When both sides are in a humble situation, help each other
[ xiāng rú yǐ mò ]
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It turns out that fish spit on each other and wet each other in the predicament of water shortage to maintain their lives. Metaphor is trying to help each other in difficulties. The text "The Great Master Zhuangzi" said: "When the spring is dry, the fish is on the ground, wet and wet.
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Master Zhuangzi: "Spring is dry, and the fish are on land, so it is better to forget each other in rivers and lakes."
original text
Life and death, life also, it has a constant night, day also.
People are different, and everything has feelings. Peter takes heaven as his father, but he still loves heaven. The situation is remarkable!
People think that having a monarch is more important to them, but they still die. This is really the case!
When the spring is dry, the fish are land-based, wet and soaked in foam. If you don't forget each other.
It's better to forget it than to be arrogant.
My husband took my figure, worked for me to make a living, married me to death.
Therefore, those who are good at me live and those who are good at me die.
The husband hides the boat in the ravine and the mountain in the river, which is called solid.
However, in the middle of the night, the powerful left, and the ignorant did not know. It is okay to hide small things, but it is still necessary to escape. If the husband hides the world in the world and can't get rid of it, it is a great feeling of constant things.
I like the shape of prisoners, but I still like it. If one's shape is endless, it will be very good fun and evil! Therefore, saints will swim where things can't escape but exist.
Be kind to the old, be kind to the beginning and be kind to the end. People are still effective, everything depends on it, and everything is waiting for it!
Modern translation
People's death and life are inevitable and inevitable life activities. They are like eternal alternation of day and night, which is a natural law.
What many people can't and can't interfere with is the fact that things change themselves.
People regard "Heaven" as the father of life and cherish it all their lives, not to mention Xuan Ming's great "Tao".
People think that the monarch's power status is higher than their own, and they are willing to devote their lives to the monarch, not to mention the independent "Tao" that dominates everything.
The spring water dried up, and many fish were trapped together, clinging to each other and exposed to the land. They have to breathe deeply, blow some humid air to moisten each other, wet each other's bodies with spit, and let each other get some water.
This is not as good as when we were in the vast rivers and lakes. Take care of yourself freely.
Instead of praising Tang Yao's wisdom and criticizing Xia Jie's tyranny, it is better to forget their right and wrong, good and evil, and melt into the avenue.
Heaven and earth give me shape, give me something to trust, give me life to work, give me the hard work of living, give me the relaxation of aging, and give me the rest of death.
Therefore, we should regard life as a good thing and death as a good thing.
It can be said that it is very reliable to hide the boat in the valley and in the mountains in the deep water of osawa. However, in the middle of the night, strong people take them away, and the sleeping people will not know or notice.
It is right to hide small things in big things, but you will still lose something.
If you hide the world in the world, you will not lose anything. This is the universal truth of all things.
Once people get the human body, they will be happy. If the human body and myriad changes are endless and can be happy, then happiness is immeasurable.
Therefore, saints wander in a state of nothing, nothing to lose, nothing to lose, and live with the avenue.
People still follow the example of a man who is good at birth, illness and death, not to mention being the master of all things and the road on which all things change.
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This fable takes life and death as its theme, which embodies the author's thought of loving death and hating life.
Life is a rest, and death is a rest. Life and death are natural phenomena. People should follow the arrangement of heaven and fate, and take the avenue on which all changes depend as the object of imitation.
Fish soak each other in saliva. People help each other and help each other in times of difficulty. In peacetime, it is best not to talk to each other and forget each other. The author uses the fish swimming in the dry spring to compare the dying person, and thinks that it is better to forget the joy of life, conform to the heaven, face the fate of life calmly, accept it gladly and die calmly than to struggle when death comes.
Zhuangzi explained the benefits of "hiding the world from the world" with "the husband hides the boat in the valley and the mountain in the river" ... but the powerful people leave in the middle of the night ". No matter where people hide things, they may be stolen. Time can steal human life, but time can't steal the universe. If man can break the boundaries of the universe and become one with it, then neither the universe nor man can.
The spring water dried up, and the fish spat at each other, in order to get wet and survive.
Later, the metaphor of "caring for each other" was used. In difficult circumstances, we share weal and woe with our meager strength and try our best to help and rescue each other.
Usage example
1. In times of difficulty, only by helping each other can we tide over the difficulties.
The old couple who take care of each other are sitting on a bench on the side of the road at this time, watching the crowds flowing on the road.
synonym
Childhood sweethearts [q and ng plum zhú m m m:]
Plum: green plum; Bamboo Horse: Children ride horses with bamboo poles. Describe how naive children play games. Now refers to the intimate relationship between men and women when they are young.
cross a river in the same boat
Boat: boat; Economy: Crossing and Overflow. Cross the river together by boat. Metaphor solidarity, Qi Xin work together to overcome difficulties. It is also a metaphor for like-minded people.
Share weal and woe [Tang Gonggong kǔ]
Forrest Gump: Great. * * * share happiness, * * * share hardships.
antonym
[Luyu has about the west]
Seeing a man about to fall into a trap, instead of reaching out to save him, he pushed him down and threw stones. Metaphor is to frame people when they are in danger.
selfish
Selfishness is very heavy, only for personal interests.
I can't help you.
Love: cherish; Mo: No. Although I care about sympathy, I have no ability to help.