What does "weak water is 3 thousand, I only take one spoon" mean? Where did it come from?

Weak water is 3 thousand, just take a ladle to drink. Jia Baoyu: I only take a scoop of water, even if it is light. There are many ditches in the river, so I only drink a spoonful of water. Although there are countless beautiful women in the Grand View Garden, I only like you.

The ancients thought that many shallow rivers could only cross the border by raft, but not by boat, because the water was too weak to carry ships, so such rivers were called weak water. Therefore, many weak waters with the same name but different rivers are recorded in ancient books such as Shan Hai Jing and Ten Kingdoms. There is water in the north of Kunlun Mountain, which is recorded in Shanhaijing, but it can't beat mustard seed. That's what weak water means

Some appellations are still in use today, such as a weak river on the map of Gansu Province. Weak water is also used to refer to the Poyi River or Heishui River in the northwest, and of course it is limited to specific geographical works. In later ancient literature, weak water was gradually used to refer to dangerous and distant rivers. There is a famous saying in Su Shi's "Jinshan Miaogaotai": Penglai is unreachable and Wan Li is weak. It can be said that this is the first time that weak water has used specific figures. There is also a saying in Zhang Xiaoxiang's Song Dynasty's Poem "Looking at Jiuhua Mountain":' There is no weak water at the beginning when you look at Penglai. Weak sentences are rare in other poems, but they are used more in later novels. ?

The Journey to the West returned to Tang Sanzang for the 22nd time to collect sand, and wrote a poem describing the danger of the quicksand river: 800 quicksand boundary, 3,000 weak water depth, goose feathers can't float, and reed flowers will sink to the bottom. This is the first formal formulation of weak water three thousand. In his Introduction to Geology in China, Mr. Lu Xun said: Although it is surrounded by weak water, it is isolated from the world. In the ninety-first episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, there was a conversation between Bao and Dai, which was recorded as follows: "Hello, Sister Bao, how are you?" Sister Bao doesn't like you How are you? Sister Bao was good to you the day before yesterday, but now she is not good to you. How are you?

Hello today, but not after. How are you? You are good to him, but he is not good to you. How are you if you don't get along with him, he insists on getting along with you. How are you? "Baoyu stayed for a long time and suddenly smiled." I'll just take a ladle of water. Daiyu said, "The ladle floats on the water. What should I do?" ? Baoyu said, "If you don't float in water, the water will float by itself. Daiyu said, "What shall we do if the water stops the pearl from sinking?" ? Baoyu said, "The Zen mind has been stained with mud, so I won't dance partridge to get rid of the spring breeze. "。 Daiyu said, "The first commandment of Zen is not to curse." .

Baoyu said, "It's like three treasures. "。 "As for weak water, the twenty-fifth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions also mentioned: What does that Taoist look like? One foot high and one foot low, covered in water. When we met, we asked where our home was, but it was in the weak water west of Penglai. There is also a distant meaning here. Later, many men and women expressed their feelings with the cliche of drinking only one spoonful of weak water. There is a dialogue in the modern poet Su's Broken Chai: Yu Yue: However, two beauties love each other.