The story of the drop stone is not a day s work

The story of the drop of water worn by the stone.

Zhang Qianya is a county official in Chongyang County. Once, he saw a small clerk in charge of the warehouse come out of the warehouse and put a copper coin from the warehouse into his pocket. He immediately sent someone to arrest the little official for questioning, and ordered him to be tortured with a stick

What's so great about a copper coin? Why are you so a** to me! ”

When Zhang Qianya heard this, he picked up the pen and wrote a comment: "One dollar a day, a thousand dollars a day, the rope is sawed and the wood is broken, and the water drops are worn by stones." Meaning:

One copper dollar a day, a thousand days is a thousand copper dollars, this is like sawing wood with a rope, water drops stones, over time, the wood will be sawn, and the stone will be dripped through. He then ordered the little official to be beheaded.

The idiom "water drops wear stones" comes from this story. Sometimes it is also written as "dripping water through stones", the meaning is the same, the original meaning of the story is to say that although the shortcomings and mistakes are small, they can accumulate and cause great harm. Zhang Qianya killed the little official according to this article, which is naturally an abuse of the criminal law.

Nowadays, it is often used from the positive side, as a metaphor for learning or doing things, as long as you have perseverance and perseverance, you can "wear through the stones", overcome difficulties, and achieve success.

During the Song Dynasty, there was a man named Zhang Qianya, who served as a county magistrate in Chongyang County. At that time, the social atmosphere in Chongyang County was very poor, theft was commonplace, and even the county government's treasury often had incidents of theft of money and goods. Zhang Qianya was determined to put a stop to this crooked wind.

One day, he finally found an opportunity. On this day, he was patrolling around the yamen, and saw a small official who managed the county bank's treasury coming out of the treasury in a panic, and Zhang Qianya hurriedly called the treasury official to stop: "Why are you so flustered?"

It's nothing. The clerk said. Zhang Lingya thought that the treasury was often stolen, and judged that the treasurer might be guarding and stealing.

Then he asked his attendants to search the treasurer. As a result, a copper coin was found in the treasurer's turban. Zhang Qianya escorted the treasury official back to the lobby for interrogation and asked him how much money he had stolen from the treasury, but the treasury official did not admit that he had stolen any other money, so Zhang Lingya ordered torture.

The treasurer was not convinced, and said angrily: "What is the great deal about stealing a copper coin and Fanshan, and you torture me like this?" You can only beat me, can you still kill me?

Zhang Qianya couldn't help but be very angry when he saw that the treasury official dared to contradict him like this, he picked up the red pen and pronounced the verdict: "One dollar a day, a thousand dollars a thousand days, the rope is sawed and the wood is broken, and the water drops are worn by stones." This means that if you steal one copper coin in one day, you will steal a thousand copper coins in a thousand days.

If you keep sawing wood with a rope, the wood will be sawn off; The water drips and drips, and it can drip through the stones. After the verdict was completed, Zhang Qianya Yanzao instructed the officials to escort the treasury officials to the execution ground and behead them for public display. Since then, the trend of stealing in Chongyang County has been stopped, and the social atmosphere has also greatly improved.

Later, the idiom "water drops wear stones" was used as a metaphor for perseverance, and small strength can also achieve great merit.

1. Dripping water through stones is not a day's work, and the previous sentence is freezing three feet and not a day's cold.

2, dripping water through the stone is not a day's work from: Song Luo Dajing "Crane Forest Yulu".

Volume 10: "One dollar a day, a thousand dollars a thousand days, the rope is sawed and the wood is broken, and the water drops are worn by stones." Explanation: Using a rope as a saw can also cut wood. The power of metaphor is small, but as long as you stick to it, things can be successful.

3, the freezing three feet is not a day's cold from: Wang Chong's "On Balance".

"The combination of river ice and ice is not the same day of coldness; Accumulation of soil into a mountain, the work of Festus. Explanation: The ostensible meaning is that the water is frozen three feet of ice, not a day of cold can be caused.

Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and dripping water through stones is not a day's work.

Analysis: The superficial meaning of the tie is that it is frozen three feet, and it is not the effect that can be achieved by a day of cold. The formation of a metaphor is the accumulation and brewing of a long period of time.

Source: Wang Chong's "On Balance" in the "Leave the Form".

Enlightenment: It implies that whether people are studying, working or pursuing their goals in life, success is not a momentary achievement, but a long-term process of struggle.