Re: hakka: re: Hakkologists, please reply

[CHUNG Yoon-Ngan <chungyn@mozart.collective.com.au>]

>There is a famous fable that a man dropped his sword from 
>a moving boat and tried to mark the location on the boat. 
>Contemporary genetic studies of a current locales must have 
>to take in consideration of the historical perspective. 

>SL Lee

  Overlooked the changed situation.

  During the Spring and Autumn Period (722BC to 481BC) there 
lived a stupid and obstinate man in the State of Chu (present 
day Jiang Ling county in Hubei province). One day, he hired a 
boat to cross the river to the city on the opposite bank where 
he had an important matter to attend to. 

  When the boat was in the middle of the river, he accidentally 
dropped his sword into the river. With a small knife he immediately 
carved a mark on the broadside of the boat, thinking that would be the
spot where he would look for his sword when he got to the jetty on the
opposite bank. He thought that the water there would be much shallower 
and he would have no trouble retrieving the sword.

   When the boat arrived at the little jetty, he jumped into the water 
from the spot where he had made a mark on the broadside. He searched and
searched at lenght but he could not find his sword.

   The man did not realised that since the time he dropped his sword the
boat had moved away though the sword would have remained where it was. 
The moral is: do not be stupid and obstinate but be flexible and change
with changed circumstances. 

A Chinese fable story "Ke Zhou Qiu Jian".

CHUNG Yoon-Ngan.  chungyn@mozart.collective.com.au