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Thursday, April 9, 2009
The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains
The Taihang and Wangwu Mountains, which had a periphery of seven
hundred li and were a hundred thousand feet high, originally lay south
of Jizhou and north of Heyang.
The Foolish Old Man of the North Mountain, nearly ninety years of age,
lived behind these mountains. He was unhappy about the fact that the
mountains blocked his way to the south and he had to walk round them
whenever he went our or came back, so he called the whole family
together to talk about the matter. " What would you say," he said to
them,"if I suggest that all of us work hard to level the two mountains,
so as to open a way to places south of Yu Prefecture and the Han
River?" Many voices said they agreed to the idea.
But his wife had her doubts. "With your strength," she said, "you could
hardly remove a small hill like Kuifu. What could you do with the
Taihang and Wangwu Mountains? Besides, where could you deposit the
earth and rocks.?"
"Carry them to the shores of the Bohai Sea and north of Yintu," said
several people.
The old man, helped by his son and grandson who could carry things,
began to break rocks and dig earth, which they carried in baskets and
dustbins to the shores of the Bohai Sea. The seven-year-old son of a
widow named Jingcheng, one of the old man's neighbours, came running up
to offer his help. One trip to the sea took them a long time: they left
in winter and came back in summer.
The Wise Old Man at the River Bend stopped the old man. He laughed and
said, "How unwise you are! At your age, old and feeble as you are, you
cannot even remove one hair on the mountain, let alone so much earth
and so many rocks!"
The Foolish Old Man of the North Mountain heaved a long sign and said,
"You are so conceited that you are blind to reason. Even a widow and a
child know better than you. When I die, there will be my sons, who will
have their sons and grandsons. Those grandsons will have their sons and
grandsons, and so on to infinity. But the mountains will not grow. Why
is it impossible to level them?" The Wise Old Man at the River Bend
could not answer him.
The Old Man's words were heard by a god with snakes in his hands. He
was afraid that the old man would really level the two mountains, and
reported the whole thing to the Heavenly God. Moved by the old man's
determination, the Heavenly God ordered the two sons of Kua'ershi to
carry the two mountains on their backs and put one east of Shuo and the
other south of Yong. After this, there were no more mountains between
Jizhou and the Han River.
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1 comment:
1. Michael ReinhardDecember 28, 2022 at 3:59PM
It's a little like Pascal's wager applied to the power of
generational will.
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