that you can't have both, but how to give up if you can't have both.

"I want fish and bear's paw, and I can't have it both ways. I want bear's paw, not fish. "

This is Mencius' words, which he used to compare the choice between "life" and "righteousness": "Life, what I want, righteousness, what I want, can't have both, but I want righteousness without life."

Therefore, without conflict, you can have your cake and eat it.

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Longquan Lake is Wu's pride. The scenery on the shore of the 300-mile lake is unique, with winding rivers and endless reeds ... In addition to many rare aquatic products such as perch and carp, the most famous one is silver ash covered osmanthus fish, and neighboring countries such as Yue exchange fragrant rice and silk for several loads of palace meals every year.

As the king of a country, Wu Wangliao is most comfortable to eat fish every day. What makes him feel more comfortable recently is that he can eat a big fish and meat in the "setting sun building" of childe Jiguang every day.

Wu Wangliao likes eating fish since he was a child. He has been eating fish for every meal since he was about five years old. Once there is little fish, it is tasteless. Steamed, fried and braised, scallion oil, dry roast, vinegar and pepper ... as long as it is fish, no matter which way, it can always arouse his appetite. Every year, he looks for famous chefs all over the world to make all kinds of fish change into various patterns and feast every day. One day, his cousin Ji Guang gave a banquet in the "Sunset Tower" to entertain him. After watching Yu Ji and Ji Guang dance and tasting a unique fish feast, Liao Wang and his son Ji Guang went upstairs to look out. At this time, the clear lake is connected with the blue sky, the endless reeds are intertwined with the drowning geese and gulls, and the voice of conquering the singer is blown away with the evening breeze, and a kind of quiet mood arises spontaneously in Liao Wang's heart. ...

At noon the next day, Wu Wangliao sat down in the "setting sun building" again, and his son Ji Guang asked his servant to serve a bowl of fish soup with a golden rhinoceros horn cup. Wu Wangliao took a sip and asked in surprise, "Why is this soup so delicious?"

Ji Xiaoguang replied: "Your Majesty may not know that it really took a lot of effort to make this small bowl of osmanthus fish soup!" Wu Wangliao took two more sips slowly, then opened his narrowed eyes and said, "This soup is delicious and rare in the world ... Brother Guang might as well tell me ..."

Ji Guang said, "I recently got a cook named Zhuanzhu, and I didn't know there was such delicious fish soup in the world! In this soup, you should choose the newly caught osmanthus fish in Longquan Lake at dawn. Neither too big nor too small. Only choose the ones that weigh exactly one catty and have complete scales, and then mix the dried flowers with clear water and feed them for three days and nights. Only by spitting out the earthy smell in the fish belly can the fish be slaughtered and washed clean. Next, cut the net fish into minced meat, then pour the minced meat into the pot and stir fry gently. Finally, add seasonings such as lard, fragrant powder, shredded ginger and pepper. After the fragrance, a bowl of smooth, fresh and fragrant fish soup is ready ... "

"Brother Guang is also a gourmet!" Wu Wangliao clapped his hands and laughed. "You are a new cook. You can bring him up and let the king meet him ... "

"How is this done?" Ji Guang hurriedly said, "How can an inferior pariah offend Tianwei?"

"Might as well!" Wu Wangliao came over and smiled. "Although you let him come up to see the king ..."

"yes! I went downstairs and told him to cook another good dish, and then presented it ... "

Ji Guang hurried back upstairs and had a drink with the prince, which was very enjoyable.

Half drunk, he said, "Zhuan Xu is here to see ..."

While speaking, a short middle-aged cook with a short beard and a dusty face knelt before the prince with a silver plate in his hand. Wang Fu's bodyguard searched him. As soon as he raised his hand, Zhuan Xu landed on all fours and knelt a few steps: "Zhuan Xu, I invite the king to taste the fresh chrysanthemum carp cooked by me ..."

A big carp more than a foot high has its mouth open in a silver plate, but its back is covered with pieces of chrysanthemums ... Wu Wangliao said happily, "Are you Zhu Zhu? Ok, bring up the fresh carp and let the king taste it! "

Zhuan Xu stood up from the ground, bent down to pick up the tray and approached Wu Wangliao. Passing 18-wheeler, as soon as he got near, Zhuan grabbed the skirt of the water with one hand, and took out a strange dagger with cold light from the belly of the carp with the other hand, and hurtled forward until he didn't stab Wu Wangliao's lower abdomen!

Wu Wangliao guards to react, wield a knife to cut, Zhuan Xu was immediately cut into meat sauce. But I only heard Ji Guangda shout, "Kill them all!" Blink of an eye, a dozen Wang Fu guards rushed out from behind the screen and killed the current Qin Bing with a sword!

Ji Guang stepped forward with a sword and approached the prince of Wu.

Liao gasped and moaned, "good! All right! Good brothers! ..... Why do you ... kill the king? "

Ji Guang smiled coldly, took out a white handkerchief and gently wiped the seemingly simple sword in his hand: "Brother, I didn't kill you ..."

"At this time, you will falsely deny it!" The king of Wu spit out a mouthful of blood from his mouth and said angrily, "Zhu, cook ... didn't you set up a special fishing ... this king fished for Er?"

Ji Guang began slowly: "It is good that you can understand this! I want to kill you for more than a day, but you are heavily guarded and I can't start. Fortunately, you were greedy for fish, and I found Zhuan Zhu, a killer who is good at cooking, to seduce you with delicious food, which led to the melee attack of today's fish intestine sword! Brother, you didn't kill me, you just died of appetite! "

Wu Wangliao took a few steps with the mill, helped the box, groaned a few times, sighed a few times, and then quickly said, "... Wang Yisheng liked to eat fish, and finally ... died under the gut sword in the stomach of this fresh carp. Isn't it ... God's will? ! Ah, it is inevitable that a general will die in battle, and a crock will never leave the well ... wine is dangerous to people, and eating it is disastrous to people. The lonely king really died of ... appetite! "

The words sound just fell and Wu Wangliao pressed the hilt, leaned back and slowly fell to the ground. A petal of chrysanthemum stained with blood floated away from the yellow robe, spinning and finally falling to the ground, like a red period. ...