[Level 5] 210:  🈶  塞翁失馬，焉知非福 – Sai Weng Lost His Horse – 5/5

• Overview
• ↩ [Lvl 5] 210:  🈶  塞翁失馬，焉知非福 – Sai Weng Lost His Horse – 4/5
• ↪ [Lvl 5] 214:  🈶  曹沖稱象 – Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant – 1/6
• 🈶 alternate version in Standard Written Chinese

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Entire story:

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again pass -en one year enemy troops invade Saiweng ’s country country need all strong and able-bodied (linker) youth to go on war eventually ten (measure) soldier have nine (measure) die in battle

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Another year had passed. The enemy's army invaded Sai Weng's country. His country had to draft all the able-bodied young men into war. In the end, nine out of ten soldiers were killed.

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and Saiweng (measure) son because walk cannot road no need to go fight in war two father and son then escape pass this (measure) part forever due to death (linker) catastrophe

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Because Sai Weng's son couldn't walk, he didn't have to go to war. The father and son pair escaped this disaster of life and death.

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this story already pass around -en thousand several two thousand year in order to (linker) is need to tell to we know in the human world (linker) good matter and wrong matter is not absolute (particle)

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This story has been passed down for a thousand to two thousand years. The purpose is to tell us:

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some time bad matter will bring come good (linker) result and good matter also will bring come bad (linker) result

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Good things and bad things in the world are not absolute—sometimes bad things will bring good results, and good things will bring bad results.

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in every matter need to look two side do not only focus on short-term (linker) gain and loss

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Look at both sides of everything; don't focus only on temporary gains and losses.

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• 🈶 alternate version in Standard Written Chinese
• ↪ [Lvl 5] 214:  🈶  曹沖稱象 – Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant – 1/6
• ↩ [Lvl 5] 210:  🈶  塞翁失馬，焉知非福 – Sai Weng Lost His Horse – 4/5
• Overview

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• written by Philip Wong
• illustrated by Kenneth
• published by HamBaangLaang (© HamBaangLaang, 2022)
• Series: Hambaanglaang Graded Readers 冚唪唥粵文讀本 (Level 5)
• Source: Hambaanglaang:《塞翁失馬，焉知非福》Sai Weng Lost His Horse
• Presentation: Dennis Amelunxen, chinvocab.com