Later in ancient literature, weak water was gradually used to refer to dangerous and distant rivers. One of the more famous is a line in Su Shi's "Jinshan Miaogao Terrace", which reads: "Penglai is inaccessible, but the weak water is 30,000 miles away". It can be said that this is the first time that weak water is used in conjunction with a specific number. In the Song Dynasty, Zhang Xiaoxiang's 'Water Dragon Song - Looking at Mount Jiuhua' also contains the line: 'The misty pearl buildings are fool-proof, looking at Penglai, there is no weak water in the beginning'. In other poems, the line about weak water is rarely seen, but later novels use it a bit more.
The twenty-second Journey to the West, when Tang Sanzang collects the Sand Monk, there is a poem describing the danger of the Quicksand River: 800 quicksand boundaries, 3,000 weak water depths, goose feather floating can not afford to set the bottom of the reeds to sink. This is the first formal reference to the three thousand weak waters. Mr. Lu Xun said in his "Supplement to Gleanings from Outer Collections. A Brief Introduction to the Geology of China", he said, "Although the weak water is surrounded by four, isolated and alone, how will it be?
"Dream of Red Mansions" ninety-one "vertical lustful heart Bao toad worker design cloth suspicion Bao Yu delusion talk Zen" in a Bao Dai dialog, now recorded as follows: Dai Yu said: "Bao sister and how are you good you how? Sister Bao is not good with you, how are you? Sister Bao before and hello, now not and hello how are you? I've been with you for a while, but now I'm not with you, so how are you? What if he doesn't want to be with you when you are with him? You don't want to be good to him, but he wants to be good to you, so what about you?" Baoyu stayed for a long time, suddenly laughed and said: "Any weak water three thousand, I only take a dipper drink." Daiyu said: "ladybird's dipper of floating water how?" Baoyu said: "non-dipper floating water, water from the flow, the dipper from the floating ear!" Daiyu said: "The water stops the pearl sinking, why?" Baoyu said: "Zen heart has been made of mud flotsam, do not dance partridge to the spring breeze." Daiyu said: "The first commandment of Zen is not to deceive." Baoyu said, "There are like the three treasures."
On the weak water, "Dream of Red Mansions" twenty-fifth also mentioned: that Taoist and how it looks: a foot high to a foot low, all with water and drag mud. If we meet and ask where our home is, it is in the west of the weak waters of Penglai. The word "distant" is also used in this context.
Then later, many men and women to express their feelings for each other with the weak water three thousand only to take a scoop of the condescension. Modern poet Su Manshu's "Broken Hairpin Chronicle", which has a dialogue: Yu said: then two beautiful and love it. ** (can not type out) sighed again: you think 'three thousand weak water' meaning, when I know my heart. And asked: Ran Jun intention belongs to who first? Yu said: Shufang.
By now, there are many references to the three thousand weak waters. Many martial arts novels often mentioned, such as, every time the male hero met a large group of beautiful girls, will say to them: weak water three thousand, I only take a dipper drink. In fact, it is not!
I take "only a dipper of water" just want to make their "peace and quiet" only.