Explanation: Confucius was an ancient thinker, educator and founder of Confucian school in China, who initiated the wind of private lectures and advocated benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith. There are 3,000 disciples, among whom 72 sages have led some disciples to travel around the world for thirteen years, and revised the six classics of Poetry, Book, Rite, Yue, Yi and Chunqiu in their later years.

According to these Confucius' experiences, we can read books. Confucius has the most knowledge and books, so this sentence uses homophonic way to lead to "loss" with "book", which means that things always fail.

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Other xiehouyu:

1, Confucius' students

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High quality.

Explanation: Confucius taught poetry, calligraphy, ceremony and music. There are 3,000 children, but there are actually 72 people who are proficient in six arts. These 72 people are called "seventy-two sages of Confucius", who are firm followers and practitioners of Confucius' thoughts and theories and active communicators of Confucianism.

2. Confucius carries a knife

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Wen is neither civil nor military.

Explanation: Confucius is a scholar, so he can't use a weapon in his hand, so it looks neither literary nor martial, and it doesn't match.

3, Confucius's article

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Even those who are also.

Explanation: In ancient times, the word "Zhi Zhe Ye" was a function word in classical Chinese, which was widely used at that time, many of which had no real meaning, and now it is rarely used. Here, these words are used to satirize people who like to chew on words rather than talk about reality.