The fetters are ancient instruments of torture in China, similar to modern handcuffs and fetters. It means to bind and suppress.
From-Liezi Zhou Muwang in the Warring States Period.
Original: Zheng people are paid in the wild. If they meet a deer, they will be attacked and killed. I was afraid that others would see me, so I hid it in a shovel and covered it with bananas. I forgot what I had hidden and thought it was a dream, so I read it along. Those who are close to others and have heard of them, bring them in their words.
When he came back, he told his wife, "I dreamed of a deer, but I don't know where it is." If I get it now, it is a real dream. " The chamberlain said, "What if it is deer evil that dreams of wage earners? Is it evil to be paid? If you really get a deer today, is the dream really evil? " The husband said, "I know that deer. Why do I have to know it and dream of evil?" People who earn money will never get tired of losing their deer. The place where he hides his dreams at night is also the master of dreams.
There is a man in Zheng who is chopping wood in the wild. When he met a frightened deer, he went up and killed it. Afraid of being seen, he hurriedly hid the deer in a pond without water and covered it with broken wood. He is very happy. After a while, he forgot the place where he hid the deer, thinking that he had just had a dream and kept talking all the way.
A man on the roadside heard about it and took the deer away according to his words. When I got back, I told my wife, "Just now, a woodcutter dreamed that he had got a deer, and he didn't know where it was. Now I have it. His dream is almost the same as the real one. "
The wife said, "Did you dream that the woodcutter got the deer? Is there really that woodcutter? Now that you have really got the deer, has your dream come true? " The husband said, "I really got the deer." Where is it necessary to find out whether he is dreaming or I am dreaming? " When the woodcutter came back, he didn't want to lose the deer. At night, I really dream about the place where the deer is hidden, and the person who can get the deer. Later generations regard dreams as deer, death and shackles, which mostly indicate that the world is like a dream.
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Contemporary Yin Qian's prose Heart Sutra: "In our era of lost values, lack of faith and cross-flow of human desires, we need a positive and powerful literary work more than ever before-although it also writes about darkness, it never forgets to take light as the background; Although it is also ugly, it has always been dominated by beauty;
It not only helps people to get rid of the savage abyss and the fetters of animal nature, but also can influence other people's lifestyles in a positive way and teach people the meaning of dignity, nobility, elegance and ethics, instead of confusing people to indulge in indifferent cruelty and selfish moral indulgence, let alone conniving people to sell their souls and dignity in pursuit of material desires;
It always expresses people's blessings to the world with tenderness and kindness, never curses life, never denies morality, never evades loftiness, never belittles human dignity, and never regards love as a' deceptive trick'. But to be able to give deep and strong love to all people and things worthy of love along a reliable and stable moral foundation, no matter what hardships and misfortunes they suffer. "