His parents even went so far as to try to kill him.
Prince Yüan of Sung desiring to draw a map, the officials of that department presented themselves, and after making obeisance stood waiting for the order, more than half of them already licking their brushes and mixing their ink.
One of them arrived late. He sauntered in without hurrying himself; and when he had made obeisance, did not wait but went off home.
The Prince sent a man to see what he did. He took off his clothes and squatted down bare-backed.
"He will do," cried the Prince. "He is a true artist."
The commentators do not get much out of this episode. Lin Hsi Chung damns it as a forgery.
When Wên Wang was on a tour of inspection in Tsang, he saw an old man fishing. But his fishing was not real fishing, for he did not fish to catch fish, but to amuse himself.
Wherefore, from the standpoint of Tao, he was the more likely to succeed.