What does "weak water" mean? Why is it called "weak water"?

1. "I will only take a dipper of the three thousand weak waters!" From the ninety-first chapter of Dream of Red Mansions, "The design of the Bao Toad, the Bao Yu's delusional Zen". 2. "Weak Water" First appeared in "Shangshu - Yugong": "Guide the weak water to Haili." Sun Xingyan, "Shangshu, modern and ancient text notes": "Zheng Kangcheng said: 'weak water out of Zhangye.'" According to the ancient texts, the weak water is also found in the "Shiji - Dawan biography", "Han Shu - Geography", "Later Han Shu - East Barbarians biography" and Bi Yuan note "Classic of the Mountains and the Sea" and so on. "Three Thousand" refers to the three thousand worlds of Buddhism, and the Tiantai Sect is good at saying that there are three thousand thoughts in a single thought. "Drinking with a spoonful of water" can be found in the Analects of Confucius: "The Analects of Confucius: Yongya", in which Zi said, "You are virtuous! I'll be back. A cup of food and a dipper of water in the ugly alley. Even when people are not happy, they do not change their joy. I'm very wise! Back also." 3. In ancient times, many shallow and fast rivers could not be crossed by boats but only by rafts. The ancients believed that the water was too weak to carry boats and therefore called such rivers weak water. Therefore, in ancient books such as the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Ten Continents" and so on, recorded a lot of not the same river but the same name of the weak water. Shanhaijing in the north of Kunlun water can not win the force of mustard, so the name of the weak water is said to be the meaning of this. Some of the title passed down to the present is still in use, such as Gansu Province now on the map there is a weak water river. Weak water is also used to specifically refer to the northwestern Brahmaputra River or the Black Water River, but of course it is limited to specific geographic writings. Later in ancient literature, the term "weak water" was gradually used to refer to dangerous and distant rivers. One of the most famous is the line in Su Shi's "Jinshan Miaogaotai": "Penglai is inaccessible, but the weak water is 30,000 miles away". This is the first time that weak water is used in conjunction with a specific number. Zhang Xiaoxiang's Shui Long Yin - Looking at Mount Jiuhua also contains the line 'The misty beads and buildings of Yugwei, looking at Penglai, no weak water at first'. In other poems, the line about weak water is rarely seen. On the contrary, it is more commonly used in later novels. In the twenty-second chapter of Journey to the West, when Tang Sanzang collects the Sand Monk, there is a poem that describes the danger of the Liusha River: eight hundred quicksand boundaries, three thousand weak waters, goose feathers can't float down, and reeds are set to sink to the bottom. 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 Chinese Geology", he said, "Although the weak water is surrounded by four, isolated and alone, how will it... The Dream of the Red Chamber" is also mentioned in the twenty-fifth time: that Taoist and how it looks like: a foot high to a foot low, full of water and dragging mud. If we meet and ask where our home is, it is west of the weak waters of Penglai. Here it also means far away. Later on, the weak water was extended to mean the river of love and the sea of love. This is the meaning of the weak water of three thousand by our mouth now. The first formalized in the "Dream of Red Mansions" ninety-one vertical lustful heart treasure toad worker design cloth suspicion array treasure jade delusion talk Zen: Daiyu Road: "Sister Bao and you good how are you? The first time I saw you, I was so happy to see you, I was so happy to see you, I was so happy to see you. Sister Bao before and hello, now not and hello how are you? Today and hello, and later not and hello how are you? What if he doesn't want to be with you? You don't want to be good to him, but he wants to be good to you, what about you?" Baoyu stayed for a long time, suddenly laughed and said: "Let the 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 ladybird from floating ear!" Daiyu said: "The water stops the pearl sinking, how?" 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." Bao Yu said: "There are as three treasures." From then on, men and women swear to start with the weak water three thousand only to take a scoop of the set of words. Slightly lesser known is the modern poet Su Manushu's "broken hairpin record", which has a dialogue: Yu said: then two beautiful and love it. ** (the computer does not have this two secluded characters and replaced with symbols) sighed again: Jun think 'three thousand weak water' intention, when I know my heart. And asked: Ran Jun intention belongs to who first? Yu said: Shufang. As for now, the reference to three thousand weak water abounds. Gu Long and Jin Yong's novels mentioned no less than dozens of times, every handsome and dashing male hero was a large group of springtime beauty harassment pursuit, he will say to the heroine: weak water three thousand, I only take a dipper drink. Don't worry, and then the male hero blossoms into spring after spring. Qiong Yao and Yishu's lovebirds and butterfly novels on a lot of in order to originally is very a little blood oath for the solemnity into the star of the mouth I love you as ridiculous and foolish.