A crow was cawing in a tree.
The son used a stone to strike it. The father said: "Why did you strike it?" The son said: "People say: The cry of the magpie is lucky, the cry of the crow is unlucky. This crier was indeed a crow. Therefore I struck it." The father said: "The wisdom of men is greater than the wisdom of birds. [Yet] men cannot know good from evil. [So] how could a bird know thus?" |
鴉鳴於樹上。
兒以石擊之。 父曰:"何以擊鴉?" 兒曰:"人言:鵲之鳴吉, 鴉之鳴凶。 今鳴者,鴉也。 以故擊之。" 父曰:"人之智高於鳥之智。 人不能知吉凶。 鳥何以能知之?" |
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