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Bu Ju
Bu Ju
[Author] Qu Yuan
[Full text] Qu Yuan Ji Fang , not allowed to see him again for three years. He knows how to be loyal but is obstructed by slander. Feeling upset and confused, not knowing what to do. Then he went to see Zheng Zhanyin, the Taibu, and said, "I have some doubts, and I would like Mr. Yin to resolve it." Zhan Yin then gave instructions on how to brush the turtle and said, "How can you teach me?"
Qu Yuan said, "I Is it better to be prudent, simple and loyal, and will be sent to work, is this infinite?
"Is it better to hoe weeds and cultivate with strength, or to travel to the master to become famous? Would you rather endanger yourself by speaking out frankly, or live by stealing from the worldly wealth? Would you rather be detached and exalted to keep the truth? Would you rather be like a scholar to serve a woman? Is it better to be honest and upright in order to clean oneself, or to make the protruding ladder funny, as fat as Wei, in order to clean the couplets?
"Is it better to be as high as a horse thousands of miles away, or to be like a cattail in the water, riding up and down with the waves, stealing my body? I would rather be with the yoke of a horse, or to follow the traces of a slave horse? If you compete with yellow swans, will you compete with chickens and swans for food?
"Which one is good or bad?" Where to go?
“The world is turbid and unclear: a cicada’s wing is heavy and a thousand junctures are light; the yellow bell is destroyed and abandoned, the tile cauldron thunders; the slanderer is high and the wise man is nameless.
I sigh in silence, who knows my integrity! "
Zhan Yin then explained his policy and thanked him, saying: "The ruler is short, the inch is long; things...