"The land is only piled-up earth. There is earth everywhere. Every day you walk on the land. Why do you worry that it would sink`?"

"The sun, the moon and the stars are only things that can shine in this mass. Even if they fall down, they would not harm people."

"The sky is only an air mass. All men's activities are inside this mass. Why do you worry that the sky would fall?"

The man of Qi asked again:

The man said:

One man who was worried about him came to enlighten him by saying:

In the past, a man in the State of Qi went off into wild flights of fancy all day long. He was afraid that the sky might collapse, the land might cave in and he would have no place to live. He was so worried that he could neither eat nor sleep.

"If the sky were really an air mass, then wouldn't the sun, the moon and the stars fall down?"

That man said:

"Then what can I do when the land sinks?"

The man of Qi asked:

When the man of Qi heard this, his worries vanished at once and he became very glad. The man who enlightened him and cured his melancholia was very pleased too.