The previous sentence is: Two people are United.
it means: two people have the same mind, and the power of acting in unison is like a sharp knife that can cut metal.
from: Ji Chang [Western Zhou Dynasty] "On the Book of Changes".
the original sentence: "if two people are United, their profits will be cut off; The words of one heart are as smelly as blue. "
Interpretation: Two people have the same mind, and the power of acting in unison is like a sharp knife that can cut metal; When it comes to language, it is as fragrant, elegant and beautiful as bluegrass, and there is no filthy language.
Extended information:
The background of sentence creation
This sentence is from Yi Cohesion. Cohesion holds that Zhouyi is an ancient book about the way of saints, which has four ways of saints: first, observing words, second, observing changes, third, making utensils, and fourth, divination.
Cohesion generally refers to Yi Zhuan Cohesion or Zhouyi Cohesion; It is the fourth edition of the Book of Changes, which generally discusses the great significance of the Book of Changes. According to legend, Confucius made seven expositions to explain and summarize the Book of Changes, which is commonly known as the Book of Changes.
Cohesion is the work with the highest ideological level among these seven discourses, and it quotes many Confucius' discourses, which should be sorted out by Confucianism after Confucius. It can be said that Cohesion is the epitome of pre-Qin Confucian epistemology and methodology.
Cohesion is two of Ten Wings. The main representative work of Yi Zhuan's thought, "tie" is the meaning of tie. Kong Yingda Shu: "It belongs to his words under the hexagrams." It is the general theory of the principle of the whole book except the scripture of Zhouyi.
Based on the argument that "one yin and one yang are called Tao", it shows that everything has duality, and affirms that there are things with opposite properties in nature, such as yin and yang, movement and rigidity. Put forward the viewpoint that "rigidity and softness push each other to change" and "life is easy" It is believed that the interaction of "mutual happiness", "mutual swing", "mutual push" and "mutual feeling" of opposite things is the universal law of things' change and the source of all things' metaplasia.
Put forward the concept of universe derivation that "Tai Chi is easy to have, Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments, two instruments give birth to four images, and four images give birth to eight diagrams, which determine good and bad luck, and good and bad luck gives birth to great cause". It is believed that "poverty leads to change, change leads to communication, and general rules last for a long time", that is, things must be changed before they have a future. At the same time, he also admitted that "Heaven is humble, and Gan Kun is determined; Humble and high, Chen. Eternity of "noble position".
It also explains the source of gossip, divination methods, the four sages, the virtue and function of Gankun, the meaning of nine hexagrams and so on. It played a great role in China's ancient philosophy. Taiji, Two Instruments, Tao, Qi, Shen, Ji, Yi and Xiang, which were put forward in the biography, were widely used by later generations as philosophical categories. In this paper, the method of seeking hexagrams has become an important basis for elephant mathematics.