What does "The Great Wall of China still stands today, but the Emperor Qin Shihuang was nowhere to be seen"? What does it mean?

It means that the Great Wall is still there today, but the Qin Shihuang of that year can no longer be seen.

This poem comes from "A Letter from Guanjia, Only a Conversation About the Wall" and was written by Zhang Ying during the Qing Dynasty.

According to historical records: There was an open space next to the residence of Duke Zhang Wenduan, which was adjacent to the Wu family, and the Wu family used it more and more.

The family sent the letter to the capital, and the official approval letter was sent back later.

After the family got the letter, they gave up three feet, so Liuchi Lane got its name. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Ying's family and her neighbor Wu family had a dispute over the homestead, because the two homes were owned by their ancestors.

The foundation has been established for a long time, and no one in the home world would give in to it.

The two parties took the lawsuit to the county government, and because both parties were from prominent official positions and well-known families, the county magistrate did not dare to settle it easily.

So the Zhang family sent letters from thousands of miles to the capital asking for help.

After Zhang Ying received the book, he wrote a poem that goes: "It is only because of the wall that the letter was written thousands of miles away. It doesn't matter if it is allowed to be three feet tall. The Great Wall is still there today, and Qin Shihuang is nowhere to be seen." (It means that the letter sent from thousands of miles away is just because of the wall, and it is not allowed to be three feet tall.)

What does the ruler have to do with it? The Great Wall is still there today, but the Qin Shihuang of that year can no longer be seen.) The Zhang family suddenly understood and gave in three feet.

The Wu family was deeply moved when they saw this, and they also gave up three feet, forming a six-foot-wide alley.

From then on, Liuchi Lane got its name from this place.

The story of Liuchi Alley embodies the meaning of "harmony", "comity", "integrity" and "self-discipline".

Liufeixiang demonstrates the traditional virtues of the Chinese people's pursuit of harmony and shines with the brilliance of ideas that transcend time and space. The story of Liuchixiang tells the world to be magnanimous and self-restrained.

Extended information: This poem expresses the attitude and quality of humility and open-mindedness, which is also the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. The specific context of the story of Liuchi Lane is: During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, an incident occurred in Tongcheng County, Anhui Province, between the prime minister Zhang Ying and his neighbor Ye Xiucai.

It’s a strange story about a lawsuit over a land boundary for a wall foundation.

Because Zhang Ying's family is going to build a new house, the land boundary is close to Ye's family.

Ye Xiucai proposed that Zhang Ying's family should leave a road in the middle for everyone to go in and out.

However, the Zhang family made it clear that the land deed of their home stated "Zhi Ye Qiang". There was nothing wrong with building a wall according to the land deed. Even if a road was to be left, both families should move back a few feet.

At this time, Zhang Ying was an official in Beijing, and his son Zhang Tingyu (a famous official in the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties) also passed the Jinshi examination. When he was an official in the court, the old housekeeper took care of the specific affairs of his hometown.

As the saying goes: "The prime minister's family has seven officials." This old housekeeper felt that he was the head of the prime minister's family. Moreover, building the wall in this way was justified. The opinions of a poor scholar in the Ye family were not worth heeding.

So a new wall was built along the root of the Ye family wall.

This Ye Xiucai had a stubborn temper. When he saw that the Zhang family had built a wall, he couldn't swallow his anger. The scholar was able to write on his own, and a petition was sent to the county government and a lawsuit was started.

A poor scholar filed a lawsuit with the prime minister of the dynasty, and the reasons were not very good. His relatives and friends were worried about Ye Xiucai, fearing that he would suffer losses, and persuaded him to withdraw the lawsuit as soon as possible, but Ye Xiucai refused to listen and insisted on continuing the lawsuit.

As soon as the Zhang family's housekeeper saw that the matter was getting serious, he quickly wrote a letter and reported the matter to Zhang Ying in Beijing.

Soon, I received a reply from Zhang Ying.

There were not many words in the letter, only four lines of poetry: "It takes thousands of miles to build a book just for the wall, so why not let it be three feet. The Great Wall is still there today, but Qin Shihuang is nowhere to be seen." After reading this poem, the steward understood what the master meant, and he

When he came to Ye's house, he told Ye Xiucai that the Zhang family was going to tear down the wall tomorrow and step back three feet to make way.

Ye Xiucai thought he was teasing him and didn't believe it was the truth at all.

The housekeeper showed Zhang Ying's poem to Ye Xiucai.

Ye Xiucai was very moved after reading this poem, and even said: "The Prime Minister is very generous, and Prime Minister Zhang is really very generous." The next morning, the Zhang family began to demolish the wall and retreated three feet.

Ye Xiucai was very excited when he saw it, so he demolished the wall of his house and stepped back three feet.

As a result, an alley of about 100 meters long and six feet wide was formed between the Zhang and Ye families, which was called "Six Feet Alley".

It is said that this place became a historical attraction in Tongcheng County and has been preserved ever since.