Each mould can produce 64 copper coins.(板板六十四)
China has a very long history, and its
characters are the only highly developed morphological writing system in the
world. The history of Chinese characters can be traced back to around 2500 BC.
They evolved through oracle bone inscriptions from the Shang dynasty, seal
script from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and official
script from the Han dynasty. They then developed into regular, running, and
cursive scripts during the Jin dynasty.
Most educated Chinese people today can
easily understand Chinese characters written thousands of years ago.
Chinese historians studying the history of
various dynasties can systematically search ancient texts for information on
different aspects of ancient Chinese economy and culture.
During the Qing dynasty, the scholar Zhai
Hao collected over 5,000 proverbs from across China and compiled them into a
book, documenting their uses and origins.
One of the proverbs in this book is as
follows: Each mould could produce sixty-four copper coins. This proverb
originates from the fact that each official copper coin mould could produce
sixty-four coins.
If someone produced sixty-five coins using
this mould, it would be reasonable to assume that one of those coins had been
secretly minted.
Based on this saying, some places refer to
someone as 'sixty-five' to imply that they are a dishonest thief.
Another scholar named Fan Yin compiled a
similar book which also records this proverb.
This proverb was used in several provinces
along the lower Yangtze River in present-day China, near the coast.
To describe someone as extremely rigid and
inflexible, people in these provinces would say that they were like a mould
that could only produce sixty-four coins.
This idiom literally means that each mould
can produce sixty-four coins.
It is often used to describe someone who is
extremely rigid and inflexible.
Dear friends, what insights or thoughts
have you gained from this story?
How would you describe someone with a very
rigid approach? Are there any interesting proverbs in your country?
I hope this story yields some new insights
for you.
板板六十四(Each mould can produce 64 copper
coins.)
中國的歷史非常悠久，中國人所使用的漢字是世界歷史上唯一被高度發展的語素文字。漢字的歷史最早可追溯至約公元前2500年，經過商王朝的甲骨文與春秋時代和戰國時代的篆文，漢王朝時期的隸書，晉王朝時代演變出楷書與行書和草書。
每個生活在當代的中國人，只要受過教育，大部分的人都可以輕鬆的看懂數千年前的中國人所寫的漢字。
中國的歷史學者在研究各個朝代的歷史時，可以很有系統地從古籍中去尋找中國古代的各個朝代的經濟與文化等各方面的資料。
中國的清王朝有兩個著名的學者，其中一個學者的名字叫做(翟灝)，他蒐集了中國各地多達5000多句的諺語匯編成一本書，在這本書中他記錄下了這些諺語的用處與出處。
這本書中有一句諺語。每塊板模可以做出六十四個銅幣。
這句諺語的來源是因為官方在鑄造銅幣的時候所用的每塊板模可以做出六十四個銅幣。
假設有一個人，他用這塊板模做出六十五個，那麼可以確定的是，這個人所做的六十五個銅幣中，一定有一個銅幣是偷偷鑄造的。
根據這句話衍伸出來，有些地方在暗指一個人是一個不正派的偷東西的人的時候，會以六十五來稱呼這個人。
另外一個學者的名字叫做(范寅)，他也編了一本類似的書。
在這本書中同樣也記錄了這句諺語。
范寅所記錄下的這句諺語的使用地區大約在現在中國的長江下游靠近海邊的幾個省分。
這幾個省份的人們要形容一個人做事非常的僵化且缺乏彈性，他們就會說這個人就像是一塊只可以做出六十四個銅幣的板模一樣。
這句成語直接翻譯的意思是每塊板模可以做出六十四個銅幣。
這句成語通常被用來形容一個人做事非常的僵化且缺乏彈性。
親愛的朋友，你聽完這個故事有怎樣的啟發或有怎樣的想法呢。
你會怎樣形容一個做事非常僵化的人呢?你的國家中有那些有意思的諺語呢?
我期待這故事能讓你產生一些新的收穫。
出處為清-翟灝-通俗編-卷32-數目
https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%80%9A%E4%BF%97%E7%B7%A8/32
出處為清-范寅-越諺·數目之諺-第十
