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Sounds like the Chinese variant of Diogenes at work, I'd love to hear more details - was this something that really happened or a clever tale constructed later? If those people were real, what else did they produce?
All parables and proverbs are made up, with old characters added to give fake legitimacy.
Now you gonna tell me old man Yu didn't have his family raze down that mountain?
Very true - although I'd add an "almost", at least in a few cases, authentic letters - or for the modern era, recordings - can at least root the fundamentals in something that actually happened. (Although even then, whatever gets tossed around as a parable/proverb will be heavily embellished and/or stripped of context, of course).
Even star wars?
I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to lie if the text is yellow and scrolls from the bottom of the screen in 3D.
Some hot air, I’d imagine.