Everything was done in the forest.

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"Guan Zhong, since Huan Gong cut solitary bamboo, spring turns to winter, confusing it. Guan zhong said:' the wisdom of an old horse can be used.' Is to release the old horse and follow it. Get the news. There is no water in the mountains. Peng Pei said, "Ants live in the sunshine of the mountains in winter and in the shade of the mountains in summer. One inch of ant soil, there is water. " Dig it out and there will be water. It is not difficult to learn from the old horse and old ant with Guan Zhong's sage wisdom, but it is not too much to learn from the sage wisdom with his stupidity.

It is not difficult to learn from the old horse and ants and the wisdom of Guan Zhong's sage and his friends. Is it too much for people nowadays to learn the wisdom of saints with the heart of fools?

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Guan Zhong and Peng Ji followed Qi Huangong to explore solitary bamboo in the north. Spring has passed and winter has come again. Because there is no guide familiar with geography to lead the way, Guan Zhong said, "The wisdom of the old horse can be used." So I rode the old horse in front of the army, let it go, followed it, and finally got my way back.

March in the mountains, there is no water to drink. Peng Ji said, "Ants live in the south of the mountain in winter and in the north of the mountain in summer. There is water when the soil of ants is an inch deep. " So I dug the nest and found the water. With the wisdom of Guan Zhong and Peng Ji, they realized what they didn't know, and they didn't take it as a shame to ask for advice from the old horse ants. Isn't it a mistake that people nowadays deny their ignorance and don't know how to learn and absorb the wisdom of saints?

2. a blessing in disguise

Lie Hong in Huainan was written by Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty.

China's classical prose

Close to the front, good technology. A horse died in Hu for no reason, and everyone hanged it. His father said, "Why isn't this a blessing?" After a few months, his horse will return to Hu, and everyone will come to congratulate him. His father said, "Why can't this be a disaster?" It's good to have money at home, and my son is easy to ride. He broke his beard (pronounced b √, thigh) when he fell, and everyone hung up. His father said, "Why not be lucky?" After living for a year, the Hu people invaded the fortress, and the Ding Zhuang people played with strings. The man near the fort, the deceased was nineteen, so it was the only cause of lameness, and the father and son took care of each other.

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Near the frontier fortress, there lived a group of people, one of whom was good at speculating good or bad luck. His horse ran to the Hu people for no reason, and everyone comforted him. His father said, "How do you know this is not a blessing?" A few months later, his horse came back with the good horse of the Hu people, and everyone congratulated him. His father said, "How do you know this is not a disaster?" There are many good horses at home, and his son likes riding.

Once he fell off his horse and broke his thigh bone. Everyone comforted him, and his father said, "How do you know this is not a blessing?" A year later, the Hu people invaded the frontier fortress on a large scale, and all the mature men took up bows and arrows to participate in the war. Ninety percent of the adult men living near the frontier fortress died because of the war. Because of his son's lame leg, his father and son were saved.

3. Call a deer a horse

Sima Qian, Historical Records of the First Qin Emperor

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In Qin Ershi, Zhao Gao rode a deer. The king said, "What does the Prime Minister mean by driving deer?" Gao said, the king said, "The Prime Minister also made a mistake and took the deer for a horse." Gao Yue said, "Your Majesty wants to ask his ministers if I say otherwise." I said it was half deer and half horse. At this time, the king of Qin could not rightfully follow the theory of evil ministers.

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When he was in Qin Ershi, Zhao Gao and II traveled in a deer. I asked him, "Why did the Prime Minister drive a deer?" Zhao Gao said, "This is a horse!" The second said, "The Prime Minister made a mistake and treated the deer as a horse." Zhao Gao said, "This is indeed a horse! If (Your Majesty) thinks that what I said is wrong, I hope (Your Majesty allows me) to ask the ministers. " Ministers say it's half deer and half horse. In this case, the king of Qin could no longer insist on his own opinion, so he had to listen to Zhao Gao.

4. immediate success

"Chu Zhao Gong" Jacky Tingwei

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According to legend, in the second year after Qin Shihuang unified the country (220 BC), he was on his way to worship the sun at the top of Rongcheng, Shandong Province. He heard that mottled colored stones were sacred stones left by the goddess of heaven, which could ensure national stability, so he made a special trip to worship mottled colored stones. At that time, he led thousands of troops, along the repaired special chidao, and went straight to the place where the mottled colored stones were, respectfully and respectfully.

After returning to Korea, everything went well, the world was at peace, and the dragon was overjoyed, and hundreds of officials made poems to celebrate. At that time, there was a warlock, Xu Fu (Mr. Xu Fu, who later went to sea to seek immortality), who said in a poem: "A thousand horses and a thousand troops won the Tao, and the emperor succeeded in worshipping the stone." Unfortunately, at that time, this well-written congratulatory poem was not favored by Qin Shihuang and praised by everyone. The nearby coast where the variegated stones are located is also called "Mashima".

The origin of the name "Ma Dao" is that Qin Shihuang led thousands of troops to worship the stone here, and the equator built by Qin Shihuang on his east tour passed through here. It was not until the Yuan Dynasty that Guan Hanqing, a famous great writer, had an eye for pearls, and created the idiom "from the allusion of" Qin Huang worships the stone ". He first mentioned that he created the idiom "success in one fell swoop" in his work "Five Stories".

It is difficult to catch up with a forgotten horse.

On Yan Yuan

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In the Five Dynasties, Shi Jingtang rose up and rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, and was named Emperor of Jin by France and Germany in Wang Ye, Qidan. After Shi Jingtang's death, his son Shi Shiguang succeeded to the throne and became emperor. In 944, the Khitan invaded the State of Jin, and the emperor led the army to resist, but failed. Li Taihou wrote a letter asking the emperor, an old man, to let them live, saying that what he said was a failed cause.