Jokes

 ( 10. Deducting By Fools )

PREFACE:

As we know, "Huangdi Nei Jing"  is a good ancient 

book of our TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) , 

although there are inaccurate statements in it indeed. 

For example, "Huangdi Nei Jing" said that the human 

body has 365 bones.

Some pseudo scholars caught this mistake and cut  

capers excitedly, and even more ,  they want to take 

this mistake as a reason to completely deny our 

"Huangdi Nei Jing".

It's really too picky!

Actually, "Huangdi Nei Jing"  was written more than

2000  years ago, so it is inevitable that some statistical

data are  biased, and we should not be too strict with

the ancients.

Moreover, the value of "Huangdi Nei Jing"is to explain 

the principles of TCM , not  specific statistical data.

Therefore, there is no reason to completely deny the

main principles of our TCM in"Huangdi Nei Jing" just

because a statistic is biased

Perhaps we can make up a joke to pull these pseudo

scholars’legs:

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Deducting By fools

The two fools were boasting that they are experts in

the study of "The Dream of Red Mansion".

One said:

"I find that the author of "The Dream of Red Mansion"

is not Cao Xueqin after many years of research , 

because Cao Xueqin never knew how many words

in this novel."

Another fool thought it was reasonable, and then 

asked:

Since you have studied "The Dream of Red Mansion"

for many years, let me ask you: 

How many times does the word "Red" appear in this

novel ?

So the two fools found a new "research topic", and 

they could  "research" together for several years again !

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In fact , this kind of word game is  a kind of gossip, 

and essentially is ignorant, unreasonable, and coax!

We don't need to be confused by it , otherwise, we 

may be conqued by it.

------------- Written on September 27, 2022