On one occasion, the Xiongnu in the north wanted to attack the Central Plains, and sent someone to send a "battle table" first. When the emperor opened it, it turned out to be "heavenly heart takes rice". None of the ministers of the Qing Dynasty solved the mystery. The emperor couldn't take it easy, so he had to post a list to recruit talents. At this time, an official named He Tang in the palace said that there was a plan to withdraw troops, and the emperor urgently declared He Tang to go to the temple.
He Tang pointed to the four words on the "battle table" and said to the emperor: "God, my country is also; Heart, Central Plains also: rice, holy also. Taking rice from the heart is to seize the country and take the position of king. " The emperor said urgently, "What should I do?" He Tang said, "Nothing, I have my own way out." He said, holding a pen in his hand and adding a pen to each of the four words. The original letter was returned to the sender.
Marshal Xiongnu, who led the troops, thought that the Central Plains did not dare to fight. When he opened it, he was shocked and retreated urgently.
It turned out that He Tang became "not necessarily dare to come" after adding one word each to "heavenly heart takes rice".
The second story
It is impolite to say that a man and his wife are entertaining two friends at home. Friend A toasted the hostess and said, "An alcoholic's wine is not wine". The hostess pointed out that "drunkenness is meaningless" and said that friends deviated from the original intention of catching up with their masters to drink; The man is a little unhappy, too, as if criticizing that friend for saying, "The drunkard's sake is not wine", which is simply nonsense; Friend B is snickering, suggesting that the host "cares if Weng is drunk". I was very impressed when I saw it. This is the charm of Chinese. I'm afraid it's hard to find such a wonderful example in any other language. It's a pity that I haven't learned Chinese well since I studied. What a pity!
Not from the patriotic point of view, I also think Chinese is the most beautiful language in the world. Not to mention that Chinese is the richest and most expressive word in the world.
The third story
The History of Lions Eating Lions is a limited article written by Zhao Yuanren. The full text * * * 9 1 word (including 96 words of title), and the pronunciation of each word in Putonghua is stone. You can understand the short article "History of Lions Eating Lions", but if you read it to others, he can't understand it anyway!
This article is the most difficult to read in Chinese. If you want to try, please prepare a glass of water and a stick to avoid hurting your tongue and teeth.
History of lion eating by Shishi:
Lion lover Shishi Shishi vowed to eat ten lions. Shi always sees lions in the market. At ten o'clock, ten lions are suitable for the market. Shishi is in the right market at the right time. Stone regards it as ten lions, relying on the vector potential to make its ten lions immortal. Stone picks up the bodies of ten lions, which is just right for stone chambers. The stone room is wet, and the stone room is waiting to be cleaned. The first taste of the stone is ten lions. When eating, the first thing I know is that the bodies of ten lions and ten stone lions are real. Trial interpretation is a problem.
Use only one pronunciation to describe one thing. I'm afraid no other language can do it except Chinese.
Vernacular translation:
The story of stone eating lion
There lived a poet named Shi in the stone room. He likes lions and is determined to eat ten lions.
He often goes to the market to see lions.
At ten o'clock, ten lions have just arrived at the market.
At this time, it happened that Shi also came to the market.
When he saw the ten lions, he shot an arrow and killed them.
He picked up the bodies of ten lions and took them to the stone room.
The stone room was wet with water, so Shi told his entourage to dry it.
The stone room was dry before he tried to eat ten lions.
While eating, I found that the ten lions turned out to be ten stone lion bodies.
Try to explain.
The last story (it took me a long time to find it)
According to legend, in ancient times there was a river called Fanshui River (now north of Wucun Village, Liangcun Township, Nanle County), and a tribe lived by the river. They made a fortune by planting agriculture and catching fish and shrimp. Cang Xie, the leader of the tribe, has a pair of eyes and a big eye, which surprises everyone.
As a teenager, Cang Xie was smart and good at drawing. One day, Cang Xie and his friends were playing by many rivers when suddenly a huge turtle swam out of the river. When his companions saw it, they panicked and left one after another. Only Cang Xie drew the shape of a giant turtle on the beach. This giant turtle accepted the aura of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and the moon, and became a spiritual thing. On closer inspection, we can see that Cang Xie was born with a tiger's head and swallows cheeks, the sun and the moon rising obliquely, his nose sticking to the top, his earlobe hanging over his shoulders, his eyes as heavy as lightning, and his heart was glad. He said: "You were born a noble person, so you must entrust it with a heavy responsibility. Today, there is a wise king, named Huangdi, who takes soil as virtue. You can go to him in the future and do a lot. " After that, the tortoise drifted away.
Later, many rivers flooded, and tribal people could not live and fled in all directions. Cang Xie defected to the Yellow Emperor. Knowing that he was good at drawing and clever, the Yellow Emperor appointed him as a historian, responsible for knotting and recording. Cang Xie tied a big knot on the rope, made a summary of small things, tied a special knot for special things, and tied a serial knot when everything was connected, which was very meticulous.
One year, Chiyou invited Fengbo and Rain Master to attack the Yellow Emperor, trapped him and took away a large number of cattle, sheep and people. The Yellow Emperor refused to accept it and asked Cang Xie to tie the knot and be reasonable. That human-god is very cunning, denying that he has taken away cattle, sheep and people. Cang Xie took out the knot and put forward his theory, but Chiyou said that if he could name people and the colors of cattle and sheep, he would send them back immediately. Because the knot is simple and easy to remember, it is impossible to remember it in such detail. As a result, the Yellow Emperor and Cang Xie failed. From then on, Cang Xie decided to develop a way to keep detailed notes.
On one occasion, Cang Xie went to the mountain with yang deficiency syndrome, and he saw the river rolling eastward. Suddenly, he saw a chinemys reevesii carrying a Dan book. Cang Xie came forward to worship and recognized it as a turtle that inspired him to see the Yellow Emperor. Cang Xie said that he was puzzled by the method of creating detailed notes. Gui Ling gave Cang Xie the book of Dan. Dan Shu is written in red, so it is called Dan Shu, which is too abstruse for most people to understand. Cang Xie, after De Dan's book, forgot to eat and sleep, studied day and night, and often looked up at the winding trend of Kuixing in the sky, overlooking the images of mountains and rivers, observing the traces of birds, animals, fish and insects, the shapes of animals and plants, describing and writing, and creating various situations. After 9999 days, it was written. On the night of writing, the wind roared all over the world, and ghosts and gods roared.
Later, when the Yellow Emperor knew the origin of writing, he summoned Cang Xie and asked, "I heard that you borrowed the sacred book of Linggui for writing. Can you read the holy book? " Cang Xie presented Dan Shu. The Yellow Emperor looked at it for a long time and didn't understand what it was written, so he asked Cang Xie to explain why. Cang Xie said, "This is a six-character font. One is pictographic characters, which is a method of creating characters by imitating the shape of things. If the sun is like a red sun, the moon is like a new moon. The second is borrowing. It is a way of creating words by borrowing words, which is used to express sounds. Third, it refers to things, that is, to mark the characteristics of things with symbols. The fourth is pictophonetic characters, which is a way to form new words with signifiers and notes. For example, the word "reward", "north" means signifier, indicating that the meaning of this word is related to money, and "Shang" is a note, indicating the pronunciation of this word. The fifth is knowing, which is a word-making method that combines words to express meaning. For example, Ming is a combination of two hieroglyphs "Sun" and "Moon", which means that the strong light of the sun and the moon is "bright". Sixth, Zhuan Zhu, which is a mountain-dwelling word with the same radical, homonym or similar meaning and can explain each other. For example, "old" can be trained as "test". The etiquette in the world belongs to words, and words must belong to six books. After hearing this, the Yellow Emperor said happily, "You will explain the Six Classics in more detail and teach the world. A man's words, such as clear eyes, are also a great achievement in the world. "
Hehe, that's all, I hope I can help you!