Water can carry a boat, and water can capsize it. It is a metaphor that the people can support the monarch, or they can overthrow the monarch. The king is like a boat, and the people are like water. Water can make the boat sail, or it can drown it. From "Xunzi King System": "It is said: 'The king is the boat, and the common people are the water. The water carries the boat, and the water overturns the boat.' This is what is called."
Water carries it. This sentence was said by Xunzi. The original text can be found in "Xunzi. Duke Ai".
Duke Ai of Lu asked Confucius: "I was born in a deep palace and grew up with a woman. Hands, I have never known sorrow or sorrow
Ye, I have not known fatigue, I have not known fear, I have not known danger." Confucius said: "The question of the king is the question of the sage. Ye, Qiu, Xiao
People, how can they know it?" He said: "It's not that my son has heard nothing about it." Confucius said: "You enter the temple gate and go to the right, climb up the stairs,
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Looking up at the building, you can see several banquets, the utensils are still there, and the people are dead. You feel sad for this, but the mourning general will not come? You are ignorant and happy, but you are crowned,
When you listen to the court in peacetime, nothing will respond to it. This is the beginning of chaos. If you worry about it, you will worry about the generals who will not come. When you listen to the court in peacetime, the sun will fall
and retreat, and the princes will Your descendants must be in your final court. If you think about your work, your general will not be able to do it. You will go out of the four gates of Lu to look at the four suburbs of Lu. If the country is destroyed, there will be countless obstacles. Yan, if you are afraid of this, will you be afraid of the general and not come? And Qiu heard that, the king is a boat
; the common people are water. The water carries the boat, and the water overturns it. Boat, if you think of danger by this, will the danger never come?"