Zheng Ren: Paying attention to appearance without considering essence makes people make unfair choices.

Buying bamboo slips and returning pearls is an idiom, which comes from Han Fei's "Han Fei Zi Wai Chu Zuo Shang" in the Warring States Period. Refers to the wooden box that has been returned after buying pearls; The metaphor is improper choice, and the secondary things are better than the main ones. As predicate, object and attribute in a sentence; Used in written language

Zheng people only stared at the exquisite wooden cases and gave up precious jewels. It can be seen that things must be clearly defined, and people who buy gifts and return pearls cannot only pay attention to the appearance of things and not see the essence of things.

Only by seeing the essence of things clearly and prioritizing can we make appropriate choices. The idiom originally meant to put back the wooden box bought to hold pearls; The metaphor is improper choice, and the secondary things are better than the main ones.

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What Zheng people are interested in is not his jewelry, but the wooden box for jewelry. They are in groups of three, and the topic of discussion is how special the style is and how beautiful the decoration is.

This inevitably made him sweat on his forehead. In order to turn people's attention to jewelry, the jeweler screamed at the top of his lungs about how beautiful his jewelry was, but everyone around him turned a deaf ear and still cared about the box containing jewelry.

At this time, Guo picked up the box, studied it carefully, liked it very much, and bought it at a high price. The jeweler was very excited to see a customer finally come to his house. After some bargaining, Zheng Guo gave the money to the jeweler and left with the box. But he just took a few steps, but he turned back.

The jeweler thinks he has changed his mind and wants to return the jewels. Who knows that the man walked up to the jeweler, carefully opened the box, took out the jewels inside and handed them to the jeweler, saying, "I left in a hurry just now, but I didn't find any jewels in the box." You must have put it there, sir. I'm here to return the jewels. "

After returning the jewels to the jeweler, Zheng Guoren left happily, muttering, "This wooden box is beautiful, but I earned it." The jeweler took the jewels sent back by Zheng people and was surprised from ear to ear.

He thought that the man liked his jewelry, but he didn't expect that the wooden box he prepared was too delicate and stole the limelight of the jewelry, which really made the jeweler smile bitterly! It seems that I am not suitable for selling jewelry, but more suitable for selling wooden boxes.