As the saying goes, "Old soft-shelled turtle can't be cooked rotten, withered mulberry will be a disaster". What kind of philosophy of life is contained in it?

There are many very interesting proverbs circulating among the people. Although these proverbs seem vulgar, if we can dig deeper into their connotations, we can find that they contain many philosophies of life.

As the saying goes, "the old turtle can't do badly, but it's hard to see the meaning on the surface." What does the old turtle have to do with disaster?

In fact, this proverb comes from Liu's Different Gardens in the Southern Song Dynasty. It is a fairy tale circulated among the people. This story happened in the Three Kingdoms period.

If we dig deep into the meaning of "the old turtle can't cook badly and blame it on the withered mulberry", it probably means that some people have made mistakes themselves, but they are shameless to blame others.

It is said that the guilty person has not been punished, but the innocent person suffers for him. From this point of view, this belongs to expressing a very profound meaning.

First, the old turtle does not rot. According to legend, when Sun Quan was in power in the Three Kingdoms period, there was a hunter in Yongkang County who often went hunting in the mountains. Once, when he went up the mountain again, he met an old turtle. The hunter was so greedy that he tied up the turtle and took it home.

The tortoise said, "If you save swimming, it will be yours." I just came out to play for a while. Why did you arrest me?

The hunter was very surprised when he heard the tortoise speak. This is an unheard of thing. A tortoise can talk to people.

The hunter thought the tortoise was priceless, so he wanted to give it to Sun Quan, the emperor of Soochow. Because in ancient society, "offering treasures" was also the key way to reach the peak of life.

In order to prevent a deep sleep, the hunter took the turtle overnight and set foot on the road of presenting treasures to the prince of Wu and Sun Quan. That night, the hunter took the turtle by boat on the river, but because it was too dark, he had to dock the boat in the river.

In the dead of night, the tree suddenly said to the tortoise, "Why bother Xu Yuan?" What game are you playing, sir? Why are you tied up?

The tortoise listened and said, "I didn't see cooking until I was detained." Although, the firewood in Nanshan can't crush me. "I was caught by a hunter, but he couldn't cook me.

The tree said, "Zhuge Yuan has knowledge, and he must have words of suffering. You are going to be my apprentice today. Do you want to settle down? " . It is said that you can consult Zhuge Yuanxun. As long as you follow this plan, there will be no danger.

The tortoise said, "If you don't say much, it will be a disaster." The tortoise said, you don't have to say any more, because I'm afraid I'll be killed and you'll get hurt.

When the turtle was transported to Jianye, "the right to cook will burn thousands of cars, and the language is as old as before." No matter how Sun Quan cooks it, even if he burns thousands of cars, the tortoise won't cook it.

Zhuge Ke said: "The time is ripe to burn old mulberry trees." Cook with the wood of that old mulberry tree, and the turtle will be cooked at once.

This is actually the source of the sentence "If the old turtle is not boiled, the withered mulberry will be in trouble". Because Mulberry once called this turtle "Xu Yuan", and later generations also called it "Xu Yuan". Because turtles are long-lived animals, they are legendary in the eyes of the ancients.

Second, the truth contained in Historical Records once said: "Turtle is the treasure of the world", saying that turtle is the treasure in the eyes of the world. The earliest writing found so far is actually Oracle Bone Inscriptions carved on the back of a turtle.

In the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, tortoise shells were also important props that had to be used in divination. Fortune tellers will predict what will happen according to the degree of cracks.

As the saying goes, "The old turtle can't cook badly, and the withered mulberry will be a disaster", which evolved from a very vivid fairy tale. When the old turtle was caught by the hunter and presented to Sun Quan, it was cooked for no reason, and it also brought trouble to the old locust tree that had grown for thousands of years.

In fact, from this point, we can know that it was clearly the tortoise's fault, but it made the old locust tree pay a painful price.

This requires everyone to learn how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages in daily life. Don't hurt yourself because of other people's mistakes. It is said that the city gate caught fire and the fish in the pond were injured.

Of course, there is another saying called "I didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me". In fact, the meaning of this proverb is exactly the same as that of "an old turtle can't be cooked badly, and a withered mulberry will be a disaster."

Although these two proverbs tell the story of turtles and mulberry trees, if we put their connotations into the real society, we can actually find a very profound philosophical truth in them.

No matter at work or at home, it is easy to produce some contradictions. Some people think that the contradiction of others has nothing to do with themselves, but in fact, if this contradiction is getting bigger and bigger, it is easy to hurt yourself. I hope everyone must understand this.