The sea water cannot be measured, and it cannot be understood at all. If you cannot succeed at a high level, you cannot achieve at a low level. After passing five levels, you will kill six generals. A hundred hearings are not as good as a single sight.
1. Seawater cannot be measured by a bucket
Vernacular interpretation: Seawater cannot be measured by a bucket. Metaphor: Don't underestimate someone's future based on his current situation.
Dynasty: Han
Author: Liu An
Source: "Huainanzi·Instructions of the Dai People": "Dendrobium cannot be fought against rivers and seas."
Translation: Rivers and seawater cannot be measured with buckets.
2. Be puzzled by the solution
Vernacular meaning: Bai: many times; Solution: understand. I can't understand it even after thinking about it.
Dynasty: Qing
Author: Ji Yun
Source: Volume 13 of "Notes of Yuewei Thatched Cottage": "I really can't think of the reason for this. ”
Translation: I really can’t understand the reason even after thinking about it.
3. The high cannot achieve and the low cannot settle
Vernacular interpretation: The high are unable to obtain, and the low are disdainful to accommodate. Describes dilemmas in job hunting or marriage.
Dynasty: Song Dynasty
Author: Chen Shidao
Source: "Suchaicheng" poem: "You can't just follow fate, high or low."
Translation: Whether it is high or low ultimately depends on fate.
4. Passing five levels and killing six generals
Vernacular interpretation: a metaphor for overcoming numerous difficulties. This is the story about Guan Yu in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Dynasty: Ming
Author: Luo Maodeng
Source: Chapter 76 of "The Popular Romance of the Three Treasure Eunuchs of the West": "In this world, which one Don’t you talk about a good man who has gone through five levels and killed six generals, and lifted up the heaven and earth?”
Translation: In all this time, who would not talk about a person who has passed five levels, killed six generals, and lifted up the heaven and earth? Is the land a real man?
5. Hearing a hundred times is worse than seeing it once
Vernacular interpretation: Hearing it a hundred times is not as true as seeing it with your own eyes.
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Translation: It is better to see it once than to hear it a hundred times. Indeed, it is difficult for soldiers to overcome it.