In fact, it is better to say that wisdom (story) comes from life than the story behind every truth. Like this sentence:
"The mountain is not high, and people's hearts are higher than the sky. It is not bad for pigs to sell white water as wine. "
That means: the mountains are towering into the sky, not high, and the people's desires are higher than the sky. Pumping water from a well can be sold as wine, but wine sellers still hate feeding pigs.
This sentence may come from the following version: pigs are not bad [Qing] Chu people have to [edit]
Wang Po is a wine-making industry. A Taoist priest came and went to his house. Every time he asked for wine, he drank and drank, but hundreds of pots were not returned. The old woman can't compare with her. One day, the Taoist priest said to the old woman, "You have drunk and have no money to pay for it. Please dig a well for it. " Spring gushes out, and all the wine is mellow. The Taoist priest said, "That's why I plucked my ears." Then go. A woman who sells springs from wells is better than making wine, earning tens of thousands of dollars.
After more than three years, the Taoist priest suddenly came, and the grandmother was deeply grateful. The Taoist priest asked, "Is the wine good?" The old woman said, "wine is good, but pigs don't have bad ears." Taoist laughed and said: the sky is not high, and people's hearts are the highest. Well water sells wine, but it doesn't hurt to return the pig. Ask and leave. Naturally, Jing will never come back for wine again. "Jian Xuan Ji Jill" Volume 4
This story is intended to criticize human greed. But Wang Po in the story made his own wine and sold it, and the rest can be fed to pigs. She thinks it's a good deal because it's great to make money by selling wine and pigs.
But now, Taoist priests can make money by selling water. Where is her pig? It is troublesome for her to spend money on spoiled food to raise pigs. If no one makes wine nearby, she can't even buy spoiled food, so she has to feed it to the pigs. What a luxury! Food is for people to eat. How can pigs eat people? This is a simple concept of Wang Po.
At that time, we didn't have the concept of marketing today, because without today's national market and world market, Wang Po sold so much wine a day and didn't make much money. On the contrary, the pig's taste is not bad, but she feels lost.
People don't feel satisfied just because they have money. She has to keep a pet. Look at those rich kids today. Didn't they spend a lot of money on goldfish and pets? They don't care about money, they care about domination and communication in life.
Just like Maslow's hierarchy of self-needs, satisfying one possibility will awaken another or even several possibilities.
It's not that people's hearts are higher than the sky, but that people have more than just money. This complex "selfish desire" is hard to understand, nor is it a fairy who came out of the dust.