Famous quotes about Chollima and Bole

The famous saying about the thousand-mile horse and Bole is as follows:

Source: There was Bole in the world, and then there was the thousand-mile horse. A thousand-mile horse often exists, but a bole does not always exist. Therefore, even though there is a thousand-mile horse, it will be carelessly grown and be grown dead in a stall, never being called as a thousand-mile horse. ——(Tang Dynasty) Han Yu's "Miscellaneous Notes Four".

Bole: Personal name, with the surname Sun Mingyang and the courtesy name Bole. He was a native of Qin Mugong in the Spring and Autumn Period. He was famous for being good at horse-drawing. only: only. Parallel: Two horses driving a cart together are called parallel, which means together. Stable: This refers to the place where horses are raised.

There are people like Bole who are good at telling horses, and then there will be thousands of horses. A thousand-mile horse often appears, but a person like Bole does not always appear. Therefore, although there is a famous horse, it can only be raised by slaves in humiliation and die in the stable with ordinary horses, so it will not be called a thousand-mile horse.

The background of this sentence:

In the eleventh year of Zhenyuan of Dezong, when Han Yu was 28 years old, he wrote to the prime minister three times, hoping to be promoted, but he did not expect that these three letters were like Nothing came of it, and he had no choice but to leave the capital. Some people speculate that Han Yu wrote this article at this time to express his emotion.

Unappreciated talent is the greatest tragedy for Chinese intellectuals. In the article, Han Yu used the metaphor of a thousand-mile horse to describe talent, and the metaphor of Bole to a person who can identify and promote talents. This concise and powerful explanation is that people who recognize talents are the most rare.

"Thousand-mile horses often exist, but Bole does not always exist." Han Yu's writing method is clearly a "connotation of things". He is actually lamenting that there was no Bole in the Tang Dynasty. Because if there are no people who recognize talents, how can talented people appear? Han Yu also said in "The Military Preface of Sending Wen to Heyang": "As soon as Bole passed through the wilderness of northern Hebei, the horses were empty."