Chinanews.com, November 2 "Boiling beans burns bean dichotoma, and beans are weeping in the cauldron. They grew up from the same root, so why not fry them in a hurry."
On November 2nd, Beijing time, Musk, the world's richest man and Tesla CEO, suddenly released this "Seven Step Poem" written by Wei poet Cao Zhi during the Three Kingdoms period. It was still in Chinese.
Image source: Screenshot of Musk's Weibo.
When this ancient poem that we are familiar with suddenly appeared on Musk's social account page, not only Chinese netizens were stunned, but also foreign netizens were stunned.
The "first generation version" of this poem comes from "Shi Shuo Xin Yu":
The boiled beans hold for soup, and the glutinous rice is the juice.
The dichotoma ran under the kettle, and the bean sobbed in the kettle.
He grew up from the same root, why is it too anxious?
In Song Dynasty's "Man Sou Shi Hua", the poem was changed to four sentences, which is also the version used by Luo Guanzhong, the author of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms":
Boiled beans, burned beans, 萁,
Bean sobbed in the cauldron.
Originally grown from the same root,
Why is it so urgent?
Musk posted this poem more than 1,000 years ago, allowing Chinese and foreign netizens to start the "mystery solving" mode.
Some people say that it is the "after-playing" of the game; some people say that it is about virtual currency; some people say that Musk was "forced to donate" by the United Nations, and there is also a (Hu) Ben (Said) Zheng (Eight) Classic (Dao) ) Introduction, saying that this is a recipe for cooking beans.
Data map: Musk.
More lively operations are yet to come.
Seeing Musk’s Weibo dynamics, many Chinese netizens have paid out of their pockets to give rewards, to be the "poet" Musk’s "tap water", to cheer for him, and even create the hashtag #打赏MASK is kind What experience#, #買親the world’s richest man is what kind of experience#, etc.
As of the editor’s press time, the number of rewards has increased to 2,812.
Image source: screenshots of netizens on Weibo.
In addition to the pretense of being "richer" than the richest man in the world, netizens may even want to know that this ancient Chinese poem that is believed to describe the brothers "brothers" in a historical environment is deliberately posted on multiple platforms. , What exactly does Musk want to express?
Several popular speculations are as follows:
Guess one
Responding to the donation incident: "I was scared to speak Chinese by the United Nations"
Recently, Musk, who is worth nearly 300 billion U.S. dollars and whose wealth is still growing, has been called for donations.
Some netizens ridicule, it turns out that the "forcing donation" is something that foreign wealthy people can't escape!
Image source: screenshots of netizens' social media.
On the one hand, the US media broke the news that the US Democrats intend to levy a "billionaire income tax", and that 10 of the top rich Americans such as Musk and Bezos may have to pay huge taxes for this reason.
Among them, Musk will pay $50 billion in taxes in the first five years.
Image source: screenshots of netizens' social media.
On the other hand, the head of the United Nations World Food Program publicly named, saying that as long as Musk donates 2% of the total income, about 6 billion US dollars, it can help solve the global hunger problem.
Image source: Screenshot of Musk's social media.
In this regard, not long ago, Musk responded on Twitter and Weibo.
He said: "If the World Food Program (WFP) can accurately explain how more than 6 billion US dollars will solve the global famine problem, I will immediately sell Tesla's stock and then donate."
It's no wonder that many netizens linked Musk's release of "Seven Steps" with "forcing donations", and even joked, "I was scared to speak Chinese by the United Nations?"
Guess two
Virtual currency:
"Cooking doge to burn doge dichotoma"
Some netizens also said that Musk is alluding to Dogecoin and Shiba that have been hotly speculated recently.
Image source: screenshots of netizens' social media.
Recently, under the skyrocketing market value of Dogecoin, Shiba Dogcoin, which is ridiculed as an "altcoin" by the outside world, has also been enthusiastically sought after by the currency circle.
Its market capitalization once exceeded the former.
Data map: A woman holding her pet dog.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Guanguan
On the 1st, Musk said on social networking sites that he intends to build a university in Texas, the United States, and the university’s tuition will accept Dogecoin. What is more striking is that if it is a dog owner People, enrollment can also enjoy discounts.
Musk's remarks helped boost the price of Dogecoin.
There should be a doge expression here, but for some reasons, I can only write a "dog head" by hand...
Guess three
Don’t over-interpret the game "after-play"...
Image source: screenshots of netizens' social media.
Others believe that the "Humankind" mentioned by Musk is a strategy game based on the historical development of human civilization, and the richest man does not have so many "explicit hints" and is probably just simply expressing "playing". "Aftermath", please don't over-interpret it!
Guess four
Share recipes? Just outrageous
Some foreign netizens believe that Musk is sharing a recipe related to beans through the translation of the built-in function of Twitter.
Of course, as a Chinese netizen who is familiar with this poem, the recipe is quite outrageous.
Image source: screenshots of netizens' social media.
What exactly does Musk's move mean?
At present, there is still no conclusion.
However, some media have noticed that Tesla's US stocks closed up more than 8% on Monday, and its market value exceeded the $1.2 trillion mark.
Some people sigh: You are indeed a poet in our country. They have been more than 1,000 years old, and they can give a blessing to Musk's "cultural people".
For this reason, some netizens joked, "Tesla's market value has increased greatly, and Iron Man has become literate."
Data map: Musk.
Some netizens believe that the world's richest man is proud of "showing Chinese", which once again proves that "the whole world is learning Chinese", and also allows more people to understand the cultural charm of the profound Chinese language.
Finally, the editor posted the translation of this poem by Mr. Xu Yuanchong, a famous Chinese translator, for the reference of foreign netizens:
"Seven Steps"
Written While Taking Seven Paces
Boiled beans, burned beans, 萁,
Pods burned to cook peas,
Bean sobbed in the cauldron.
Peas weep in the pot:
Originally grown from the same root,
“Grown from same root, please,
Why is it too anxious?
Why boil us so hot?”