Source: "Everything is done by Han Feizi, Foreign Reserve Says Left"
Original text:
A Chu man sold a pearl to Zheng. It's Mulan's cabinet, smoked with cinnamon, decorated with pearls and emeralds, decorated with roses, and sealed with Hosta. Zheng Guoren bought the jewelry box and returned the pearls.
Explanation: rafter: wooden box; Pearl: Pearl. Bought a business box and returned the pearls. Metaphor has no vision and improper choice.
Translation:
During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a businessman in the State of Chu who specialized in selling jewelry. Once he went to Qi State to sell jewelry. For the sake of good business and best-selling jewelry, he specially made many small boxes with precious wood, which were beautifully carved and decorated, so that the boxes would give off a fragrance, and then put the jewelry in the boxes.
A man from Zheng saw the box containing the orb exquisite and beautiful. After asking the price, he bought one, opened the box, took out the treasure inside and gave it back to the jeweler.
to gild the lily
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There was a nobleman in the ancient state of Chu. After offering sacrifices to his ancestors, he gave a pot of offering wine to the guests who came to help. The guests discussed with each other and said, "This pot of wine is not enough for everyone to drink. It is enough for one person to drink. Let's each draw a snake on the ground. Whoever smokes first will drink this pot of wine. "
One person drew the snake first. He picked up the hip flask and was about to drink it, but proudly held the shell in his left hand and continued to draw snakes in his right hand, saying, "I can add more feet!" " But before he finished drawing his feet, another man had drawn a snake. The man grabbed the pot and said, "Snakes have no feet. How can you add feet to it? " Then he drank the wine in the pot.
The person who added feet to the snake finally lost the jar of wine that had reached his mouth. . . .
Explain that this fable tells people that to do something, we must have specific requirements and clear goals, and we must have a clear and firm will to pursue it, so as not to be carried away by victory. People who are carried away by victory are often covered up by blind optimism, leading to failure.