The origin is as follows:
Observation device chart
This container is an ancient irrigation container.
According to Confucius' Family Words: Forgiveness and Xunzi Zuo, Confucius once saw sacrificial vessels in Lu Huangong Temple. He asked the guards in the temple what it was, and the guards told him: This is what we usually call a "seat". Confucius said: I heard that the seat tilts when there is no water, turns over when it is full, and stands upright when it is half full (empty, straight and full). Is that so? The doorman replied yes. Confucius asked Luz to bring water to try, and it really happened. Confucius sighed at this point and said, "How can it be full without turning it over?"! "In ancient times," Yi "was synonymous with" Right "and" Sit "was synonymous with" Seat "."Easy to sit "means to put things on the right side of a seat as a warning, which is also the origin of the motto of later generations. Unfortunately, the Ming wares of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were lost in the war at the end of the Han Dynasty.
It is said that the Oriental Museum in Sweden keeps a batch of painted pottery of Yangshao period in China. Among them, there is a gourd-shaped pottery pot with a round upper part and a conical lower part. At the thickest part of the lower abdomen cone, there are two symmetrical ears for tying the rope. The staff of the museum called it a container for drawing water, and praised the ancient people in China who were able to use the buoyancy principle for labor production six or seven thousand years ago. For this thing, domestic experts agree that it is the prototype of a weapon.
On the Gobi Desert, 42 kilometers east of Turpan, Xinjiang, there is an ancient tomb group in Astana. Among them, there are six murals painted on the tomb wall of Tomb 2 16, and the first painting is a ritual vessel. The owner of this tomb seems very modest. Not only did he always warn himself to "quit surplus and quit fullness" before his death, but he also always reminded himself not to go too far after his death.
The Story of the Fence, edited by Comrade Cao Yang, is to use the principle of this special utensil to warn people that "modesty is full of benefits".
In the Qing Dynasty, divergence was very popular with the royal family. The Qing emperor invited people to set up ritual vessels in the Forbidden City, which was based on the characteristics of "full coverage, middle meaning and deficiency" and metaphorically used the principle of "full recruitment, loss, modesty, avoidance of surplus and full support" to warn himself and facilitate his rule. Prince Yi Kun, the father of Emperor Guangxu, not only placed a sacrificial vessel at home, but also wrote a paragraph beside him to remind himself not to be dissatisfied. This passage is: wealth is also great, production is also great, and future generations are also in great trouble. If you ask why? Children and grandchildren are rich and courageous, and they are not afraid of all kinds of major events. They will not do it without losing their families. There is also less wealth and less output. Later, the disasters of children and grandchildren were also reduced. Some financial industries know how to protect themselves and are too frugal.
Although the emperors of the Qing Dynasty placed funerary wares on the right side of their seats, the Great Qing Dynasty still did not escape the fate of extinction. It can be seen that the admonition function of the document is very limited, just a form. It is useless to those greedy people who pursue fame and fortune. But after all, it intuitively demonstrated the truth that "empty is true, middle is true, and fullness is true". After reading the story of the propeller, if it can serve as a warning to intelligent and rational readers, I think the author has achieved his goal.
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