屐齿之折 the tooth of
geta has broken. Today, we think that geta is a footwear from Japan. Yet it was
started from China. The original geta looked like clogs. The Japanese used the
same character 屐 for it as the Chinese did. At beginning
there was a tooth in front of the geta to hold the over long Chinese robe not
to be stepped on. In the year 383 there was a
war between 东晋and
前秦. 东晋sent
eighty thousand soldiers to meet 前秦’s
eight hundred thousand soldiers. Everyone believed that 东晋 would lose the war, but the result is on the contrary, they
won. When the news of victory arrived at the supreme command, the marshal 谢玄 who was a civil officer, was playing the game of go. After
he read the report, he kept on playing, as if nothing had happened.
After a while his opponent asked him, “What happened?”
The answer was, “Nothing, my children had won the war for
me.”
His manner was calm. But later when he moved to leave, he
kicked on the threshold and broken the tooth of his geta.
Calm is a main virtue of Chinese people. Later this term
means calm and hidden the inner happiness.
And: http://amuseum.cdstm.cn/AMuseum/ancitech/science/image/01/s1a_ad03_s01.jpg
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