The Biography of Planting Camels is the work of Liu Zongyuan, a writer in the Tang Dynasty. In the original text, the whole sentence of "I want to plant trees, and I want to raise people" is:
"The questioner said,' Ah, not a good husband! When I tell you to plant trees, you have to support people. "Pass it on as an official warning."
Translation:
The person who asked said, "Isn't that great? I asked about the method of planting trees and the method of governing the people. " I publicized it to warn the officials.
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The article "Biography of Planting Camels" is a work of Liu Zongyuan in Chang 'an in his early years. It is a biography with both allegorical and political colors, and it is also a fable story with strong allegory.
The story of Guo Tuo's planting trees is not testable, and later scholars think it is a reasonable work. In view of the phenomenon that officials and people competed for profits and disturbed the people at that time, this paper described Guo Tuo's way of planting trees, explained that "the nature of following trees" was the way of "planting trees", and deduced the truth of "educating people", pointed out that officials should not "disturb their orders" when governing the people, criticized the behavior of local officials disturbing the people and hurting the people in the Tang Dynasty, and embodied the author's sympathy for the people and the reform of the disadvantages.