Xiè Língyùn xǐhuan páshān, hái zhuānmén zuò le yì shuāng shàngshān xiàshān yòng de mùjī.
Xie Lingyun loved climbing mountains, and even had a pair of wooden clogs made for going up and down them.
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culture
His clogs had removable teeth: the front ones came out for climbing, the back ones for coming down. 李白 remembered them in 《梦游天姥吟留别》: 脚著谢公屐, 'on my feet the clogs of Lord Xie'.
history
He is said to have boasted that of all the talent in the world 曹植 had eight parts in ten, he himself one, and everyone else together the last, the origin of 才高八斗. A grandson of the general 谢玄, he was executed in 433.
