The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountains

Idiom: The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountains

Pinyin: yú gōng yí shān

Explanation: A metaphor for perseverance in transforming nature and perseverance

Source: "Liezi·Tangwen" records: There were two big mountains blocking the road in front of Yu Gong's house. He was determined to level the mountains. Another old man, Zhisou, laughed at him for being too stupid. I think it is impossible. Yu Gong said: I will have a son after I die, and I will have grandchildren after my son dies. There is no end to the children and grandchildren, and the two mountains will eventually be leveled.

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Synonyms: perseverance, perseverance, perseverance

Antonyms: anticlimactic, beginning but no tail

Vernacular translation:

There was a man named Yu Gong in Beishan who was nearly ninety years old and lived facing the mountain. He suffered from the inconvenience of transportation in the north of the mountain and had to take long detours to get in and out, so he called his whole family to discuss and said: "I will tell you Can we do our best to remove the steep mountains and make the road lead to the south of Yuzhou and the south bank of Han River?" Everyone agreed. His wife asked: "With your strength, even the small mountain of Kuifu can be conquered. If we can't flatten them, how can we do anything to the two mountains Taihang and Wangwu? Besides, where can we put the earth and rocks?" Everyone said, "We can throw it to the edge of the Bohai Sea, to the north of Yintu." So Foolish Old Man led a few of his descendants who could carry the load, dug rocks, and loaded the soil with dustpans and transported it to the edge of the Bohai Sea. The widow of the neighbor Jingcheng family had an orphan who was only seven or eight years old. She had just lost her teeth and was jumping around. He jumped forward to help them. There was only one round trip between winter and summer.

A wise old man on the river bend laughed at Yu Gong and stopped him from doing this, saying: "You are so unsmart! Just rely on it." With your declining age and remaining strength, you can't even damage a blade of grass on the mountain, but what can you do to the earth and rocks on these two mountains?" The Foolish Old Man of Beishan sighed and said, "You are so stubborn in your thoughts that you are extremely stubborn. The degree of change is not even comparable to that of orphans and widows. Even if I die, I still have my son; my son will have grandsons, and grandsons will beget sons; sons will have sons, and sons will have grandsons; there will be no end to my descendants. However, The mountain will not grow bigger or taller, so why worry about the mountain being dug flat?" The wise old man had no words to answer.

Success comes from frugality and failure (failure) comes from luxury: success comes from diligence and frugality, failure comes from luxury.

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