A strong person will always meet someone
more powerful than himself, and a vicious person will always meet someone more
vicious than himself.(強中自有強中手惡人自有惡人磨)
In the Yuan Dynasty of China, there was a
famous playwright called Wang Ye.
He wrote a play. The summary of the story
of this play is that there is a woman who knows Taoist magic. This woman is
called (Peach Blossom Girl). The story between her and another man named (Zhou
Qian) who is very familiar with Taoist magic.
A part of this story follows.
There is a small village where there are
three families. One of the three families is called Peng, the other one is
called Ren and the other one is called Shi.
These three families have very good
feelings for each other and they often communicate with each other.
The family called Ren has a daughter called
Peach Blossom.
Mr Peng has no children. He is a 69 year
old man. He used to work in the house of a fortune teller called (Zhou Qian) in
this village.
One day, (Zhou Qian) helped Mr Peng tell
his fortune, and (Zhou Qian) predicted that Mr Peng would die within two days.
After hearing this prophecy, Mr Peng's
mental state became very depressed and he panicked.
Later, with the help of Peach Blossom Girl,
Mr Peng changed his fate.
(Zhou Qian) felt very jealous after hearing
that Peach Blossom Girl helped Mr Peng escape death in a strange way.
(Zhou Qian) is very good at telling
fortunes, but he doesn't know how to change other people's fortunes.
(Zhou Qian) is already in his fifties, and (Peach
Blossom Girl) is less than 20 years old. He cannot understand how such a young
girl could be more proficient in Taoist magic than he is.
He felt very ashamed, and then his
mentality turned to anger. He did not want to accept this reality, and very evil
thoughts came into his mind.
He wanted to kill Peach Blossom Girl, he
said to himself.
I think that girl is just lucky, and her
Taoist magic is not as good as mine.
There is a proverb that a strong person
will always meet someone stronger than himself, and an evil person will always
meet someone more evil than himself.
Although Peach Blossom Girl's Taoist spells
are powerful, I believe my Taoist spells are more powerful than Peach Blossom
Girl's.
I shouldn't be afraid, I'll use my Taoist
magic to kill the Peach Blossom Girl.
The literal translation of this proverb is
that a strong person will always meet someone more powerful than himself, and a
vicious person will always meet someone more vicious than himself.
This proverb is also used to remind us not
to be complacent because there are many people in the world. We may be
excellent, but there are definitely others who are better than us, so we should
be humble.
Dear friend, what inspiration or thoughts
do you have after listening to this story?
Would you feel ashamed because your
abilities are inferior to others? Would you look down on someone because of
their age?
I hope this story can give you some new
insights.
強中自有強中手惡人自有惡人磨(A strong person will always meet someone more powerful than himself, and a vicious person will always meet someone more vicious than himself.)
中國的元王朝，有一個著名的劇作家，他的名字叫做王曄。
他寫過一齣戲劇，這齣戲劇的故事概要是有一個精通道家法術的女子，這個女子的名字是(桃花女)。她與另一個會很熟悉道家法術的名字叫做(周乾)的男子之間發生的故事。
這個故事的部分內容如下。
有一個小小的村莊，這個村莊中有三戶人家，這三戶人家中一戶姓彭，另一戶姓任還有一戶姓石。
這三戶人家彼此之間的感情非常的好，這三個家庭之間常常往來。
姓任這一戶人家中有一個女兒，這個女兒的名字叫做(桃花)。
彭先生中沒有小孩。他是一個69歲的老人。他在這個村莊中的一個名字叫做(周乾)的算命師家中工作。
有一天，(周乾)幫彭先生算命，(周乾)預言彭先生在兩天內就會死。
聽到這個預言後，彭先生的精神狀態變得很沮喪又驚慌。
後來經過桃花女的幫忙，所以彭先生改變了他的命運。
(周乾)聽到桃花女用一種奇特的方式幫助彭先生逃過死亡之後，他的心中感到非常忌妒。
(周乾)很擅長算命，但是他不知道要怎樣改變他人的命運。
(周乾)的年紀已經五十幾歲，(桃花女)才不到20歲，他無法理解這樣一個如此年輕的女孩子為何比他自已更精通道家的法術。
他感到非常的羞愧，接著他的心態轉成憤怒，他不願意承認這個現實，他的心中產生了很邪惡的想法。
他想要殺了桃花女，所以他心中對自己說。
我認為這個女孩子只是運氣比較好，她的道家法術比不上我。
有一句諺語，這句諺語的意思，一個強大的人總是會遇到比自己更強大的人，一個兇惡的人總是會遇到比自己更兇惡的人。
桃花女的道家法術雖然強大，但是我相信我的道家法術比桃花女更強大。
我不應該恐懼，我要運用我的道家法術去殺死桃花女。
這句成語直接翻譯的意思是一個強大的人總是會遇到比自己更強大的人，一個兇惡的人總是會遇到比自己更兇惡的人。
這句成語也被用來提醒我們不要自滿，因為這世界上有很多人，我們可能很優秀但絕對有其他人比我們更優秀，因此我們應該謙虛。
親愛的朋友，你聽完這個故事有怎樣的啟發或有怎樣的想法呢。
你會因為自己的能力比別人差而感到羞愧嗎?你會因為一個人的年紀而看輕這個人嗎?
我期待這故事能讓你產生一些新的收穫。
出處為元-王曄-桃花女破法戰周公
