2014年9月4日星期四

Stories of Chinese word and term (7)

子罕说宝, 子罕talking about what precious thing is. In the Spring and Autumn period770- 476BC, someone found a beautiful jade and he sent it to the chancellor of Dukedom named 子罕. 子罕refused to accept it for afraid bribery. The sender said, “Don’t worry about what the other people said. You are the right person who understand what is the meaning of jade (in ancient time jade means decent person). So I dared to send it to you.”  

子罕 said, “Maybe you are wrong. For I regard not greedy as the most precious thing, while you regard beautiful jade as precious thing. If I accept your jade that means to say both of us lost most precious things.”

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