The story of chop and change and its implication

The story of chop and change comes from Zhuang Zhou's "Zhuangzi's Theory of Everything", also known as "being killed by the public". The original text is: "Being killed by many people means' chop and change'." All the snipers are angry. He said, "However, it's always hot and cold. "Everyone is very happy.

Li Yukou, the Yellow Emperor, unfolded the story in detail and said: There was a man who raised macaques in the State of Song. Because there were too many macaques, his family was short of money, and the people who raised macaques planned to limit their food. He told the monkey that he would give three acorns in the morning and four acorns at night. The monkey was furious until he said three acorns in the morning and three acorns in the evening.

Interpretation and application of "chop and change"

Sniper (jū) Gong: An old man who keeps monkeys.

Solution: understand, understand, understand.

Sniper: Monkey.

Meaning: mind.

Yes, I know.

Win the hearts of the people: understand the mind of the elderly who raise monkeys.

Loss: decrease.

Mouth: rations.

Fill: meet.

Desire: desire, demand.

Earl: For a while, soon.

Room: lack.

Limit: limit.

Fear: I'm afraid.

Tame: To tame, obey, and listen. Extended to obedient.

Kuáng: Cheating.

One: pronoun, it refers to the monkey.

And: here.

If: personal pronouns in classical Chinese, instead of "you" and "you", the article refers to monkeys.

Guo (xù): The fruit of oak, commonly known as "acorn".

Chao: In the morning.

Foot: Enough, enough.

All of them.

All: all.

Angry: angry together. Anger: Anger, anger.

Fuxi: Everyone likes to lie on the ground (usually when animals are satisfied).

Use examples

Yuan Georgi's "Goat Writing Winter": "The situation changes, yesterday is not today, and idiots don't understand glory and death." ?

At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Yang Ne The Journey to the West's ninth sentence: "I am also a bad person, so I can make a deal with such a fickle and ungrateful person."

The moral of this story

Moral: The original meaning refers to playing tricks to deceive people. Metaphor often changes its mind and is capricious.

Truth: Later, people used "chop and change" to describe those fickle villains, trying to remind the world to be single-minded through this word.

develop

The original moral of this story is a clever irony of two kinds of fools, one is the manager and the other is the managed. The latter is ridiculous because' one leaf can't see Mount Tai'; The former, seemingly arrogant, used to do some "self-deception, expedient measures and delaying tactics" only to solve the immediate predicament, and naturally it was resented because it was not a long-term solution. Now, it means that the goal is not firm and insensitive.