Seven tricks lead to six tricks--not a single trick
There was a landowner who raised an only son. The only son was very stupid in reading, and after several teachers were hired, the landlord spent a lot of money to hire a very famous gentleman from abroad to be his son's teacher.
But the only son knew how to eat, drink and play every day, and did not study at all, so even if the gentleman was good at what he did, it was all for naught. One day, the landowner asked the gentleman, "Has my only son made any progress in reading lately?" The gentleman replied, "Seven minds lead to six." Hearing this, the landowner thought that his son had made great progress and was so happy that he told everyone about it.
Everyone laughed at the landowner in secret, when a neighbor said to the landowner, "Seven apertures lead to six apertures, which is called one aperture, and people are saying that your son doesn't know anything, and you so don't even know about this." The landowner ton dumbfounded.
About the "one know-how" record, the earliest can be in? Lu's Spring and Autumn? This book can be found. In the book, it is written that the brutal King Zhou of Shang listened to the words of his favorite concubine Daji and ordered his own uncle Bi Gan's chest to be cut open and his heart and liver to be taken out. Commenting on this incident, the book reads: If King Zhou's heart had been clear, he would not have done the foolish thing of killing Bi Gan.
"Seven orifices lead to six - a single one, this hysteria is used to describe what people don't know, don't understand at all, and are very confused.
Wudalang opens a store There are some very interesting sayings in Chinese, and one of them is "Wudalang opens a store", which means "not to invite a high person". Wudalang is one of the well-known characters in the Water Margin, the brother of the good guy Wu Song, who is neither as capable as Wu Song nor as handsome as his brother, but rather an ugly and short man with a short body who sells baked goods. Of course, Wudalang didn't open any store in the novel, but people just made up some words with his extremely short character. People use the phrase "Wudalang opens a store without hiring a tall person" to ridicule the person in charge of personnel or the owner of a company for not hiring someone with a higher level of competence and ability than his own to participate in the work. If we think about it, there are indeed quite a number of people in society who operate in the way of "Wudalang opening a store"! A university in Hong Kong wanted to invite a friend for an interview, and originally agreed to introduce a knowledgeable Beijinger to teach a practical Mandarin course. As a result, the candidate was defeated because of his high qualifications and his many years of teaching experience in a mainland university, which might have exceeded the level of many of the original teachers in the university. They would rather hire people who are below their level to work, lest the higher-ranking people would steal their jobs! There is a company owner is the same, his recruitment of internal conditions is not "high people", the reason is that in the past to hire talented people but "do not listen to", and so concluded that "minions" than The conclusion is that "lackeys" are better than "specialists"! It is just like the style of Wudalang opening a store. Society has to move forward and the cause has to develop. The idea of "Wudalang setting up store" will impede social progress and cause the cause to suffer losses in the reality of fierce competition! To change the "Wudalang open store - do not invite senior" short-sighted behavior, the key is the boss and the person responsible for recruitment work themselves do not do Wudalang is the right way.