What do you mean, "let the horse run and let the horse not eat grass"

"Want horses to be good, but don't eat grass" means asking the other party to be good or do things well, but unwilling to provide corresponding conditions or pay a certain price.

This China folk proverb itself is a mockery, but it shows that this appeal is unrealistic and should be despised.

Let the horse run fast and let the horse not eat grass: as the saying goes, it is often to let people play their role without creating a good environment or conditions for them. If you don't feed the horse, you want it to run fast. In other words, without providing the basis for the movement of things, we blindly expect things to move to an ideal state.

The origin of this sentence is Qing? He Bange's Night Tan Suilu Volume 4:

"A rich man in Jinan is extremely stingy, and his hometown is called' Iron Chicken', which means penniless. Nearly 50 years old, childless, concubinage, the price wants to be extremely cheap, but also beautiful. The media laughed and said:' Weng said that horses should be good and horses should not eat grass. "

Notes on Nights (Notes on Nights) is a collection of short stories in classical Chinese in Qing Dynasty, with 4 volumes (or 12 volumes), including about 160 legendary stories. Author he bango. The Night Talk with Records attempts to imitate Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio in form.

Most of the works in Night Talk are stories about ghost foxes and transvestites.

A few works involve some social reality. For example, The Iron Rooster and The Rich Man in Xin 'an condemn the exploiters for being rich and heartless, A Prince and Xia Qian expose the arrogance and lewdness of princes and nobles, and Cat Monster denounces an official and gentry as "a beast with a human face" and "evil among people", all of which have certain cognitive significance.

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Navigation of Chinese Studies —— Recording with Night Tan