It means: the richest things look empty; The most perfect thing seems to be incomplete; The most upright thing seems to have a bend; The whitest thing contains dirt instead; The most square thing has no edges and corners; The loudest sound sounds silent instead; The biggest image has no shape; The most dexterous thing seems to be the most clumsy.

This sentence comes from the forty-first and forty-fifth chapters of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, and its contents are as follows:

1, the original content of Chapter 41 is:

The staff sergeant listened to the word and worked diligently; The sergeant heard that living is death; The corporal smiled. Just laughing is not enough. Therefore, some suggestions are put forward: if Ming Dow is ignorant, if he enters the Tao, if he quits the Tao, if he abandons the Tao, he will be embarrassed. Suntech is like a valley; If white is insulting; If Guangde is insufficient; If Jiande steals; If the quality is really Chongqing. Generous; A late bloomer; Great voices and voices; Elephants are invisible; Tao is hidden and nameless. Husband is the only way, and the loan is good.

2. The original content of Chapter 45:

Without great achievements, using them will not be harmful. If you have a big profit, you can use it endlessly. If you are straightforward, if you are all thumbs, if you argue endlessly. Calm is better than impatience, cold is better than heat. Quiet is suitable for this world.

Extended data:

Tao Te Ching is a philosophical work of Laozi (Li Er) in the Spring and Autumn Period, also known as Tao Te Ching, Laozi's Five Thousand Words and Laozi's Five Thousand Articles. It is a work of China before the separation of the pre-Qin philosophers in ancient times, and it is an important source of Taoist philosophy. Tao Te Ching is divided into two parts. The first part of the original text is the Tao Te Ching, and the second part is the Tao Te Ching, without chapters. Later, it was changed to the Tao Te Ching in the first 37 chapters, and the Tao Te Ching in the last 38 chapters, divided into 8 1 chapters.

The text of Tao Te Ching takes "morality" in the philosophical sense as the main line, and discusses the ways of self-cultivation, governing the country, using troops and keeping in good health, but most of them aim at politics. It is the so-called "inner sage and outer king" theory, which has profound meaning and wide tolerance and is known as the king of all classics.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Tao Te Ching