As the saying goes, fishing is poor for three years, and playing with birds destroys life. What is the second half of the sentence?

Fishing is poor for three years, but playing with birds destroys life. Once you learn to drive away rabbits, you will never come back. Fishing for three years? As the literal meaning suggests, spending a lot of time fishing will make people mediocre. Playing with birds ruined your life? Also, if you spend a lot of time raising, playing and teasing birds, it will ruin your life. There are exaggerated elements in this, but this is a prevailing ethos in ancient China. In ancient China, ordinary people didn't even care about food and clothing, so they didn't have leisure to go fishing and shoot birds. This sentence implies that those rich children, most of whom don't consider their own future development and self-future, can inherit the family business in the future, so that they usually go fishing, shoot birds and waste a lot of time on fun. The first half of this sentence actually implies that you should not waste a lot of time on useless things, don't play with things, and pay attention to things that are really meaningful.

Ever know that dogs drive rabbits away? That is to say, if one day you learn how to train dogs to chase rabbits and set foot on the road of no return? In other words, if you learn to let dogs chase rabbits, you will be deeply immersed in the happiness brought by watching dogs chase rabbits. In fact, this also refers to those rich children in ancient China, because some rich children are not satisfied with fishing and raising birds, they will pursue more happiness, so they have derived the training of dogs to chase rabbits. Rich children will also use them to train their dogs to compete with each other to see whose dogs spend less time chasing rabbits and win, which is very popular in ancient times. In fact, this sentence further tells people not to play with things and indulge in gambling. Once addicted to gambling, it is easy to get caught up in it, and it is difficult to extricate yourself and embark on the road of no return.

The last sentence of this sentence is actually very classic, isn't it? If you love an eagle and look at the sky with tears in your eyes? . This sentence is as literal as it is. If you are addicted to hunting and keeping eagles, you will end up with tears in your eyes and looking at the sky with nothing. It implies that those dignitaries in ancient China always looked at the eagle in the sky when they were in the falcon, and when they looked at the eagle, they abandoned their family business and serious business, and finally regretted it. This sentence also warns people not to play with things, to have fun, and to put what they want to do on meaningful things.

This whole sentence warns people not to waste a lot of time on things that have no practical effect. What we should do correctly is to develop ourselves, improve ourselves and satisfy ourselves, otherwise most of the results will be nothing.