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One Well, One Man by Lv Buwei in the Pre-Qin Dynasty.

Song family, there is no well irrigation at home, and they often live alone. His family crossed the well and told people, "I crossed the well alone." The person who heard about it said, "A man has gone down the well in Shi Ding." The people of China knew it and heard it from Song Jun. When Song Jun was asked by Shi Ding, Shi Ding said to him, "You have to be alone in the well to get a job." Smell it if you want, and don't smell it if you don't smell it.

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There was a family named Ding in the State of Song Dynasty. There was no well at home, so they had to go outside to water the land and often sent a person to stay outside to take care of the water. When his family dug a well, Shi Ding told others, "My family dug a well and got a man." Someone heard this and said, "The Ding family dug a well and a man." People in the capital are talking about this matter, so that the monarch of Song State can know about it. Song Guojun sent someone to ask Shi Ding about the situation. Shi Ding replied: "You can't get one more person's labor just by digging one person out of the well." It's better not to know such news.

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(1) You can't believe hearsay, you can't blindly follow it, and you can't spread rumors.

Don't believe rumors, seeing is believing, and the hearing is empty.

In real life, we should treat rumors with the cautious attitude of investigation and research and the spirit of seeking truth from facts.

About the author:

Lv Buwei?

Lv Buwei (292- 235) was born in Puyang (now hua county, Anyang City, Henan Province). At the end of the Warring States period, a famous businessman, politician and thinker was the prime minister of Qin. Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals (also known as Lu Lan), which was compiled in charge, has more than 200,000 words in the twelfth dynasty after eight readings and six readings, and integrates the theories of pre-Qin philosophers and the method of combining Confucianism with Mohism, so it is called a "saint" in history. If you hang it abroad after writing and claim to be able to change a word, you will be rewarded with 1000 yuan. This is "golden jade and good words". Later, because of the rebellion of Laoai Group, he was removed from the post of Prime Minister and lived in a fief in Henan. Soon, the king of Qin ordered his family to move to Shu. Lv Buwei was afraid of being killed, so he drank.