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中国哲学书电子化计划
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The human hair and beard, and the different colours of things, when young and old, afford another cue.
When a plant comes out, it has a green colour,
when it ripens, it looks yellow.
As long as man is young, his hair is black,
when he grows old, it turns white.
Yellow is the sign of maturity,
white of old age.
After a plant has become yellow,
it may be watered and tended ever so much,
it does not become green again.
When the hair has turned white,
no eating of drugs nor any care bestowed upon one's nature can make it black again.
Black and green do not come back, how could age and decrepitude be laid aside?
Yellow and white are like the frying of raw meat, and the cooking of fresh fish.
What has been fried, cannot be caused to become raw again,
and what has been cooked, to become fresh.
Fresh and raw correspond to young and strong, fried and cooked, to weak and old.
Heaven in developing things
使 can keep them vigorous up till autumn,
but not further on till next spring.
By swallowing drugs and nourishing one's nature
one may get rid of sickness,
寿but one cannot prolong one's life, and become an immortal.
Immortals have a light body and strong vital energy,
and yet they cannot rise to heaven.
Light and strong though they be,
they are not provided with feathers and wings,
and therefore not able to ascend to heaven.


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