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The Eight Winds Cannot Move Me (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 71 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sounds like the Chinese variant of Diogenes at work, I'd love to hear more details - was this something that really happened or a clever tale constructed later? If those people were real, what else did they produce?

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Apparently the poet was "Su Dongpo" and the friend was "Fo yin" if you google the names together, this story comes up.

Super random but there is also apparently a dish named after the poet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongpo_pork

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Damn, this guy went super hard.

On the Birth of a Son

Families when a child is born

Hope it will turn out intelligent.

I, through intelligence

Having wrecked my whole life,

Only hope that the baby will prove

Ignorant and stupid.

Then he'll be happy all his days

And grow into a cabinet minister.

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

This made me laugh

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 5 points 2 days ago

Thanks, that should be enough for diving down a research rabbit hole!

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

All parables and proverbs are made up, with old characters added to give fake legitimacy.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Now you gonna tell me old man Yu didn't have his family raze down that mountain?

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 2 points 1 day ago

Very true - although I'd add an "almost", at least in a few cases, authentic letters - or for the modern era, recordings - can at least root the fundamentals in something that actually happened. (Although even then, whatever gets tossed around as a parable/proverb will be heavily embellished and/or stripped of context, of course).

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even star wars?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to lie if the text is yellow and scrolls from the bottom of the screen in 3D.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

my culture good, foreign culture bad

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Uhh wrong thread?

[–] Eldest_Malk@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Some hot air, I’d imagine.