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 our 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.

So, what they had done is essentially cajoling 

and to make troubles for our TCM !

But perhaps we can make up a joke to pull 

those pseudo scholars' legs.

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Deducting By Fools

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Once upon a time, there were two fools who were 

boasting that they are experts in the study of

"The Dream of Red Mansion ".

One said:

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 

he asked:

" Since you have studied "The Dream of Red 

Mansion" for many years, now, 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 

deception and its essence 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