Even though the great historian Sima Qian was already criticizing the custom of zeri as long as 1000 years ago for doing nothing but "restraining people and making them fearful," Chinese people have never gotten away from this structure which frames their lives.
儘管太史公司馬遷早在一千年前就批評擇吉思想只是使人「拘而多畏」，中國人從古到今卻跳不出這個框框。