As the meaning and origin of a song, the fruit is small because rabbits can't be restored.

The rabbit won't get it again, but it has become the object of jokes of the Song people. This sentence comes from Han Fei's Notes on Han Fei Woods during the Warring States Period.

Source and original translation

Song people have cultivators.

There was a plant in the field. When the rabbit touched the plant, its neck broke and it died.

Stand by and watch because you released this plant, hoping to get the rabbit back.

Rabbits can't be recovered, but as a small fruit of a song.

Today, the people who want to go to the former dynasty are all guarding their factories and so on.

translate

There was a farmer in Song State who was digging in the field. Suddenly, he saw a rabbit running out of the grass beside him in a panic, hitting a stump by the field and lying there motionless. The farmer went over and saw that the rabbit was dead. Because it ran so fast that it broke its neck. The farmer was very happy and picked up a fat and big rabbit effortlessly.

He thought; If rabbits can be found every day, life will be easier. Since then, he has never tried farming again. He put his hoe beside him every day and lay in front of the stump, waiting for the second and third rabbits to hit the stump by themselves. There are so many cheap things in the world. Of course, the farmer didn't pick up the killed hare again, but his field was deserted. Because they failed to get rabbits, the farmers themselves became the laughing stock of Song State.

Introduction to Han Feizi Han Feizi is a collection of works by Han Fei, a thinker and legalist during the Warring States Period. Han Feizi was compiled by later generations after Han Fei's death. According to the Records of Han Literature and Art, there are 55 articles in Everything is done by Han Fei-zi and 20 volumes in Sui Shu's Annals of Classics. Zhang Shoujie quoted seven records of Ruan Xiaoxu (or thought Liu Xiang's seven records) in Historical Records of Justice, and also said that the number of articles and volumes of everything is done by Han Fei-zi is consistent with this edition, which shows that this edition is not incomplete.

Many folklore and fables in the works at that time also became the source of idioms and allusions.