Source: Anonymous [Song] "Don't Take the Way of Li"
Original text:
Seven-year-old Wang Rong tried to swim with all the children and watched Li Shu's branches break. The children scrambled for it, but they didn't move. When people ask, they answer: there are trees on the roadside, and there are many children, which will make Li suffer. Take it for granted
Translation:
When Wang Rong was seven years old, he often played with many children. They saw a lot of fruit on the plum tree by the roadside, and the fruit bent the branches. Many children ran to pick plums, but only Wang Rong didn't move. Someone asked him why he didn't pick plums. Wang Rong replied, "There are so many plums on the roadside. It must be bitter plums. " Take it off and have a taste. It's true.
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Anecdotal allusions:
During the reign of Emperor Wen of Jin, there was a man named Wang Rong in Langxie. Because of his meritorious service in pacifying Wu, he was named Hou Anfeng. He is one of the seven sages of bamboo forest. Legend has it that Wang Rong was very clever from an early age. When he was 7 years old, he once went out to play with some friends and found some plum trees on the roadside. The branches of the tree are covered with plums, which bend the branches and look mature one by one.
Little friends can't help drooling when they see it. So, one by one, he ran to pick those plums, but Wang Rong stood by and did not move. The companions felt very strange and shouted and asked Wang Rong, "Hey, Wang Rong, why don't you pick it?" ? Big and round plums, how nice! "
Wang Rong smiled and replied, "The plums on that tree must be bitter. You can't eat them when you pick them. Look, this plum tree grows on the roadside. There are so many plums on it, but no one picks them. If it weren't for bitterness, would it be like this? "