hesitant

hesitant

Indecision comes from Zhao CE San, the Warring States policy: "the plain King hesitated but did not make a decision." "Book of Zhou · biography of he Ba Sheng" says: "today, we are hesitant to enter the army." It means hesitation and indecision. Later, people said the situation when they couldn't make up their minds was "no decision". "Indecision" is said to be based on the mispronunciation of "Niu Yu indecision".

Word information

Hesitation: hesitation. Decision: decision. I can't make up my mind. Zhao CE San, the policy of the Warring States States Period: "the emperor of the plain hesitated and did not make a decision." "Book of Zhou · biography of he Ba Sheng" says: "today, we are hesitant to enter the army." He is timid, indecisive and indecisive. He is decisive and resolute. When he decides how to deal with the matter, he becomes more and more important. he became very angry when he decided how to deal with the matter. Chapter 98 of the chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty: "the king of Xinling was afraid of Qin Dynasty and didn't want to accept Wei Qi. He also read that Yu Qing was congenial for a long time. He didn't want to refuse. He was in a dilemma and hesitated."

legend

In some Hubei dialects, "you" is said as "Niu" and "Yu" as "fish", because there is such a folk legend about "indecision". according to the story, Chinese characters are standardized by Confucius. His 3000 disciples are responsible for the transmission of standardized characters to the people. Confucius wrote and rowed day and night. Every time he wrote one, his disciples immediately spread it around the world. After three years and six months of hard work, Confucius did not know how many words he had written. Some people said that there were so many millet with three Dan and six Dou. He thought: the disciples have passed on so many words to me. Maybe they can distinguish the pronunciation according to the characters. So he wrote down the words "cow" and "fish", put them together and called out: "fish, cow" -- the disciples quickly took over the words. But this time it was written in two words. The teacher didn't say which is "cow" or "fish", which baffled the disciples. You pass it on to me, and I pass it on to you. No one can make up his mind. It's hard to ask the teacher again, so he had to recognize the word "fish" as "cow" and the word "cow" as "fish" according to the order in which he read it. I'm afraid I'm not sure. When these two words were spread to the people, the disciples always said, "the cattle and the fish will not decide."

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