Three-season-people

Spirit    Chinese Wisdom     argue, Confucius, story, wisdom

Long long time ago, Confucius had a lot of students. They followed Confucius and study Confucius’s wisdom. And there was a man A who was very eager to the wisdom and spend most of his time in learning. He feeled he have learned a lot.

Then one day comed a man B. When he comed he saw A was sweeping the ground, then he asked:” Hellow, I heared that Confucius is a great man with wisdom. I want to meet him and I have a question to ask him to find if he is that great.”

B looked at the stranger man who has green skin, then said:” Sorry sir, Confucius went out. Could you ask me that question? I probably know.”

“Ok then. It’s a very simple question, how many seasons are there?”

A feeled so confused, what a non-sense question, even a 3-year-old kid can tell that there’re four!

“That’s simple, it’s four!”

“NO!”, B smiled as he had known that A will give that WRONG ANSWER. “The student of Confucius should be more than that.”

But A insisted his answer so started a argue with B. The argument lasted a long time and Confucius came back. 2 man stoped and A thought, “Master will prove I am right!”, than he repeated the question to Confucius.

Both of A and B were waiting Confucius’ answer. And Confucius looked at B, spoke out the answer:” there are 3 seasons.” B laughed:” Confucius has REAL WISDOM”, then left.

A was more confused than just now, he asked Confucius why is that, Confucius answered:” The man with green skin is not human being, he is actually a locust! A locust won’t be alive before the end of autumn, SO HE NEVER KNOWS WINTER! You won’t be able to convince him anyway.”

Some time we don’t argue with the man. We know that it’s can only waste our time and no use. We let it go and gain much more time to do more valuable business.