A bowl of rice keeps a benefactor and a bucket of rice keeps an enemy. "What do you mean?

It means that if you give others a little help when they are in danger, they will appreciate you. But if you give people too much help, you will become dependent. Once you stop helping, it will make people jealous.

A bowl of rice keeps a benefactor and a bucket of rice keeps an enemy. As the saying goes, "Xing Mi, Dou Mi revenge". Just like people who receive relief, when they are used to it, they often take relief for granted. They naturally don't think about what they do and get food by their own labor. If you later find out that he has recovered his working ability and you don't help him, he will hold a grudge against you.

This is because the other person takes for granted what was originally funded by your love, from gratitude to course, and finally becomes an enemy. It is advised that "it is better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish".

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The origin of this idiom:

Once upon a time, there were two neighbors, and they usually had a good relationship. One of the families is richer because they are more capable. The two families had no grudges, but this year, widespread indignation and discontent brought disaster, and the grain harvest in Tanaka was poor.

The poor family has no harvest, so they can only lie down and wait for death. At this time, the rich family bought a lot of food, thinking about everyone's neighbors, and sent a liter of rice to the poor family, which was an emergency. The poor family is very grateful to the rich and thinks it is a savior. The hardest time passed, and the poor thanked the rich.

While speaking, talking about the seeds that have not landed next year, the rich man generously said, well, I still have a lot of food here, so you can take it again. The poor man went home grateful with a bucket of rice.

After returning home, his brother said, what can this bucket of rice do? Apart from eating, there won't be enough seeds in our fields next year. This rich man has gone too far. Since you are so rich, you should send us more food and money. It's really bad. This word reached the ears of the rich.

He was very angry and thought, I gave you so much food for nothing, and you not only didn't thank me, but also treated me as an enemy. It was inhuman. So, two families with good relations. From then on, they became enemies and never contacted each other again.

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