Taishan does not allow soil(tài shān bù ràng tǔ rǎng)

Taishan does not allow soil

Taishan does not let the soil come from: the book of remonstrating and chasing guests written by Lisi during the Warring States period.

[explanation]: Mount Tai does not exclude small earth and stone, so it can be so high. It means that people are big and can tolerate different things.

River and sea do not give up the small flow, so it can achieve as deep and wide. The original metaphor is to recruit talents in order to achieve great achievements.

Words: Taishan is not allowed to be large because of its soil; rivers and seas are not allowed to be small, so they can be deep.

[pronunciation]: t à ISH à Nb à R à ng t à R à ng

Easy to be wrong: it is easy to be mistaken that a strong force is not afraid of a weak one.

[idiom story]: after Qin Shihuang came to power, the country gradually became strong. In order to realize the ambition of unifying the world and prevent the infiltration of foreign countries, he planned to expel foreign nationals. When Prime Minister Lisi learned of this, he committed Yan zhicambodian's crime and wrote: "only when Mount Tai refuses to abandon a grain of soil can he be so strong.". Only when rivers absorb small streams to themselves can they have bottomless depth. As the king of a country, he did not refuse to be followed by any people, only in this way can he show his great virtue. Therefore, no matter the territory is East, West, north, South, the common people are not of the same race or foreign country. As long as they submit to me, they should live and work in peace and contentment. In this way, the world will be peaceful and the gods will be blessed. This is where the three emperors and five emperors were invincible before.

Li Si's viewpoint moved the first emperor, so he withdrew the order of expelling guests, and from then on, he absorbed talents from all over the world, and finally unified the six countries.

Later, Han Ying, a litterateur in the Western Han Dynasty, extended his theory to "Mount Tai does not yield to gravel, rivers and seas do not yield to small streams, so they can become big.".

People use "Mount Tai does not let soil" or "Mount Tai does not let gravel" to warn the world that they should be modest, tolerant and modest.

Chinese PinYin : tài shān bù ràng tǔ rǎng