Ancient Chinese Fables - Philosophy (6)

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·31 Wei did nothing

One day, a woman put two small children on the beach and washed her own clothes by the water. At this time, a tiger came down from the mountain, and the woman saw it, and hurriedly sank into the water to hide. The two children were still playing on the beach as if nothing had happened. The tiger stared at the child for a long time, and even touched them with his head, hoping that the child would be afraid of it, but the child was not at all surprised by its behavior. Finally, the tiger had to walk away in disgust.

When a tiger attacks a person, it must first use the mighty wind to scare people. In the face of the fearless, its power cannot be exerted.

——From "Su Dongpo Collection"

·32 Zhao people suffer from rats

A family in Zhao Guoguo was killed by rats, so he went to Zhongshan Country to borrow a cat, and the Zhongshan people gave him a cat. This cat is very good at catching mice, but also likes to catch chickens to eat. A month later, his family's rats were caught and the chickens were eaten. His son thought the cat was a scourge and said to his father, "Why don't you get rid of it?"

The father said, "Our woe is that there are rats in the house, not that there are no chickens." Rats steal food, chew on clothes, drill through walls, and chew on furniture, so that we will starve and freeze, which is worse than no chickens! Without chickens, we just don't eat chicken, and we're far from starving and freezing! Why get rid of the cat? ”

——From "Yu Ion"

·33 Elephant tiger

In ancient times, there was a person in the Chu Kingdom who was often disturbed by foxes, and he tried every means to catch foxes, but he couldn't catch them. Someone said to him, "The tiger is the king of the mountain beasts, and when the beasts of the world see it, they all lose their souls and lie on the ground waiting for orders." So he had a fake tiger put under the window and covered the tiger skin outside. The fox came in and saw the tiger's model, screaming and falling to the ground in fright.

One day, a wild boar appeared in his field, so he had the tiger's model buried in the field, and asked his son to stand on the wide and flat road with a long goth to stop it. He shouted loudly, and the wild boar escaped in the grass, and when the elephant tiger turned around and ran towards Tongqu, the wild boar was caught. The Chu people were very happy and thought that the tiger model could subdue the beasts of the world.

Later, there was a beast in the field that looked like a horse, and the Chu people put on the model of a tiger and ran over. Someone dissuaded him, saying, "This is a refutation, the real tiger can't resist it yet, and if you go there, you will suffer." But he didn't listen. The barge roared like a thunderbolt and pounced on him, grabbed him and bit him, and finally the Chu people's head broke and died.

·34 Taoist priest saves the tiger

One evening, there was a flood on the mountain, and the houses floated on the water and flowed down the stream. People rode trees up to the roof, and the cries for help continued. A Taoist priest prepared a large boat, personally dressed in a cloak and a bucket, stood at the water's edge, and urged the swimmers to wait on the shore with ropes. If someone floated down, they immediately threw wood and ropes and pulled him ashore, so there were many people who were saved. Early the next morning, a wild beast was rushed in, its body submerged in the waves, and it stuck its head out of the water and looked left and right, as if it were asking for help. The Taoist priest said, "This is also a living thing, so we must save it quickly!" The man driving the boat did as he said, pulled it onto the boat with wood, and found it to be a tiger. At first, the tiger was a little confused, sitting on the ground licking the hair on his body. As soon as the ship arrived at the shore, it stared at the Daoist priest with its eyes open, jumped up and pushed the Daoist priest to the ground. The boatmen rushed to the rescue of the Daoist, and in the end the Daoist was seriously injured, although he was not bitten to death.

·35 · Chang sheep learn to shoot

Chang Yang learned to shoot arrows with Zhu Zi, the slayer of the dragon. Dragon Slayer Zhu said, "Do you want to know the truth of archery?" The King of Chu hunted in Yunmeng and sent the officials in charge of Shanze to blast the beasts out to shoot themselves. The beasts ran out, the deer appeared on the left side of the King of Chu, and the elk ran out of the right side of the King of Chu. When the king of Chu was pulling his bow and preparing to shoot, a swan whisked past the small red flag of the king of Chu when he was hunting, and its wings spread out like a hanging cloud. The king of Chu put the arrow on the bow and did not know who to shoot. Yang Yuji said forward, "When I shoot an arrow, I put a leaf a hundred steps away to shoot it, and ten shots of ten arrows are fired." If you put ten leaves a hundred steps away, then I can't guarantee that the shot will not hit. ”

·36 Death of Wakaishi

In ancient times, there was a man named Ruoshi who lived in seclusion in the north of the dark mountain, and there were tigers who often crouched outside his fence to peep. Wakaishi led his family on a day and night vigilance, ringing metal at sunrise, lighting bonfires at sunset, and building walls in the valley to defend. In the end, the tiger didn't get anything. One day the tiger died, and Ruoshi was very happy, thinking that when the tiger died, there would be no animal that would pose a danger to himself. Since then, he has relaxed his vigilance and precautions, the wall is broken and not repaired, and the fence is broken and not repaired. Suddenly, one day, a chick (chū) heard the sound of his cattle, sheep, and pigs and went in to eat them. Ruoshi did not know that it was a cat and hurriedly drove it away, but the cat did not leave, and the cat stood up like a human and grabbed him with its claws. Someone said, "If Ruoshi only knows one of them and doesn't know two, he deserves it when he dies."

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