Tesla founder Elon Musk posts ancient Chinese poem, with Twitter users guessing at meanings from crypto to the UN


The richest person in the world posted the 1,800-year-old poem The Quatrain Of Seven Steps on Twitter without any clear reference. The poem about boiling beans is a metaphor for a fratricidal struggle with a 3rd century emperor, and is widely known and cited in China. — SCMP

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and the world’s richest man, tweeted a 1,800-year-old Chinese poem comparing the killing of a sibling to boiling beans from the same root, spurring conversations among netizens on Twitter trying to decipher what the tech billionaire is trying to say.

Musk, who also founded SpaceX, appeared to address the post to “humankind” before copying the text to the poem known as The Quatrain Of Seven Steps. The poem, known for being about a fratricidal struggle in an imperial court, seems to have little relevance to Musk, who is worth more than US$300bil (RM1.24 trillion) and not involved in any life-or-death struggles.

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