What is the translation and implication of the struggle between snipe and clam in classical Chinese?

He said, "I passed Yishui today and saw a clam coming out of the water to bask in the sun. A snipe came to peck at its meat, and the mussels immediately closed and clamped the snipe's mouth.

The snipe said that if it doesn't rain today, it will kill you tomorrow.

The mussel also said to the snipe,' If you don't take your mouth off today, you will starve to death tomorrow.' The two men refused to give way to each other, so a fisherman took them together. Now Zhao is going to attack Yan. If Yanzhao is at loggerheads for a long time, the people will be miserable. I'm worried that the powerful Qin will become a fisherman for nothing.

So I hope your majesty will seriously consider sending troops. Zoe Wen Dao: "All right." So he stopped sending troops to attack Yan.

meaning

It tells people that in all kinds of chaotic and complicated contradictions and struggles, if the opposing sides persist, the result will be mutual loss and the third party will intervene.

Fighting between snipes and mussels tells the story that snipes and mussels fight for each other and don't give in to each other, but let fishermen profit from it. It warns people to weigh the gains and losses, don't just think about things that are beneficial to them, make concessions to each other, take a step back, and blindly clamp down on each other will often take care of one thing and let others take advantage.

Be a man, learn to be patient, otherwise both sides will benefit only the third party.