Chen Kang Su Gong is good at shooting, and chinese odyssey and Gong are also proud of it. Tasting and shooting in the garden at home, some oil sellers put down their burdens and stood up for a long time. See its arrow nine times out of ten, but a little clumsy.
Kang Su asked, "Do you know how to shoot? I'm not good at shooting, am I? " Weng said, "Nothing else, just familiarity." Kang Su said angrily, "Er 'an dares to shoot lightly!" Weng said, "I know it by my oil. "But put a gourd on the ground, cover its mouth with money, put oil and let the money in, but the money is not wet. Because: "I have nothing else, but my hands are familiar." Kang Su laughed and dismissed the matter.
[Introduction by the author]
Ouyang Xiu (1007- 1072): a writer and historian in the Northern Song Dynasty. The word Yong Shu was born in Jishui, Jizhou (now Jiangxi). Tiansheng Jinshi collated the official pavilion and knew Yiling because of his outspoken views. During the Li Qing period, he served as an admonition officer, supported Fan Zhongyan, demanded political improvement, and was falsely accused of knowing the state. Official to Hanlin bachelor, deputy envoy of the Council and government affairs. When Wang Anshi carried out the new law, he criticized the young crops law. Shi Wenzhong. He advocated that articles should be "Ming Dow" and practical, expressed dissatisfaction with the gorgeous and dangerous style of writing since the early Song Dynasty, and actively cultivated backward people. He was the leader of the ancient prose movement in the Northern Song Dynasty. Prose has become one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties" because of its eloquence and euphemism. Poetry is similar to its prose, and its language is fluent and natural. His words are graceful and graceful, inheriting the lingering wind of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Co-edited the Book of the New Tang Dynasty with Song Qi, and independently wrote the History of the New Five Dynasties. He also liked to collect epigraphy and compiled it into Records of the Historians, which had a great influence on epigraphy in the Song Dynasty. There is Ouyang Wenzhong's collection.
[translation]
Chen Yaozi was good at archery. At that time, no one in the world could compare with him, and he was proud of it. Once, he shot an arrow in his garden. An old man selling oil put down the burden he was carrying, stood aside and looked at him casually, never leaving. The old man saw that Chen Yaozi could shoot eight or nine of the ten arrows, but he nodded slightly in agreement.
Kang Su Gong asked, "Can you shoot arrows, too? Isn't my archery also superb? " The old man said, "There is no other mystery, but familiarity." Kang Sugong said angrily, "How dare you despise my archery!" The old man said, "I can understand this truth from my experience in pouring oil." So the old man put a gourd on the ground, covered its mouth with copper coins, and slowly poured oil into the gourd with a spoon. Oil was injected from the hole of the copper coin, but the copper coin was not wet. The old man said, "I have no other secrets about this skill, but I am familiar with it." Seeing this, Chen Yaozi had to send the old man away with a smile.