You don't know what it tastes like until you have experienced it. I wasted 30 years at the Wuzu meeting.
The source is Pei Xiu in the Tang Dynasty's "A Brief Introduction to Zen Master Huang Peishan's Heart": "The words of epiphany, worship the cloud:' If a person drinks water, he will know that it is good, and a certain person has wasted 30 years in the Five Ancestors' Association. ”"
The whole poem means that there is a tacit understanding of mutual cooperation in the conversation, so they bow to each other and say, "I didn't know the taste until I experienced it. I wasted 30 years of hard work in the Five Ancestors' Meeting. "
Pei Xiu (791-864), a worker beauty, Han nationality. Born in Jiyuan, Hanoi (now Jiyuan, Henan), his ancestral home was Wenxi in Hedong (now Wenxi in Yuncheng, Shanxi). The second son of Su Pei, a famous calligrapher in the middle and late Tang Dynasty and an observer in eastern Zhejiang.
Pei Xiu was born in Shi Peidong's family room in Hedong. Tang Muzong became a scholar. He has served as assistant minister of the Ministry of War, assistant minister of Zhongshu, ambassador of Xuanwu and ambassador of Beijing South, presided over the reform of grain transportation and tea tax, and made great achievements. In his later years, he was ruled by the official department minister, Prince Shao Shi, and named him Hedong County. Xian Tong died in five years (864) at the age of seventy-four, and was posthumously given to Qiu.
Extended data:
Synonym: If a fish drinks water, it knows it.
Explanation: generally speaking, it refers to what you have experienced, and you know the joys and sorrows. It's the same as "a person knows a lot when he drinks water"
Usage: as object and clause; Refers to what you have experienced directly and what you know.
Source: Song York's "The Map of the Dragon": "As for the law, nothing is like a fish drinking water, and you know it when you are warm and cold."
It means that there is no rule in it, and you will only know it after you have experienced it.
York (a.d. 1 183 ~ a.d. 1243), whose name was Lao Weng, was a writer in the Southern Song Dynasty. Jinshi origin, Ye Hou, right middle school book. Xiangzhou Tangyin (now Henan Tangyin) was born. Living in Jiaxing (now Zhejiang).
Yue Fei's grandson, his son. When he was in Song Ningzong, he was sent to Jiaxing Military Department, where he was in charge of persuading farmers to benefit the people. Since then, I have lived in Jiaxing and lived in Jinwufang. In the last years of Jiatai, under the supervision of Cheng Wulang, Li, the master book of Sinong Temple, the military equipment supervisor Cheng and Sinong Temple Cheng, he served as the military warehouse of Zhenjiang House.
In the tenth year of Jiading (AD 12 17), I met Jiaxing. In 12 years, he was Cheng Ichiro, the judge of Jiangnan East Road. Fourteen years, in addition to the military equipment supervisor, general manager of Huaidong. For three years (A.D. 1227), Baoqing served as assistant minister of the Ministry of Housing, general manager of Huaidong and ambassador.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Just drink water.
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