Chapter 23 Minus a fraction is too short

Even those who made jokes because of the word minus, let me give a simple and clear example.For example, there is such a paragraph in the tenth chapter "Emperor Zhang discusses the origin of diseases and poverty": A woman who waited next to her said: "Why is it not like this? Mr. Zhen speaks like a god, so we don't need to talk about it. Now there are several imperial doctors in our family who are watching, and they can't speak so clearly; some Said it was joy, some said it was a disease, this one said it was irrelevant, this one said he was afraid of the winter solstice, there was no real thing. I beg the master to give clear instructions." The gentleman said: "The symptom of grandma, but everyone The position is delayed. It is necessary to treat it with medicine when the first menstruation occurs, and I am afraid that it will be completely cured by this time." (Cheng Jiaben)

Later engraved editions such as Cheng Yi's and Daoguang's editions are the same.Speaking to the women, then "everyone" and so on of course refer to the women.This is not easy to understand.Then why does Mr. Qin blame the mother-in-law for the delay in Qin's illness?Can they manage this?When I saw this before, I always felt a little awkward. Looking at the original version and the Zhigeng version, there is an extra word "that" in this sentence, which is written as: But the people were delayed. That's not bad at all. "These people" refers to the doctors of the Taiyuan Hospital, that is, Mr. Zhang's colleagues, and they are arrogant and dissatisfied, which is in line with the doctor's tone.If the word "that" is deleted to refer to the mother-in-law, not only is it ridiculously unreasonable, but it is also inappropriate to say that in person.

The word "that" is probably called a demonstrative adjective in grammar.Generally speaking, there does not seem to be much difference between the presence of the word "that" and the absence of the word "that". Judging from these two simple examples, there is indeed a state in which a word cannot be added or reduced in an article, and it is not a state of mysticism or rhetoric.From the collation work, this is fully proved, so borrowing the words from Song Yu's Fu, the title is "It is too long to increase by one point, and it is too short to decrease by one point".