Source: Spring and Autumn Liezi "The Son of Bao".
The ancestors of Saida (a ceremony to worship the road god before going out) were in the court, and there were thousands of diners, including fish and geese. Shi Tian looked at it and sighed: "Heaven is a blessed place for people! Cultivate grains and give birth to fish and birds. " The crowd is as loud as a bell.
Interpretation of vernacular:
Tian, the minister of Qi State, gave a banquet in the hall to worship the gods. Thousands of people eat together, and there are fish and geese at the party. When Tian saw this, he sighed, "God is very kind to the people! Grow grains and raise fish and poultry for people to enjoy. " All the diners echoed loudly.
Revelation:
By refuting Qi Tian's words, this paper criticizes the idealism that everything is born of heaven and praises Bao Gongzi's materialism. It inspires us not to be afraid of powerful people, not to flatter others, but to dare to express our opinions.
About the author:
Liezi (about 450 BC-375 BC) was named Yukou, also known as Kou, and Ziyun, also known as Yuankou. Representative figures of Taoism in the early Warring States period. Putian, a native of Zheng (now Zhengzhou, Henan), was born after Shan. About the same time as Zheng. One of the ten outstanding figures in pre-Qin Dynasty, Taoist, thinker, philosopher, writer and educator.
Liezi is an important inheritor of Taoist school between Laozi and Zhuangzi, and another representative of Taoist school besides Laozi and Zhuangzi. His knowledge originated from Huangdi and Laozi, and he advocated that inaction should belong to Laozi and Zhuangzi, and was respected as a predecessor by Taoism. The pre-Qin school of philosophy (Liezixue) was founded, which had a far-reaching influence on later philosophy, aesthetics, literature, science and technology, health preservation, music and religion.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ban Gu's Han Shu Literature and Art Annals contains eight volumes of Liezi, which was lost earlier. This edition of Liezi consists of eight volumes, which may be compiled by later generations according to ancient materials in terms of ideological content and language use. The book contains 134 folk stories, fables, myths and legends with a wide range of topics, some of which are quite instructive.