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The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains
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The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains (Chinese: 愚公移山; pinyin: Yúgōng Yíshān) is a well-known fable from Chinese mythology about the virtues of perseverance and willpower.[1] The tale first appeared in Book 5 of the Liezi, a Daoist text of the 4th century BC,[2] and was retold in the Garden of Stories by the Confucian scholar Liu Xiang in the 1st century BC. It was also used by Mao Zedong in a famous speech in 1945.[3]
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