Fan Li (范蠡), also known as Tao Zhugong (陶朱公), was a three-family man from Wandi in the Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period, a famous politician, military expert, economist and Taoist scholar in the late Spring and Autumn Period, an early Chinese commercial theorist, and one of the pioneers of Chu Studies. Fan Li was not only politically strategic, but also had outstanding business talents, which was deeply loved by Tai Shi Gong, and his deeds were recorded in the "Yue Wang Gou Jian Shi Family" and "The Legend of cargo breeding".
Statue of Fan Li
There are many vague historical records of Fan Li, such as whether Fan Li and Xi Shi have a beautiful love story of rafting in the Five Lakes. Moreover, Fan Li did not have any writings passed down to later generations, and the "Fan Li Fish Farming Classic" with few words is also considered to be a famous work.
Fan Li Xi Shi boated the Five Lakes
About 20 years ago, in the Hubei Provincial Library of Ancient Books for the first time to see the ancient book of the "Fish Farming Classic", perhaps buried in the old paper pile with a magnifying glass to check the ancient books of the basic comrades, the old people in the old books, my appearance slightly improved the ancient book museum's old atmosphere, at that time the librarian sister was very enthusiastic, provided me with a very beautiful vertical paper sign (later brought back to school for a long time to use), so that I have the opportunity to copy the "Fish Raising Classic" from beginning to end, and also copied some other things, do not remember. At the end, the administrator sister said to me, a 19-year-old fancy beautiful man, look at your 30s, there are old and young, but I am afraid that the experience is limited, and it is still not easy to engage in ancient book research and compete with these old comrades. I froze in place, experiencing the coldness and despair of "Fan Li bearing the stone and following the five lakes"!
Three years ago, a classmate ran a journal and commissioned me to translate this short ancient text into the vernacular, and I found the original text directly on the Internet and translated it again. The "Fish Farming Classic" also intersects with Xiangyang, Hubei Province, and the "Old Record of Xiangyang Qi" quoted in the commentary on the "New Language of the World" has a record of Han Guangwu's "Shizhong Xi Yu Yu in the south of Da Shan, and made a fish pond according to the "Fan Li Fish Farming Classic".
Fish farming
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > vernacular Fish Farming Sutra:</h1>
King Qi Wei visited Fan Li, the Duke of Tao Zhu, and asked, "I heard that Sir was a fisherman in Taihu Lake, called himself YiZipi in the State of Qi, called himself Chizijing in Xirong, and only called Himself Fan Li in yueguo, is this the case?" Fan Li replied, "That's right. King Qi Wei asked again, "Mr. Wang's assets are better than the sum of tens of millions of families, reaching hundreds of millions, I don't know what good way to do it?" Fan Li replied: "There are five ways to collect goods and make money, and aquaculture ranks first." Aquaculture is the so-called operation of fish ponds. Six acres (now about 2 to 3 acres) of land were excavated into fish ponds, and some mounds were arranged in the ponds. Prepare to conceive eggs Female carp three feet long (spring and autumn period, one foot is about 16.5 cm, for the sake of rounding, take 15 cm, about 45 cm long) twenty, male carp three feet long (about 45 cm) four, in february (of course, the lunar calendar) on the day of Geng (7th day) to keep quiet in the fish pond without alarm, then the fish will inevitably mate normally. In April, a shinjo is stocked in the pond, a second shinjo is stocked in the pool in June, and a third shinjo is released into the pool in April. The so-called god keeper is what we often call the turtle. The reason why turtles are stocked in the pond is because according to legend, when the number of fish reaches more than 360, a leading dragon will appear and take other fish away, and if there are turtles in the pond (Shen Shou), the fish will not fly away (using legends to illustrate the benefits of polyculture of fish and turtles). Fish swim back and forth around numerous mounds in fish ponds, feeling like they are in a natural river. In February of the following year, you can catch 15,000 carp of 15 cm, 45,000 carp of 45 cm, and about 10,000 carp of 30 cm long. A piece worth fifty yuan, converted into cash is 1.25 million yuan (according to today's general fishery production to compare, the production of lao Fan is very exaggerated, if these data are correct, it should be the area excavated by the previous Wenyu pond is wrong, because such a yield, even if the current breeding technology is used, it is estimated that it takes 100 acres of fish pond to do it). In another year, 100,000 carp with a length of 15 cm, 50,000 carp with a length of 30 cm, 50,000 carp with a length of 45 cm, and 40,000 carp with a length of 60 cm can be caught. The ruler screens 2,000 carp 30 cm long as broodstock, and sells all the others for cash, and you can get 5.25 million yuan. In another year, there will be an immeasurable amount. King Qi Wei then excavated a fish pond in the back garden, and he received more than 300,000 yuan a year. There are many mounds and valleys in the fish pond, the ditch is about 30 cm deep from the water surface, and the bottom of the ditch is about 1 meter deep from the water surface, in which carp farmers are raised. Carp do not eat each other and are prone to growth. Fan Li also mentioned the method of building fish ponds, usually 45 cm large carp, not caught in large rivers and lakes, generally difficult to catch. If you only raise small fish, you will not be able to raise them for a long time. Therefore, if you want to raise big fish in the fish pond, you must dig up a large amount of silt close to the water's edge in the ditch harbor where big fish are abundant, and lay it at the bottom of the fish pond. In this way, within two years, big fish will be raised. The reason is very simple, that is, these soils originally have the factor of generating large fish, and after encountering the water in the pool, they play a role in promoting the production of large fish.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the original text of the Fish Farming Classic </h1>
King Wei hired Zhu Gong and asked, "Wen Gong is a fisherman in the lake, a bird in Qi, a red sperm in the west, and a Fan Li in Yue. "Yes." "The public appointment is enough for tens of millions of families, and the accumulation of hundreds of millions of gold, what is the technique?" Zhu Gongyue: "There are five methods of fuzhi life, and water animals are the first." Water animals, so-called fish ponds also. With six acres of land as the pool, there are nine continents in the pool. Twenty heads of carp are three feet long, and four heads of oyster carp are three feet long, and the water is silent in the pond in February. In April, one god keeps, one god keeps, two gods keep in June, and three gods keep in August. God Keeper, Turtle also. Therefore, if the inner turtle is full of three hundred and sixty fish, the dragon will grow for it, and the fish will fly away, and the inner turtle will not go back. In the pool around the nine continents are infinite, calling itself a river and lake. By February of the following year, there were 15,000 carps that were one foot long, 45,000 carps by three feet, and 10,000 carps by two feet. Fifty pieces are worth fifty dollars, and one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars are obtained. By next year, there will be 100,000 pieces long, 50,000 pieces long for those who are two feet long, 50,000 pieces for those who are three feet long, and 40,000 pieces for those who are 4 feet long. The one who leaves two feet long is two thousand pieces of seed, and the rest are taken, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Wait until next year, invincible stalk also. "Wang Nai ruled the land in Houyuan and received more than 300,000 yuan a year. Nine continents and eight grains in the pool, two feet of standing water on the valley. And the valley is neutral to six feet of water, so the carp keeper. Carp do not eat each other, and are easy to grow also. Also made of fish pond method, three feet of large carp, not near the river, is difficult to find in a hurry. If you raise small fish, the accumulation of years is not large. In order to make the big fish method, it is necessary to intercept the big fish in Xue zepi Lake, close to the water's soil and sand for more than ten years, to cloth the bottom of the pond. Within two years, big fish will be born. There are big roe in the soil first, and the water is raw.
There are not many research monographs on Fan Li on the market, perhaps because of the limited historical data.
Not long ago, I saw a copy of "Daoshang Fan Li", a very detailed biography of Fan Li. The author, Li Haibo, uses the Tao to do business, use the business to show the Tao, the Tao and the merchant are one, the country is rich, the country is rich, and the family is rich, creating perfect wealth and achievements.
The author of the book, Li Haibo, is one of the well-known practical experts in business planning in contemporary times, and is also a Taoist scholar, lecturer and professional strategist who successfully grafted the esoteric Huang Lao Dao theory into the field of commerce and took the lead in proposing the systematic "Dao Shang - Chinese-style Business Wisdom". This is a combination of his unique experience, research field, international insight, domestic practice, and wisdom resource control.
"Rich and not knowing, it is enough to suffer, it is better to be poor than poor." In the opening chapter of "Meng Chunji" of "Lü's Spring and Autumn", we expounded such a truth: If a person is lucky enough to get rich, but does not understand how to make himself rich and successful, then the fluke and short-term wealth and success are precisely the biggest hidden dangers for him, and it is better to let him be poor and worry-free! The Tao gives birth to all things, and all things are in the Tao. There must be a way to do business! If there is no way, then the business is not prosperous.
In general, we summarize the way of doing business as "business way" and explain it. In recent years, among entrepreneurs and businessmen at home and abroad, a large number of outstanding people who love the Tao Te Ching have emerged, who use Taoist thought and the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching to operate and manage enterprises and guide their own lives, and at the same time form a unique management wisdom and life style charm and realm. Some scholars have summarized these entrepreneurs and businessmen as "Dao shang".
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