标题: 4月7日故事：Ignorance of the objective world 不合时宜 [打印本页] 作者: yy2235 时间: 2011-4-6 18:31 标题: 4月7日故事：Ignorance of the objective world 不合时宜
please read the story carefully,and tell me what are you thinking about when you read the whole story~Don't be shy,just make your imagination fly in your sky!
In the State of Lu, there was a couple of husband and wife, the former being an expert shoemaker and the latter a skilled hand in wearing taffeta. One day after consultations they decided to go to the state of Yue to earn a livelihood. The neighbors advised them not to go when they learned about their plan. "Don't go there," said one neighbor, "If you go, you can never earn a livelihood."
"We cannot understand you," interrogated the couple, "We have a find command of our art, how could we not earn our living with our work? Don't make a fool of us, please."
"Indeed, you have your skill," explained the man, "But have you taken notice of the fact that shoes are made for people and the silk taffeta are for hat-making? The people of Yue don't wear shoes, for they are barefooted. Again, they like to have their hair spread out over their heads and they never use hats. To whom should you sell your shoes and hats then?" Experienced though you are in the arts, yet the arts you have mastered are useless there."
After this explanation, the husband and wife now understood that anything that was not adaptable to the objective world would be useless and unpractical.
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作者: 507013899 时间: 2011-4-6 21:35
This is a ancient story of China,it tell us that we should do something based on the fact,or it may be meaningfulless .作者: fangnan 时间: 2011-4-7 16:29
It recalls me another story: two shoesales came to one place where the people didn't wear shoes, one sales came back soon and report to his boss,"we can't not sell one shoe there because the people here don't wear shoes". But the other was excited, and teach the local people to wear shoes,and developed shoes that are suit the people there. At last he winned a great market there!
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please read the story carefully,and tell me what are you thinking about when you read the whole story~Don't be shy,just make your imagination fly in your sky!.gif)