original:
Zhai Zhuang, Zi Zu Xiu, Xunyang people. Less famous for filial piety, ploughing and then eating. Only fishing is a matter of doing it. And the long, do not hunt, or ask: "Fishing and hunting are the same harmful things, and the gentleman stops one, why not?" Zhuang Yue: "Hunting oneself and fishing oneself for oneself has not been exhausted, so I have not been able to do it all." And the husband is greedy for bait and swallows the hook, don't you? "When people think they know what to say. In the late festival, there is no fishing, and the end lives in the gate, and the fate is not on it, pawn.
Translation:
Zhai Zhuang, also spelled Zuxiu, is a native of Xunyang. In his youth, he was known for his filial piety to his parents and his fraternity for his brothers, and he cultivated before eating (the proceeds of his labor). He only made bird fishing a profession. When he grew up and stopped hunting, someone asked him: "Fishing is the same thing as hunting, but sir only stops hunting, why?" Zhai Zhuang said: "Hunting is out of my (will), fishing is out of the will of the fish, can not be abandoned, so I first subtract the more serious ones." Moreover, when I caught a fish, it was the fish itself who greedily swallowed the bait and swallowed the hook, how could it be my fault? "People at the time thought it was insightful. In his later years, Zhai Zhuang also stopped fishing, settled down in a simple and dilapidated house, and the emperor did not take office when he was summoned by order, and died.