Fable story and the truth it reveals

Excessive enthusiasm will spoil things.

In ancient times, there was a farmer in Song State. After planting the seedlings, he hopes to harvest them early.

Every day when he goes to the rice field, he finds that the seedlings grow slowly. He was impatient and thought, "How can we make rice seedlings grow tall and fast? He thought and thought, and finally came up with a "best way", which is to set the rice seedlings a few points higher.

After some hard work, he went home to rest with a hoe. Then I went back and confessed to my family: "I'm exhausted today. I helped the crops grow a lot!" "

His son hurried to the field and saw that all the seedlings were dead.

Truth: Don't go against the law of things.

Pretend to love what you are actually afraid of.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a magistrate named Shen Chuliang in Ye County of Chu State, and everyone called him Ye Gong. Ye Gong likes things about dragons very much, whether it is decorations, beams and columns, doors and windows, dishes and clothes, there are dragon patterns on them, and even a big dragon is painted on his wall. Walking into Ye Gong's home, everyone thought that they had walked into the Dragon Palace, and dragon patterns could be seen everywhere! "My favorite is the dragon!" Ye Gong proudly said to everyone. One day, the fact that Ye Gong likes dragons was known by the real dragons in the sky. Zhenlong said, "It's rare for someone to like dragons so much. I have to go to his house to see! " The real dragon flew from the sky to Ye Gong's home, put his head into the window and shouted, "Is Ye Gong at home?" ? When Ye Gong saw the real dragon, he was scared and shouted, "Wow! Monster! The real dragon felt very strange and said, "Why do you call me a monster?" I am your favorite dragon! "Lord Ye trembled with fear and said," I am like a fake dragon, not a real dragon. Help! " Ye Honghua didn't finish, and ran away quickly! He left the real dragon in regret and said, "Hum, it is false that Lord Ye said that he likes dragons. He's just afraid of dragons! I also flew to visit him! "

Later, everyone used "Ye Gong Hao Long" to describe a person who pretended to like something, but in fact he didn't like it at all in private!

Waiting for unexpected gains

There was a farmer in Song State. He worked in the fields every day.

One day, the farmer was working in the field when suddenly a hare ran out of the grass. The rabbit was frightened by the people it saw. It ran as fast as it could. As a result, it hit the root of a farmer's field, broke its neck and died. The farmer put down his farm work and went to pick up the dead rabbit. He is very happy for his good luck.

When he got home at night, the farmer gave the dead rabbit to his wife. The wife cooked delicious rabbit meat, and the couple had a delicious meal with laughter.

The next day, the farmer went to work in the fields as usual, but he was no longer as absorbed as before. After working for a while, he glanced at the grass and listened, hoping that another rabbit would run out and hit the stump. In this way, he worked absently all day and didn't finish hoeing the ground. He didn't see any rabbits coming out until dark, so he went home reluctantly.

On the third day, the farmer came to the field and had no intention of hoeing the ground. He put the farm tools aside and sat on the ridge next to the stump, waiting for the wild rabbits to come out. But I waited for another day in vain.

Later, the farmer stood by the stump every day, hoping to find the rabbit again, but he never got it again. But the seedlings in the farmland withered because of him. As a result, the farmer became a joke of the Song people.

Truth: Don't think about getting something for nothing.

Looking at the sky from the bottom of the well-the view is very narrow.

In an abandoned well, there lived a frog. One day, the frog met a big turtle from the East China Sea by the well.

The frog proudly boasted to the tortoise, "Look, how comfortable I am living here!" " If I want to be happy, I will jump and play by the well. When I am tired, I will rest in the cave by the well. Sometimes I will soak comfortably in the water, and sometimes I will walk happily in the mud. Look at those bugs, crabs and tadpoles next to you. Who can compare with me? How free I am to occupy this abandoned well by myself! Why doesn't Mr. Wang often go to the well to watch and play? "

After listening to the frog, the tortoise wants to look in the well. However, before his left foot fully penetrated, his right foot tripped over the well site. It had to take a step back and tell the frog about the sea it saw: "Have you seen the sea? The vastness of the sea, more than a thousand miles; The ocean is over 1000 feet deep. There were floods in nine of the ten years in ancient times, but the sea water did not increase; There were seven years of drought in eight years, but the sea water did not decrease. The sea is not affected by drought and flood, and living in the vast sea is the real happiness.

Truth: Describe a person without knowledge. I'm stuck in my own little world.

Stealing a clock to plug your ears-deceiving yourself.

At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Fan Jishe in the State of Jin, and a big clock hung at his door. In ancient China, chimes and chimes were both musical instruments.

One day, a man went to Fan Ji's house and saw the clock at the door, trying to take it away secretly. However, the clock is too heavy for him to move back. Finally, I came up with a way: break the clock and take it back in batches.

So he found a hammer and tried to ring the doorbell. "When-"is rung for the first time, the bell will sound long and loud; If you knock again, the clock will make the same sound. He thought, "As soon as the bell rings, people will know that I am ringing here. In this way, the clock was taken away by others and I was caught. " So he covered his ears so that the bell could no longer be heard. He thinks that since I am so close, I can't hear it, and of course no one else can hear it, so I can steal the clock safely.

In fact, he is stupid and ridiculous: although he can't hear the bell with his ears covered, other people's ears are not covered, of course he can hear the bell.

Later, people summed up this story as an idiom "stealing bells" to describe those who are self-righteous and deceive themselves. For example, "he thinks that if he changed his report card, his mother wouldn't find him failing." It's really secretive! "