If you want to hear it, if you don't know it, this sentence comes from "One Man Crossing a Well" in Lu Chunqiu, which means that it is better not to listen to such rumors.

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Song family, there is no well irrigation at home, and they often live alone. His family crossed the well and told people, "I crossed the well alone." People who heard of it said, "Shi Ding went down the well alone." The people of China know that they have heard from Song Jun. Ding asked. Shi Ding said to him, "If you want to be alone, you have to be alone in the well." Smell it if you want, and don't smell it if you don't smell it.

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In the Song Dynasty, there was a man named Ding who went out to fetch water and paddy fields. There was no well at home, and he often lived outside alone. When his family dug a well, Shi Ding told others, "My family dug a well and got a man." Someone heard about it and said, "Shi Ding dug a well and a man." People in Beijing told this story and let the king of Song know.

Song Guojun asked someone to ask Shi Ding about it, and Shi Ding replied, "Getting a person's labor is not getting a person into a well." It is better not to listen to such rumors.

Extended data

The article "One Man Drills a Well" has been included in "Four Fables" in Lesson 24, Volume I of the seventh grade Chinese textbook published by 20 16 People's Education Press (the textbook was adjusted by 20 17 People's Education Press, and the class hours of "Four Fables" were increased to 22 lessons).

This article is selected from Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, Volume 22, Theory of Caution and Textual Research on Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals. Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, also known as Lu Lan, is the representative work of pre-Qin philosophers written by Qin Prime Minister at the end of the Warring States Period, with a total of 26 volumes and 65,438+060 articles.

It was included in the first volume of the seventh grade Chinese textbook of Hubei Education Edition and renamed as "A Man Driving Through a Well". In 20 16, it was included in the new Chinese textbook of People's Education Society (it belongs to four fables with two Aesop's fables and his work "Worrying about Heaven").