China cultural short stories

There is a classic story of "learning to walk in Handan" in Zhuangzi. As follows:

Story: According to legend, two thousand years ago, there was a young man guarding the tomb in Yan State. If you don't know his last name, just call him Shouling Youth!

This young Shouling is not worried about food and clothing, and he is a medium-sized talent in appearance, but he lacks self-confidence. He often feels that he is nothing like others for no reason-good clothes, delicious food and elegant standing and sitting. He learns what he sees and loses what he learns. Although he has a new look, he still can't do one thing well. He doesn't know what he should look like.

His family advised him to change this problem, which he thought was because his family cared too much. Relatives and neighbors said he was a bear breaking a stick, but he didn't listen at all. Over time, he doubted whether he should walk like this, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that his walking posture was too stupid and ugly.

One day, he met several people talking and laughing on the road, only to hear someone say that the walking posture of Handan people is beautiful. As soon as he heard this, he had a heart attack and hurried forward to find out. Unexpectedly, the men saw him and walked away with a smile.

How beautiful is the walking posture of Handan people? He can't imagine. This has become his heart disease. Finally, one day, he went to Handan, a distant place, to learn to walk without telling his family.

When I arrived in Handan, I felt fresh and dazzling everywhere. Seeing children walking, he feels lively, beautiful and academic; Seeing the old man walking, he felt steady and learned; Watch women walk, sway and learn. In this way, after only half a month, he couldn't even walk, and his travel expenses were spent, so he had to climb back.

There is also a story about Zhuangzi, which is very classic and is often used now.

When the spring dried up, the two fish ran aground on the land together, spitting and moistening each other, which seemed kind and just. It is better to wait until the lake is full before swimming back to the rivers and lakes and forget each other from now on. Instead of praising Yao and condemning Jie, it is better to forget both and attribute their actions to the original law of things.

Usage:

Too formal. As predicate, attribute, object and adverbial; It contains commendatory meaning, which is mostly used for mutual care between old couples, and now it has been extended to mutual care between relatives and friends.

In essence, caring for each other is an instinctive survival behavior, without emotion. First, the memory time of fish is extremely short; Second, fish can't nourish themselves; Third, fish have the most primitive and simple kind nature and survival instinct. It can be seen that this is a subconscious behavior. When Zhuangzi mentioned this natural phenomenon, he described it as the behavior of animals, described people in a calm tone, and expressed his spiritual realm and opinions without heart, affection and involvement.

Now it is often used to describe the feelings between people, such as interdependence and mutual support. It is often used to describe the feelings between the middle-aged generation and the elderly generation, and the love between the elderly couple. It can also be used to describe absolute frankness or simple interdependence, such as childhood childhood. Young adults and young people use this word somewhat affectedly, empty and untrue.

Now this idiom has been widely used, but it is often abused when describing love and some informal news information. After ignoring Zhuangzi's personal views, metaphor is used to describe people's feelings. It needs to be used in the same predicament or not very good situation, and it can't be devoted to praising the loyalty and irretrievability of love, which distorts the original intention. In an era when information is highly falsifiable, it is a kind of respect and inheritance for ancestors and China traditional culture to learn how to properly use their famous sayings and quips.

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