Text/Wang Yongqing
According to books such as "Poetry of Past Dynasties" and "Tan Zheng", the Tang Dynasty poet Chang Jian admired Zhao Gao's poems very much, and when he heard that Zhao Gao was going to visit the Lingyan Temple in Suzhou, he first wrote two poems on the wall in front of the temple, hoping to elicit Zhao Gao's poems. Sure enough, after Zhao Gao saw it, he immediately wrote the last two sentences with a pen, and it was better than the first two sentences, and Chang Jian's "plan succeeded." Later generations called this practice "throwing bricks and leading jade".
Throwing bricks and attracting jade means throwing bricks and attracting white jade, which is a metaphor for using the superficial, immature views or works that you have published first to lead to something better for others. What a bargain thing, brick, rough, not worthwhile; jade, exquisite, high value. With small inputs to obtain large outputs, eat small losses and take advantage of big advantages, everyone wants to do such a business. However, the bricks thrown out will definitely lead to jade? I don't think so.
The first person to throw the brick should find the object, know that the brick thrown out, followed by jade, not earth and stone rubble, grass dust, or even the adobe that was smashed over. If you don't look at the object, your brain throws one by one, and no matter how many bricks you throw, you will also play the piano for the cow and ask for fish in the wood, which will not play much role.
Those who throw bricks must also have a certain degree of cultivation and knowledge. It cannot be of the same magnitude as jade, but at least it can enter the "jade" magic eye, and in the eyes of the other party, it is the "brick" of jade. That is to say, throwing bricks also has to pick a good brick, if, what is thrown out, mediocre and superficial, even nonsense. Chicken and duck, jade, naturally will not be easily revealed. "Jade" is like a fruit, and "brick" is a root and a flower. Throwing bricks can attract jade, because the quality of bricks is close to jade.
Moreover, those who throw bricks should sincerely lead the jade. The other day, I saw a leader speak. The opening statement said: "Guys, I first talked about my personal thoughts, it is a matter of throwing bricks and stones, if you have any different opinions, you can speak freely." "If the person who throws the brick is high up in the sky, has no one in sight, and self-righteously throws out his own thoughts and opinions, the result is usually that the audience is either singing praises with a duplicitous song, and there is no real "jade" at all. Some people are also accustomed to putting off the leader's cleverness with a more stupid point of view after the leader has made a statement.
It can be seen that it is actually difficult to throw bricks and jade. There is a way: things are clustered in groups, and people are divided into groups. "Hiss hiss, his friend." In today's circle culture, jade has the identity and taste of jade, not to say that the eyes are too top, but also not to be seduced by a rotten brick to come out, more beautiful than bricks and more valuable is the pursuit of jade. Some people say that if you want to be friends with local tycoons, then you have to make yourself a local tycoon first. In "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Mu said that the books that "the official lady fell in love with the poor scholar" were all obscene works written by poor acid literati. The rule of jade is: it is better to be crushed by jade than to be complete.
Throwing bricks and leading jade is also the seventeenth of the thirty-six counts of the ancient art of war. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Sun Quan wanted to retake Jingzhou, so Zhou Yu proposed this plan to give Sun Quan's sister Sun Shangxiang xu to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei went to Eastern Wu to recruit relatives, and then took him hostage in exchange for Jingzhou. Later, Liu Bei fled by boat with Lady Sun, and Jingzhou naturally did not recover it. As a result, the "jade" was not brought back, but even his own "brick" was lost, and he lost his wife and folded the soldiers.
In this way, bricks should not be deliberately introduced, or honestly play their own value, such as building houses, building walls, paving roads... Useful. Don't be too ambitious, throw bricks to lead bricks, throw bricks to lead stones, and change something of equal value in your heart. But to lead the jade, like the farmer who guarded the rabbit, there was little hope.