Attack a son's shield with his spear(yǐ zǐ zhī máo，gōng zǐ zhī dùn)

Attack a son's shield with his spear

Zi's spear and Zi's shield are Chinese words. Zi is a name for others; spear is a weapon to attack the enemy; shield is a card to protect oneself from the enemy's sword and arrow. It refers to refuting the other party's point of view, method or speech.

It comes from Han Feizi's difficult one: "the Chu people who have shield and spear are praised as saying:" the strength of our shield is that nothing can be trapped. " He also praised his spear and said, "the advantage of my spear is that it will sink everything." Or: "how can we use the spear of a son and the shield of a son?" It's the same with people. "

interpretation

First of all, due to the reason of attack, human beings build spears first. Because human beings also need to defend against being attacked, they build shields at the same time. Vice versa. So, whether it's attacking first or defending first, spear and shield need to be equally important. When people tested which spear or shield was superior, they came up with the idea of attacking their own shield with their own spear, that is, attacking their own shield with their own spear. in order to solve this problem, we should extend it, find the principle that everything exists, and reveal the principle of the law of unity of opposites. unity is the premise and the interior of any thing; the identity of unity, that is, the spear and shield are produced at the same time, and the opposition is the two aspects of the interior of the same thing, which must be opposite. The contrast and transformation of the opposing forces constitute the driving force for the development of things, that is, the process of quantitative change of things; when one party absolutely defeats the other, things change qualitatively, the original things disappear, and new things emerge. This is the philosophical significance of attacking the shield of the son with the spear of the son. "To attack a son with his spear is to attack his shield" comes from Han Feizi's Nanyi: "the Chu people who have a spear and a shield are praised for saying:" the strength of our shield is that nothing can be trapped. " He also praised his spear and said, "the advantage of my spear is that it will sink everything." Or: "how can we use the spear of a son and the shield of a son?" It's the same with people. "

Idiom story

During the Warring States period, Han Feizi, a great thinker, once said that there was a man who sold spears and shields. He saw people selling his spears as the sharpest spears in the world, and there was nothing impenetrable. Later, he sold his shields as the hardest shields in the world, and nothing could pierce them. Someone in the crowd asked him to poke his shield with his spear, so he ran away.

usage

It is true that those who have read ancient books are the most powerful. Because he is aware of the disadvantages and can "～". (Lu Xun's sequel to Huagai: ancient books and vernacular)

Chinese PinYin : yǐ zǐ zhī máo，gōng zǐ zhī dùn