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, "H uangdi 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