The content of the article depicts the conversation between Chu Yuan and a fisherman. Both give different opinions over value as well as whether to persist or compromise as they face the conflicts between reality and idea. After being exiled, Chu Yuan traveled along rivers and lakes. While walking along a river and sighing, looking pale, sick and worried, a fisherman saw him and asked him “Aren’t you the senior officer of San-Liu! Why are you wandering about here? ”everyone in this world is corrupted, only I’m clean; everyone is drunk, yet I’m sober, and that’s why I was exiled.” replied Chu Yuan“A man with virtue and brilliance will not insist on external objects, he will make changes according to the timing. So if the whole world is corrupted why don’t you go along with it? When everyone is drunk why do you join them? Why do you have to think so profoundly and act so high above? That only leads you to the result of banishment.” said the fisherman. Chu Yuan replied, “I heard that one will clean hat up before putting it on after shampooing; one will shake dirt off clothes before putting it on after taking a bath. How could one put up with the dirt remaining on a clean body? I’d rather jump into the Hsiang River and turn into a meal for fish; how can one bear the dusts and ashes of the world with his unblemished integrity?”The fisherman smiled, stroke the board and was ready to leave. “if the waving water is clear I use it to wash the strings of my hat; if it’s contaminated I use it to wash my feet!” said he. Then, he stopped talking to Chu Yuan and left. |
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