The phrase "three thousand weak waters, only take a dipper to drink" comes from the mouth of Jia Baoyu in the Dream of the Red Chamber. His original words are? Let the weak water three thousand, I only take a dipper drink.? This is the confession of love between him and Lin Daiyu, but also a kind of love commitment of Jia Baoyu to Lin Daiyu.
Weak water refers to the kind of turbulent river, the ancients believe that the river can not carry the boat are called weak water, but also use weak water to compare the difficult and distant rivers. Jia Baoyu's original meaning of this sentence is to say, although there are many rivers, but I only take a river inside the water to drink. In fact, the translation is: although there are many beautiful women in the Grand View Garden, but I like you Lin Daiyu alone.
Weak water is not in a fixed place, it refers to the river that has a strong current but can't carry a boat, and such rivers may be everywhere. Journey to the West, the Tang Monk has also said: eight hundred quicksand boundary , three thousand weak water depth. The Tang monk traveled all the way to the west, encountered a lot of difficulties and obstacles, so the Tang monk used three thousand weak water depth to compare the rapidity of the water where they went.
Then the weak water was gradually compared to the lake wave symbolizing love, the ancients felt that the weak water symbolizing love in Penglai, Penglai is now the island of Hainan. In fact, the ancients just used Penglai as a metaphor for the remoteness of the weak water, which is as beautiful and distant as love.
Nowadays, when people express their love, they often use the phrase "three thousand weak waters, only a dipper to drink" to describe their loyalty to love. Although the words are easy to say, but really do is another matter. Just like Jia Baoyu just finished Lin Daiyu asked him: ? Floating of the floating water to what? The surface meaning of this sentence is to ask, if your ladybird floats away with the current? In fact, it is saying, what if your mind is changed by someone else?
Jia Baoyu replied: ? Not the dipper floating water, the water flows, the dipper since the floating ear.? Translated, the ladybird is the ladybird and the water is the water, others are others, I am me. So Lin Daiyu said:? The water stops the pearl sinking, why? Translated that is, if I die? Jia Baoyu replied you are going to die, my heart is stained with mud willow floss can not fly up.