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The China History Podcast

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The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

We're back for the seventh time this season. This time we're happy to feature once again the great Daoist philosopher who never disappoints. This story about the fish in a rut is a rather well-known one from the Outer Chapters of The Zhuangzi, or Second Book of the Dao as it's sometimes called. Zhuangzi himself stars in today's episode: Hé Zhé Zhī Fù 涸辙之鲋. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Greetings once again, all lovers of Chinese sayings,

0:02.9

Laosal Montgomery here with another good chung-yu.

0:05.7

This one's another short one, but comes from Chwang-zu,

0:08.9

which more than makes up for the brevity.

0:11.3

He's been featured in more than a couple episodes

0:14.1

going back to season one.

0:15.8

Today, we look at the story behind Khmerjur Fu.

0:20.1

This one's kind of related to Fu Dioyu

0:23.0

from season four, episode 10, I'll explain later.

0:26.7

So let's run through the four characters,

0:28.4

Khmerjur Fu.

0:30.7

Khmer means dry or to dry up.

0:33.6

And a juh is a kind of rut that is created by tracks

0:38.3

made by wheels or carts or other vehicles

0:41.2

that apply the roads.

0:43.5

And a juh, once again, a character that's used

0:46.8

in between an attribute and the word it modifies.

0:50.5

And the word it's modifying here is a fu,

0:53.7

which means a carp.

0:55.5

Literal meaning, a dry, rut, carp.

0:59.8

Not that revealing of a clue as to what

1:03.1

these four characters mean, but let's find out, shall we?

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