"You don't need to put a hat on a hat.” He was saying: If you comment on it, you kill it. If there's a hat already on your head, why in God's name would you put another hat on top of it? The audience doesn't like to see you wink.
Each man, after death, was called upon to make the Negative Confession, to prove that he had not sinned against his fellows, that he had not oppressed or taken bribes, had not judged wrongfully, had not injured a slave or overtasked the poor man, had not murdered or stolen, lied or committed adultery, had not given short weight or robbed the gods and the dead, had made none to hunger or weep.
Negative Confession,
hunger
weep.
arctan
He obtained the chin-shih degree in 1595 and, after a number of official appointments, became the intendant of the Kuei-pʻing circuit in Kuangsi in 1624.
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