It was first seen in "Shangshu Yu Gong": "Guide the weak water to Heli." "Sun Xingyan's "Annotations on the Ancient Texts of Shangshu and Modern Texts": "Zheng Kangcheng said: 'Weak water comes out of Zhangye. According to the ancient books, weak water is also found in the "Historical Records of Dawan Biography", "Hanshu Geographical Chronicles", "Later Han Shu" and Bi Yuan

Note: "Classic of Mountains and Seas", etc.

"Three thousand" covers the three thousand worlds of Buddhism, and the Tiantai sect has three thousand good words.

"A scoop of drink" is found in "The Analects of Yongye": Zi said: "Virtuous! A spoonful of food, a scoop of drink, in the alley. People can't bear their worries, and they won't change their pleasures. Virtuous! ”

It is said that "weak water" is the weakest thing in the world, and even goose feathers can't afford it.

Weak water and green water come out of the northwest corner, to the east, to the north, and to the southwest, and to the east of the bird.

-- The first solution of the Western Volume of the Sea is "3,000 weak waters, only one scoop is taken." ”

The more understandable meaning is a lot of water, just a small part of it. By extension, for love, there is only one woman among many women. The meaning of "weak water" is not very clear, but the whole sentence is to be dedicated to love.

1, "Let the weak water be 3,000, I will only take one scoop to drink!" from the ninety-first chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions", "Vertical Yin Heart Bao Toad Gong Design, Bu Suspicious Array Baoyu Talks about Zen".

2. "Weak water" was first seen in "Shangshu-Yugong": "Guide weak water to Heli." "Sun Xingyan's "Annotations on the Ancient Texts of Shangshu and Modern Texts": "Zheng Kangcheng said: 'Weak water comes out of Zhangye. According to the ancient books, weak water can also be found in the "Historical Records - Dawan Biography", "Hanshu - Geographical Chronicles", "Later Han Shu - Dongyi Biography" and Bi Yuan's annotation "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and so on. "Three thousand": Cover from the three thousand worlds of Buddhism, Tiantai Sect good words and three thousand. "A scoop of drink": seen in "Analects - Yongye": Zi said: "Virtuous! A spoonful of food, a scoop of drink, in the alley. People can't bear their worries, and they won't change their pleasures. Virtuous! ”

3. In ancient times, many shallow and turbulent rivers could not be used by boats but could only be transitioned by rafts, and the ancients believed that they could not carry boats because of the weak water, so they called such rivers weak water. Therefore, in ancient books such as "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "The Records of the Ten Continents", many weak waters with the same name are not recorded in the same river. There is water in the north of Kunlun in the mountains and seas, and its strength cannot defeat mustard, so the name weak water is said to mean this. Some of these terms are still in use today, such as the weak river on the map of Gansu Province. Weak water is also used to refer specifically to the Poyi River or Heishui River in the northwest, and of course is limited to specific geographical works. Later ancient literature gradually used weak water to refer to dangerous and distant rivers. The more famous is Su Shi's "Jinshan Myokotai" There is a sentence: Penglai is unreachable, and the weak water is 30,000 miles. This is the first time that weak water has been used in conjunction with a specific number.

Zhang Xiaoxiang's "Water Dragon Yin - Looking at Jiuhua Mountain" also has a sentence "Ethereal beads and foolish guards, looking at Penglai, there is no weak water at the beginning". In other poems, there are few sentences with weak water. On the contrary, it is more common in later novels.

In the twenty-second episode of "Journey to the West", when Tang Sanzang collected sand monks, there was a poem describing the danger of the quicksand river: 800 quicksand realms, 3,000 weak water depths, goose feathers could not float, and the reeds sank at the bottom. This is the first official mention of the weak water three thousand. Mr. Lu Xun said in his "Supplement to the Collection of Extra-Collected Relics - A Brief Treatise on the Geology of China": Although the weak water is surrounded by isolated and unique, how will it ...... also mentioned in the twenty-fifth chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions": "What kind of person is that person: one foot is high and the other foot is low, covered in water and mud." If you meet and ask where your home is, you are in the west of Penglai. ”

It also means distant.

Later, the weak water was extended to love the river and the sea. This is the meaning of the weak water of three thousand in our mouth now. For the first time, it was officially proposed in the ninety-first chapter of "A Dream of Red Mansions", and Bao Yu was able to design a suspicious array of Bao Yu to talk about Zen: Dai Yu said: "Sister Bao and hello, how are you? Sister Bao is not with you, how about you? Sister Bao was good with you before, but now she is not with you, how about you? Today, but then you are not with you, how about you? You are good with him, he is not good with you, how about you? If you are not good with him, he wants to be good with you, how about you?" Baoyu was stunned for a long time, and suddenly laughed: "Let the weak water be three thousand, I will only take one scoop to drink." Daiyu said: "What can I do about the scoop of drifting?" Baoyu said: "Non-scoop drifting, the water is artesian, and the scoop is self-drifting!" Daiyu said: "The water stops the pearl from sinking, what can I do?" Baoyu said: "The Zen heart has been stained with mud, don't dance partridges to the spring breeze." ”

Daiyu said: "The first precept of Zen is not to speak. Baoyu said: "It's like three treasures." From then on, men and women swore an oath and began to use the cliché of taking only one scoop of three thousand weak water.

Slightly less well-known is the modern poet Su Manshu's "The Story of the Broken Hairpin", which has a dialogue: Yu said: However, the two are beautiful and loved. ...... sighed and said: Jun Si's meaning of 'three thousand weak water', you should know my heart. He asked again: Who does Ranjun belong to? Yu said: Shufang.

As for now, the mention of three thousand weak water abounds. Gu Long and Jin Yong's novels have mentioned dozens of times, every time the handsome and dashing male hero is harassed and pursued by a large group of beautiful girls with budding hearts, he will say to the heroine: Three thousand weak water, I only take one scoop to drink. Don't worry, and then the hero will bloom spring after spring. There are so many Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies in Qiong Yao and Yishu's novels that they were originally a bit bloody alliance, and they became as solemn as Zhou Xingxing's mouth, I love you, which is ridiculous and stupid.

Some people once thought that the word 'weak' in weak water 3,000 was a fake word for 'drowning', because it was seen in some ancient texts as the meaning of drowning. The original text has been seen in the "Shu Yu Gong" "Saving the Weak and Xing", and the annotation in the "Shuowen": weak, drowning is abbreviated. This is also said in the annotated work of Mozi, "Mo Debate and Micro". But the prototype of the word 'drowning' has never been seen. And these references to weak water are all meant by water immersion. [edit this paragraph]The second explanation is another name for the section of Heihe in China from Dingxin in Jinta County to Xixin Village in Ejinaqi Lake. It is also known as the Ejina River. It is located in the northwest of Gansu Province and the west of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. To the north of Huxi New Village, it is divided into two branches, the west branch is called the West River and the Mulin River, and the north flow flows into Gashun Nuoer, and the east branch is called the East River, also called the Nalin River, and the north flow flows into Sugu Nuoer. The two lakes are collectively known as Juyan Sea. According to the data of the Xihe Lege Aobao Station and the Baoduge Station of the Donghe River in 1962~1970, the combined annual runoff of the two rivers was only 420 million cubic meters, and the Middle River accounted for 80% of the total. Since 1970, due to the continuous reduction of the amount of water, Sugunor has long dried up into a salt-alkali flat, and although Gashunnorr is a salt lake, it still maintains a certain water surface, but in recent years it has also dried up.

The extended meaning of "weak water":

In ancient literature, weak water was gradually used to refer to dangerous and distant rivers. The more famous one is Su Shi's "Jinshan Myokotai" in "Penglai is unreachable, and the weak water is 30,000 miles." "This is the first time that weak water has been used in conjunction with specific numbers. Zhang Xiaoxiang's "Water Dragon Yin-Looking at Jiuhua Mountain" also has a sentence "Ethereal beads and foolish guards, looking at Penglai, there is no weak water at the beginning". Weak sentences are rare in other poems, but they are more common in later novels. [edit this paragraph] the third solution to weak water also appears in "The Legend of Kyushu Qingyu". The largest weak water is the Night Marsh, a large lake on the Kyushu mainland. Nothing grows in the weak water, and two creatures can be seen in the night marsh - the ground python and the night sunbird. And they don't really live in weak water, the night marsh is actually divided into two layers, the upper layer is the weak water where everything does not grow, and the lower layer is clear water. The ground python is born in the clear water, and the night sun flies in the air. The Night Marsh is a place of death. In ancient times, many shallow and turbulent rivers could not be used for boats but could only be used for raft transition, and the ancients believed that it was because the water was weak and could not carry boats, so such rivers were called weak water. Therefore, in ancient books such as "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "The Records of the Ten Continents", many weak waters with the same name are not recorded in the same river. The Book of Mountains and Seas records that "there is water in the north of Kunlun, and its strength cannot defeat mustard, so it is called weak water", which is what it means. Some of these terms are still in use today, such as the weak river on the map of Gansu Province. Weak water is also used to refer specifically to the Poyi River or Heishui River, which is located in the northwest. Later ancient literature gradually used weak water to refer to dangerous and distant rivers. There is a sentence in Su Shi's "Jinshan Myokotai": "Penglai is unreachable, and the weak water is 30,000 miles." Later, the weak water was extended to the love of the river and the sea, which is the meaning of the weak water of three thousand in our mouth now.