A more interesting story about him is:
One day, one of Confucius' students was sweeping the floor outside the door, and a guest came up to him and asked him, "Who are you?"
He proudly said, "I am a disciple of Mr. Kong!"
The guest said, "Great. Can I ask you a question? "
The student said happily, "Yes!" He thought, what strange problems will you encounter?
The guest asked, "How many seasons are there in a year?"
Students think, do you still need to ask such questions? So he replied: "Spring, summer, autumn and winter."
The guest shook his head and said, "No, there are only three seasons in a year."
"Hey, you are mistaken, Four Seasons!"
"Three seasons!"
In the end, the two men argued and decided to bet that if it was the four seasons, the guests would kowtow to the students three times. If it is the third season, the students kowtow to the guests three times.
Confucius' students think they will win this time, so they plan to take the guests to see Confucius' teacher.
Just then, Confucius came out of the room and the students came forward and asked, "Teacher, how many seasons are there in a year?"
Confucius glanced at the guest and said, "There are three seasons in a year."
The student was scared to death, but he was afraid to ask at once.
The guest immediately said, "kowtow!" "
The students have no choice but to kowtow three times.
After the guests left, the students couldn't wait to ask Confucius, "Teacher, there are obviously four seasons in a year. What do you say in the three seasons? "
Confucius said, "Didn't you see that man was all green just now?" He is a grasshopper. Grasshoppers are born in spring and die in autumn. He has never seen winter. You said three seasons and he was satisfied. It's meaningless to talk about the four seasons at night. It's okay to suffer a little. "
This story tells us:
No dispute is compassion, no dispute is wisdom,
It's clean if you don't smell it, and comfortable if you don't look at it.
Forgiveness is liberation, and contentment is letting go.
For anyone and anything, when you want to lose your temper, when your mood is very unstable, you think that it is a "three-season person" and what a "three-season person" did, and you will calm down immediately.
There are too many "three seasons" in this world.