I have got shoes, which means that I forgot to keep my shoes, but said: I forgot to take the measured size.
From "Zheng Ren Mailu" by Han Fei in the pre Qin period.
Original text: If the people of Zheng wanted to buy shoes, they should first measure their feet and put them in their seats.
2. When I have got the shoes, I say: I forget to hold on to them.
3. "Take it back.
4. In the face of opposition, when the market strikes, they will not be able to perform.
5. The man said, "Why don't you try it enough?" Said: Better trust than confidence.
6. A Zheng man who wanted to buy shoes first measured his feet with a ruler, and then put the size on his seat. When he went to the market, he forgot to take the measured size.
7. I got the shoes, but said: I forgot to take the measured size.
8. "Then he went home to get the measured size.
9. By the time he returned to the market, the market had dispersed, and finally the Zheng people could not buy shoes.
10. Someone asked him, "Why don't you try it with your own feet?" He said: I would rather believe in a measured size than my own feet.
11. "Evaluation: This is a fable from the Pre Qin era, which is from Han Feizi's Stories about External Storage on the Left; It is both an idiom and an allusion, but it is also a fable. It mainly tells the story that people in the State of Zheng could not buy shoes because they believed in the yardstick too much.
12. It reveals Zheng people's habit of adhering to dogmatic psychology and relying on data.
13. This fable satirizes those dogmatists who stick to the beaten track and show that they will never achieve anything if they follow the beaten track and do not think of flexibility.
14. This Zheng man only believed in the size of his feet, but didn't believe in his own feet. He not only made a big joke, but also became a laughingstock because he couldn't buy shoes.
15. But in real life, people who buy shoes only believe in the size of the feet but not the feet, and only know how to stick to the dogma but not know how to be flexible, may not be there? But there are people like this.
17. Some people talk, handle affairs and think about problems only from books, not from reality; He believes what is written in the book, and he does not believe what is not written in the book but actually exists.
18. In the eyes of such people, only what is on books is truth, and what is not written is not truth.
19. In this way, of course, ideas will become rigid and actions will easily run into difficulties.
