In the story of Gong Yu's moving mountains, one sentence that best reflects Gong Yu's perseverance is: even if I die, I still have a son; Son gives birth to grandson, grandson gives birth to son; A son has a son and a son has a grandson; There is no end to children and grandchildren, and mountains do not increase. Why are you worried about uneven digging?

Yu Gong Yi Shan is an allegorical prose by Liezi, a thinker in the Warring States Period. The article tells the story of Gong Yu's fearless and persistent digging of the mountain, which finally moved the Emperor of Heaven and moved the mountain away. Through the contrast between the persistence of a foolish old man and the cowardice of a wise man, and the contrast between "foolish old man" and "wisdom", this paper shows the confidence and perseverance of the working people in ancient China, and explains the reason that perseverance is needed to overcome difficulties.

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Creation background

The Warring States period is a period of great social change, and it is also a period of academic thought contending. Fable, as an important part of the essays of the philosophers, has become a powerful weapon for the philosophers of the Warring States to clarify their political views, academic thoughts and arguments.

Liezi is a collection of fables and fairy tales created under this background. This article is selected from the fifth chapter of Liezi Tang Wen. It tells the story of Yugong digging a mountain despite difficulties and finally moving it away by the Emperor of Heaven. It also shows that under the condition of extremely underdeveloped productive forces at that time, people can only fantasize about conquering nature with the help of a god with superhuman strength.