Author | Kirin Figure | Network writing | Kanji Palace
Black sheep originally meant inferior horses that endangered horses. Now the metaphor is a person who endangers society or the collective.
This idiom comes from "Zhuangzi Xu Wu Ghost": "The husband is the one who is the world, and he is also a horse herder who is different, and he is also a horse killer." "It is about 4,000 years ago, when the Yellow Emperor --- the legendary first emperor of China, and took his seven high-ranking people to Guci Mountain to meet a god named Dakui. On the way, they met a young boy guarding the herd of horses. Because the journey to his friend's village was long, the Yellow Emperor asked the little boy, "Do you know the road in the village?" There lived a friend of mine. The boy said he knew. The Yellow Emperor asked the boy again, "Do you know my friend?" The boy replied yes. The Yellow Emperor thought that the child knew so much, so he asked him: "Do you know how to govern the country?" The boy said: "The way to govern the country is similar to guarding a herd of horses." Just drive the wild horses out of their herd. "
When the Yellow Emperor heard this, he quickly prostrated his head in thanks, calling the shepherd boy a heavenly master. After leaving, I always thought about the words of the little boy, and I understood the true meaning of "for the world" from the words of the little boy, so I no longer went to find people. The "horse killer" mentioned by the child is the etymology of the black sheep.
Thereafter, the black sheep were used as a metaphor for harming the collective. Lu Xun once used it in the "Book of Two Places" in the second and fourth chapters: When the tide is slightly over, you black sheep will make a little more discussion. Mao Dun also wrote in "Midnight": I am advocating peace, I do not like to use high-pressure means, but I am like the head of the family in the factory, and I cannot tolerate that kind of black sheep.
In summary, the black sheep only borrow horses to talk about personnel affairs, which is a figurative method and has nothing to do with horses, and the so-called "black sheep" actually refers to "black sheep people".
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