Chapter 46 Water Meat · Water Moon · Shadow Play

Dear Xiaowen: In the fable, a dog steals a piece of meat, and sees another dog in the water with meat in its mouth. It is very greedy and wants to grab the meat, but it jumps into the water and loses the piece of meat in its own mouth. ——This is a stupidly written and greedy story. Li Bai, a great poet in ancient China, heard that he was drunk and drowned in the water to catch the moon. Later, he came up with an idiom called "fishing for the moon in the water"; Why is it empty? Because what is in the water is just a reflection, what is in the mirror is just a projection, and the shadow is not real.But some people are stupid, they always pursue the shadow, and use the shadow to deceive people. There are many young sons in the world who deceive old mothers, and they are all like this.Because of doting on her youngest son, the old mother always "sacrifices the substance to the shadow" (to sacrifice the substance to the shadow), that is, "grasp at the shadow and lose the substance".As a result, I was empty-handed and harmed other relatives.

There are many phenomena in the world that are very interesting; every miser father who is stingy and loves money and saves food and expenses will get a son who spends money and wastes money; every old lady who thinks she is smart will get a son who will deceive her forever. Unknowingly young son.If you read the novel "A Woman's Life" by the French writer De Maupassant in the future, you can see the wonderful things about those young sons who repeatedly deceived their old mothers, and the old mothers repeatedly forgave and were deceived again and again.This situation is the same in China and other countries, but unfortunately every old mother thinks that her youngest son is different from other youngest sons and is a good person.And before he knew it, he became the youngest son's accomplice in doing evil, deceiving his father and brother.

Another kind of shadow is silhouette and profile, which is called silhouette in English. The cats silhouette (dark silhouette) on the wall.It is the shadow of the cat on the wall, and this shadow refers to the clear profile. There is a "shadow play with leather men" that makes shadows move.Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty missed Mrs. Li, so the artist made a shadow trick to deceive Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that Mrs. Li's soul had come. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty said: "Yes? No? Why is it so late!" From then on, the sentence "Shanshan Come late" idiom.

dad October 27, 1974