Buying an urn to return pearls means buying a business box to return pearls. Metaphor has no vision and improper choice.
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 that the box containing the orb was 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.
The original intention of giving back pearls is to buy jewelry, leaving only beautiful boxes, not really valuable jewelry inside.
The moral of buying bamboo slips and returning pearls is:
1, people's eyes only stare at the beautiful box, but they lose the really valuable orb. It can be seen that everything must have priorities, otherwise it will be like the Zheng people who "buy gifts and return pearls" to make stupid things such as giving up the basics and making improper choices.
2. Businessmen pay too much attention to appearance, so that the value of decorative appearance is higher than that of beads. It can be used to describe that some manufacturers over-decorate their appearance in order to gain benefits, making the value of appearance higher than the value of goods, thus raising the price of goods a lot.
Modernity is also used to describe how to spend a lot of capital to get less return, and a seller of rafters gets a "pearl" with a "rafter".
4. describe people as short-sighted and improper in choice.
Beauty can be created, but the real beauty should not be artificially carved. It should be a flower blooming on real fertile soil! ! If something is really beautiful, then it doesn't need any outside help to set it off.
6, don't care too much about appearance, the essence is the most important.