| Plucking Up a Crop To Help It Grow | |
Chinese proverbs are rich and they are still widely used in Chinese people's
daily life. There are often stories behind Chinese proverbs. We will introduce
one proverb, 'plucking up a crop to help it grow.' This Chinese proverb is based on
the following story.
It is said that a short tempered man in the Song Dynasty (960-1279) was very anxious to
hope his rice crop growing up quickly. He was thinking about this day and night.
But the crop was growing much slower than he expected.
One day, he thought a solution to this. He plucked up all of his crop
a few inches.
Even though he was very tired after doing this for a whole day, but
he felt very happy since the crop did 'grow' higher.
His son heard about this and went to see the crop. Unfortunately the leaves of the crop
began to wither.
This proverb is saying we have to let things go in its natural course.
Being too anxious to help an event to develop often results in the contrary to our
intent.
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