On the surface, it was not built in a day. For example, the formation of a situation is a long-term accumulation and brewing, and many a mickle makes a mickle.
Accurately speaking, the formation of a thing needs long-term accumulation, not a day or two. Everything has its potential and long-standing factors, and it can't be formed suddenly. When derogatory, it is often used to describe the accumulation of contradictions; When praising, achievements are beyond words.
A sentence from Wang Chong's Lun Heng Xiang Liu: "The combination of the husband and the river ice was not built in a day; It is not necessary to accumulate soil into mountains. "
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And round objects thrown to the ground, east and west, north and south, are indispensable. The staff will pause a little when they knock (1). When things gather on the land, they stop immediately, and their migration needs people to lift them (2). Virtue and Confucianism are the things in the world. If it is difficult to transfer, it must be transferred. Birds are lighter than people, and people are inferior to birds. However, the nature of heaven and earth makes people more expensive. Locust can reach Wan Li, Kirin will offer it, but it's a queer place. However, locusts are a disaster and Kirin is auspicious. We have four feet, but we can't do it ourselves. People have two feet, but we can do it ourselves. Therefore, the swallow is lighter than the phoenix emperor, the rabbit is sick of the unicorn, the frog jumps over the turtle, and the snake jumps over the dragon. Acts of Lv Wang ③, Bai Shounai Xian ④; The knowledge of thyme (5) is clearer than that of yellow hair (6). I am deeply interested in the country, because Wang Fu is a heavy and difficult person. It is a disaster to be rash and premature. Therefore, as the saying goes, "The sharp will be slow (7)." Yang is warm and Yin is cold (8), and it is flat after a month; Catastrophic qi, once strange. Therefore, the combination of husband and river ice was not built in a day; It is not necessary to accumulate soil into mountains. A capable general's sword, with a sharp blade, remains in the furnace for a long time (9). Long-term sales are considered to be left behind, and they can be broken if they are late. Older people are swollen when they are violently attacked, and those who come out of the spring are swollen. Wine tends to be sour when it is ripe, and it tends to stink when it is sour (10). From this perspective, scholars come home late for a reason. What is the reason? I am tired of preaching after learning more.
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(1) Knock: Touch. This means a blockade.
(2) Lift: the revised version is "Zhi", which can be downloaded from.
(3) Lv Wang: Jiang Taigong. See note 1.4 (1).
(4) see "Shuo Yuan Zayan".
(5) Priscilla: A native of the Spring and Autumn Period, she was made a title in her later years.
(6) yellow hair: this refers to the elderly. For details, please refer to the article "New Theory" cited in Volume 404 of "Taiping Magnolia".
(7) Please refer to Mencius wholeheartedly for quotations.
(8) Yang is warm and Yin is cold: the ancients thought that spring and summer were sunny and the climate was warm; It is cloudy in autumn and winter, and the climate is cold. This refers to the change of seasons.
(9) cooked: skilled. It means good here. Li: Same as Li and Mo.
(10) Ethylene glycol: It is meat sauce and has nothing to do with acid, so it is suspected that the word "acyl" is similar and wrong. Acyl (xρXi): vinegar.
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Round things are thrown on the ground, east and west, north and south, and there is nothing that cannot be rolled. Stop it with a stick, and then stop it after a pause. Fang's things fell to the ground and stopped as soon as they were thrown. As for its movement, people need to touch it. Virtue and Confucianism are things in the world. They seldom move, and they need help to move. Birds are lighter than people and can go far away. People are worse than birds. However, human beings are the most precious creatures between heaven and earth. Locusts can fly to Wan Li, and Kirin must be presented to reach the palace gate. However, the locust plague, Kirin auspicious. Kirin has four feet, but it can't reach the court by itself. People have two feet, how can they reach them? So the swallow flies lighter than the phoenix, the rabbit runs faster than the unicorn, the frog jumps faster than the tortoise, and the old snake walks faster than Buron. Jiang Taigong is unique only when he turns his head white; Priscilla's wisdom didn't appear until his later years. They can make foresight for the country, so they become the assistant of the monarch, but they are all very talented and highly valued people, and it is difficult to be promoted and appointed. Flighty and aggressive people have long been appointed and promoted, but disaster will come soon. So say "fast forward and fast backward." Spring, summer, autumn and winter, it will take several months to change, and catastrophic gas and unimaginable things will happen in one morning. Therefore, the water in the Yellow River freezes and cannot be formed in cold weather. You can't pile up in a short time. A cadre's sword must be cast in the fire for a long time, and the sharp blade must be refined and polished countless times. Because after a long period of smelting, it appears to form very slowly, and it is precisely because of the very slow formation that things can be cut. The meat that suddenly grows out is called swelling, and the spring that suddenly gushes out is called surging. Too ripe wine tends to turn sour, and too sour vinegar tends to turn sour. Like this, sages and Confucians can't be appointed and promoted because of their own reasons. What is the reason? Too much knowledge, Wang Zhidao is the first, which has become a burden to oneself.
About the author:
Wang Chong (27—about 97) was born in Shangyu (present-day Zhejiang) in Huiji, and his ancestors migrated from Weichun Yuancheng to Huiji. Wang Chong takes the natural inaction of Taoism as the purpose of his argument, and takes "heaven" as the highest category of his view of heaven. With "Qi" as the core category, the natural gasification of vitality, essence and harmony constitutes a huge universe generation model, which is opposite to the theory of induction between man and nature. It shows the characteristics of Taoism, which advocates nature of life and death, thin burial and rebelling against deified Confucianism. He verified his remarks with facts and made up for the defects of Taoism. It is an important inheritor and developer of Taoist thought in Han Dynasty. Lun Heng is Wang Chong's masterpiece and an immortal atheistic work in China's history.