Ignorant Men and Women(愚夫愚婦)
In the Tang Dynasty of China, there was a
famous minister called Li Jiang. There is a story about him recorded in the
history books.
One day the king said to him
I have recently discovered a phenomenon:
many people in our society like fortune-telling.
I think fortune telling is a very
professional knowledge that many people study, but few people are really good
at it.
Therefore, most people's divination results
are rarely accurate.
Nevertheless, more and more people accept
divination and do it regularly.
I'm very confused as to why this is
happening. Why do you think this is happening?
he replied.
In my opinion, divination has a long
history, and many famous kings in ancient China could divine. But our ancient
Chinese kings did divination because they believed that human power was
limited, so these kings would remain very cautious when making some important
decisions.
When these kings faced these important
decisions, they would usually hold a meeting and discuss it with all their
ministers. If everyone agrees on the matter, then it's done according to
everyone's decision.
There will be no divination on this matter.
If no one can reach a consensus on the
matter, the king will do a divination to reach a consensus.
I think everyone is very fond of divination
now because human nature wants to get good results without working hard.
Everyone hopes to get more benefits from divination.
That's why so many dishonest people take
advantage of this mentality to make money from fortune-telling. These dishonest
people used deception to make these ignorant men and women believe his words.
These ignorant men and women were deceived by these dishonest people because of
their greedy hearts.
These dishonest people, who use deceptive
means to help people with fortune-telling for profit, use their eloquence to
help these ignorant men and women predict the future.
These ignorant men and women foolishly
believe that these crooked people have miraculous talents.
The king listened carefully.
He paused before continuing.
The solution to this phenomenon is also
very simple.
As the king of our kingdom, if you don't
believe in divination, the people themselves will follow your actions and gradually
disbelieve in divination. As long as you act according to facts and truth, our
people will naturally not believe in divination in the future.
This idiom means ignorant men and women
Dear friend, after listening to this story,
what inspirations or thoughts do you have?
Have you ever used fortune-telling to
predict your future? Are many people in the society you live in superstitious
about fortune-telling?
I hope this story can help you gain
something.
愚夫愚婦(Ignorant Men and Women)
中國的唐王朝，有一個著名的大臣，他的名字叫做李絳。歷史書上記載了一個他的故事。
有一天國王對他說。
我最近發現一個現象，我們的社會中有很多百姓很喜歡占卜。
我認為占卜是一項很專業的學問，很多人學習但很少人真正的精通。
因此大部人在占卜的結果準確的很少。
但仍然愈來愈多人接受占卜並且常常占卜。
我很疑惑為何有這種情況的發生，你認為為何會有這個現象呢?
他回答。
根據我的看法，占卜具有悠久的歷史，我們中國古代的很多著名的國王就會占卜。但是我們中國古代的那些國王占卜是因為他們相信人的力量有所侷限，因此這些國王再做一些重大的決策的時候都會保持很謹慎的態度。
這些國王遇到這些重大的決策的時候，通常會先跟所有的大臣們開會並且討論，如果關於這個議題大家已經取得共識，那麼這件事情就會按照大家所決議的去做。
這件事情就不會進行占卜。
如果有關於這個議題大家都沒有辦法取得共識，那麼國王就會進行占卜以凝聚大家的共識。
我認為現在大家都很喜歡占卜是因為人性都是想要通過不努力的方式去得到好的結果。
大家都希望可以通過占卜得到更多好處。
因此才會有那麼多不正直的人利用這種心態去利用占卜賺錢。這些不正直的人用欺騙的方式讓這些無知的男女們相信他的話，這些無知的男女們因為貪婪的心所以被這些不正直的人所欺騙，
這些用欺騙的手段幫人們占卜以營利的這些不正直的人啊，他們根據自己的口才幫這些無知男女們預測未來。
這些無知的男女愚昧的相信這些不正直的人們有著奇異的才能。
國王很認真地聽他的話。
他停頓了一下後接著說。
要解決這個現象的方式也很簡單。
你身為我們王國的國王，如果你不相信占卜，百姓們自己也會跟隨著你的行為漸漸地不相信占卜，只要你按照事實與真理行事，那麼以後我們的百姓們自然會不相信占卜。
這句成語的意思是無知的男女們
親愛的朋友，你聽完這個故事有怎樣的啟發或是想法呢。
你曾經透過占卜預測你的未來嗎?你所居住的社會中是否很多人迷信占卜呢?
我希望這故事能讓你產生一點收穫。
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