潮人

潮人

1. trendsetter; fashionable person

潮人

1. (literary) Teochew person

   • 軾曰：“不然。公之神在天下者如水之在地中，無所往而不在也，而潮人獨信之深，思之至，焄蒿悽愴，若或見之。譬如鑿井得泉，而曰水專在是，豈理也哉？” [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     轼曰：“不然。公之神在天下者如水之在地中，无所往而不在也，而潮人独信之深，思之至，焄蒿凄怆，若或见之。譬如凿井得泉，而曰水专在是，岂理也哉？” [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1092, 蘇軾 (Su Shi),《潮州韓文公廟碑》, translated into English as The Prince of Literature by Herbert A. Giles

     Shì yuē: “Bùrán. Gōng zhī shén zài tiānxià zhě rú shuǐ zhī zài dì zhōng, wú suǒ wǎng ér bùzài yě, ér Cháorén dú xìn zhī shēn, sī zhī zhì, xūnhāo qīchuàng, ruò huò jiàn zhī. Pìrú záojǐng dé quán, ér yuē shuǐ zhuān zài shì, qǐ lǐ yě zāi?” [Pinyin]

     “Not so,” I replied. “Our Master’s spirit pervades space as water pervades the earth: there is no place where it is not. The Ch‘ao-chou people trusted and loved him more than others, and still venerate his spirit which hovers over their soil. Fancy if a man boring for water should strike a spring and say, ‘Water is here!’”