蛇蝎女佣 第四季Chuang Tzu: Inner Chapters
Chapter One
Wandering in Absolute Freedom
In the North Sea there is a kind of fish by the name of kun, who size covers thousands of li. The fish metamorphos into a kind of bird by the name of peng, who back cover thousands of li. When it ris in flight, its wings are like clouds that hang from the sky. When the wind blows over the a, the peng moves to the South Sea, the Celestial Pond.
雅思考试报名网According to 中韩在线翻译Qi Xie脆生生的什么, a collection of mysterious stories, “On its journey to the South Sea, the peng flaps sprays for 3,000 li and soars to a height of 90,000 li at the windy time of June.” The air, the dusts and the microbes float in the sky at the breath of the wind. Does the sky display the blueness as its true colour? Or does it reach an unattainable distance? When the peng looks from above, it must have obrved a similar sight.
If a mass of water is not deep enough, it will not be able to float large ships. When you pour
a cup of water into a hole on the floor, a straw can sail on it as a boat, but a cup will get stuck in it for the water is too shallow and the vesl is too large. If the wind is not strong enough, it will not be able to bear large wings. Therefore, the peng must have a strong wind under it as its support so as to soar to a height of 90,000 li. Only then can it brave the blue sky and clear all obstacles on its southward journey.
A cicada and a turtle-dove derided the peng saying, “We fly upward until we alight on an elm or a sandal tree. Sometimes when we cannot make it, we just fall back to the ground. What’s the n of soaring to a height of 90,000 li on your journey to the south?”
If you are going to the green suburbs, you only have to bring three meals and you will comeback with a full stomach. If you are going 100 li away, you have to grind enough grain for the overnight stay. If you are going 1,000 li away, you have to bring enough grain to last you three months. How could the two little creatures know about all this?
Little learning does not come up to great learning; the short-lived does not come up to the long-lived. How do we know that this is the ca? The fungi that sprout in the morning anculture怎么读
d die before evening do not know the alteration of night and day; cicadas do not know the alteration of spring and autumn. Tho are cas of the short-lived. In the south of the state of Chu there is a miraculous tortoi, for whom each spring or autumn lasts 500 years; in the remote ages there was a huge toon tree, for which each spring and autumn lasted 8,000 years. Tho are cas of the long-lived. But today, Pengzu, who lived over 700 years, is uniquely acknowledged for his longevity. Is it not lamentable that he is an object of envy to all!
Tang, the first king of the Shang Dynasty, asked his minister Ji a similar question.
莫言小说蛙txt下载Tang asked Ji, “Are there limits up and down, east and west, north and south?”
Ji answered, “There are limits beyond limits. In the remote and barren north, there is a dark a, the Celestial Pond, where lives a kind of fish by the name of kun, who size covers thousands of li. There are also a kind of bird by the name of peng, who back is like a lofty mountain and who wings are like clouds that hang from the sky. Soaring like a whirlwind to a height for 90,00 li, the peng flies above the heavy clouds and against the
blue sky on its southward journey toward the South Sea. A quail in the marsh laughed at the peng, saying, ‘Where does he think he’s going? I hop and skip and fly up, but I never fly up more than a dozen metres before I come down and hover above the reeds. That’s the highest I ever fly! And where does he think he’s going?’”
Such is the difference between the small and the great.
high sierraFor tho who are intelligent enough to take a minor office, well-behaved enough to impress a district, virtuous enough to plea a lord or talented enough to win the confidence of a state, their complacency is like that of the cicada, the turtle-dove or the quail. Song Rongzi is a philosopher who mocks at them, for he himlf does not feel flattered when the whole world prais him and does not feel discouraged when the whole world blames him. He can differentiate the internal form the external; he can distinguish between honour and disgrace. But that is all he can do. Although he is not entangled in worldly affairs, he still has something unattained.雅思考试评分标准
Then there is Liezi, who can travel by riding the wind in a free and easy manner, returning
to earth in fifteen days. He is never entangled in worldly fortunes, but although he does not have to walk, he is still dependent on something.
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