Source:
Heming
Author: anonymous pre-Qin
The faint sound of cranes sounded, and the sound of spreading fields was clearly discernible. Deep diving in deep pools, sometimes floating to the shore to stop. In that happy garden, the tall sandalwood trees have shade and the bushes under the bushes have leaves. Stones from other mountains can be attacked wrong.
There was a faint noise of cranes in the swamp, which resounded through the sky. Swimming on the shallow beach, sometimes diving into the swimming pool. There is a sandalwood tree in the happiness garden, and the valley below is Victoria Valley. A wise man corrects his own mistakes through the mistakes of others.
Interpretation: attack: ponder. Stones from other mountains can be used to polish jade. It turns out that talents from other countries can serve their own country. People or opinions that can help him correct his shortcomings.
The phrase "stones from other mountains can attack jade" comes from a poem by Xiaoya heming. On the surface, it means that other rocks can be used as grindstones to polish jade. Metaphor refers to other people's practices or opinions, which can help them correct their mistakes and shortcomings or provide reference.
Shao Yong was a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty and a master of Yi Studies. He believes that in terms of self-cultivation, it is also "a stone from other mountains, which can attack jade." He compared the aggression and bullying he encountered to a sharp stone, and compared a noble person to a beautiful jade. Because you have to sharpen your knife to achieve beautiful jade, from this perspective, the so-called aggressiveness and bullying have become a good thing to temper yourself into "beautiful jade."
Shao Yong explained that "stones from other mountains can attack jade" (translation): jade is a wet object. If you use two pieces of jade to ponder each other, you will definitely not polish the beautiful jade. You have to use a rough whetstone to grind beautiful jade.