I Want You To Show Me The Way | The Chinese Sayings Podcast

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

For our ninth offering of the season here's another golden oldie with a story that goes back almost 2,700 years to the time of the early Spring and Autumn Period. The story concerns the two major states of Qí and Yān and the two minor (and mostly forgotten) states of Lìngzhī and Gūzhú. Two major and extremely consequential characters from those times star in this story. These were Duke Huán of Qí and his advisor Guǎn Zhòng. They led their troops into the mountains on a punitive expedition and ended up getting hopelessly lost in the process. Fortunately, for all concerned, 老马识途 Lǎo Mǎ Shí Tú, and they were able to escape from their dilemma and live on to fight another day.

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1:27.0	from all the superstars of their day and locate our copy of the Han Fades
1:32.0	and take that one off the shelf to get the story behind these four characters.
1:38.0	But before we do that, let's see what these four characters actually mean.
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1:45.0	Yeah, this is another Chinese saying with a horse.
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