What does this story tell us?

The story of "Waiting for the Rabbit" tells us not to take chances, and not to always think about getting something for nothing. If you don't work hard and hope for unexpected wealth, the result can only be a draw with a sieve. Our life is created bit by bit with our own hands. If you always think about getting something for nothing, then life will be abandoned like this field of Song people.

People often use this fable to satirize those who regard accidental events as eternal laws, refuse to work hard and just want to get unexpected gains. So don't stick to dogma and rules, but actively create results.

Waiting for the rabbit is an idiom evolved from a fable, which originated from Everything is Wrong. This idiom generally refers to sticking to experience and not knowing how to change it. It is also used to satirize wishful thinking for nothing; Generally used as an object and attribute in sentences, it contains derogatory meanings. Also known as "waiting for the rabbit", the original text is as follows:

Once upon a time, there was a man in the Song Dynasty who had a fertile land. He managed the land diligently and gained a lot. There is a stump in the field. When he is tired from work, he will have a rest beside him. One day, when he was farming in the field, a rabbit came from nowhere and ran away in a hurry, and bumped into a bag on the stump.

He ran over and looked very happy: "What a lucky day! I got a rabbit for nothing! " When he walked home with a rabbit in his hand, he proudly thought, "If I wait here every day to harvest a rabbit, I won't be so tired in the future." "

So, from the next day, he put down his hoe and stood by the stump at the edge of the field every day, waiting for the rabbit to run over and kill it on the stump. As time went by, the fields were covered with weeds and desolate. Song people are still waiting by the stump, but no rabbit has ever killed them.