There are two stories, one is Dongguo and the wolf, and the other is the farmer and the snake.
The two stories were learned around elementary school, and we repeat them here, learning from the past and learning new things, and we can be teachers.
Dong Guo and the wolf are authentic "Created in China": Mr. Dong Guo applied "both love" to the evil wolf, and thus suffered bad luck. This parable tells us that even in human relations, there are "Mr. Dongguo"-style problems. One should love the people with all sincerity, but one should not pity the wicked like a wolf. Now, "Mr. Dongguo" and "Zhongshan Wolf" have become fixed words in Chinese, "Mr. Dongguo" refers specifically to those who do not distinguish between right and wrong and abuse compassion, and "Zhongshan Wolf" refers to people who are ungrateful and vengeful.
The story comes from the "Legend of the Wolf of Zhongshan" in Ma Zhongxi's "Dongtian Anthology" in the Ming Dynasty.
Farmers and snakes are "imported" and imported from China: On a cold winter's day, farmers returning home from a market found a frozen snake on the side of the road. He pitied the snake and put it in his arms. When the heat on his body warmed the snake, the snake quickly woke up, revealing its cruel nature, and inflicted a fatal wound on the farmer—biting the farmer. Before he died, the farmer said, "I have saved a poor poisonous snake, and I deserve this kind of retribution!" ”
This story tells people that helping people must first learn to distinguish between good and bad. Then you have to use the right method to keep yourself from harm. He lashed out at the wicked who would take revenge and the hypocrites who helped the wicked. This parable admonishes us to learn to distinguish between right and wrong and not to deal with bad people, because foxes cry and snakes have times of distress, so this parable admonishes us to distinguish between right and wrong. Even if the benevolence and righteousness to the wicked are exhausted, their nature will not change, and they must not be soft-hearted.
From Aesop's Fables, it is said that the story was written by a black Ethiopian slave, and "Aesop" is the harmonic sound of "Ethiopia".
Here, the question arises, Dongguo and the wolf, the farmer and the snake, the truth of the two stories is the same, but why "introduce" the farmer and the snake? We have analyzed it very seriously, and there are two main reasons:
One is not enough. Chinese so much, just having a Dongguo and a wolf is not enough, it is not enough. For example, like face oil, toilet paper or soybeans or something, our country also has, but some people will feel that the use of "Chinese goods" is not very beautiful, then, come to a foreign brand, let everyone's life be richer, have everything, each needs to take, will be better.
Although they are two brands, their purpose and function are the same, just like wiping your face is for beauty, using paper is for cleanliness, and eating beans is for nutrition or full stomach. Materially it is like this, and culture it is even more so. This phenomenon can be summed up in a Chinese idiom, that is, the same destination. Whether people pass through wolves or through snakes, what they eventually learn should be not to be kind to bad people. As a domestic "wolf" and an imported "snake", as long as it stands for the purpose of indoctrination, one is not too little, two is not too much, the more the merrier.
The second is not to understand. Confucius once said to his students: "If you take one corner and do not oppose the three corners, you will not return." This means: "I will give you one aspect, and you should be able to think flexibly of other aspects, and if you can't, I won't teach you any more." Later, everyone turned this passage of Confucius into the idiom of "one example and three", which means that to learn a thing, you must be able to think flexibly and apply it to other similar things. However, not everyone can become a student of Confucius, and they can learn from each other. If there were only DongGuo and the wolf, they would only know that they could not sympathize with the wolf, and if they encountered a snake, they would be soft-hearted.
Together, they tell people that not only can the nature of the "wolf" in this world not change, but also the "snake", the nature of the "snake" will not change easily, if you want to give an example, not only the "wolf" and the "snake", there are many, many things will be like this, even including people. To give an example, touch the class bypass, integration, but the teacher will not teach some students, they always swallow dates, do not seek to understand, shallow taste, in order to prevent teachers like Confucius "will not teach again", so the farmer and the snake are "imported". On the one hand, in order to let the teacher have many examples, on the other hand, it is really painstaking to let the students understand and truly understand that many things are bypassed and integrated.
However, explaining these two important reasons, we suddenly found that there is one of the most important reasons that has not yet been clarified, so we will go further and "cite one against three" or "two against three" - the purpose of introduction is even more in these 3 points - 1. China has "wolves" and foreign countries have "snakes"; 2. China also has "snakes" and foreign countries also have "wolves"; 3. "Wolf" and "snake" will appear in Both China and abroad – this is the ultimate goal – and it is true that "wolf" and "snake" are placed all over the world, both are true and eternal.
Finally, briefly talk about "wolves" and "snakes". In China, the culture of "snake" seems to be earlier than that of "wolf", for example, everyone knows that Fuxi Nuwa is the body of a human head snake, which seems to be something at the source of culture, and in later circulation operations, there is the concept of a poisonous snake, and then there are those bad things. Some people liken it to something that looks good, but actually hurts. It's like a rose with thorns, like a red face, and so on.
Later "wolves" are all over the world, all have the meaning of Dongguo and wolf, but in China it is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, in addition to "Zhongshan wolf" and "white-eyed wolf", etc., are stored in the hearts of ordinary people, hanging on the mouth, used to criticize those who do not pay attention to morality and have no conscience. However, in recent years, a "wolf culture" has become popular in the United States, taking the law of eliminating the dark forest of the weak and the strong as the keynote and criterion, hyping it up, and even calling on people to rob, plunder, and seize the resources of the weak, which has affected China's achievement of the "wolf totem" - a book that was once very popular, as well as "The Book of the Wolf", "The Wolf Road" and other messy things. Through the curtain of the "Wolf Totem", those people seem to have forgotten that the popular Chinese scripture is the Four Books and Five Classics, the popular Tao is the Heavenly Dao, the Dao and the Humanity, the Moral Tao, the trajectory or trajectory of all things. Of course, those people also seem to have forgotten Chinese have never worshipped wolves, and in the past, people in the northern steppes even set up wolf fighting teams to protect sheep, not to mention Dongguo and wolves.
However, fortunately, in recent years, all this has passed, and the flag has come to an end, and while seeing that the "wolf" has not been able to defeat China's powerful and excellent traditional culture, people have deeply understood the reason why the "wolf" cannot be popular in China - Chinese has always believed in "human nature is inherently good", not "human nature is inherently evil"; in China, not only has its own brand "Dongguo and the wolf", but also introduced the "farmer and snake" made abroad, Chinese in "one against three" or "two against three", has seen through many things. (Wen | Lusheng)