The original text and translation of the Stone Beast in the River?

When he was more than a year old, the monk raised money to rebuild, and asked for the stone beast in the water, but he couldn't get it. I thought that I was going down the river, and I counted small boats, and I searched for more than ten miles, but there was no trace. A lecturer set up a tent in the temple, and he smiled and said:

If you can't study physics, how can you carry it away for the skyrocket? It is stony and heavy, sand loose and floating, and the annihilation (yān) is on the sand, gradually sinking and deepening. Asking for it along the river, isn't it?

Convincing is conclusive. When an old river soldier heard this, he smiled and said: "If there is a stone lost in the river, you should ask for it upstream."

The cover stone is heavy, the sand is loose and floating, the water can not rush the stone, its anti-expulsion force, it will be in the water under the stone to bite (niè) the sand for the kan hole, gradually agitated and deepened, to the half of the stone, the stone will be thrown into the kan hole. If it is bitten again, the stone will turn again, and then it will turn endlessly, and then it will go back to the upstream. Seek the lower stream, solid; In the land of seeking, isn't it more serious?

As he said, the fruit is several miles away. However, the things of the world, but if you know one of them, you don't know how many of the two are there, but you can decide to judge it according to reason?

Translations. A temple in the south of Cangzhou is close to the riverbank, and the gate collapses in the river, and the two stone beasts sink to the bottom of the river together. After more than ten years, the monk raised money to rebuild the temple, and searched for two stone beasts in the river, but finally did not find them, thinking that they were going down the river.

Rocking a few small boats and pulling an iron rake, I searched for more than ten miles, but there was no trace. A lecturer who was teaching in a temple laughed at this, "You people cannot reason.

It's not a piece of wood, how can it be carried away by the water? The nature of the stone is hard and heavy, and the nature of the sand is loose and light, buried in the sand, sinking deeper and deeper. Isn't it ridiculous to look for them along the river?

The nature of the stone is hard and heavy, the nature of the sand is loose and light, the water cannot wash away the stone, and its reaction force must be under the stone to hit the sand in front of the stone head-on to form a pit. The deeper and deeper it goes, halfway through it, the stone will fall into the pit. Hit like this, and the stone shifts again.

kept shifting, so instead went upstream. It is absurd to go downstream to look for stones; Wouldn't it be more ridiculous to look for them in their place? According to his words, the stone beast was found a few miles away.

There are many examples of things in the world that only know the superficial phenomena and do not know the deep meaning, can we make subjective assumptions?

Original: Stone Beast in the River.

Ji Yun Qing Dynasty

Cangzhou South One Temple is close to the river, the mountain gate is in the river, and the two stone beasts are sinking. Reading more than ten years old, the monk raised money to rebuild, and asked for two stone beasts in the water, but he couldn't get it, thinking that he would go down the river. Count the small boats, drag the iron and palladium, and find more than ten miles without a trace.

A lecturer set up a tent in the temple, and said with a smile: "You can't study physics." If it is not a wooden pestle, how can it be carried away for the skyrocket? It is stony and heavy, sand loose and floating, annihilated on the sand, gradually sinking deeper and deeper. Asking for it along the river, isn't it also upside down? Convincing is conclusive.

When an old river soldier heard this, he smiled and said: "If there is a stone lost in the river, you should ask for it upstream." Cover the stone is heavy, the sand is loose and floating, the water can not rush the stone, its countershock force, it will bite the sand at the water under the stone for the hole, gradually agitate and deepen, to the half of the stone, the stone will be thrown into the hole.

If it is bitten again, the stone will turn again. turned around, and then reversed the flow and went backwards. Seek the lower stream, solid upside; In the land of seeking, isn't it more upside down?

As he said, the fruit is several miles away. However, the things of the world, but if you know one of them, you don't know how many of the two are there, so you can make assumptions based on reason? (Turn around a work:

Translation: There is a temple near the river bank in the south of Cangzhou, and the gate of the temple collapsed in the river, and the two stone beasts in front of the gate also sank in the river. After more than ten years, the monks raised money to rebuild the temple, and searched for two stone beasts in the river, but they still did not find them, and the monks believed that the stone beasts had flowed downstream along the water.

So he rowed a few small boats, dragged the iron palladium, and searched for more than ten miles downstream, but found no trace of the stone beast.

When a lecturer who was teaching in a temple heard about this, he smiled and said, "You people cannot reason. This is not a piece of wood, how can it be carried away by a surging flood?

The stone is hard and heavy, the sediment is soft and floating, and the stone beast is buried in the sand, sinking deeper and deeper. Isn't it ridiculous to follow the river to find stone beasts? Everyone was convinced and thought it was the right statement.

When an old river soldier heard the lecturer's view, he smiled and said, "Whatever stone falls into the river, you should look for it in the upper reaches of the river." It is precisely because the nature of the stone is hard and heavy, and the nature of the sand is soft and frivolous, that the water cannot wash away the stone, and the force of the water recoil must erode the sand to form a pit in the place where the water meets the water below the stone, and the more agitated and deeper, when the pit extends to half of the bottom of the stone, the stone must be dumped in the pit.

If you wash it again like this, the stone will turn again. It keeps turning like this, so it goes upstream in the opposite direction against the current. It would have been absurd to go down the river in search of stone beasts; Wouldn't it seem even more ridiculous to look for them where the stone beasts sank?

As a result, he followed his words and searched for it, and sure enough, he found a stone beast a few miles upstream. In this case, there are many cases in the world where we only know the superficial phenomena and do not know the fundamental truth, so can we make subjective judgments based on a certain truth?