Yu Fu and Zepan Yin #2:
(Qu Yuan) meets an old fisherman as he travels (line 6)
(00.42 to 01.30 in the recording)

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Qu Yuan tells the fisherman, "The whole world is muddy, only I am clean; everyone else is drunk, only I am sober." (See the inscription on the illustration: it is a quote from Yu Fu, lines 10-11.)

The fisherman responds to Qu Yuan by telling him he should try to get along in society. If the world is dirty, he should also live with the dirt; if they are drunk, he also should drink.

View Illustration 3 (at 01.30 of the recording)

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