What will people say about Guo Yan, a toddler in Handan, when he climbs back?

The story of the toddler Handan, a teenager from Shouling, Yan State, soon spread. Many people laughed at the young man, saying that he copied others mechanically, and instead of learning anything good, he lost his own characteristics.

Idiom story

During the Warring States Period, there was a teenager in Shouling, Yan State. I heard that people in Handan, the capital of Zhao State, walk beautifully and decided to study. He came to Handan travel-stained, and sure enough, he saw the people in the street walking gracefully, walking with thousands of gestures, showing elegant demeanor between gestures.

Teenagers quickly imitate pedestrians on the road. People lift their left feet and he follows them. A man walks with his right foot, and he follows. But after studying for a few days, I can't learn it anymore, and the more I walk, the more awkward I am, and the more ugly my posture is.

The teenager thought to himself, there must be something wrong with my previous way of walking. I have to abandon it completely before I can learn a new posture. So he began to learn to walk from scratch, and every step should be carefully scrutinized to prepare for the next step.

In this way, he studied for three months He practiced hard every day, but he never learned the walking posture of Handan people. Instead, I forgot my original way of walking. Finally, the teenager couldn't walk at all, so he had to climb back to Yan State.

Idiom implication

It should be affirmed that Yan Guoren tried to learn from others, but it was not advisable to mechanically copy the gourd. Not only did he not learn the essence of others, but he even lost his own.

Learning is not impossible to imitate, but first we should carefully observe the advantages of others and study the key points of why Handan people can walk gracefully. In addition to footwork, whether that elegance is related to their manners, mood and even culture, and then from their own actual situation to investigate, adjust their pace to adapt to the appearance of Handan people, what changes need to be made, so as to learn from each other.

If you worship others blindly like Yan people, the result will be that you have not learned kung fu, which is unrealistic and you have lost all your strengths.

But from the perspective of "study hard", Yan Guoren's spirit should be affirmed. Although his learning style is wrong, at least he is "willing to learn". Yan Guoren has more courage to change than many people who refuse to learn and let themselves be content with the status quo. If one day he gets the hang of it, walking gracefully is just around the corner.