Text\Dream walker
Guan Ning and Hua Xin were both celebrities during the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Guan Ning was good friends with Hua Xin when he was young, but he was indifferent by nature, and often made fun of Hua Xin's customary idea of being an official and loving money.
Guan Ning and Hua Xin used to plan and grow vegetables together in the garden. Once, the two of them were hoeing vegetables and loosening the soil for the vegetables in the field, hoeing and hoeing, only to see Guan Ning's stroke, a hoe went down and hugged back, and actually pulled out a piece of gold. Guan Ning's reaction was very unexpected, and he actually said lightly: "I thought it was something, it turned out to be a piece of gold." He ignored it as if nothing had happened and continued to concentrate on hoeing his grass.
Huaxin is different. As soon as he saw that Guan Ning had cut out the gold, he dropped his hoe and bent down to pick up the gold and looked at it again and again, reluctant to let go. Guan Ning saw the situation and said while working: "How can a gentleman covet the cheapness he gets for nothing?" Hua Xin was very embarrassed, and reluctantly dropped the gold and picked up the hoe. However, looking at his absent-mindedness, he still couldn't put down that piece of gold in his heart. Guan Ning shook his head and didn't say anything more.
At that time, Guan Ning and Hua Xin often read together. Once, the two were sitting on the same mat to study, when suddenly there was a noise outside the door, Hua Xin ran out to see, it turned out to be a dignitary passing by in front of the door. I saw a large group of entourage surrounded by a luxurious car, the body was decorated with gold thread, there was a multicolored satin curtain on each side, and a piece of jadeite was embedded in the middle of the roof, which looked very gorgeous and rich.
Hua Xin was firmly attracted by this luxurious scene and position, and the book could not be read, standing in the crowd of onlookers until he could not see it. Looking back, Guan Ning was actually as calm as the last time he saw the gold, immersed in the book and unmoved by the noise of the outside world. When Guan Ning saw that Hua Xin had returned, he immediately took out a knife and cut their seats in half. Guan Ning said, "Zi Fei Wu Youye." Our ambitions are different, like this cut mat, we are no longer friends!
In Guan Ning's view, true friends should be based on like-mindedness, without spiritual tacit understanding, there is no meaning of being a friend, and Hua Xin's behavior obviously disappointed him. In Guan Ning's view, Hua Xin's thoughts are not too pure, his utilitarian heart is too heavy, and the interests of the two people have been very different, and they are no longer people walking on the same road. Therefore, he decisively cut off diplomatic relations with Huaxin - this is how the allusion of "cutting the seat" came about.
2021.10.19.