Re: hakka: re: Hakkologists, please reply

["John Guo" <hakka98@hotmail.com>]

I thought the morale of the story is that the  man only 
concentrate on  the boat, not the sea.


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>From: CHUNG Yoon-Ngan <chungyn@mozart.collective.com.au>
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>>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. 
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>>SL Lee
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>  Overlooked the changed situation.
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>  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. 
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>  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.
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>   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 
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>searched at lenght but he could not find his sword.
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>   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. 
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>A Chinese fable story "Ke Zhou Qiu Jian".
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>CHUNG Yoon-Ngan.  chungyn@mozart.collective.com.au        
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