1. If you look at a horse, you will be thin, and if you are a fortune teller, you will be poor.
Horses often misjudge the quality of horses because they are thin, and people who look at people often ignore them because they are poor. Human talent. These two sentences illustrate that you cannot judge people by their appearance, and you cannot ignore people's talents because of their low status or poverty, resulting in the loss of talented people.
Source: "Historical Records·Funny Biographies Supplement" by Sima Qian, a historian, thinker and writer of the Western Han Dynasty.
2. Judging people by appearance, losing Ziyu
From "Historical Records? Biography of Zhongni's Disciples", it describes the mistake of judging people by appearance made by the sage Confucius.
Confucius had many disciples. One of them, named Jaeyu, is eloquent and eloquent. He had a good impression of Confucius at first, but later he gradually discovered that he was neither filial to his parents nor benevolent, and was very lazy and slept during the day. Confucius said that he was "a rotten tree that cannot be carved." Later, Jae Yu participated in the rebellion and was killed.
Confucius also had another disciple named Tantai Mieming (also known as Ziyu), who had an inelegant appearance and an ugly appearance. Confucius began to think that he had low qualifications and would not become a talent. But after he studied as a teacher, he devoted himself to self-cultivation practice when he returned home, dealt with things openly and honestly, and never tried to curry favor with ministers or officials. Later, there were 300 students who followed him, and his reputation spread far and wide.
Confucius heard about it and said with emotion: "I judge a person's quality by his words, and my judgment of Jaeyu is wrong; I judge a person's quality by his appearance, and my judgment of Ziyu is wrong again. "
3. People cannot be judged by appearance, and sea water cannot be measured.
Source: The second chapter of "Xiao Yuchi" by an unknown person in the Yuan Dynasty.
Phase: observe, see. Dou: refers to a wine fight. The general meaning of these two sentences is: You cannot use a person's appearance to measure a person, and you cannot use a wine bucket to measure the water of the sea. Nowadays, it means you can't judge people by their appearance. When people learn that a person is unremarkable in appearance and is an extraordinary person, ~ is often used to express admiration and surprise.
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"Funny Biography":
The whole biography seems to be about extremely despicable and obscene things, but it starts from the six arts, which can be said to be Be clear and clear. The following biographies are written one after another: "Qi Kun stopped drinking for a long night with one word, You Meng showed sympathy for the old official's family with one word, and Youzhan stopped the violent master's desires with one word", all of which closely follow the main theme of the full text and use mostly Fu pens. , the layout is exquisite, the syntax is wonderful, and it is full of wit and humor. It is exciting to read.
Li Jingxing commented on this article: "The praise may be elegant or vulgar, right or wrong, reasonable or unreasonable, affectionate or ruthless. Within a few sentences, there is a lot of laughter and curses. It's really Divine quality." (Volume 4 of "Review of Historical Records") can be said to have captured the essence of this biography.
As for the texts added by Mr. Chu Shaosun, scholars of the Fang family have always had mixed reviews. Most of them thought that they were "weak" compared to Tai Shigong. However, it should also be pointed out that in the chapter, Ximen Bao governs the witches, officials and gentry in Ye County by defrauding money and harming people. The narrative is methodical, lifelike and picturesque, and it has left an indelible impression in the minds of many readers.
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