It's a famous saying of Lao Tzu Li Er.
"Misfortune is a blessing; Hey, this is the disaster. " "From Lao tze? Chapter 58.
"Lao tze? The full text of Chapter 58 is as follows:
Its politics is dull and its people are pure. Its political censorship, its people lack. Misfortune is a blessing; Happiness lies in misfortune. Who knows its extreme, it is wrong. The recovery is amazing, and it is the demon that recovers well. Fascinating for a long time. It's the saint's side. It's uncut. It's cheap, but it's not cheap either Straight but not arrogant. There is no glorious light.
"Misfortune is a blessing; Hey, this is the disaster. " Read it like this: huò xī fú suǒ yǐ ǐ, ò x ǒ f ú. The general idea is: "disaster is the dependence of happiness;" Blessing is the hiding place of misfortune. The blessings of human beings are interdependent and can be transformed into each other. "Now it has become an idiom, meaning that bad things can have good results, and good things can also have bad results." The word "Xi" in this sentence is an auxiliary word in classical Chinese, which is meaningless, which is equivalent to the meaning of "ah" and "depend" in modern Chinese. "V" means "hidden".
"Misfortune is a blessing; Blessed, cursed. " There is a simple dialectical materialism thought, that is, the view of contradiction, which is similar to the "contrast of length and width", and both emphasize the unity of opposites. I don't want to have "misfortune" and "happiness", everyone pursues it. "Disaster" and "happiness" are contradictory. Happiness and misfortune are interdependent and mutually transformed. Metaphor means that bad things can have good results, and good things can also have bad results.
Now there is a story like "A blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise". In the Book of Changes, there are sayings that "refuting extremes must be answered" and "it is too late to reject extremes". China people believe that "extremes meet", and the world is also a cyclical process. Therefore, fortunes can be changed.