1. The problem is getting worse every time I go to the market. "Zhuangzi Zhi Beiyou"

Translation: A famous city official asked a butcher about the method of checking the fatness of a big pig. (The butcher said), the more you step down, the more you will understand. The Tao is everywhere, and the more you look at it from humble places, the more you can see the true situation of the Tao. "Every time the situation gets worse", some people mistakenly meant "every time it gets worse" since the Song Dynasty. Zhang Shizhao also used the wrong word in his "Gu Tong Miscellaneous Notes" published in the "Jiayin" weekly, and was ridiculed by Lu Xun. Nowadays, the word "getting worse" is often used, which means that the situation is getting worse and worse.

2. Use fire to fight fire and water to fight water. This is called more benefit. "Zhuangzi? Human World"

Translation: Use fire to put out fire and water to put out water. Not only does this fail to correct the problem, but it will increase (Wei Jun's) faults. Let’s use the words Confucius taught Yan Hui to illustrate a way of life. This is where the idioms "fighting fire with fire" and "fighting water with water" come from.

3. Nothing is other than what it is, and nothing is other than what it is; if you know yourself, you will not see it, but if you know yourself, you will know it. Therefore, it is said: He comes from this, and this is also caused by that. "Zhuangzi? Equality of Things"

Translation Everything in the world has an opposite side and an opposite side. What is not clear from the other side can be seen more clearly from this side. Therefore, the other comes from this, and this cannot be separated from the other. That is to say, there are two opposite sides of things, and no one can live without the other. It reveals the law of the unity of opposites in the development of things and denies metaphysics and absolute theory. It was 2,400 years before the German physicist Einstein created the theory of relativity.

4. Great knowledge is leisurely, but small knowledge is momentary; big talk is arrogant, but small talk is zhanzhan. "Zhuangzi? On the Equality of Things"

Translation The wisest person will always show an open-minded and generous attitude; a person with little talent will always care about trivial rights and wrongs. Speeches that are in line with the Dao are as powerful as a prairie fire, both beautiful and grand, making people feel convinced after hearing them. Those clever remarks are trivial and full of nonsense.