Ma said it was a junior high school text.
Ma said the original text is as follows:
Where there is Bole, there is a swift horse. A thousand miles away, there are not many boles. Therefore, although there is a famous horse, it is humiliated by a slave, saying that it is not a thousand miles to die in a trough. A horse can travel thousands of miles, and a stone can eat it all. People who eat horses don't know that they can travel thousands of miles and still eat.
This is a horse. Although it has the ability of a swift horse, it is so beautiful that it is impossible to use a regular horse. You can't use it if you ask it to travel thousands of miles. You can't use it if you eat it, but you can't make sense. Can't insist. Say, there are no horses in the world. Alas, there is no horse evil. You really don't know anything about it
Translation:
There is Bole in the world (first), and then there is a swift horse. There are often swift horses, but Bole is not often. Therefore, even if there is a precious horse, it is only humiliated in the hands of servants and died in the trough (like ordinary horses), and it is not called a swift horse. A swift horse can sometimes eat a stone of grain.
People who feed horses don't know that they can travel thousands of miles to feed them (like ordinary horses). Such a horse, even if it has the ability to travel thousands of miles a day, is not full of food and lacks strength, and its talent and excellent quality cannot be exerted. If it wants to be like an ordinary horse, how can it be required to walk thousands of miles a day?
Inspire:
Ma Shuo told us that we should seize the opportunity, express ourselves boldly, find a Bole who can identify talents, and cultivate them generously so that they can give full play to their talents!
Ma Shuo is an essay by Han Yu, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, which is an argumentative essay. It was originally the fourth essay written by Han Yu, and the title "Ma Shuo" was added by later generations.
This article was written in the 11th year of Zhenyuan (795) to the 16th year (800). "Shuo" means "talking" and is an ancient argumentative genre. This article takes the horse as a metaphor, talking about the talent problem, revealing the author's cynicism and his feelings and resentment. It expresses the author's strong indignation at the feudal rulers' failure to identify, reuse and bury talents.