Literally, it means that the previous firewood has just been burned, and the next firewood has been burned, and the fire will never go out. Therefore, it is generally said that teachers and students teach each other and knowledge is passed down from generation to generation. The idiom comes from "Zhuangzi, Master of Health Care", which originally means that the wage is poor and the fire spreads, and I don't know what to do. The original wood was burned out, but the fire can still be passed on.
Zhuangzi's Health-preserving Master is the third part of Zhuangzi, which belongs to the inner chapter and is generally believed to have been written by Zhuang Zhou himself. This is an article about keeping in good health. The main meaning of health preservation is not "health care" in the modern sense, but "health preservation", "lifelong", "raising relatives" and "all year round".
Brief introduction of the author
Zhuangzi was a philosopher in the mid-Warring States Period, whose Zhuang name was Zhou, and Zi Xiuzi was a great thinker, philosopher and writer in the pre-Qin period. Zhuangzi was originally a descendant of Chu Zhuangwang and the main founder of Taoism. Together with Laozi, the ancestor of Taoism, it is called "Laozi". Their philosophical thoughts are respected as Laozi's philosophy by the ideological and academic circles, but their literary talent is better than Laozi's.
Zhuangzi, the representative work of Zhuangzi, is interpreted by admirers as many versions, including Wandering and On Everything. Zhuangzi's imagination is extremely rich, his language is flexible and changeable, and he can make some subtle and unspeakable philosophies fascinating. It is said that he lived in seclusion in Nanhua Mountain, so at the beginning of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he named Zhuang Zhou as the South China Reality and his book Zhuangzi as the South China True Classic.
Handed down from generation to generation, it is a word full of warmth, charm and emotion. It comes from an old legend: "Although the candle is weak, it can illuminate the road in the dark." On a cold winter night, a pedestrian got lost in the snow. Then he saw the light in front of the window. He followed the light and found the hut, where he was safe and warm.
After that, pedestrians also pointed out the direction for others on their way to becoming candles, so that the flame of candles can be passed down all the time, shining people's future and passed down from generation to generation. "Passing on from generation to generation is not only an ancient legend, but also a kind of values and cultural tradition.