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Dinggong shaft sinking

Ding Gong dug a well, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin for D ī NGG ō ngz á OJ ǐ ng, which means that in the spring and Autumn period, Ding of the state of song dug a well in his own home. He needed a person's strength to say "I got a man through the well". Others thought that he dug a man out of the well. This is a metaphor for the error of language, which originated from Lun Heng Shu Xu by Wang Chong of Han Dynasty.

source

"Lu's spring and Autumn Annals · Chazhuan:" in the Song Dynasty, Ding's family went out to irrigate without a well, and often lived outside. He and his family went through the well and told people, "I've got one person to go through the well." It is said that "the Ding family got one person through the well." It was heard that the country was humane to the king of song. The king of song was asked about it by the Ding family. The Ding family said to him, "if you can get one person, you have to get one person in the well.

usage

Subject predicate type; predicate; metaphorical language comes and goes but is distorted

allusion

In the spring and Autumn period, there was a man surnamed Ding in the state of song. Because he was old, people called him Ding Gong. Ding Gong is a farmer. His family makes a living by farming. There was no river in the area, and well water was used to irrigate the land. Dante had no well in his family. When the crops needed irrigation and watering, he had to go to other people's wells to draw water, and then carry it to his own land to irrigate. In order to be able to water the land in time, the Ding family often sent a person outside to take charge of the work. After several years of this, Ding Gong found it inconvenient to have no well in his home. In other people's wells, it is often a few days later than other people's, so the harvest is not as good as other people's. Besides, there has to be a person who specializes in watering the land. Sometimes other farm work in the family is too late to do. So Duke Ding made up his mind to dig a well in his own field. Looking at the well water flowing from the ditch to the land he cultivated, the whole Ding family laughed with joy. From then on, there was no need for the Ding family to send another person outside to take charge of drawing water and watering the land. Ding Gong told people, "if I dig a well in my family, it's like digging a man." Some of them didn't hear it clearly. They said, "Duke Ding dug a well and found a man!" Such a ten, ten hundred, spread throughout the Song Dynasty. Some people also reported the incident to the king of the state of song. When the king of song heard that Ding Gong had dug up a man from the well, he was very surprised, so he sent an official to ask Ding Gong about it. Ding Gong replied, "I said that if my family dug a well, it means that there is one more person in the family who can work, not one in the well." The official went back to report to Jun Ru of the state of song. The king of the state of Song said with a smile: "I think, how can people be dug out of the well? It turns out that's the case." Later, the allusion of "Ding Gong digging a well" was used to describe the fact that the language was passed down from generation to generation.

Chinese PinYin : dīng gōng záo jǐng