This legend contains the idea that "where there is a will, there is a way" and that human beings can conquer nature.
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Liezi was originally named Yu Kou. China was a native of Putian (now Zhengzhou City, Henan Province) during the Warring States Period. Thinkers in the early Warring States period are another representative figure of Taoist thought besides Laozi and Zhuangzi. His knowledge originated from Huangdi and Laozi, and he advocated quietness and inaction. The author Liezi had a far-reaching influence on later philosophy, literature, science and technology and religion.
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Modern writer and translator Jin Kemu's Collected Works of Jin Kemu, Volume 4: "Liezi tells the truth that nature is inaction and unreasonable, because' nature' is unreasonable, and efforts are often in vain, and the results often backfire. In other words,' potential' is better than' reason'. The famous story of a fool moving mountains only proves in Liezi that fools are better than wisdom, and God is afraid that people are stupid enough to dig mountains. Force worked, but in a stupid way. The result is just that God moved the mountain to another place and blocked other people's doors. "
Yan Beiying, an expert in the history of modern philosophy, translated Liezi: "The original meaning of' a foolish man and a mountain' is quick success and instant benefit, which breaks the eyes of the world. We should forget to make things like foolish men and have no intention to do things."
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Baidu Encyclopedia Yishan, Gong Yu