Arts Comprehensive
Students, we bid farewell to year of the snake and ushered in the Year of the Horse. Do you know what the word "horse" stands for If your answer is only animals, it is too limited. The word also conveys the experience of the ancients, the wisdom of mathematics and even ironic humor. Let's do it one by one.
The word "horse" is found in the unearthed Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which shows that our ancestors began to raise horses in the Shang Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago. "Shuowen Jiezi" explains: "The horse is angry and martial. Like the shape of a horse's head and ponytail. " "Anger" and "martial arts" here describe horses that are easily angered, like galloping, and have the characteristics of caring for each other and courageously moving forward, so they have been used in human wars for a long time.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the King of Qi went out to attack the solitary bamboo country, and went out in the spring. It was already the middle of winter when he came back, and the scenery along the way was very different from that when he went out, so he got lost and everyone was worried. At this time, Guan Zhong, the prime minister of Qi, said, "The old horse in the army knows the way and can take us back." The King of Qi asked his men to choose some old horses as guides and found the way back. This is the origin of the idiom "an old horse knows the way", which contains valuable experience of the ancients.
In mathematics, there is a very famous story "Lend a horse to divide the horse". There was an old man who had three sons, 17 good horses. Before he died, he left a will: "Seventeen horses, half for the eldest son, one third for the second son and one ninth for the younger son. Don't kill horses or sell them. " After reading the will, the three brothers were puzzled. 17 divided by 2, divided by 3, divided by 9, can't get an integer. What should I do? So they went to consult a local wise man. After listening to the plan of the three brothers, the wise man said, "I'll lend you a horse first, and then you can share it!" " "So now a *** 18 horse, according to the requirements of the will, the eldest got 9 horses, the second got 6 horses, the third got 2 horses, and the remaining 1 horse was just returned to the wise. This story not only conveys the infinite wisdom of mathematics, but more importantly, it inspires us to jump out of fixed thinking when solving problems, and it may be better to change our thinking.
There is a folk slang called "flattery", which means flattery. According to the research of historian Mr. Gu Jiegang, the roads in the mountainous areas of northwest China are narrow, which is not conducive to driving. Horses have long been an important means of transportation for people there, so that there is a proverb that "people are not named after horses". Therefore, if people have a good horse, they will feel extremely proud. Usually when they meet someone with a horse on the road, they will pat each other's horse's ass and say, "Good horse! Good horse! " Express admiration and be friendly at the same time. Later, no matter whether the other horse was really good or not, someone patted the horse's ass and said, "Good horse! Good horse! " Therefore, "flattery" has the meaning of satirizing flatterers and flatterers, and it is also a humorous way to express disgust at such people.
Students, the wisdom contained in "Horse" is not only these, but also a lot that you need to understand in your future study. I hope that after the Year of the Horse, everyone can learn some wisdom from horses and behave better in their study and life!