Stories of Chinese word and term (29)

木秀于林 (风必摧之) an outstanding tree among forest (the hidden meaning is ‘the wind destroy it first’). The original term is that ‘an outstanding tree among forest, the wind destroy it first. Piled out of the shore, the turbulent flow will be. Arrangement of ideas is higher than the people, the public will defame him.’ (Note, some terms are emotional but not scientific for a protrude riverbank normally increase not decay.) The author named 李康, who lived in the time of three kingdoms (the time, when the story of ‘Red Cliff’ happened), these words was from his《運命論》the theory of fate.