Five-color blindness (1); Five tones are not deaf (2); Five flavors are refreshing (3); Galloping (4) makes people crazy (5); Things are rare, and people are divided into groups (6).

Not for the purpose of the sage (7), so I went to another place to get this (8).

To annotate ...

(1) five-color blindness: five colors, green, red, yellow, white and black; Blindness is a metaphor for dazzling.

(2) Five tones are not deaf: five tones, the five basic scales of ancient music, namely, Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu;

Deafness is a metaphor for hearing loss.

(3) Five flavors are refreshing: five flavors, sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty; Cold mouth, a kind of oral disease, is a metaphor for poor taste here.

(4) tián hunting: galloping, horse running. Hunting is hunting. It means to have fun.

(5) It makes people crazy: it makes people wild and uncontrollable. "Fa" or "Yan".

(6) hinder: destroy people's character.

(7) for the abdomen, not for the purpose: "for the abdomen" means "strengthening its abdomen" and "strengthening its bones"; "Not for the purpose" means "hollowing out one's heart" and "weakening one's ambition". It means you just want to have a full stomach and don't want to have fun.

(8) Go to another place and get this: "There" means "for the purpose", which means the five colors, five tones, five flavors and hunting mentioned above. "This" means "for the stomach".

translate

Colorful colors make people see things in a blur; Complex music makes people's hearing insensitive; A rich diet dulls people's taste; Addicted to hunting, it makes people crazy; Rare utensils make people's conduct worse.

Therefore, people with "Tao" only seek contentment and do not pursue sensual entertainment, so they abandon the temptation of material desires and maintain a comfortable life.

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In this chapter, Laozi continues to expound the way of governing the body and nourishing the nature, which embodies Laozi's idea of keeping in good health. Laozi pointed out the harm of material desires and reminded people to control their greed for sex, lust, commodities and even appetite, and not to indulge in waywardness and vagrancy, which will eventually lead to blindness, deafness, slurred speech and madness. Therefore, Lao Tzu advocates "for the stomach, not for the purpose", which is the basic survival demand, while "for the purpose" is the sensory enjoyment and material stimulation pursued after meeting the basic survival demand, and Lao Tzu emphasizes that the basic survival demand is given priority. However, "for the stomach" and "for the purpose" are both physiological needs. Although there are differences in order, Laozi pays more attention to the high-level ideological pursuit of "viewing nature" and "knowing heaven".