(1) Original: Autumn waters arrive, rivers are filled with hundreds of rivers, and Jinghe River is big. Between the cliffs of Zhu Yiqing on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, there is no distinction between cattle and horses. So James Hope was pleased with himself and took the beauty of the world for himself. Follow the current to the east. As for the North Sea, looking eastward, there is no end to the water. So Yan Hebo began to turn his face, looking at the sea and sighing: "There is a saying in the wild: I call him who knows a hundred and thinks he is not himself." -Zhuangzi's "Zhuangzi Qiushui"
When autumn comes, it rains heavily and countless small streams flow into the Yellow River. I saw that the waves were rough and the river surged, flooding the sandbar in the middle of the river and flooding the depression on the shore. The river suddenly widened, and even the cattle and horses on the other side of the river could not be distinguished from each other. What a spectacular sight! Hebo couldn't help feeling smug when he thought that all the water in the world had come to him. He walked eastward with the running water, enjoying the waterscape as he walked. He came to the North Sea and looked east. He was not surprised, but when he saw the connection between water and the sky, he didn't know where the end of the water was. Hebo looked blankly for a while, then turned to the sea and said with emotion, "As the saying goes, people who know the truth think they are better than anyone else. I am such a person! "
(3) Moral: Without mountains, there would be no flat land; Without the sea, there is no flow. There is a mountain outside the mountain, and there is a sky outside. Each of us is actually very small.
2. Skills of killing dragons
(1) Original: Zhu Philosophy learned to kill dragons in a fragmented way, and it was done in three years with only one daughter, without using its ingenuity. Zhuangzi's Zhuangzi Lieyu Kou
(2) Translation: A man named Zhu was bent on learning a skill that others didn't have, so he went to Sui and Yi to learn the skill of killing dragons. It took him three years, spent all the assets in his family, and finally learned the skill of killing dragons. Zhu went home triumphantly. However, where can you kill dragons in the world? As a result, the technology he learned was useless at all.
(3) Morality: Learning must proceed from reality and stress practical results. If divorced from reality, no matter how great the skill is, it will be useless.
3. Play with sparrows with pearls
(1) Original: There is such a person today, so the world will laugh at Hou Mingzhu and play with thousands of birds. What is this? Then the person who uses it is heavy, and the person who wants it is light. Hou's pearls are very precious treasures. ) Zhuangzi's "Zhuangzi Qin Wang"
(2) There was a man who liked to shoot birds, but he used pearls as projectiles and killed a sparrow flying several thousands of feet high in the air. People laughed at him when they saw it. What is the reason? This is because the price paid is too expensive and the gain is too slight.
(3) Moral: No matter what you do, you should pay attention to the weight of gains and losses. It is a very foolish act to throw away something valuable for something that has no value at all.