You have to cross a well to find a person.

Letting a person pass through a well means getting a person's manpower after drilling.

"One person gets through a well" comes from Lv Chunqiu, which means that after digging a well, you can get one person's manpower without sending someone to fetch water from the well outside; Outsiders misunderstood the meaning and thought it was "borrowing a well to make a stranger" and spread rumors everywhere. The full text tells the story of getting a living person by drilling a well. It tells us that all rumors are not credible and only reality is the truth.

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There was a family named Ding in Song State. There was no well at home and they needed to go out to fetch water. People are often sent to fetch water outside. But after digging a well in his house, he told others that my family got a man by digging a well. Someone heard it and spread it, saying that Ding Jia had dug a well and found a man. People all over the country told each other that the Ding family had dug a well, and it reached the ears of the monarch.

The monarch sent someone to ask Shi Ding about the situation, and Shi Ding replied that he only saved the labor of an idle person, instead of digging a living person in the well. The so-called digging a well to survive is just a rumor.

Therefore, everything must be investigated and carefully identified to find out the truth. Listening is empty, seeing is believing. Rumors are often untrue, and only through careful observation, research and reasoning can we get the real answer. Don't believe rumors and blindly follow the trend, otherwise you will make a joke of three people becoming tigers, and the truth of the matter will be spread beyond recognition.