Zizhi Tongjian - Gongsun Long and Kong Puncture Theory

One of Pingyuan Jun's disciples was a man named Gongsun Long, who was very good at the sophistry of being white and white, that is, if a stone was hard enough and white enough, it was not a stone? Pingyuan Jun greatly respected Gongsun Long.

　　Kong Pu came from the State of Lu to the State of Zhao, and debated with Gongsun Long whether the slave had three ears? Gongsun Long's argument was so convincing that Kong Pu had no way to refute it and had to leave.

　　The next day, Kong Pu went to see Pingyuan Jun.

　　PingYuan Jun said, Sir, you look at Gongsun Long's argument yesterday, it is reasonable, the head is the Tao, what do you think?

　　Kong Pu replied, "Indeed, what he said was so wonderful that I almost believed that the slave maid really has three ears, although this matter is really difficult, but I also have a question I want to ask you about Pingyuan Jun?"

　　"Now to argue that the three ears are true, it is a difficult thing, and it is not easy, it is very easy to argue that two ears are very easy, and it belongs to the truth, Pingyuan Jun, do you choose the problem that is difficult and not easy, or do you choose the problem that is easy and unreal?"

　　PingYuanjun therefore had nothing to say, and waited until the next day to tell Gongsun Long that you should not argue with Kong Pu in the future, his reasoning is better than his words and deeds, and your words are better than your reasoning, and you will certainly not prevail.

　　In fact, I don't know much about this story, and I don't quite understand why he had to argue with Gongsun Long, does the slave have three ears? But somehow, I suddenly remembered a sentence: the text is too much, so I think that in life, we must do what we hear is false, and what we see is true.

　　Unfortunately, in life, we can glimpse the truth from the words of others too little, most of the time we only listen to one side of the word, we put labels and define others.