In daily life, people often say the saying "there is no eye to know Tarzan", which means that due to subjective prejudice against someone, they underestimate someone. When you are proficient in using this saying, have you ever wondered what "Tarzan" means in this saying? Many people think that the "Taishan" in this saying is the Taishan of the first of the five peaks, in fact, this Taishan is not The Taishan, and this "Taishan" has nothing to do with the Taishan of the first of the five mountains. The "Tarzan" in this saying is a person's name.
Luban
Lu Ban was a native of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, born into a family of craftsmen, and followed his father to do carpentry work since childhood. In the era when Lu Ban lived, carpentry was a technical job, and since professional carpenter tools had not yet been invented, carpenters not only needed to have super hands-on ability, but also needed to have higher comprehension.
Lu Ban studied art with his father for many years and mastered all the skills of carpenters, but Lu Ban was not satisfied, and he thought that carpenters could do better. Lu Ban is a person who likes to study, he has accumulated a lot of experience in his daily work, according to this experience he has developed a series of carpenter tools such as ink buckets for scribing, saws, shovels, planers, etc., and the invention of these tools has greatly improved the engineering quality and production progress of carpentry.
Tarzan learns art
As Luban's fame grew, many carpenters flocked to Luban's men to worship Luban as a teacher, and there was a man named Tarzan.
Although Tarzan became Lu Ban's apprentice, Lu Ban did not like him, because Tarzan did not delve into carpentry skills like Lu Ban's other apprentices, and he always liked to study some bamboo weaving. Lu Ban is the grandfather of a carpenter, but he does not know much about bamboo weaving, and he believes that bamboo weaving is not what a serious carpenter should do, so he does not approve of this Tarzan who likes bamboo weaving.
In order to better promote the carpenter culture, Lu Ban's assessment of apprentices is very strict, if the apprentices do not do well, Lu Ban first patiently guides, if he does not do well, Lu Ban will severely criticize him, serious or even remove.
One day, Lu Ban went to the carpentry site to check the work, he turned around but did not find Tarzan. Lu Ban asked the apprentices where Tarzan had gone, and one of the apprentices told Lu Ban, "Tarzan went to help others make bamboo weaving." When Lu Ban heard this, he was very angry in his heart, he felt that Taishan was not a piece of carpenter's material, and he did not do carpentry work well, and even went to make bamboo weaving for others.
As a result, Lu Ban decisively expelled Tarzan from his team of carpenter apprentices. Although Tarzan pleaded bitterly, Lu Ban fired Tarzan on the grounds that he was not suitable as a carpenter.
There are eyes that do not recognize Tarzan
Three years later, one day LuBan was wandering around the market when he spotted a group of people huddled around a stall scrambling to buy it. Lu Ban couldn't see what was being sold inside through the crowd, but curiosity was detrimental, and he still squeezed into the crowd.
Crowded to the stall, Lu Ban fixed his eyes on it, the original stalls were selling a variety of small agricultural tools woven with bamboo, including bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, bamboo dustpans, etc., those bamboo woven agricultural tools are beautiful in shape and exquisite in workmanship, and even lu ban, the carpenter's "grandfather", can't help but be amazed.
Lu Ban looked up to see who had made these bamboo farming tools. He found that the person who sold bamboo weaving was actually a little familiar, and when he looked closely, it turned out that the person was actually Tarzan, the apprentice who had been expelled by himself.
This time Luban was embarrassed. In those days, Taishan was expelled from his disciple team because he did not do his job, and now the exquisite bamboo woven agricultural tools made by Taishan cannot even be made by himself. He couldn't help but blush, he knew he had looked away.
At this time, Tarzan also saw Lu Ban, and he greeted him warmly and wanted to talk to Lu Ban. But Lu Ban kept waving his hand, and as he stepped back, he said to him, "I really don't know Tarzan with my eyes." Then, Lu Ban turned and left Tarzan's stall.
Later, when Lu Ban and his disciples mentioned this matter, they used the saying "There are eyes that do not know Taishan". Thus this saying was passed down to describe a person who has no eyes and is short-sighted. However, some people use this sentence to be humble, expressing admiration for the wisdom of the other party and complimenting the other party.
epilogue
In fact, the saying "there is no eye to know Taishan" is widely used, and there is a credit to Shi Nai'an, who quoted this saying many times in the novel "Water Margin".
For example, in the section of the "Water Margin" wedge "Zhang Tianshi Prays for the Plague and Hong Taiwei Mistakenly Walks the Demon", Hong Taiwei was instructed to go into the mountains to find the Heavenly Master, and on the way he met a shepherd boy, and later others told him that the shepherd boy was the Heavenly Master, and Hong Taiwei sighed: "I am so blind that I don't know Mount Taishan, and I miss it in person!" ”。 In the twenty-third episode of the "Water Margin" section of "Henghai County Chai Jin Liubin, Jingyang Gang Wusong Fighting Tiger", Wu Song saw Song Jiang for the first time, knelt on the ground, where ken got up and said: "The little man has eyes that do not know Taishan!" ”。
The saying "there is no eye to know Tarzan" is often used in our lives, especially when encountering embarrassing things, saying that this saying has the effect of alleviating embarrassment and doing more with less.