Old age and death do not communicate with each other(lǎo sǐ bù xiāng wǎng lái)

Old age and death do not communicate with each other

It is an idiom that people of the two countries do not communicate with each other. Its pronunciation is l ǎ OS ǐ B ù Xi ā NGW ǎ NGL á I, which means that even though the two peoples get along very closely and communicate so closely that even the calls of chickens and dogs are mixed together, they never contact each other.

Discrimination of words

[structure] complex sentence pattern [time] spring and autumn [lantern riddle] left eye and right eye

meaning

Even though the people of the two countries get along very closely and have close contacts with each other, even the barks of chickens and dogs are mixed together, there is no war or friction

usage

It is used as predicate and attributive to describe that they have never been in contact with each other

Idiom story

In the spring and Autumn period, Lao Tzu, a thinker, believed that the two neighboring countries could see each other, and the barking of chickens and dogs could be heard. They ate their own rich food, wore their own clothes, lived according to their own customs, and did not contact each other until they died of old age. Sima Qian thought that this kind of idea of old age and death without contact would not work. In the early Western Han Dynasty, China first applied the Taoist theory to govern the country in an all-round way, which produced wenjingzhi, the most prosperous age in China. The market mechanism of "low flow water" of Taoism in the biography of goods colonization is mainly described in Huainanzi, Shiji, Hanshu and other Taoist books and historical books. In the first chapter of Shi Ji · Huo Zhi liezhuan, Sima Qian tells an example of the market mechanism of "low flow water" of Taoism: the products in the southeast, northwest and North are different, yak in the north, animal husbandry in the west, fishing salt in the East, and wood in the South. These things are essential to people's life. Wood is also used in the north, and fur is used in the south. What should we do? Sima Qian said: "is it necessary for the government to issue a decree to collect and distribute people to meet within a time limit? People can rely on their abilities, try their best and satisfy their desires. Therefore, cheap goods can be sold at a high price, and expensive goods can be bought at a low price. People go through their own business and do their own business, just like water flows to the bottom, day and night, without inviting people to buy or sell, without seeking to trade. This is in line with the road, and it is also a proof of natural regulation. "

explain

With the highly developed productive forces and the rapid development of science and technology, the ultimate social pattern of human beings is a symbiotic social relationship similar to "small country with few people", which narrows the space-time distance in time and space, and makes communication more frequent and convenient. The people in this big family unite with each other as one family. In this time and space, a country can see people from all countries. The whole universe is like a small village.

Examples

1. In ancient times, people and things were not complicated. They could have ruled in seclusion, and they did not communicate with each other when they were old and dead. Xue Fucheng, Qing Dynasty, said that English uses business to open up wasteland. 2. Some people don't do it like this, but like Lao Tzu's saying that "when chickens and dogs hear each other, they don't communicate with each other when they are old and dead.". Mao Zedong's working methods of the Party committee

Chinese PinYin : lǎo sǐ bù xiāng wǎng lái